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Confession Obsession: How To Protect Minors In Interrogations, Cindy Chau
Confession Obsession: How To Protect Minors In Interrogations, Cindy Chau
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
No abstract provided.
Our Criminal Justice System Is A Bear Trap, Frederick K. Brewington
Our Criminal Justice System Is A Bear Trap, Frederick K. Brewington
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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Resolving Civil Forfeiture Disputes, Rishi Batra
Resolving Civil Forfeiture Disputes, Rishi Batra
Faculty Articles
Under a legal process known as civil asset forfeiture, state and federal laws allow law enforcement officials and the government to seize assets from individuals who are not charged with a crime if the property is suspected of being involved in criminal activity. This is true even if the owner of the property is not charged with the underlying crime. Indeed, in 2014, The Washington Post analyzed 400 cases in seventeen states that were examples of civil forfeiture during traffic stops. Police stopped motorists under the pretext of a minor traffic infraction, analyzed the intentions of motorists by assessing nervousness, …
Book Review: Policing And The Poetics Of Everyday Life., Rodger E. Broome Phd
Book Review: Policing And The Poetics Of Everyday Life., Rodger E. Broome Phd
Rodger E. Broome
Policing and the poetics of everyday life. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03371-1 (cloth). $42.00. Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life is a hermeneutical-aesthetic analysis within a human scientific approach of modern policing in the United States. It is an important study of police-citizen encounters informed by hermeneutic aesthetic thought and the author’s professional experience as a veteran with a Seattle area police department in Washington, USA.
The Literacy Practices Of Law Enforcement, Leslie Eames Seawright
The Literacy Practices Of Law Enforcement, Leslie Eames Seawright
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation investigates police report writing at the Jackson Police Department in Northwest Arkansas. It presents three primary research questions which are addressed through qualitative methods of interview, observation, and discourse analysis.
1) In what ways does police training address report writing?
2) What audience awareness do police officers have when writing reports?
3)How do actual report audience members read and evaluate reports?
The police academy in this study fails to spend the necessary time discussing report writing. This is not rectified by the in-house training program, which pairs officers with Field Training Officers that are often reluctant or unqualified …
Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Amendments, William E. Hellerstein
Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Amendments, William E. Hellerstein
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.