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Law Enforcement and Gender Bias

Gender bias as it relates to law enforcement is discussed. Supervisory and subordinate positions are discussed as well. A carefull...

Equality, Women, and Policing

"Police officials and the public have speculated that because women lacked the physical stature and body strength of male officers...

Venice Italy, Violence, Brutality in Law Enforcement, and Prison Inequality Value Assumptions

In eleven pages this paper discusses the city of Venice, Italy in an overview of its tourist attractiveness and also discusses var...

Excessive Use of Force and Law Enforcement

II. Objectives The focal content of this research maintains two inherent objectives. The premier of these will be to examine wh...

Police Stress and Effects

In nine pages the stress that accompanies law enforcement is examined in terms of the negative effects on police. There are more ...

Policing and the Impact of Stress

In seven pages this paper examines stress, its effect upon law enforcement professionals and coping mechanisms are also discussed....

Gang Problem and Cooperation Between Community and Police

familiar with all aspects of the community, even up to the point of knowing community residents by name. The success of community...

L.A. and Chicago Gangs

Economic and social problems which have an effect on the creation of gangs in both Los Angeles and Chicago are discussed. Politica...

US as Global Law Enforcer, Responsibilities and Rights

American nationalism is an ideology which has shaped the face of the world as we see it today. The United States itself first pro...

Arguing Against Racial Profiling

voice, it can be present in attitude, or behavior and no matter its vehicle, it is painful to those on the receiving end....

Practices of Interrogation and Police Officers

Court decision Miranda v. Arizona, which imposed carefully define limits on how far police interrogations could go. According to ...

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...

Societal Changes and the Future of Law Enforcement

public reprisal. What happens is that when a suspect is unfortunately shot in the course of illegal activity, the officer is scrut...

Ethics and Law Enforcement

one is afraid to get caught? And what of rationality - is that not merely a reflection of ones own self-interest? It is importan...

Police and its Main Functions

at sporting events and just generally ensuring that there are no tie-ups in the smooth running of anything in the public areas. T...

Components of the Criminal Justice System

be the individual to conduct the follow-up investigation. In other words, after the initial report is made, a detective may be ass...

Police Officers and Stress

home as well. All of this adds up to the fact that officers rarely have a place they can go to relieve their stress; it follows t...

Black in Blue by Nicholas Alex

of the people and in the political structure of the Criminal Justice system. Nicholas Alex found that, in 1969, police officers...

Abnormal Psychology Study and Law Enforcement

repressed anger" (Shannon, 2001; p. 60). This rudimentary profile can describe hundreds of thousands of Americans, of cours...

Randy Woodfield, 'the I5 Killer'

killing spree along the I-5 section of interstate. His story seems to typify that of several other serial killers, Ted Bundy, for ...

Effective Law Enforcement Tool Known as Foot Patrol

foot are able to mingle with the crowd, maintain order and keep a much closer eye upon the goings-on than any car patrol ever coul...

Juvenile Delinquency and A Child's Emotional Needs

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

Peter Horne's Women in Law Enforcement

consequences of their involvement were far reaching. Not only did womens prisons improve but new jobs were created form women. T...

Overview of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

were being ordered to advance through the most difficult terrain and the least traveled terrain in Canada. "The horses suffered so...

Misconduct in Law Enforcement

techniques used by some of those in law enforcement can still exact a confession from a completely innocent person, but it is now ...

Police Brutality and Reducing Its Incidences

et al 1997, 642). A much more dramatic impact followed the beating of Rodney King, with ninety-four percent of whites, eighty-nin...

Interrogation Rooms and the Mandatory Presence of Cameras

it mandatory for video and audio recorders to be in the interrogation rooms. This would aid in preventing excessive coercive pract...

Law Enforcement Changes

they have witnessed. It sometimes takes a long time for the psychological aspects to come out after these traumatic events, but i...

Domestic Violence and Criminal Investigations

country on a regular basis, the good news is that many concerned people are trying very hard to fix the system. And, it is throug...

U.S. Policing, Racial Prejudice and 'the War on Drugs'

the economic and political struggles of inner-city existence in the United States. "Racial discrimination exists in the criminal ...