Criminal Justice

Samuel Walker. Sense and Nonsense About Crime, Drugs, and Communities: A Policy Guide, 7th Edition (2011). University of Nebraska, Omaha. ISBN: 978-0-495-80987-6.

Use the book to answer the following questions.

PART I:THINKING CLEARLY ABOUT CRIME

Chapter 2

Identify people e.g., peers, family, friends, faculty and ask about the attitudes they hold regarding the criminal justice system; are they more conservative or liberal and additionally, note demographic information of the interviewees.

Chapter 3

Given the resource crisis in the CJS, in part due to a high burnout rate, what is the best solution to the overwhelming caseload experienced by public defenders? How might the suggested solution impact other aspects of the CJS?

Identify an exonerated case and determine the cause(s) of why it was exonerated and then discuss remedies. What additional measures can take place to increase the reliability of eyewitness testimony? What should happen to police who plant evidence or prosecutors who withhold evidence? How can the system increase the reliability of scientific evidence?

Chapter 4

Discuss the age-crime curve with students so as to demonstrate career criminals/chronic offenders versus a criminal career. Discuss potential social and personal factors and theories that play into the age-crime curve (e.g., Moffitt’s taxonomies, self-control, social learning, life-course/developmental).

What factors may influence both true/false positives and false negatives? (e.g., social, psychological, and biological backgrounds, education, etc)
Chapter 2
Models of Criminal Justice

Learning Objectives

INTRODUCTION
1.    Differentiate between the attitudes of old idealism and new cynicism (liberal and conservative)
2.    Provide examples of the consistency and predictably of criminal justice administration

THE CRIME COMMISSION’S MODEL
3.    Describe the focus of the Crime Commission’s Model

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE WEDDING CAKE
4.    Describe and identify cases in each of the four layers of the wedding cake model
5.    Differentiate between the focus of the wedding cake model and the Crime Commission’s model
6.    Explain the impact that celebrated cases have on the public’s perceptions using specific examples
7.    List the factors used by criminal justice officials to informally classify cases into layers of the wedding cake
8.    Compare and contrast felonies in the second and third layers of the wedding cake model
9.    Understand back-end sentencing
10.    Describe the liberation hypothesis and explain how it relates to the wedding cake model
11.    Understand the impact of the victim/offender relationship on case processing in general and the processing of robbery, rape and domestic violence cases in particular
12.    Defend arguments that the CJS is either tough or soft on offenders

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