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The Portrayal of American Conflicts in the Media

is an open book. Throughout the world today, organizations that oppose the U.S. can find almost anything about what the military ...

Frances Heidensohn's Women in Control?

the treatment received. The work examines, as would be imagined, both the United States and Britain. According to one review of...

Psychological Testing and Preemployment Law Enforcement Background Screening

job" (Brewer and Wilson, 1995, p. 189). Members of the community feel betrayed when those they look to for protection are, themse...

DNA Testing and Joseph Wambaugh's The Blooding

tights, underpants and shoes were in a rolled-up heap about ten or fifteen feet away.2 She was naked from the waist down, with her...

Law Enforcement, Morality, and Ethics

in order for the public to have trust in law enforcement officers. This is particularly true as there is evidence that trust in la...

Law Enforcement and Communication

a crime. Even a convicted criminal cannot be the subject of punishment meted out by officers whose emotions get out of control. I...

Police Officer Recruitment

done a good job. James Champy (1998) of reengineering fame goes so far as to say that the annual bonus is about as motivating as ...

Criminal Justice System and Discretion in Law Enforcement

Discretion, 2003). In his acclaimed study of discretion, University of Chicago law professor Kenneth Culp Davis discovered that p...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Police Reform Suggested in Films

Suspect (Beachem, 1998) does not mention police corruption, this writer/tutor assumes that this must be an element of this film as...

Types of Profiling in Law Enforcement

the points you will be covering in the body of your paper. Profiling by police officers has become a very controversial issue in ...

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

New Jersey and the Administration of Stop and Frisk

up the incident. While the precedent makes for an exciting police drama, the reality is that corruption does exist and New Jersey ...

Force and Law Enforcement Organization

unnecessary force are minority members. According to this report, police have employed lethal force to subdue unarmed suspects fle...

Force Used by Law Enforcement

definition of excessive force is, "the use of any more force than a highly skilled officer should find necessary to use in that pa...

Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, and the Impact of Technology

has developed over the past decade. Even more prevalent than in-field computer systems is the vast computer resources whi...

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

George W. Bush's Inability to Find WMDs and Portrayal by the Media

certain degree of sympathy with Iraq and its leaders, regardless of how barbarian those leaders have proven themselves time and ti...

African Americans and Differential Law Enforcement Treatment

the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...

Influence of Subculture in Law Enforcement

the profession in order to "beat people, violate individual constitutional rights or use excessive force" (Swope 80). No one beco...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

Law Enforcement Profession and Stress

IV. Conclusion 1. Police officers have a triple burden: a. They are in a helping profession and so are prone to burn ou...

Tuscon, Arizona and Community Problem Solving

Police Commander replied that "Community policing is about partnerships and problem solving. We do that currently, but we want to ...

Forces of Deviance by Kappeler, Sluder, and Alpert Chapter Summaries

(authoritarian and conservative) that attract them to police work and that their personalities shape the work they do. The other ...

Australia's Internet Child Pornography and Law Enforcement

a pedophile, as such, is not a crime under Australian law, as there is "no common law or statutory definition in Australia of the ...

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

The Last Three Decades of Antitrust Regulation

In a research paper consisting of five pages the political side of the enforcement of antitrust laws is considered with a comparat...

Domestic Violence and Law Enforcement

In fourteen pages this paper examines domestic violence, law enforcement, and the various conditions and issues pertaining to them...

Police and Society During the Sixties and Seventies

or another. As people began to question the integrity of their own government during this time period the propensity for possessi...

Law Enforcement and Codes of Conduct

"formal code of conduct" will generally be comprised of a guideline of official policies and procedures, as well as applicable st...