Intro to CJ | Unit 2

Unit 2

Respond to the questions below in an ESSAY format. (Definitions can be a single sentence).

Policing

1. Describe the modern day mission of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

2. Describe the role of the FBI in countering terrorism.

3. Describe the role of state agencies in modern American law enforcement.

4. Describe the role of local police departments in modern American law enforcement.

5. Describe the role of sheriff's departments in modern American law enforcement.

6. Explain what police management is.

7. List and define the three styles of policing:

Watchman Style

Legalistic Style

Service Style

8. Describe what is meant by police community relations and describe the various strategies discussed in the text:

Team Policing

Strategic Policing

Problem-oriented Policing

Community Policing

9. Explain what the police subculture is.

10. What does it mean for a police department to be a learning organization?

Define: Scientific Police Management.

Define: Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.

11. Describe the results of the Kansas City Experiment and explain its impact on policing.

12. Explain what directed patrol is and how it works.

13. Define police discretion and describe the factors that influence discretion in the individual police officer.

14. Define the ideas of police personality and police culture and explain how these ideas interrelate.

15. Describe the role of money in police corruption.

16. What was the Knapp Commission? Discuss their findings.

17. Describe ways in which we can build police integrity.

18. Define and explain the role of internal affairs.

19. Discuss the dangers involved in police work.

Violence in the line of duty:

Risk of Disease and Infected Evidence:

Biological Weapons:

Stress and Fatigue:

20. Discuss police civil liability and describe the common sources of civil lawsuits.

21. Discuss 1983 suits.

22. Define and discuss racial profiling. Explain why it is that this is considered unethical when other types of profiling (such as psychological profiling) are not.

23. Define and discuss police use of force.

Define problem police officer:

Define Deadly force:

24. Discuss the implications of Tennessee v. Garner on law enforcement.

25. Define and explain less than lethal weapons.

26. Discuss police professionalism and ethics: be sure to consider the interrelationship between the two.

27. Define and discuss Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST): who are they, what do they do, why were they created?

28. Discuss the role of women in modern policing. What are the biases they face and what can be done about it?

29. Discuss the role of ethnic minorities in policing.

30. Define and discuss the role of private protective services in the criminal justice system.

Procedural Law

1. Describe how Americans are protected from the abuse of police power.

2. Describe how the recent decisions of the Supreme Court have fundamentally shifted from the days of the Warren court.

Define: Bill of Rights.

3. Define the term "landmark case" and explain the impact of landmark cases on the criminal justice system.

4. Describe the significance of Weeks v. U.S.

5. Define: Exclusionary Rule:

Illegally Seized Evidence:

6. Describe the "Fruit of the Poisoned Tree Doctrine" (Hint: be sure to mention the significance of Silverthorne Lumber Co. vs. U.S.)

7. Describe the impact of the following cases on the criminal justice system:

Mapp v. Ohio:

Chimel v. California:

Minnesota v. Olson:

Minnesota v. Carter:

United States v. Leon: (Hint: be sure to discuss the "good faith exception")

8. Define Probable Cause:

9. Discuss the impact of the following cases that diminished the scope of the exclusionary rule:

Massachusetts v. Sheppard:

Illinois v. Krull:

Maryland v. Garrison:

Illinois v. Rodriguez:

10. Define the Plain View Doctrine (Harris v. United States):

11. Discuss how the following cases limit the scope of a plain view search:

U.S. v. Irizarry:

Arizona v. Hicks:

12. Define Emergency Search:

13. Define Arrest (Hint: Be sure to discuss what level of proof is necessary for a legal arrest):

14. Define Search Incident to an Arrest:

U.S. v. Robinson:

15. Define Stop and Frisk (Terry v. Ohio):

16. Define Reasonable Suspicion:

17. Discuss the Impact of the following cases on the criminal justice system:

U.S. v Sokolow:

Minnesota v. Dickerson:

Brown v. Texas:

Smith v. Ohio:

California v. Hodari D.:

Arkansas v. Sanders:

18. Discuss the circumstances under which law enforcement may conduct a suspicionless search.

Define: Compelling Interest

19. Describe the impact of the following decisions on the use of informants by law enforcement:

Aguilar v. Texas:

Spinelli v. United States:

Illinois v. Gates:

Alabama v. White:

U.S. Department of Justice v. Landano:

20. Define Police Interrogation.

21. List and define three elements that may not be present in interrogations:

Physical Abuse (Brown v. Mississippi)

Inherent Coercion (Ashcraft v. Tennessee)

Psychological Manipulation (Leyra v. Denno, Arizona v. Fulminante)

22. Describe the defendants right to have an attorney present during interrogations (Escobedo v. Illinois)

23. Specify the warning requirements under Miranda v. Arizona and discuss the exceptions to Miranda.

Inevitable-discovery (Nix v. Williams)

Public-Safety Exception (New York v. Quarles)

Define "Miranda Triggers"

24. Discuss the limits the Court has placed on the collection of nontestimonial evidence.

Hayes v. Florida

Schmerber v. California

United States v. Montoya de Hernandez

25. Discuss the limitations the Court has placed on the use of technology to collect evidence by eavesdropping.

Olmstead v. United States

Lee v. United States

Katz v. United States

United States v. White

United States v. Karo

26. Define Electronic Evidence:

27. Define Latent Evidence:

28. Describe the major features of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)

Briefs of Leading Cases from this Unit

Full Text of Cases

[ Tennessee v. Garner | Malley v. Briggs ]

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