Introduction to Criminal Justice

SECTION I: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
CRIME DECLINE.
1. US Crime Rate is Down: Six Key Reasons.
2. Report: Gov''t has Huge Intelligence Force.
3. Palm Beach County''s High-Tech Security Hub Tracks Terror Threats and Crime.
SECTION II: POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR.
4. Ramsey Beefs Up Philadelphia Police Ethics Strategies.
5. Breaking the Law to Enforce It: Undercover Police Participation in Crime.
6. Corruption Cases Tainted Philadelphia Police in 2010.
7. Problems, Sure. Broken? Not These Everyday Heroes: Debate: How Should the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department be Fixed.
8. City''s Integrity Squad Disbanded; Ex-Chief Says it Was Effective.
USE OF FORCE.
9. Force Data Show Taser Becoming Most Used: A Eugene Police Report Finds that the Use Of Pepper Spray is Falling.
10. Police Investigations of the Use of Deadly Force Can Influence Perceptions and Outcomes.
11. Teaching Police When to Use Deadly Force.
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
12. Weber State Developing Blimpfor Police.
13. Tapping in to Tablets: Knox County Sheriff''s Detectives Find iPads Helpful with Investigations.
14. Memphis Police Department Reduces Crime Rates with IBM Predictive Analytics Software.
15. City of Gary Expands ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System.
EVIDENCE-BASED POLICING.
16. GIS Prevalent at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium.
17. My Search as a Cop for Justice in a Flawed Criminal System.
18. On The Block: A Pilot Program in Oakland, California, Combines Community Policing with Social Services and Gets At-Risk Young Men Off the Street.
19. How to Fix America''s Broken Criminal Justice System.
20. Violent crime cut 40 percent in Lopezville area..
SECTION III: COURTS AND THE ADJUDICATION SYSTEM.
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR OF JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS.
21. When Defendants Are Threatened to Plead Guilty.
22. Casualties of Justice.
SENTENCING STRATEGIES.
23. Jefferson County Court One of Six in the Country Selected for NHTSA Alcohol Anklet Case Study.
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