Summary: The Pennsylvania Crime Commission

The Uniform Crime Report, which was developed in the 1930s, is commonly used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a record of crimes committed all across the United States. These crimes, which fall under two categories, Part I and Part II offenses, are reported by local police to the Federal Bureau of Investigation each year. Part I offenses are considered to be the more serious of crimes recognized by society. Such examples of this are homicide, forcible rape, robbery, arson, motor vehicle theft, etc. Part II offenses are those that are considered less serious, such as fraud, simple assault, drug abuse, gambling, stolen property, embezzlement, etc. Part I crimes can also be subdivided into what are known as violent crimes and

The definition of organized crime is “crime committed by groups engaged in planned and sustained criminal activities”

The Knapp Commission, established in 1970 by New York City Mayer John V. Lindsey (Dempsey & Forst, 2016). The Commission was set up by a committee of five members, to investigate allegations of police corruption in New York City( Dempsey & Forst,2016). After becoming concerned with the corruption of other officers, two New York City Officers, Frank Serpico and David Durk supplied information to a New York City reporter, David Burnham (Knapp Commission, n.d.). Burnham wrote a series of articles that appeared in the New York Times. These reports prompted the establishment of the Knapp Commission.

1. Information regarding the Department of Corrections’ investigation of complaints related to several correctional officers will spread throughout the institution along certain channels (Stojkovic, Kalinich, Klofas, 2008). Starting with the prison warden this information will need to be efficient and accurate as it travels throughout the organization. Being that the prison warden will be the first to be informed of this information, the chain of command would be downward communication. This type of communication allows a clear passageway for the information to be sent to subordinates and provides for an effective management of the tone and delegation of the message (Stojkovic et al., 2008). The channels that are chosen in regards to the

H.B. 48 simply creates a commission of 11 people to examine why wrongful convictions occur and how to prevent them from happening again. According to the Senate Research Center’s Bill Analysis, H.B. 48 amends current law relating to the creation

It is unfortunate that crime exists in our daily lives. There really is no way to stopping crime completely, no matter how many laws or punishment are present, people will continue to keep breaking rules. There are many theories of why that may be the case, for example, Caesar Lombroso and his “atavistic” theory with the Positivist School theory and how people were “born criminals”, or the Rational Choice Theory, devised by Cornish and Clarke, described that people could think rationally and how people will naturally avoid pain and seek pleasure referred to as “hedonism” (Cartwright, 2017, lecture 4). Since it is apparent that crime will continue to exist, it is not only important to understand the study of crime and the feedbacks to it,

Pennsylvania State University then known as the Farmers High School of Pennsylvania was founded in February 22, 1855 . Centre County became the site of the new college when farmer James Irvin donated 200 acres of land and sold trustees 200 more. On May 1, 1862, the school changed its name to the Agricultural College Of Pennsylvania and on 1863 when the Morrill Land-Grant Act was passed Pennsylvania selected the school to be the states land grant college. After 1863 the school tried balancing agricultural studies with a more classic education causing enrollment up to 64 undergraduates in 1875.A year after, the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania changed its name back to Pennsylvania state university.

Philadelphia, PA has had a serious gang problem for decades. The gangs that Philly is currently dealing with are children as young as 7 years of age that are being recruited to join gangs. Even though Philadelphia Police do not refer to them as gangs but rather as groups.

The mission of the agency is to “develop potential procedures to decrease the possibility of conviction of the innocent in North Carolina, thereby increasing conviction of the guilty.” In 2003 the proposal of the commission was implemented by the instruction and teaching committee of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standard Commission and was incorporated into State Basic Law Enforcement Training. These were eventually made into statutory law in 2008. The NCIAC takes thousands of claims and has taken multiple cases to court (Garrett 2013). Agencies like the NCIAC work to bring justice to those who were served injustice. The innocent who end up in prison can’t exonerate themselves on their own. They need help and commissions are their last chance to the freedom they deserve. Commissions have been a helpful asset to pardon the innocent but the largest cause for exonerations is based on DNA testing.

The Commission form allows for the elected commissioners to form a board of administrative individuals that oversee specific departments. They tend to favor their department the most instead of public interest. They also fall into the easily corrupt and don’t have specific areas of responsibility.

According to NCCD, (2016). In National Council in Crime and Delinquency just envision on a society that which people in safe and communities supported them and deals with dignity by systems that they use it. There are aims of this organization which protect the children from abuse and neglect, create safe and rehabilitative justice system for adults, and the needs of older people and adults with disabilities. NCCD conducts different research on different issues in the child welfare, juvenile justice, education, criminal justice, and adult protective service systems. NCCD has provided for stakeholders technical assistance and extensive training in their issues and that include service agencies, court personnel, law enforcement, and criminal

bills, policies and issues that directly impact criminal law. This committee is composed of ten

It is obvious that police officers are using their jobs as law enforcers to obtain illegal items and are shamefully betraying their police departments. The policemen who were involved in this drug smuggle were veterans. When people think of veterans, whether it be a veteran of war or a veteran of a police department, we think of someone who has devoted many years, served and been loyal to the service. People have admiration for veterans and recognize them for being committed to the service as well as being faithful to every year they have been involved in it. Now the four veteran police officers from Chicago will be spending time in prison instead of adding more years to the service of policing. Those years that the veteran police officers were dedicated to the policing is now history, they could have helped lower crime rates in Chicago, but instead they are facing prison time.

This definition at first would appear broad; it involves a number of aspects of criminality. However, it was written before the

Furthermore, in my experience with the CLPS, I have experienced what professional power is for the DOJ through receiving various trainings, having to read the code of ethics, having to use certain templates and adapting my writing style according to the DOJ policies. Evetts (2006) explains that it is these trainings which professionalization occurs (p.139). Thus, the trainings and policies in place for CLPS employees is to maintain that all employees can perform the mandated tasks in an appropriate manner. Moreover, the expertise of the section usually lies on the lawyers, because CLPS is made-up of primarily lawyers than criminologists. However, this has not prevented or discredited the work that I have been doing in the placement, as I have