Criminal Justice

Crime Rates # 3

Over the past decade, some countries have shown high crime rates while other countries have lower crime rates. ;For example, the lowest homicide rates in 2000 existed in Saudi-Arabia and Japan, while France and Germany had the highest homicide rates. ;Their rates, however, were still lower than the homicide rate in the United States in the same year (Hagan, 2003).

Create 6–8 PowerPoint slides comparing the crime rates of United States, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, England, France, and Germany over the past 5 years:

• What differences exist?
• What factors do you think contribute to those differences?
• Provide some examples of how each country has responded to its crime problems?
• Can you find any changes in data that may be a result of their efforts?
• Please provide APA citation and references where necessary. ;

; ;Organized Crime ; #4

; ;6 – 8 Power Point Slide:

• What are some of the ways that organized crime impacts you and a community and/or city (of your choice) ;directly?
• What are some of the ways that law enforcement agencies are working to reduce these types of organized crime in the area you chose?
• Have these efforts been successful? Compare your findings to the effects of organized crime in China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, England, France, and Germany on their people. What similarities or differences exist? Explain.
• Please provide APA citation and references where necessary.

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Different Systems of Justice ; #1

6-8 Power Point Slide

Select a country different from your own, and prepare a presentation for a group of your colleagues to familiarize them with that country’s criminal justice system. Using newspapers, magazines, or the Internet, create a 6–8 slide PowerPoint presentation (including speakers notes) answering the following questions:

1. How is the system in the country you have chosen different from that of the U.S. system?
2. What are the similarities and/or differences historically and politically?
3. How do the cultural aspects of that country influence its system?