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The Misconduct of Police
Historical Explanations For Police Misconduct Including The
Patronage System
Contemporary Reforms To Combat Misconduct Including Civil Service
Reforms
The Three Functions of The Modern Police Officer
The Evidence Surrounding Preventative Patrolling Including The
Kansas City Experiment
Community Policing
The American Judicial System
The structure and operations of the federal and state judicial
systems including the four tier court system with particular
application to the United States District for The Eastern District of
New York (Make sure that you fully understand the handout of
the court systems)
The role, powers, discretion, selection process of state and federal
judges (trial and appellate)
The concept of the courtroom working group
The structure and operation of federal and state prosecutors and
the identify and the discretion of the prosecutor
The role of the defense attorney, the evolution of the defendants
right to an attorney and the differential quality of representation
available to defendants
The role of the grand jury, the petit jury, the three outcomes of a
jury trial, the problems with juries including the phenomenon of
jury nullification
The major steps of the criminal jury trial and the concept of the
judge as finder of the law, the jury as finder of fact
The scope, nature, characteristics, process, bias, and impact of the
plea bargaining process and reasons why poor and minorities suffer
under the process
The Sentencing Stage of the Criminal Justice Process
The five purposes of sentencing and punishment in the criminal
justice process
The range of sentencing options available to the judge
The evolution of sentencing from indeterminate to determinate
sentencing with emphasis on the shortcomings of indeterminate
sentencing
The operation of the Sentencing Guidelines and the advantages it
gives to the prosecutor
The nature and operations of Three Strikes laws and Mandatory
Minimums
The Incarceration And Post Incarceration Stage of the Criminal
Justice Process
The designation process of defendants to facilities and the types
of facilities that exist
The size and demographics of prison population and the reasons
for that phenomenon
The conditions in prison, causes for those conditions, and impact
of prisons in the United States
The concepts of total institutions, the deprivations of prison, and
prisonization
The nature and operation of probation, parole, and supervised
release in the United States including the issue of parole
searches
The shifting function of supervision from the service function to
the surveillance function
The concept, rate of and reasons for recidivism
