Assignment:
International Crime Witness
After providing your report to the professor in Assignment, the country's governing body asks you to return to the country and testify in the court proceedings. While you are abroad, your professor asks you to report on the court proceedings and correctional system.
Use the Internet and the Strayer Library to research court proceedings and the correctional system in the same country you selected.
Write a 3 to 5 page paper in which you:
1. Analyze both the court system's likely view on the accused's rights, as well as the court system's likely treatment of the defendant during trial proceedings. Provide support for the analysis.
2. Assuming the accused is ultimately sentenced to a term of imprisonment, depict the most likely experience the defendant will have within the country's prison system. Provide justification for your view of the country's prison system.
3. Expose two ethical concerns you witnessed regarding the country's court and correctional systems.
4. Provide one correctional intervention that has been effective in the U.S. criminal justice system and explain how that intervention would have an impact on your elected foreign case. Provide justification for the intervention.
Use at least four quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not count as quality references.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Evaluate the similarities and differences of international criminal justice issues with the United States' criminal justice system.
Readings:
International Crime Witness
By Sean D. Williams