Preliminary investigations

          Preliminary investigations do not necessarily yield enough information to prosecute a criminal case. Despite a thorough preliminary investigation, many cases require a follow-up investigation. For this assignment, select a recent...

Discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system

Discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system was at one time defined by Roscoe Pound, a legal scholar and educator (1960) as follows: “an authority conferred by law to act in certain conditions or situations in accordance with an official’s or an...

Violent crime

Find literature, create one or more hypotheses, and then propose how you will test hypotheses  Drug use  Violent crime  Property crime  Cyber crime • You will find literature from previous research on the topic. • Create a hypothesis that includes variables that...

The cause of violent crime.

There are many factors that can be associated with the cause of violent crime. Research suggests that some of the factors include severe mental health abnormalities, children who are consistently exposed to violence at home, firearm availability, the independent...

Criminal Investigation

Describe the elements of a robbery. Explain how robberies are classified. Provide three examples of a robbery and explain each element of the crime in each example. Explain how an investigator would process each of your examples. Sample Solution