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4 pages answering 3 questions in criminology. The questions ask about law and order vs. individual rights; positivist theories; and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) vs. the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Law and order advocates are those who, "under certain circumstances involving criminal threats to public safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights"
(Schmalleger, 1999). Individual rights advocates are those who hold the rights of the individual to be higher than any other consideration. (a) Assume a law is passed eliminating the
right of a person to remain silent and requiring them to be interrogated by police for a period of 72 hours, so long as they are accused of serious terrorist
crimes. The right to remain silent is a right assured and guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. If such a
law were passed, it surely would be struck down by the Supreme Court, but in the meantime, it is likely that neither school would support this measure with any degree
of vigor. Law and order advocates would view it more favorably than would individual rights advocates, for the law and order faction would be able to justify it within
the framework of utilitarianism. Individual rights advocates likely would be quite vocal about the fact that our own Constitution assures that assigning conviction is the responsibility of the judicial
system. Treating individuals differently because of what they are accused of constitutes assuming the individual to be guilty until proven innocent. (b) Upon arrest for solicitation of the street
prostitutes, the car of the defendant is forfeited if he used it to solicit the sexual act. He can only get the car back at the conclusion of the court
case, and, only if he is acquitted. Again, this is a case of assuming that the accused is guilty, in direct contradiction of
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