Reference no: EM133364087

A family in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe reported to tribal authorities that their grown son was missing. The tribal authorities then contacted surrounding agencies with an "attempt to locate." The surrounding agencies included the state police, the county sheriff's department, and two municipalities that were both located a few miles outside the boundaries of the Shoshone-Bannock reservation. A day after the missing person was reported, the local police in one of the municipalities about 10 miles north of the reservation were called to a residence for a reported disturbance. When they arrived, officers observed a great deal of blood and a couple of bullet holes in the floor of the residence. Officers then found that the vehicle registered to the owner of this residence had been reported stolen. Witnesses to the disturbance said that they heard shouting and about seven gunshots. They also reported hearing a car leaving the area at a high rate of speed. Security guards from a federal research facility located about 50 miles east of the community reported finding a burned-out vehicle on an access road. The vehicle was the reported missing car. The security guards said that the entire car hadn't been burned, and therefore they could see what they thought was blood on the passenger seat. A few days after the reported stolen car and altercation, a fisherman on the reservation reported finding a body hidden among the willows near the river. The found body was identified as the missing person, and a blood analysis matched the victim's blood to blood from the house in town and the blood in the vehicle found at the research facility.

• Identify the criminal justice agencies that may want to claim jurisdiction in the case study you chose.
• Explain briefly why each agency would want to claim jurisdiction and what the benefit would be to each agency.
• Explain briefly why an agency may NOT want to assume jurisdiction.
• To what degree should ethical considerations, such as what is best for the victim, the community, or even the offender, factor into jurisdictional decisions?
• explain why your agency deserves-or may not want-jurisdiction.