1) How has the crime picture in America changed over time?
2) Please describe *and offer your own assessment* of psychological theories of crime.
3) What is the common law and what impact does it have on contemporary American criminal justice?
4) Please describe the insanity defense to crime and its strengths and weaknesses as a defense. If you could create your own rule for determining insanity in criminal trials, what would it be?
5) Please thoroughly describe the historical development of policing in America.
6) Please make TWO suggestions for policing reform in America and thoroughly explain why you think these are so important.
7) How is community policing and how does it differ from traditional policing? Please offer your assessment of how it can improve the relationship between police and community.
8) Please thoroughly differentiate between criminal law and civil law and please then respond to the statement that both verdicts in the O.J. Simpson case may have been correct, if one looks at the standard of proof in civil vs. legal cases. Do you agree or disagree with this statement and why or why not?
9) Please consider pathways to crime and thoroughly define and describe the “authority conflict pathway,” the “covert pathway” and the “overt pathway.”
10) Define the “gender ratio problem” of crime and please offer some possible explanations for it.
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