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PLEASE COMPLETE ALL PARTS, SO NOT COMMIT IF YOU CANNOT COMPLETE.
Part 5
Address the following in 2–3 pages:
The blood type did not match the assailant's; could this be ignored today? Why or why not? Explain.
Are crimes still tied together today? Explain.
With the today's studies, it is realized that most murders or rapes are intraracial, not interracial. Should people have realized that in 1984, or was it just a matter of bigotry?
Use scholarly and academic resources to support your argument.
Take this case and make 2 scenarios:
Create 1 in which the perpetrator is Caucasian and 1 in which the perpetrator is a minority.
Explain how it would be handled in this day and time.
Locate 2 cases that are similar to your scenarios, and use them as scholarly sources to back up your opinions.
Explain the legal and ethical details pertaining to your scenarios' individuals.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
Part 6
Address the following in 3–4 pages:
What effect would this have on his leadership role with his officers? Explain.
What effect would this have on his interaction with another agency? Explain.
Would this have an effect on community relations and cooperation with the community with the FBI? Explain.
If this attitude continued and Sheriff Jones held back pertinent information from the FBI that caused the perpetrator to flee the area, would this behavior cause moral problems within Sheriff Jones’ department? Why?
How would it have an effect on the officers?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
Part 7
Address the following in 4–5 pages:
Most judges are elected; would it be better to have the judges appointed by a committee? Why or why not? Explain.
Would the committee be affected by graft?
If so, how?
If not, how will it not be affected?
Be specific and detailed in your responses.
When judges violate the constitution, what should be the recourse? Explain.
What current policies exist regarding judicial misconduct? Explain in detail.
Do these policies sufficiently address judicial misconduct? Explain in detail.
What can be done to improve these policies?
Should there be political and financial pressures put on judges? Why or why not?
Pertaining to re-election, should judges be held to a higher standard than other candidates for any political office? Why or why not?
Be sure to use at least 5 academic and scholarly sources to support your arguments.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
Part 8
In those states with the three strikes laws, any person who has 2 felony strikes and commits another felony, whether it be violent or not, can be required to serve a sentence of 25 years to life.
Look at the case of Ewing v. California:
Ewing v. California
Click on the PDF link next to the case title.
The defendant had his third strike when he committed grand theft at a golf course in Los Angeles County. This was not a violent crime but he was subject to the three strikes laws. He appealed this case up to the United States Supreme Court—and lost.
The public has always been worried about violent crime, but just how worried are citizens about nonviolent crime? With mandatory sentencing, society will have many older inmates within the prison system. In the criminal justice community, it is known that inmates “age out of crime.” Can you imagine a 68-year-old man climbing in a window or jumping an 8-foot fence? By keeping these older inmates incarcerated, is this a disservice to society?
State prosecutors have the discretion to lower the charge so that the third offense would not be considered a third strike. For this assignment, you are a policy maker in your state legislature. You are concerned about the heavy tax burden on your constituents. The cost of the actual running of the prison and costs of personnel will rise.
You are also up for re-election, and the feedback that you have received from your constituents has shown that they are dissatisfied with the law that now stands. They are afraid of violent crimes, not just felonies, and are very aware that the last crime committed by the perpetrator does not have to be a violent crime. They are also worried about the use of their tax dollars to incarcerate nonviolent offenders.
Assignment Guidelines
Address the following in 5–7 pages:
Develop a policy regarding the three strikes laws in the State of California. Address the following in your policy:
What alternatives would be placed in the law to give the state prosecutor more freedom to manipulate the third strike?
Many prosecutors “load up” charges against defendants to force a plea bargain. What can be done to limit or prevent this practice?
Will your policy allow multiple counts arising from the same incident to count as multiple strikes? (For instance, a man arrested for aggravated robbery because of the use of a weapon is charged with aggravated robbery and a felony gun possession charge. Should that count as 1 strike or 2?)
If one of the alternatives was supervised probation, how would you convince the public that it would be more cost-effective for the person to be supervised than incarcerated?
Show the public where you would be saving money by not incarcerating the perpetrator.
If brought up in the legislature to be an amendment to the law, could this be grandfathered in to help older inmates?
Could this have a backlash from the public, or would they approve? How? Why?
Once you are finished with the policy, draft an executive summary of the policy to be used for political decision making.
Use 6–10 scholarly resources to support the provisions of your policy. Dictionaries and encyclopedias are not scholarly sources. Look at federal and state legislation and court cases.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
Part 9 (new 2-4 pages but 8-10 pages total)
First, revise your Week 4 Key Assignment based on your instructor's feedback and peer responses.
In Week 4, you developed a policy regarding the three strikes laws in the State of California. Now, the state has decided to try to revamp other systems within the government to accommodate more diverse populations. The three strikes laws are now causing a problem for the correctional institutions in the United States. Now, there is an older inmate population because of the aging of the population.
Locate and analyze the current problems pertaining to the three strikes laws and incarceration.
For this assignment, you will develop a policy change to address prisoners who have been sentenced under these three strike laws and have reached the age of 60.
In your policy, address the following:
Describe your proposed policy in detail, and provide the specific language you would propose to be part of any statute or regulation that results from your proposed policy.
What information could you provide to the community and the state legislature to implement such a policy change?
What would be the advantages of this policy? Explain and provide support for your arguments.
What would be the disadvantages? Explain and provide support for your arguments.
You should use the same format that you used for your Week 4 Key Assignment Draft policy.
Address the following in 1-2 pages:
What effect would your corrections policy have on the state budget and state taxes? Explain.
How have you ensured that your second policy effectively utilized the feedback you received for your three strikes policy from Week 4? Be specific and explain in detail.
Remember to support your policy with scholarly and academic resources.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
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