...Police Abuse of Power Abstract This paper will focus on the idea of police abuse of power. It discusses the problem with police abusing power and how it leads to the distrust of people today. It will explore why it is an issue and what can be done to prevent it. An officer started at a job in a new town. After a few months on the job, they noticed a misuse of the authority the police embodied in a couple ways. The ways authority was misused compounded on top of each other making the department enormously corrupt. The officer saw that this was not a good thing, but doesn’t want to speak out because of the subculture and the risk of loosing their job. The new officer wanted to be an ethical leader and demonstrate courage but was at an impasse of uncertainty to keep their job. In today’s society, abuse of police power can be seen. From accepting small bribes to an unnecessary shooting, corruption is everywhere. Abuse of power is defined as the improper use of authority by someone who has that authority because of the office they hold ( Abuse of power West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2). The problem with the abuse of power is it leads to corruption within the justice system. For example, an abuse of power would be when an officer is threatening a suspect with an impractical punishment and is forcing a confession for something they did not do. This corruption doesn’t allow for the right to a fair trial. By abusing the system the officer can doctor...
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...Heather Hogue CRMJ348-001 12/8/2015 Response Paper #3 In this paper, I will argue that police women’s image are still being effected based on their gender characteristics, their career in policing, and their role in society. The article I will use as a reference is called, “POLICE women or police WOMEN?” by Cara E. Rabe-Hemp. She explains how women in policing are depicted and the emphasis of conforming to police subculture. Gender Characteristics Women are normally depicted into a certain stereotype based on how they look. For example, if a women has short hair or doesn’t wear make-up, she’s “butch” or too masculine. On the other hand if a women wears a lot of make-up or has long hair, she’s a “slut”. Those stereotypes are the same when...
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...Case Study: Officer Robert Barton Paper Marcellus Brown CJA/474 May 9, 2016 Theresa Cruz When Officer Barton joined the police, He wanted to be an up standing cop and do everything by the book. After graduating from the academy he wanted to preserve the peace and a goal of protecting people and society from criminals. Officer Barton grew up in a small town and was raised in a middle class family and was not ready for the experience of police life. When Officer Barton graduated from the academy and joined the police force, he realized that his views had changed once he hit the streets. Officer Barton wanted to be part of the group and by doing so he sacrificed his standards so he could be accepted. Protecting citizens and catching people who break the law is the core mission of a police officer. But, it is apparent that in some law enforcement agencies the mission is to protect each other. Being from different backgrounds, the officers quickly assimilated into a new sub-culture. Depending on what side of the group you were on, the mind set of us against them was embedded in the culture of law enforcement agencies and it did not take long for Officer Barton to change. Officer Barton was transferred to a new task force that monitored and arrested gang members. Task forces are usually small groups of law enforcement officers and when Barton was transferred he thought it would be a good place to fight...
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...communication up and down the ranks of a police organization different from the corporate world? How is it the same? Why is law enforcement structure and organization so much different from the business world? Is this the best way to do this? In corporate American, leadership and management mean being an example to others and guiding the individuals you supervise to be better employees of your organization. A good leader would know how to use their team of people in an organization to make the organization better, to bring new ideas and way of doing things to the open, and creating new leaders for the future. This is often where the police subculture is so very different. Not only do the agencies promote within more than any corporate organization, but once an officer is in a leadership role they typically make independent decisions of the officers they supervise. This creates a lot of tension in police agencies and can sometimes make the officers ineffective in their jobs. In a doctorial paper by a police supervisor, John Serier II, through extensive interviews of several line officers and supervisors, he found that the primary trait mentioned by line officers of a good supervisor was that they felt that their supervisor cared about them and not just the organization itself. Serier noted that a healthy police department was ready and able to deal with the communities needs with the interruption of discontent within the department. Police organizations often see themselves as...
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...UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: LaChara S. Hill THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Please Follow These Procedures: If requested by your mentor, use an assignment cover sheet as the first page of the word processor file. The assignment header should include the Learner’s last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number (DoeJXXX0000-1) justified to the left and the page number justified to the right. Keep a Photocopy or Electronic Copy of Your Assignments: You may need to re-submit assignments if your mentor has indicated that you may or must do so. Academic Integrity: All work submitted in each course must be the Learner’s own. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by the faculty mentor. The known submission of another person’s work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and may result in academic dismissal. | | | |CJ7011-8 |Gabriele Suboch | | | ...
