Head: PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL 1 Steven Schultz CJA/ 314 October 21‚ 2014 Anita Gopaul- Alexander PRISON TERM POLICY RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL 2 Prison Term Policy Recommendation Proposal I am a criminologist advisor to a member of the state legislature. There will be a bill‚ that will be voted on and if passed it will double the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of armed robbery. My boss and other members of the legislature knows that this is a
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CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION PAGE 3 2. DEFINITIONS PAGE 3 2.1. CRIMINOLOGY PAGE 3 2.2. CRIMINAL PROFILING PAGE 3 2.3. INTERVIEWING PAGE 4 2.4. ETHICS PAGE 4 2.5. CRIMINOLOGY PAGE 4 3. ROLE OF THE CRIMINOLOGIST PAGE 5 3.1. INTERVIEWING PAGE 7 3.1.1. STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS PAGE 7 3.1.2. UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEWS PAGE 8 3.1.3. SEMISTRUCTURED PAGE 8 3.1.4. SKILLS IN INTERVIEWING PAGE 9 3.1.5. PRINCIPLES IN INTERVIEWING PAGE 10 3
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increase year by year because of the complexity of society. Crime is a contest word. There are various definitions in different perspective such as Crime is the behavior prohibited by the criminal code in legal perspective (Walklate‚ 2011). Early criminologists aimed to develop more rational and efficient ways of dealing with crime which is called “criminological project” (Croall‚ 2011). Criminology is to investigate the cause of crime. Therefore‚ I agree with the contention in the high extent of degree
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CHAPTER 1 CRIME THEORY: CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY There could be different reasons of increasing crimes. One of the obvious reasons is poverty and social injustice. Most of the people engaged in crime either don’t have proper source of income or they are socially discriminated. So the main reason of crime is poverty and social injustice. Most of the places with high poverty and social injustice have high crime rate (Jerry‚ 1995). The most important policy implications that would be most successful
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don’t really know anything about this field. So what is criminology and what does criminologists do? We can know something related to criminology from some crime TV shows such as CSI‚ Breaking Bad and Castle‚ but these are also where we get our misconceptions from. Some people think that criminologists are trained to be law enforcement officers such as polices and FBI agents. Some others think that every criminologist either investigate criminals or analyzes evidence at a crime scene. These “facts”
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experience with crime and the criminal justice system. So how useful is the legal definition of crime to Australian criminology then? Other criminologists have offered different definitions‚ allowing society to build upon the way it forms definitions of crime‚ rather than having a single universal definition‚ which may miss some important aspects. Criminologists must use a combination of these definitions to successfully research effective ways to lower crime and offer new policies to the Australian
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terrible experience for anyone to have to endure. In an effort to reduce the amount of armed robberies each year it is important to research different methods that would aid in the reduction of violent crimes that take place each year. As a criminologist advisor to a member of the state legislation‚ it is important that any recommendation be extremely solid. In my opinion‚ an extremely solid recommendation is not based solely on popularity; it is based primarily on statistics. Armed robbery is a violent
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individual that studies the relationship between the victim and the offender. There are a few differences between a victimologist and a criminologist. The first difference would be the focal point of each. A criminologist focuses on studying the offender. They also focus on the crime that was committed and the reason that the offender committed the crime. A criminologist
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in the data when criminologist go to profile criminals. If false information is given on a survey then the data will not be accurate and when criminologist go to use the data to profile a criminal it will not be correct. When the information is given on a survey data will be entered correctly and when time to profile a criminal it will be accurate and more affective. As long as you are honest on a survey there results come out correct and can change data so that criminologists can create better
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Heydi Cohens American InterContinental University CRJS105 November 14‚ 2010 Abstract This document will include the distinction amongst criminologists‚ criminalists and forensic psychologists as well as their individual areas of study. There will also be examples discussed of when each would be utilized. This document will also discuss any misconceptions that may occur in regards to these fields along with examples of the different misconceptions. Society has labeled the different crimes
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