Are law enforcement policies and practices such as stop and frisk or recent immigration policies/practices or recent policies about reproductive rights consistent with our Constitutional rights? Have the courts protected those rights? Explain why or why not. (Consider the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments, federal immigration laws such as asylum, DACA, and/or Supreme Court cases …
Describe your understanding of how the 1964 civil rights act was passed into law. How has this act been interpreted by the U.S. supreme court? Has this law eradicated discrimination? Why or why not? Can discrimination ever be benign or is it always harmful? Explain. What is equal opportunity? Can policies aimed at equal opportunity …
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Sean Bell, a 23-year-old African-American, and two other friends were leaving Bell’s bachelor party at a strip club on November 25, 2006, when they were shot by a group of undercover detectives who had been monitoring the club. More than 50 shots were fired at the car containing the three men.Research the circumstances of the …
Case StudyPolice received a tip that a man has been selling drugs out of his house and that there are several teenagers who work for him as peddlers. Two officers stopped him outside his house and asked if he would accompany them to the station to answer some questions. He agreed to come along.On the …
Why do you think certain criminals get more publicity than their victims? What impact does this have on victims and their families?
Discuss your views about how much crime and violence in society would disappear if there were no crime and justice media.
Discuss a recent high-profile crime in terms of how the social construction process was utilized to construct the event as a symbolic crime and any social and policy impacts that resulted.
Discuss a commercial film’s portrayal of a real serial killer in comparison with the historical facts.
choose a domestic public policy that you would like to change. You might find it interesting to discuss different public policy changes with your classmates. You can share the basic points here. Write a short summary that includes the following points: State the public policy that you chose to change. Explain why you think it …
How is the federal government organized in terms of responsibility for safeguarding critical infrastructure assets?