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...Computer Crime has become a very large issue in our society today; this paper will look at this issue from a sociological perspective. It will analyze the various crimes that make up computer crime and see what changes it has brought about in the world in which we live in. Computer crime first is a very new problem in our society today and it is crimes that are committed from a computer. These include embezzling, breaking into other computers, cyber porn and various other crimes that have a drastic affect on the society and the institutions that each of us hold to keep our global society running. To first understand computer crime one must understand first what crime is. According to Diana Kendall, "crime is a behavior that violates criminal law and is punishable with fines, jail or other sanctions"(Kendall 1999; 161). Yet since computer technology is so new it has really no laws to govern it. A law is formal norms that are enforced, norms being established rules of behavior. Many of the crimes committed on computers often times go unpunished. As stated by David Pitchford in the London journal Focus when writing on pornography on the Internet, " the only way illegal pornographers can be caught is through chance leads, tip-offs and telephone tracing" (Focus 1995; p10-12). Many of the crimes that are also committed on computers via the Internet are very new also. New subcultures have formed around the Internet for the possibilities it brings. Computer crime despite the many problems...
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...the street between the police and a gang. The movie then flashes back 10 years to tell the story of how he got there. Three hoods called “The Tender Trio” rob local businesses in a Robin Hood-type fashion, giving some of the loot to citizens of the City of God. One boy named Li’l Dice suggests they rob a local motel and all of its guests. He serves as lookout and ends up firing a phony warning shot, sending the rest of them fleeing while he goes in and slaughters the staff and occupants with a gun. The police’s presence quiets them down and all but one of the Tender Trio meets their death. The movie then fast forwards a number of years to show that Li’l Dice is now named Li’l Ze and he and his friend Benny run the drug empire in town by eliminating all but one drug dealer named Carrot. Li’l Ze is infatuated with killing and believes it is the simplest way to end his problems and take control. Benny decides to leave the gang life and move to a farm with his girlfriend and is shot and killed at his going away party by someone aiming for Li’l Ze. With Benny gone, nothing is stopping Li’l Ze from taking out the last remaining dealer, Carrot. A war breaks out between the Li’l Ze’s gang and Carrot’s gang. To gain more notoriety, Li’l Ze has rocket take pictures of him and his gang which are published in the daily paper. At this point the story catches back up to the point at the beginning of the film. A fight breaks out between police and gangs and the police end up arresting Carrot...
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...Abstract This paper will discuss the major components of the state police. It will focus on the selection process which determines if a candidate is suitable to work in law enforcement. In addition, the following will be discussed, the training process and career development programs that are available for officers. Many different kinds of government agencies have a great deal of responsibility for enforcing the law and striving for protection. To become employed with a state police law enforcement agency, one must go through an extensive process which includes the passing of a written exam, an in-depth background check, oral interview, and pass a psychology test. Once the application has been submitted, the written exam begins the first phase of the selection process. Typically these exams are given by the civil service department. The exam evaluates the applicants’ basic knowledge such as: reading, writing, and comprehension skills. The scores are ranked, and whoever amongst the candidates pass the percentage amount will advance to the next phase. The purpose of a background check is to determine if the applicant is in good moral standing. In doing so, the applicant cannot be convicted of any felonies or have any serious misdemeanors. Not only should the candidate be deterred from all criminal convictions, but also should not elicit the use of drugs, violent activity, the excessive use of alcohol, or portray any racial or prejudicial attitudes of any kind. The...
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...dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors" – in other words criminals are not born but shaped not only due to circumstance but through learning from intimate relationships with others. Throughout the course of this paper I will focus on why people behave in ways that lead them to be defined as deviant...
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...Running Head: Concept of Police Personality Paper Concept of Police Personality Paper John, Doe CJA/333 June 10, 2012 Instructor This paper is a position paper on the concept of police personality. The paper focuses on unique traits versus socialization and experience. In this paper, I select one viewpoint and explain why it makes the most sense to me. According to Twersky-Glasner (2005), kinds of people who apply for jobs as a police officer may have specific personality traits, such as authoritarianism, distrust, aggression, and self-doubt. These types of traits police agencies do not want to hire. However, they may not be able to avoid such hires because personality traits might develop through socialization and experience. A person who has the authoritarianism trait may have a huge influence on people. Along with that, an individual with the authoritarianism trait may also have the ability to take charge in circumstances that call for a firm, and self-confident, person to take over. However, this type of officer may not know when to stop being controlling. Individuals who have distrust traits may have disbelief, and mistrust issues when they encounters a person. Police officers with this kind of personality trait may experience negative effects on their career. One negative effect of the distrust trait is an officer might obtain quick readiness to fire a weapon, or behave with misuse of force. Some applicants display the aggression trait. People with...
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...Officer Selection Process 2 Abstract This paper will discuss the major components of the state police. It will focus on the selection process which determines if a candidate is suitable to work in law enforcement. In addition, the following will be discussed, the training process and career development programs that are available for officers. Many different kinds of government agencies have a great deal of responsibility for enforcing the law and striving for protection. To become employed with a state police law enforcement agency, one must go through an extensive process which includes the passing of a written exam, an in-depth background check, oral interview, and pass a psychology test. Once the application has been submitted, the written exam begins the first phase of the selection process. Typically these exams are given by the civil service department. The exam evaluates the applicants’ basic knowledge such as: reading, writing, and comprehension skills. The scores are ranked, and whoever amongst the candidates pass the percentage amount will advance to the next phase. The purpose of a background check is to determine if the applicant is in good moral standing. In doing so, the applicant cannot be convicted of any felonies or have any serious misdemeanors. Not only should the candidate be deterred from all criminal convictions, but also should not elicit the use of drugs, violent activity, the excessive use of alcohol, or portray any...
