Walden University Week 4 Criminal Justice Presentation

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You will choose only one topic and start your research. You will create 14-16 slides that will capture all elements of your topic, with minimum of five peer reviewed sources. Your last slide will have the references you have used for this project. Please note, the text cannot be used as a reference, points will be docked if you rely on the course text book. I need you to explore the CJA world beyond what your text says, so please don’t depend on it for your paper. It must be a valid, legitimate source for you to use it in your paper. APA format is required. You will load your PPt in W4 drop box. One slide should provide the case/topic # in a nut shell, please don’t waste too many slides on repeating what I already know! Your analysis should include two or more examples that will justify your position. You will load your PPt in W4 drop box. Your PPt will be graded on content, grammar, punctuation, spelling, difficulty, and readability. This will comprise 22% of your final grade, i.e. you are eligible to earn 22 points towards your final course grade. Papers that are late will be reduced by 10% for each day they are late.

Movies seek to entertain and inform the audience about a story, incident, or person. Many good movies also hit upon important ethical themes in making significant decisions that affect the lives of others. Read the movie summary here (and watch the movie if you haven’t already), and answer the questions to make the ethical connections.

Please choose one topic, and indicate the number on your submission. These page numbers correspond to the Fourth Ed of the text. On your first slide, under your name, please include the corresponding number for your chosen topic or movie.

1. Cultural pluralism (different groups preserve their own traditions and culture) may be the best solution to the issues of race, ethnic and prejudicial conflicts. Do you agree, please justify your response with proper literature support.

2. How have worldly notions of sexuality changed over the past two-hundred years, what does this suggest about the nature of sexual identities? How has this impacted the issues related to discrimination based on sexual identity or orientation?

3. Choose a specific cultural symbol (such as jewelry, hair, clothes etc.) that is based on gender, and explain how these help create, construct and cement gender-based views, status and perceptions in society. Please justify your response with proper literature support and at least two case examples.

4. Please discuss if the laws that define white-collar crime are products of the dominant elite, the pluralistic struggle among the less interest groups, or simply a product of social consensus. Please justify your response with proper literature support and at least two case examples.

5. Hotel Rwanda: Terry George, Director (2004)

Read the movie summary here (and watch the movie if you haven’t already), and answer the questions.

Summary: Genocide occurred in Rwanda during a period of 100 days in 1994, and the world did not take notice. An estimated 1 million members of the Tutsi tribe were massacred by members of the Hutu tribe in a tragic case of ethnic rivalry and hatred. The movie Hotel Rwanda focuses not on the massacre, but tells the story of a hotel manager (Don Cheadle) who saved the lives of 1,200 people during the genocide. The manager, Paul, is a Hutu married to a Tutsi, bringing the tension to the personal level. Rwanda was earlier ruled by Belgium, and during that period, Tutsis ruled and the Hutus were oppressed and many were killed. The Hutus are now in control, and the genocide consisted of armed troops prowling for and slaughtering Tutsis. The movie shows how the United Nations and the international community ignored the pending massacre and failed to intervene while it was occurring. A colonel (Nick Nolte), representing the United Nations as a peacekeeper, is portrayed in the film reporting the situation to his superiors and being ignored. Paul, the hotel manager, also informs his corporate headquarters of what is going on, but his hotel location is not a priority for them. These two men then act on their own to save as many lives as possible. Rather than a film about wholesale killing, it is a film about how two people respond to tragedy when no one else does. It shows how they used finesse and guile to take on genocide and managed to save many lives in the process, even though the situation was an impossible one. Like other films before it that depict actual situations of gross injustice, such as Midnight Express (1978) and In the Name of the Father (1993), Hotel Rwanda raises important questions about human strength and weakness in the face of persecution.

Questions to be addressed in your Ppts

  1. What is the moral duty of someone aware of a possible genocide occurring in another country?
  2. Are there circumstances under which it is not morally permissible to take action in such a situation?
  3. Do you agree with this contention that majority population of the USA is guilty of genocide involving both Native Americans and African Americans?

6. Dead Man Walking: Tim Robbins, Director (1996)

Summary: The movie opens with Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), a nun from Louisiana, who receives a letter from an inmate on Death Row asking for a visit. Prejean works in an inner-city neighborhood and decides to visit the inmate. She is warned by the prison chaplain about being manipulated, and the inmate Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) wants her to help him with his appeal. At one point Poncelet says that he and Prejean have nothing in common, but Prejean says, “We both live with the poor,” Something that apparently never occurred to the inmate before. Prejean agrees to help him with his last-minute appeal before his pending execution. The movie is notable for its objectivity about capital punishment. There is no intention to change the viewer’s mind about capital punishment. Instead, it forces you to reflect on the facts, emotions, and beliefs of the offender, the victims, and all those involved in cases like this. The inmate is on Death Row for a rape and murder of a couple on a lover’s lane. The film is absorbing as Prejean meets the parents of the murdered girl, the father of the dead boy, and the inmate’s family; she even faces the anger of her own mother, who resents her befriending a murderer. These scenes are emotional and sometimes troubling, but they are thoughtful, looking to provide insight rather than shock or sensationalism. As a nun, Sister Prejean believes in the Christian principle that all sins can be forgiven because God’s

love is available to everyone, but she does not push Poncelet, hoping only that he will die understanding the impact of his crimes and his life. The movie’s theme might be “finding meaning”—how people strive to move on after tragedy strikes (as a victim or parent) and how to find meaning when your life has been devoid of meaning (Poncelet).

