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Students will be asked to prepare a paper on the content of a guest speaker event that occurred in our class.   Choose one of the three listed below–Sr. CCPD Officer Austin Jochec or Guadalupe Leal from the Child Support office or Moody High School Principal Enrique Vela.  The report will be a minimum of 4 pages…

Reading Assignment #4 Chapters 7 & 8 Assignment Type: Canvas Due Date:  10/16/22 Points Possible:  50 Project Duration:  8-10 hours Deliverable Length:  2-3 pages Critique the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (D.A.R.E.).  Describe an experimental design to test the casual hypothesis that D.A.R.E. reduces recidivism. Include in your answer, if your experimental design is feasible? …

Prior to beginning this journal, review Chapters 2, 3, and 8 in the textbook, read the article, Allegiance Bias in Statement Reliability Evaluations Is not Eliminated by Falsification Instructions (Links to an external site.), and watch the film, The PCL-R Checklist: A Measure of Evil (Links to an external site.). Examine the subjective nature of forensic psychology…

  Part of the Federal Agenda for Criminal Justice Reform proposed by members of Congress contains a proposal to incentivize states to reduce their prison populations. Enact the https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1557/text/is Federal grants help shape criminal justice policy at the state and local levels. For decades these grants have subsidized the growth of incarceration. To reverse that flow,…

Chapter 9 Part 1 of 3 This week’s chapter discusses the sentencing aspect of the criminal justice system.   Traditional sentencing options have included imprisonment, fines, probation and death.  Historically, the range of these options changes based the understanding of crimes and the goals of sentencing.  Sentencing philosophies or the justification on which various strategies are…

Imagine you are assigned to search a tavern at 10 a.m. for illegal gambling devices.  Twenty patrons plus the bartender are in the tavern, but the owner is not present.  How would you execute the search warrant?