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...the police respect the civil rights of members of the public. It is against been background that citizen oversight systems has been lauded for maintaining vigilant of excessive use of force, disparate treatment, false arrest, suspect harassment and torture, officer misconduct, racial profiling among other in the law enforcement agencies (Dempsey & Forst, 2012). Therefore, the citizen oversight of police serves to hold law enforcement officers to high standards of integrity, equity, honesty, and professionalism. The rationale for citizen oversight of police is said to be failure of the police profession to prove to assure the public of their ability and commitment to holding their members accountable for their actions. On the contrary, however, citizen oversight systems have been criticized of failing to effectively execute their role and the failure is attributed to poor planning, lack of political goodwill and financial support, unrealistic expectations, as well as the apparent lack of cooperation from the police administrators and police officers themselves (Prenzler, 2004). In this regard, citizen oversight systems grapple with the dilemma of having to create a positive working relationship with the police on the one hand, while remaining independent and impartial on the other. This paper explores the role of citizen oversight in policing, making comparisons of its effectiveness, and the inherent challenges in investigating citizen complaints. Further, the paper critiques...
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...Police Misconduct and its Social Impact Can Better Police Training result in a decrease of Police Brutality against minorities? A research paper submitted advocating the issues among police agencies in North America. This paper analyzes the protocol that determines the appropriate procedures for a safer community for the victimized minorities through use -of- force incidents. HSB4U1 December 11/12/2015 Summative Report Mrs. Kim By: Julianne Silva Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………Pg. 3 Chapter one: Police Issues American CCPSA Fixing Problems…………………………………………………………Pg. 4 America’s Flawed System……………………………………………………………………Pg. 6 Controlling the Police…………………………………………………………………………Pg. 7 Chapter two: Police Solutions The Debate over Body Cameras…………………………………………………………….Pg. 9 Changing Policies and Regulations...……………………………………………………….Pg. 10 Chapter Three: Community and Behaviour Police Subculture……………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Impact on Minorities…………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….Pg.14 Works Cited………………………………………………………………………………………Pg.15 Appendix A: Julianne Silva Survey Summary………………………………………………..Pg.17 Appendix B-1: ………………………………………………………………………………….... Appendix B-2……………………………………………………………………………………... Introduction One of the most controversial topics in police enforcement throughout history has been the issue between racial minorities and the misconduct of police officials...
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...the causes of crime in this country (Merton 1938; 1949; 1957; 1968; 1995; 1997; 1999; Clubb, 2001). Robert Merton seeks to explain crime in terms of a strain to anomie’ while Elliott Currie’ sees crime as a product of the factors associated with market society. These theories may concentrate specifically on America they are of general application; therefore, one can consider whether or not they explain the causes of criminality in the UK in the present day. There will be more in this paper on Merton and Currie as well as others in this. This paper discusses the effects of child maltreatment, adolescent maltreatment on delinquency and crime, including violet and nonviolent offending. This paper will discuss, gender difference, deviant behavior, and substance abuse (drugs). This paper will discuss will economic analysis classification of crime, deterrence, rehabilitation, incarceration, recidivism, parole, probation, court systems, good and services, and legalization versus non-legalization. This paper will discuss parents, family, home, school, siblings, peer, teen courts, programs, and prevention methods. What is Crime? & What is Criminal Justice Conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government or a local jurisdiction for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse. Crime does more than...
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...have garnered much sociological interest, which mostly falls into two competing perspectives: cultural studies and public health. In this paper, we review what raves look like today compared to their high point in the 1990s. We then discuss how the cultural studies and public health perspectives define raves and have studied them over time, focusing on the “pet” sociological concepts each has sought to advance. Our analysis of these literatures reveals important differences in rave research by country and over time. We end by discussing the politics associated with the shift in rave research. Introduction Society has been greatly influenced by many alternative scenes, subcultures, or lifestyles oriented around music, youth and young adults (Epstein 1998). Some of the more notable ones include the English punk scene in the 1970s- 1980s, the U.S. jazz (1930s-1940s) and hippie scenes (1970s), and the 1990s rave scenes in the U.K. and U.S. From them have come musical innovation, social identity, fashion and other aesthetic nuances, and mainstream and alternative cultural production. Increasingly, sociology has used scenes and lifestyles to investigate and clarify many of the discipline’s fundamental concepts and ideas. For example, Becker (1963) used the 1940s U.S. jazz scene to elucidate notions of deviant identity, subculture, and social control. In the U.K., scholars from the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) used the English punk...
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