... this actions warrants. There are certain traditions within police departments that govern how an individual officers discretion is to be used. Sometimes discretion comes in the form of strict adherence to the law while other times an officers discretion can be seen as abusive and a misuse of their ... types of commands also come from governmental agencies as well. The problem that arises from allowing the police to use there discretion in assessing crimes is that, in the publics mind, sometimes this discretionary power can be abused. Officers may tend to give leniency to one group and n...

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... standards of their department. "Cutting loose" is not permitted if it negatively represents the department and officers are fired or suspended when their actions are over the line. An officer and their families are put in the public eye and upholding their status is difficult and stressful. Police experience fatal incidents, abuse cases, and drug trafficking daily and with this on going ... the victim. Kureczka defines a critical incident as "any event that has a stressful impact sufficient to overwhelm the usually effective coping skills of an individual" (Critical incident Stress in L...

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... workout. According to researchers at the University of Rochester, led by cognitive scientist Daphne Bavelier, games simulating stressful events such as those found in battle or action games can be a training tool for real-world situations. The study suggests that playing action video games primes the brain ... to make quick decisions. One article also states "Sustained changes in the region of the brain associated with cognitive function and emotional control were found in young adult men after one week of playing violent video games, according to study results presented ... them have be...

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... the FBI (Geis, 1982). It is often a function of an employee's circumstances and/or attitude combined with employer inexperience and carelessness and with the decreasing threat of prosecution and other detrimental consequences (Weisburd, Wheeler, Waring & Bode, 1991). Embezzlement may occur because an employee who is in a position of trust with access to company funds is ... deceit or misrepresentation (e.g. account holder or rightful owner impersonation, official seals of fake accounts); by documents (e.g. check, "authorization note", power of attorney); and by technology (e.g. on-line c...

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... . One of Packer's two models of the criminal justice process. It reflects traditional politically conservative values. In this model, the control of criminal behavior is the most important function of criminal justice. Advocates of the crime control model want to make the process more efficient " ... to move cases through the process as quickly as possible and to bring them to a close. Packer characterizes the crime control model as "assembly-line justice."" ... Crime control advocates prefer plea bargaining to jury trials, which slow down the process. The key to the crime control model ...

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... day fine programs, work release, furloughs, halfway houses, restitution, community service, drug/alcohol checks, check-in programs, curfews, mediation and restorative justice centers, and any other offender monitoring or reporting program that walks the line between trust and safety. There is tremendous variation by jurisdiction in how community corrections are done. However, there are at least four things that all programs tend ... to have in common. First an emphasis on residential stability, the place the offender is kept or located ... Third a focus on accountability, for both offend...

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