Judicial Process – Week 1 Assignment
Intersection of Law and Politics
Using the Internet locate the case Obergfell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015).
(The full-length opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court is attached, you do NOT have to read the dissenting opinions). For your convenience I have also attached the Slip Opinion.
1. In one page, summarize the Court’s decision and reasoning for the decision.
2. How does the Court’s decision illustrate the intersection of law and politics?
3. What are the legal ramifications of the Court’s decision? What about the political ramifications?
Your submission should adhere to the following guidelines:
· The total length of your paper should be a minimum of 3 full pages in length.
· Use APA style for general formatting, including margins, font type and font size, spacing, and cover page.
Include Bluebook formatted citations within the body of the paper and on the References page.
Category: Criminal homework help
Treatment Based on Risk
Resource: The Case of Jerry Jerry is a 53-year-old man scheduled to be released from prison in 2 weeks. He served a 20-year sentence for the rape of a 12-year-old girl. In his initial intake interview, Jerry admitted to being sexually attracted to young girls. He stated he had difficulty controlling his urges, which led to the crime he committed. Jerry has received counseling while in prison, but will still need to undergo treatment when he is released. Determine Jerry’s level of risk based on his assessment results.
1,050 word paper discussing treatment options for the selected offender.
Include the following:
Briefly summarize the case of Jerry in your own words.
Summarize the results of the Static 99 assessment for Jerry. No need to include the form in the paper. Discuss the scoring and which items you were unable to score due to lack of information. How might the additional information change his risk? Discuss the risk as indicated on page 2 of the Static 99 form
Describe appropriate treatment options based on the sex offender’s risk level calculated on the Static 99. Explain the primary cognitive behavioral components associated with those treatment options. Provide research to support your response.
Describe the recidivism rates for sex offenders who have committed crimes similar to the sex offender chosen for the case of Jerry.
Describe the treatments that have helped reduce recidivism. Provide research to support your response.
Include 3 outside sources, not including the assignment information and the Static 99 form.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
What factors contributed to the emergence of a market for private prisons in the U.S.? Discuss the
1. relationship between politics,
2. ideology,
3. and private prisons.
How can policy makers optimize the use of private prisons in the criminal justice system?
For this assignment, students should choose two theories of delinquency to compare and contrast. Identify the similar elements of the theories as well as the different elements of the theories. Next, explain the implications of each theory on the treatment of juvenile offenders. Consider in this explanation, characteristics of the offenders such as gender, education, substance abuse, mental health issues, race, etc.
This is one of several journal assignments you will complete throughout the course to build your Personal Leadership Conceptual Framework.
For this journal assignment, reflect on the leadership styles reviewed this week and describe your own personal leadership style. Then answer the following questions:
What do you feel are your strengths and weaknesses as a leader?
Has a third party (supervisor, colleague, professor, and so forth) ever discussed your strengths and weaknesses with you as they relate to your leadership style and ability? How did you react?
Use your insights from this journal assignment to start developing the strengths and weaknesses section of your Personal Leadership Framework. For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric and Final Personal Leadership Conceptual Framework.
introduce yourself to the class. Include your major and anything you would like to share about yourself. Then address the prompt below.
Explain what leadership means to you. What is the connection between leadership and psychology? Discuss leadership theories and connect those to relevant examples. In your responses to your classmates, compare their examples to your own and ask questions to further the discussion.
To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric.
Getting Started: Please introduce yourself briefly and discuss your prior knowledge of and interest in the course topic. Explain how this course will assist you as you move forward with your career plans. Briefly discuss your chosen direction for future career obtainment and goal achievement.
After introducing yourself, respond to the following discussion prompt:
After discovering that you are studying communications, a friend asks for your help. Your friend feels that he is often misled by content viewed on the internet and information received through unreliable news sources. In turn, he is often accused of being gullible and sharing misinformation.
You agree to help your friend to become more media literate. In addition, you want to assist him to become more culturally aware. Based on this module’s readings, how would you approach helping your friend become more media literate? What is one strategy you would suggest to him to improve his media literacy skills?
In response to your classmates, think about the individual strategy that your classmate has shared in the context of your own media literacy skill set. Explain why this strategy would or would not work for you.
To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric.
While there are many different communication models, theories and concepts available today, the most easily recognized are these four basic communication models: action, interaction, transactional, and convergence, which are all described in the Communication Models Infographic PDF. Think about the different types of communication that you experience in your day-to-day activities. Do you see each of these models in your everyday experiences?
For each model, describe one or two examples of the model in action in someone’s everyday activities, and explain why each example meets the selected model. Use the Communication Models Activity Worksheet to complete this activity.
Submit your assignment here. Make sure you’ve included all the required elements by reviewing the guidelines and rubric.
Assignment Content You work for a Sex offender treatment agency for low risk offenders (Inpatient)
4 slide brochure PowerPoint presentation (no speaker notes required for this assignment).
Be sure to include all of the following information in your brochure:
A brief description of the agency; size, type (inpatient), services offered behavioral reconditioning, cognitive behavior techniques, family system and addition.
An outline of typical treatment services required for successful completion of a treatment program or plan
Include 1 article as the sources for your research. Format all citations and the reference list in the brochure are consistent with APA guidelines.
Aaron Beck, the Father of Cognitive therapy, suggests that addictions stem from addicted individuals not having a biological disease but rather being in possession of negative and painful psychological ‘core beliefs’, which are often inaccessible to immediate consciousness without the support and guidance of a therapist. These painful ‘core beliefs’ tend to be short rigid statements such as ‘I am unlovable’ or ‘I am a failure’. When these beliefs rise to the surface a system of addictive beliefs are activated. The addicted individual will start to believe there will be significant benefits to using their substance of choice. For example, the individual may believe ‘I cannot cope with this situation, if I have a drink/use a drug I will cope better’. These beliefs result in increased drink/drug cravings. Once craving begins, an individual may start to engage in ‘permissive thinking’, such as “I’ll just have one drink tonight to help me through this. I can handle drinking just this once.” Following permissive thoughts, the likelihood of drink/drug seeking and consuming behavior is greatly increased and the addicted individual may begin to use.
Given the concept that addiction and addictive behaviors stems from these core beliefs, how has the current prison system perpetuates these beliefs? What are some policies that you suggest should be adopted by the criminal justice system to address the root of substance use and addiction? Include citations from the text.