Essays and Research Papers on Law Enforcement

10 pages in length. The extent of private policing has grown so much in recent years in both England and the US that it will not be long before there is little need for public police institutions. When one considers the extent to which criminal activity far outweighs law enforcement's ability to maintain ...

A 6 page paper that provides and overview of how the Mapp and Miranda cases affected law enforcement by NYPD, and references a NY case that helped to reduce the affect of the exclusionary rule (Mapp). The paper provides a detailed history of Mapp and Miranda and the affects those cases had on determing ...

This 8 page research paper examines the changes which have occurred within the last 20 years in the hiring of law enforcement officials. Specifically discussed are the Clinton Administration's federal grant program entitled, Police Supplement Hiring Program, designated to provide grants to law enforcement agencies with the most significant needs; the problems with ensuring ...

6 pages in length. The desire to capture and prosecute criminals is an all-consuming venture for every common, hard-working police department; there is not an officer or special agent who wants the criminal mind to outsmart law enforcement operations. However, there are times when dubious tactics are used in the often overzealous attempt ...

12 pages in length. The extent to which sworn strength has historically helped to fortify both the impact on and fear of crime is irrefutable; that sworn peace officers have more hands-on experience and are privy to situations/circumstances their unsworn counterparts will never possess speaks to the critical element that serves to instill fear ...

3 pages in length. Law enforcement officers are not exempt from adhering to the very same legal principles they are paid to enforce; when the police behavior is beyond reproach, citizens have the opportunity to voice their discontent by filing a complaint against the officer(s). San Francisco's Office of Citizen Complaints, one of myriad ...

4 pages in length. The extent to which excessive force is inherent to the fundamental structure of any law enforcement agency is both grand and far-reaching; that offenders erect myriad barriers for police officers to straddle in the attempt to apprehend speaks to the undeniable correlation between force and capture. However, this is ...

5 pages in length. Firm in his stance, James Q. Wilson argues in no uncertain terms how the prevalence of gun-related crime is not associated with the weapon but instead the socioeconomic and cultural factors of a given community. This is precisely the message Wilson (1994) sends to his readers in an article ...

7 pages in length. There are many facets to security, whether it be in police work or as a private security firm. Not only must one consider types of security necessary such as external security, internal security, emergency planning and more, but the United States laws must be taken into consideration as well. For that reason it ...

A 6 page paper assessing one author’s view of racial and ethnic unfairness in the American system of criminal justice. Author and Georgetown law professor David Cole argues in his book, “No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System,” that the inequality inherent in our legal system originates not with ...

4 pages in length. Without the help of informants, it is likely that police investigations would suffer to a great extent in light of the tremendous advantage such purveyors of information bestow upon law enforcement activity. From anonymous to citizen to professional to criminal, informants are comprised of various types of individuals who ...

This 22 page paper (plus appendix) examines the arrest and subsequent extradition proceedings of general Pinochet in the United Kingdom, the findings of the House of Lords and the lessons that can be learned from the failure of Pinochet to be extradited to Spain. The lessons to be learnt can be seen in many aspects ...

A 3 page research paper that describes domestic violence law in Taiwan and effect of current reform legislation on this issue in Maryland. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

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.

4 pages in length. Minority representation within America's police force has experienced little improvement over the years, with Asians, Hispanics, African-Americans reflecting but a small percentage of the nation's predominantly white law enforcement. Women represent a subset of this minority group that has seen even less increase due to America's police force still ...

4 pages in length. The expectation that law enforcement officials are immune to the influences inherent to the criminal element they monitor is one that is both reckless and unattainable; while a certain percentage of those who enter the criminal justice system uphold their ethical fortitude in the face of overwhelming temptation, others do ...

This 4 page paper discusses the question of whether or not the goals of law enforcement conflict with the principles of due process. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

3 pages in length. Greek and British legal ideology helped to establish the criminal justice system of the United States. Adhering to the three tenets of law enforcement (police), judicial (courts) and corrections (prison, jail, etc.), this system functions best when all three components work in tandem; when one does not hold up ...

5 pages. This paper deals with the topic of misconduct among law enforcement officers, unnecessary use of force and police review panels. This is an unfortunate but still occurring problem in many cities. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

An 8 page paper which examines the Patriot Act and considers its ramifications for constitutional law, then discusses the strengths and weaknesses of such crime reporting techniques as UCR, NCVS, NBRS, and self-report studies. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 5 page paper on minority views of the police as an oppressive force, criminalizing those they are supposed to protect. The writer describes how even the most successful community policing programs sometimes fail to work in African-American neighborhoods where citizens are literally afraid of the police ! Some of the departmental and political reasons ...

10 pages in length. The law, which was originally created by the Greeks to temper man's inherent corrupt tendencies and regulate society's behavior, has been the staple of humankind's ability to subsist among itself. The writer discusses police deviance in an historical sense as well as how it applies today. No bibliography.

This 2.5-page paper researches an extremist group like the KKK and how it warns its members of law enforcement operations and investigative tactics. There are 4 sources cited.

3 pages in length. To approach police work armed only with genetically predisposed unique traits is no different than placing a scalpel in a layman's hands and expecting him to perform brain surgery; only after a great deal of practice, mistakes and ingrained lessons can one truly become enmeshed in the culture of law ...

A 21 page paper which is the response to a standalone project culminating a semester of the study of ethics in the correctional system. The paper exists in three parts, each of which addresses ethical issues in the correctional system of the state of Calibama. Responses are based on the laws of Connecticut ...