Police Discretion Should all police officers of America be advised to enforce the law equally in all situations? Before a justifiable response‚ let’s create a scenario; a full grown man in his early twenties is walking in a residential neighborhood‚ carrying a baseball bat and smashing car windows. Authorities have been called and the man is obstructing both officers that arrived in a squad car- the man is swinging the bat in the direction of the officers and is creating a threat to their lives
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Correctional Management NAME CJA _________ DATE INSTRUCTOR NAME Correctional Management Inmates sentenced to prison‚ held in secure custody‚ become tied to a unique system called prison. The effectiveness and environment of the system is reliant on the standards and relationships between guards‚ staff and inmates. This relationship will dictate the culture‚ environment‚ cohesiveness or disconnect amongst the groups but programs such as Correctional Accreditation will help to combat
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This document is examines the correctional theory and performance in criminal corrections towards the involvement of journalism. A combined understanding‚ knowledge‚ and approach of educational are focused on important strategy and issues that is challenged through current corrections. Additionally‚ the reader will observe the theory along with performances of correctional behaviors that ranges from directing offenders within society‚ issues in which is challenged inside assisting with the general
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In most situations that police officers have to deal with‚ they are given a certain degree of discretion to decide not only when to use force‚ but also about which type of force to use. No matter what the situation is or what it seems to be at the moment‚ it requires the officer on the scene to analyze that particular situation and apply his or her training and moral values when choosing how to react. Police officers and law enforcement personnel hold the lives of each and every individual that
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Correctional Romeeka Richardson CJA/234 April 15‚ 2013 Earl Mc Dowell Correctional Facility Essay * I will be describing A description of jail’s place in corrections and its role throughout history * * A summary of the history of state and federal prisons‚ a comparison of the similarities and differences * * between security levels in jails‚ state prisons‚ and federal prisons ‚and explanting factors influencing * * growth in jails‚ state prisons
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Police Discretion Police discretion is freedom or the power of state officers to exercise various alternative actions towards a person. A police officer may choose to give a warning‚ issue a ticket of violation or arrest an offender. Not all circumstances allow police to have discretion. According to a research by Carrington and Schulenber (2004)‚ various factors affect police discretion. These factors include the seriousness and the nature of the crime‚ prior contacts with the police‚ injury to
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In the Japanese correctional system when an offender is remorseful and attempts to conceal the effects of the crime they committed towards the victim. Japanese officials tend to look more towards those offenders who show a great amount of leniency. This is due to the fact that Japanese officials see a chance of self-correction in these individuals. If the prisoners do not show this they are looked upon as unworthy to society‚ and top candidates for strict control as prisoners. Here the ideology of
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CORRECTIONAL REFORMS. INTRODUCTION. A prison or jail is a facility in which people are physically confined and deprived of a range of personal freedoms‚ generally as a form of punishment that has been forcibly imposed upon them by the state. Prisons may also be used as a tool of political repression to detain political prisoners‚ particularly by authoritarian regimes. In times of war or conflict‚ prisoners of war may also be detained in military prisons‚ and large groups of civilians might be imprisoned
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Judicial Discretion Judicial discretion refers to the authority that judges have for making and interpreting certain laws. Within the United States‚ judicial discretion is one of the fundamental tenants of the system of law‚ and is guaranteed in the United States Constitution. Both state and federal judges can exercise judicial discretion‚ although their discretion is not unlimited. This study focuses on a series of legal‚ extralegal‚ and systemic variables presumed to affect the workings of criminal-justice
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The correctional subculture has various ethical questions pertaining to a correction officer and his duties. According to Thomson and Wadsworth (2005)‚ when an officer makes the decision to reprimand or write a disciplinary report‚ he is playing a role in the Criminal Justice System (p. 316). A disciplinary committee also has a dilemma because he‚ or she must decide on what punishment should accrue towards the offender. This may be a temporary loss of privileges‚ or he may have his sentence increased
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