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    Meg Houbolt April 19‚ 2013 “Paradise Lost” Criminal Justice 101-A Law Enforcement 102-A Jessie Misskelley’s signed a Miranda waiver on tape before he was interrogated by Detective Ridge. His confession is not admissible under Iowa law on “Miranda” voluntariness‚ but I do not believe that the evidence supports his confession. In the case of State of IOwa‚ Appellee v. Jimmie Lee HODGES page 347‚ Hodges confessed to the crime that he was accused of after the police officer “suggested that by

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    Deviant behavior- these are the types of behavior wherein it stray from the accepted norms‚ beliefs‚ or values of the group. Deviance is relative - what is deviant for one group may be accepted to other group. Various theories on defiance that have been formulated to explain its occurrence. This focuses on against the sociocultural processes and structural organization of the society. BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION- that deviant behavior stems from one’s physical or biological makeup. Cesare Lembroso(1911)-

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    Organizational Behavior Paper AJS/512 November 10‚ 2013 Steven Cook Organizational Behavior Paper The purposes of this paper to describe what I believe are important elements of organizational behavior and how these elements can challenge the effectiveness of a private security agency. “Organizational Behavior (OB) is the study and application of knowledge about how people‚ individuals‚ and groups act in organizations. It does this by taking a system approach. That is it interprets people-

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    Unit 9: Interview Analysis Lisa Bowser Kaplan University CJ340: Applied Criminal Justice Ethics Prof: Joseph (Joey) Reynolds August 31‚ 2012 My interviewee was Commander Hamry‚ of the Milton police department in Washington. When interviewing Commander Hamry‚ I found the following to be his impressions of the police force in general: Why are ethics and character so important in the field of law enforcement? Because we represent everything we believe in‚ not only in local and state

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    SOCIOLOGY 341 STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM II (This is a guide) VIOLENT CRIMES: -Different Stages of Criminal Career Identification Commitment Progression Identification w/ crime – similar to secondary deviance. Commitment w/ crime – social role becomes tied to the crime. Progression w/ crime – more you do it‚ more involved you become. -Rape Definitions of rape Statutory rape Forcible rape Similarities between forcible rape and homicide Correlates of rape and sexual assault Reasons

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    Associate Level Material Appendix A Prisoners Worksheet Complete the worksheet by writing short responses to the questions in each row. How would you differentiate male and female prisoner backgrounds? Is there a better solution to prisoner background classification? Explain. When the social roles of men and women prisoners are compared‚ the convict roles found in the men’s prisons did not have an equivalent found in the women’s prisons. Rather than the cohesive subculture found in

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    J.C English 103 Professor Acosta March 17‚ 2014 The Marker of Race One can imagine that before the existence of racial categories one of the considerable categories for people was based on how they grouped themselves. However when an outsider is who names that group from a different perspective the association behind that name may change the social outcomes of how the group is perceived. The naming of a group can come with a perceive difference especially if the category of identity is merely

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    Race is an ideology that was created by people of power in order to create social classes. The main objective is to claim that there is no exact definition of race‚ it is a fictional word that was created by social groups in order to have power and a hierarchical system. The concepts of race that have been discussed represent assumptions of what race would look like if it was real. Society has different social groups in which everyone is categorized differently due to their languages‚ culture‚ beliefs

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    type of ethnic backgrounds. Another example would be someone like a rapist or serial killer. If they have an eye witness to the crime‚ they will be able to conduct their investigations based on the witness ’s description. The suspect may be of one race or ethnic group and therefore‚ the police must keep an eye out for people who fit that description. That cannot be considered racial‚ although people will still say that it is. (Connolly‚ 2001)While not everyone will agree that the police are not shady

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    psychopathy assessments of youths must achieve a high level of confidence before they can be employed in the juvenile justice system. c. There is concern that a diagnosis of psychopathy may be used to justify decisions to transfer juveniles to the adult criminal justice system‚ simply based on the assumption that psychopathy is untreatable. II. There are several interments that are used to measure pre-adult psychopathy that have been developed in recent years: a. The Psychopathic Screening Device (PSD)

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