A suicide bomber has detonated his incendiary device on the Pink Line of the "El" in Chicago, IL. The emergency response teams have quickly extinguished the fire and have begun to treat the wounded. The explosion took place at 5 p.m. on a busy Thursday afternoon. The initial estimates are that 14 people have been killed and 67 wounded. There […]

1.2  in Unit 7 you will submit a research paper on a current topic in Community Corrections.  In this assignment, you will submit your chosen topic for instructor approval. Refer to the attached document for complete details and grading rubric. CRJ331Unit1.2Assignment.pdf

You live in a community where, during the past year, the voters have chosen to have the town of Eagle’s Nest, Colorado “incorporated.” There are about 30,000 residents and the town is located in the greater region of a city of 400,000. It is this larger community of which residents formally considered themselves residents.  Now that the […]

“Women who take illegal drugs while pregnant cannot be charged with child endangerment crimes for doing so…the Kentucky Supreme Court…held that such prosecutions are unlawful under the state’s Maternal Health Act of 1992, which expressly forbids charging women with a crime if they drink or do drugs during pregnancy ” • Since alcohol use has […]

  Within criminal justice, researchers are often faced with a plethora of anecdotal data with little empirical support for such assertions. We have all, no doubt, heard anecdotes pertaining to gang initiation rites, killers stalking baby sitters, or corpses discovered rolled in carpets by hapless hotel maids. Criminal justice researchers depend primarily upon empirical data […]

  Which of the following was not one of the three types of crimes outlined by Beccaria? A) Crimes that involved no victims other than society B) Crimes that ran contrary to the social order C) Crimes that injured citizens or their property D) Crimes that threatened the security of the state

TOPIC: POLITICAL  There has been growing concern about the threat of domestic terrorism in the U. S., with extremists motivated by political, racial, ethnic, economic, health, and other grievances. These motivations have been present in domestic terrorist groups in the U. S. since the 1920s. The papr for this course relates to domestic terrorism in the […]

There is an expression often used by military historians that says, “Know thy enemy.” One reason to adhere to such an adage is that knowing your enemy’s philosophy, capabilities, habits, fears, strengths, and more allows one to better design appropriate defenses and preventative measures. This tenet is not always well-considered or remembered, however.  For this […]

The U.S. Department of State publishes a list of foreign terrorist organizations. Because of this label, many Americans lack the understanding of what these groups are trying to accomplish. You will hear broad, media-fed statements like, "They want us to live in the Stone Age," or "They are opposed to our (Western) way of life." Although these statements […]

Technological advances have enabled media to provide near-instantaneous coverage from every corner of the world. This first became apparent during Operation Desert Shield in 1990, when the public was exposed to images of U.S. military operations in Kuwait and Iraq with minimal delay. The technology continued to evolve, and during Operations Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and Enduring Freedom […]