Questions to be addressed in your Ppts:

The imposition of capital punishment has been marred by errors in convictions, racial discrimination, and other problems in its administration over the years.

1. Do you believe these problems of disparity will ever be eliminated?

2. If they were eliminated, would it be permissible to use capital punishment more frequently as a penalty for major crimes?

7. Minority Report/Steven Spielberg, Director/2002

Summary: Minority Report is set in the year 2054, and John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is chief of the Department of Pre-Crime in Washington, DC. There has not been a murder there in six years, because of an operation Anderton supervises, where three pre-cognitive humans (“pre-cogs”) drift in a flotation tank and have their brain waves tapped by computers. These brain waves can pick up thoughts of premeditated murders, so the police can be warned and arrest the would-be perpetrators before they can kill (hence the “Department of Pre-Crime”). Of course, it is not as easy as this, because the precogs can provide only the time and date of the murder, the murderer’s name, and the victim’s name—the other facts can be learned only by clues derived from the various images generated by the pre-cogs around the time of murder. The film is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. The pre-crime police strategy is going to expand nationwide, and there is personal and bureaucratic jealousy toward Anderton and the pre-crime unit. The movie focuses on a rare disagreement among the “pre-cogs” over a pending murder, and one of the pre-cogs apparently files a minority report disagreeing with the others. Normally, the minority report is disregarded, but the twist is that Anderton himself becomes a target for arrest as a predicted killer, and he is apparently warned of this by one of the pre-cogs. Anderton then is chased by police, assisted by one of the pre-cogs named Agatha (Samatha Morton), and the futuristic police pursuit and search is interesting and compelling. For example, everyone is subject to retina scans, so Anderton has to get an eye transplant to hide his identity while being pursued. The story has several twists, and it raises important issues about the certainty of knowledge and how knowledge should be used.

Questions to be addressed in your Ppts:

1. If we were able to predict premeditated murders in the future by somehow scanning the minds of citizens, is this enough evidence to apprehend and take legal action against them? What would the major societal perspectives say?

2. The accurate prediction of criminal behavior is not yet possible, but profiles are sometimes used by police for targeting suspects. Under what circumstances is the use of a profile to take police action morally permissible?

3. Why are legal rules alone insufficient to guide police actions in the area of searches and seizures?

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INTRODUCTION
• HISTORICALLY, RELATIONS AMONG RACIAL-CULTURAL GROUPS AND THE WHITE ANGLO GROUP IN THE
UNITED STATES HAVE INFLUENCED THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

• THE AMOUNT OF VALUE AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR CULTURAL PLURALISM IN A COMMUNITY
RELATES TO INNOVATION PERFORMANCE LEVEL (KWAN, 2018).

• CULTURAL PLURALISM REGARDS SOCIAL CONDITIONS WHERE MINORITY GROUPS IN SOCIETY ARE
ALLOWED TO MAINTAIN THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND PRACTICES IF THEY ARE CONSISTENT WITH
THE VALUES AND LAWS OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY.

INTRODUCTION CONT.
• CULTURAL PLURALISM IS ENCOURAGED THROUGH UNCERTAINTY TOLERANCE, WELCOMING FOREIGN
CULTURES, AND POLITICAL DEMOCRACY.

• PLURALISM TENDS TO OCCUR IN URBAN SOCIETIES AS PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND
CULTURES LIVE IN CLOSE NEIGHBORHOODS (DEVEAUX, 2018).

• HUMAN RIGHTS FORUMS ADVOCATE FOR CULTURAL PLURALISM TO OFFER RIGHTS TO PERSONS IN THE
MINORITY GROUPS (CREMASCHI ET AL., 2021).

• STATES THAT RECOGNIZE APPROPRIATENESS IN RECOGNIZING MINORITY RIGHTS HAVE BEEN
ATTRIBUTED TO REMAIN STABLE AND TOLERANT.

HISTORY AND CONTEXT
• IN THE US, THE LEADING THINKERS IN SOCIETY HAVE DEBATED ON CULTURAL SEPARATISM AND
ASSIMILATION.

• RESEARCHERS MAINTAIN THAT THERE IS NO SINGLE MAINSTREAM IN AMERICA THAT IS LEGITIMATE BUT
MULTIPLE STREAM EXIST.

• EACH FORM OF CULTURE HAS HAD ITS BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TIME
AT WHICH THEY ARE IMPLEMENTED.

UNITED NATIONS AND
INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
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