Running Head: DRUG COURTS AND THE TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE Drug Courts and The Treatment of Substance Abusing Offenders Traci R. Howard Guilford Technical Community College Drug treatment courts also known as Drug Courts‚ provide treatment services to offenders in the criminal justice system. These particular courts use various models to provide treatment to drug offenders such as strategies to assist offenders with recovery from substance abuse. The process
Premium Crime Drug addiction Criminal law
Recent Scandals involving aid agencies The recent scandal in Chad involving European nationals allegedly in a scheme to abduct young African children under the pretext of medical emergency and to take them to Europe ostensibly to save them from the scourge of civil wars in Darfur and Chad so that the children would have a better life‚ has certainly put a searchlight on humanitarianism and on how Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operate in Africa. The scandal raises in particular
Premium Africa Slavery Sudan
Running head: HOW HIPAA VIOLATIONS AFFECT THE MEDICAL BILLING How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process Brenda Beaver Axia Of UOP How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process HIPAA confidentiality is important for very patient but for some reasons when they hear someone has HIV or AIDS it gives them the right to talk about it with others which have no reason to know. I will show why it is so important to be sensitive to this type of health conditions. Will examine
Premium Health care Patient Health care provider
ways. The most commonly used type of criminal profiling would be deductive‚ due to the fact that it requires an individual to have a specialized education and training in the field at question. Criminal Profiling 3 Criminal Profiling in Court Criminal profiling is a general term that describes any process of inferring distinctive personality characteristics of individuals responsible for committing criminal acts from physical and/or behavioral evidence. The FBI defines criminal investigative
Premium Offender profiling Crime Criminology
Criminal Trial Court of Massachusetts STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS‚ Prosecution‚ V. Cruz Estrada‚ Defendant. MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT ESTRADA’S MOTION TO SUPRESS Defendant Cruz Estrada submits this memorandum of law in support of defendant’s motion to suppress the evidence seized from the defendant’s purse and to suppress the evidence collected from the audio recording of Cruz Estrada’s conversation with Luis
Premium Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Abstract The following is a case summary on United States Supreme Court case 03-633 Roper v. Simmons. Even though many disagree with the death penalty all together‚ even more disagree with the death penalty for juveniles. It is my opinion that anyone over the age of 16 who can premeditate and act upon an event so gruesome that includes either or both rape and murder should be subject to the death penalty. Juvenile offenses continue to rise in number and severity and many of those are because
Premium Supreme Court of the United States Roper v. Simmons United States
Batson When it comes to HIPAA‚ ICD‚ CPT‚ and HCPCS on how they influence each of the ten steps of the medical billing process‚ HIPAA influences the billing process by maintaining HIPAA compliance‚ as far as confidentiality and the handling of the medical record. When it comes to ICD‚ CPT‚ and HCPCS they influence the billing process they are the reference source where the codes are contained that are used to find the diagnosis‚ procedure‚ and the supply codes. But the HIPAA‚ ICD‚ CPT‚ and HCPCS they
Premium Medicine Physician Health care
answer one that puzzled the Supreme Court and led to a change in criminal procedure. The verdict was a strict interpretation of the constitution. The fourth amendment was relevant because the fourteenth amendment grunted due process. It was a very good decision‚ it protected the black minority who at the time were being routinely harassed and convicted for no reasons. This decision certainly did not stop that but it made it harder
Premium Supreme Court of the United States United States Constitution Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
In the case of Katz v. United states‚ 1967‚ The FBI agents acted on a suspicion that Katz maybe transmitting gambling information over the phone to other people in other states. Katz was using a public phone booth to conduct the transactions of information ("Findlaw’s United States Supreme Court Case And Opinions."). The FBI agents then proceeded to attach an eavesdropping device to the outside of the phone booth to record his conversations. With all the recoding that the FBI could get‚ they
Premium Supreme Court of the United States United States Constitution Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
(Vi-An Nguyen). Court cases were held and taken all the way to Supreme Court‚ over time they began to make a huge impact and they led up to the movement that eventually dispose of judgement and racism. Three of many highly influential court cases helped America be more united and increasingly civil by giving everyone equal access to all services‚ letting men and women of any race to get married‚ and bringing kids together
Premium Black people Race United States