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Unit 9 Housekeeping

Unit 9 Housekeeping. Final Essays—Due Date: August 9 No Seminar next week Review for Finals Time to kick it in gear. Thug Code. Decline in morals and manners Outward Signs: obscene language, sleazy dress, sexual promiscuity, vulgarity, and incivility

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Unit 9 Housekeeping

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  1. Unit 9 Housekeeping • Final Essays—Due Date: August 9 • No Seminar next week • Review for Finals • Time to kick it in gear

  2. Thug Code • Decline in morals and manners • Outward Signs: obscene language, sleazy dress, sexual promiscuity, vulgarity, and incivility • Behavior is not limited to the poor, uneducated • Behavior can be found in all racial/ethnic groups and in both males and females

  3. Social Stigma • Informal control mechanisms that approve or disapprove of certain conduct • Need to know how it can positively and negatively effect police departments • Need to support with examples

  4. Racial Profiling • Definition: “the detention, interdiction or other disparate treatment of any person on the basis of their racial or ethnic status or characteristics.” Dellatre 2006, p. 378. • Police may legitimately stop or arrest a suspect based on race if • The suspect fits the witnesses’ description • The police officer has probable cause or a reasonable suspicion

  5. Terrorism • How has terrorism affected the police mission? • What are some of the disagreements within law enforcement regarding the fight against terrorism?

  6. Guantanamo Bay Detainees • Can they use the U.S. Courts to contest their detention? • If we close Guantanamo Bay, what do we do with the detainees? • Are they entitled to a trial or can they be held indefinitely as “enemy combatants?

  7. Military Tribunals vs. Federal Courts • Where do we try suspected terrorists? • The controversy over trial of 9/11 leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 Co-defendants in New York federal court • What’s the difference?

  8. Federal Court • Bars the use of evidence obtained by coercion • Hearsay inadmissible unless it fits under a recognized exception • 6th Amendment Right to Confront Witnesses • Credibility: Federal Judges are independent and the Judiciary is a co-equal branch of government

  9. Military Tribunals • New Law bars the use of evidence obtained by torture or other harsh interrogation techniques, but coerced testimony may be admissible in limited circumstances • Allows greater use of hearsay evidence • Right to Confront witnesses relaxed—may use written statements • Credibility: Military Judges independent?

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