Describe how the article relates to your own personal views. Try to include any relevant personal or professional experience in your answer. Make sure you include the publication name and date of any sources that you use in your assignment. Post your response to in this Discussion Forum.

Learning Goal: I’m working on a criminal justice question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Research your local and regional media outlets, open source websites, or utilized one of the web links at the end of the assignment instructions to review recently published articles. Review those articles that you think by might relate in some way this week’s reading. Choose one article that you would like to research. In your own words, provide a two – four paragraph summary of the article. Include in your post how the article applies to this week’s topic and whether you agree with the outcome or not (if the case has gone to court).

• Describe how the article relates to your own personal views. Try to include any relevant personal or professional experience in your answer. Make sure you include the publication name and date of any sources that you use in your assignment. Post your response to in this Discussion Forum.
• Review article(s) that you think by their title might relate in some way to – Sentencing, Incarceration, or Prison Society

Directions

Submit answers to your Instructor for the following questions:

• Based on what you know from the news accounts, the arrest video, and the televised interview, do you think law enforcement or the judicial system responded properly? Explain your opinion, including any relevant personal experience you have had with the criminal justice profession.
• How do you expect the individuals involved will explain their actions if brought to trial in either a criminal or civil proceeding? Be as detailed as your knowledge and experience will permit. Background research beyond news coverage of incident is encouraged, however, necessary. I am interested in what you know now as you enter this course.
• How do you expect a jury to rule if criminal charges are brought against the individuals involved? What influences your opinion?

• Resources for Current Events Assignment.There are several resources available on topics related to our study in each unit.
  1. First, you can use the local and regional news and media outlet articles. Ensure that you properly cite you information.
  2. Secondly, you can use web links where criminal justices statistics and information can be found. Listed below are a resource examples that may be used.

  Here are some useful links. You are not limited to the links below.

• www.policeone.com (Links to an external site.)
• www.youtube.com/policeactivity (Links to an external site.)
• https://www.insidenova.com/news/crime_police (Links to an external site.)/
• https://spotcrime.com/