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You have just graduated from the an Online Criminal Justice program and acquired your dream career working with the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). You love to write articles of criminal justice interest, and because the NCJRS provides links to millions and millions of criminal justice references, you find yourself in awe of your career. For your first assignment, you have been asked present a report at an upcoming criminal justice conference. This report will help your colleagues better understand how databases, technology, polices, and so forth affect the administration of justice and the outcome of court cases in particular. Your training coordinator expects you to highlight several examples of how criminal justice databases, computer technology, and policies have changed the way crimes are investigated and how criminals are brought to justice. Address how 2 of the following databases, technology tools, and policies have changed the legal landscape in the United States in your paper of 3–4 pages. On the two topics selected, you should address the history, administration, purpose, and so forth:

  • Fingerprint analysis
  • DNA databases
  • Ballistics testing
  • Tire tread analysis
  • Tracking of illegal pornographic images
  • Modus operandi databases
  • Three strikes laws
  • Gun control laws
  • The USA PATRIOT Act
  • Megan’s law
  • Domestic violence laws
  • The exclusionary rule
  • Lie detectors
  • Inmate classification systems
  • Truth in sentencing laws

choose 2 topics out of this list. references APA format 3-4 pages

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Running Head: THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE.

Legal Landscape
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LEGAL LANDSCAPE

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Introduction

There is a necessity to ensure that the changes in the natural environment do not
influence the legal landscape in the United States negatively. Therefore, the legal landscape
needs to be frequently updated as other changes occur. In this regard, there are various
changes which have taken place in the legal system in the nation. Mostly, analysis of
fingerprints and ballistics testing have been influential in shaping the way the current legal
landscape is at the moment. This paper explains how fingerprint testing and ballistic analysis
have evolved to shape the legal landscapes in the United States.
Ballistic Testing
Ballistics testing refers to the science of mechanics which investigates the behaviors,
flight, launching, and the impacts of projectiles. Within the justice system, ballistic testing
involves investigating the behaviors and projectiles of bullets, rockets, unguided bombs
among others. It involves designing the path of travel of these factors so that they achieve
their correct targets. Regarding criminal investigation, basaltic testing includes reconstructing
the path taken by the projectile and ascertaining the possibility that a certain hit or target might
have been achieved from a specific launch point. Overly, ballistic analysis helps avoid hitting
wrong targets as wel...


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