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Assignment:
1. The relationship between police and people of different backgrounds. Do body cameras reduce police violence? Is police violence against people of color accurately represented in media coverage? How do perceptions of police impact public safety?
2. Methods for preventing international drug trafficking. What methods do drug traffickers use to smuggle illegal substances into a country? How do law enforcement officials react and what should they do differently
3. Is restorative justice model the best criminal justice tool?
4. Should the special juvenile justice system be eliminated? Is there a relationship between bad parenting and juvenile delinquency? Are delinquency cases higher among immigrant children?
5. How has forensic evidence evolved over time with use of technology?
6. Is identity theft on the increase? What are the recovery plans in place?
7. Is there a relationship between social class and crime?
8. Use of DNA to solve cold cases. Examples of DNA family genealogy used in criminal cases. Genealogy databases are increasingly being used in criminal investigations. Law enforcement officials may be able to access DNA results you upload to the internet. Though using DNA to help solve crimes is effective, it can also infringe on the privacy of innocent people
9. Automatism Defense A controversial defense that relies on forensic investigations is automatism. Automatism is a state of consciousness in which a person is said to be committing a crime automatically, and should therefore be absolved of full or partial responsibility. The goal of the fogensic investigation is determining whether this criminal behavior could have originated as an organic. disease such as a brain tumor or epilepsy, or if it resulted from another disorder, such as sleepwalking
10. Facial Reconstruction A vital forensic investigatory device in the cases of identifying suspects or victims many years after the crime has been committed is facial reconstruction. This tool uses clay and modeling tools to reconstruct facial features with only a skull for a model.