Criminal Justice 05/06

UNIT 1. Crime and Justice in America 1. What Is the Sequence of Events in the Criminal Justice System?, Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, January 1998 This report reveals that the response to crime is a complex process, involving citizens as well as many agencies, levels, and branches of government. 2. The Road to September 11, Evan Thomas, Newsweek, October 1, 2001 For a decade, America has been fighting a losing war against terrorism. This article chronicles the missed clues and missteps in a manhunt that is far from over. 3. Global Trends in Crime, Gene Stephens, The Futurist, May/June 2003 This article makes the point that while crime varies around the world, as statistics show, new tactics have proved effective in the United States. To keep crime in check in the twenty-first century, we'll need to get smarter, not just tougher. 4. The FBI's Cyber-Crime Crackdown, Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review, November 2002 On one side, teen hackers and corrupt employees; on the other, the FBI's computer-crime-fighting units. According to Simson Garfinkel, the U.S. government's first line of defense against cybercrime and cyberterrorism is the FBI's Computer Crime Squads, which form the heart of its new Cyber Division. 5. Toward a Transvaluation of Criminal 'Justice': On Vengeance, Peacemaking, and Punishment, Christopher R. Williams, Humanity and Society, May 2002 This essay reflects the author's effort to understand the dynamics of anger, hate, and violence that permeate not only the system of criminal justice, but human relations on all levels. Williams believes that the institutions of law, politics, and media have an obligation to model practices that are conducive to social health, and such models would not entail attitudes of resentment, hatred, and revenge. 6. Enough Is Enough, Clifton Leaf, Fortune, March 18, 2002 Of all the factors that lead to corporate crime, none comes close to the role of top management in tolerating and even shaping a culture that allows for it. Accounting fraud often starts this way, and prosecutors can make these crimes too complicated. According to Clifton Leaf, they can be boiled down to basic lying, cheating, and stealing. 7. Trust and Confidence in Criminal Justice, Lawrence W. Sherman, National Institute of Justice Journal, Number 248, 2002 The criminal justice system is a paradox of progress. It is less corrupt, brutal, and racially unfair than it has been in the past. It has also become more effective, with greater diversity in its staffing. Yet Americans today have less confidence in the criminal justice system than in many other institutions. 8. Dirty Bomber? Dirty Justice, Lewis Z. Koch, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2004 According to the Justice Department, the USA Patriot Act provides that even U.S. citizens are not entitled to their Constitutional right to legal representation. The government contends Jose Padilla falls under special exception to the Constitution, but a host of legal scholars feel otherwise. 9. Evidence of Failure, Ellen Perlman, Governing, April 2004 Working conditions and other problems in crime labs, such as low pay and chronic staff shortages, can lead to serious errors. The emergence of DVictor, Joseph is the author of 'Criminal Justice 05/06', published 0008 under ISBN 9780073101941 and ISBN 007310194X.