1. Locate information relating to the crime rate in your home town (or the city in which you are living or would like to live). Give your analysis of that crime rate and the impact upon the city. You may have to access the local newspaper or police department web site. Identify these resources.
2. Go to the Supreme Court website at https://www.supremecourtus.gov. Select cases related to the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment. Read the Supreme Court's latest decisions on these cases. At Discussions, summarize one case that you find especially interesting.
3. Seek out information on the Pinkerton private investigation agency. Document five facts about the agency. Email your answer to the instructor. Find FBI internet site. List five facts regarding the FBI. Identify your web site source.
4. Review internet sites on the subject of criminal profiling. After considering the pros and cons of the issue, give your opinion as to if criminal profiling is a valuable tool for law enforcement or if it is too envasive into civil rights to be utilized.
5. Research and identify a recent death penalty case in which the execution was carried out. Give a short overview of that case. Give your opinion relating to your position as to the viability of the death penalty. Support your opinion by facts. If your position is based soley upon a belief system, you will have to support that position by explaining how you arrived at that conclusion.
6. Some state departments of corrections provide virtual prison tours at their websites. Search for such a site. Give the URL of the site you found. Describe your impressions of the prison. What surprised you? What, if anything, disturbed you? What changes, if any, do you think should be made?
7. Seek out internet sources on "Medical Castration" as a condition of parole for sex offenders. After reviewing sufficient information on the subject, give your opinion as to the viability of such a program. Cite your internet source(s)
8. Seek out and locate a web site that speaks to the subject of non-lethal weapons. List three types of non-lethal weapons still in experimental phase. Of the three, which one do you feel will be most likely to be utilized in the near future? What benefit will this new technology provide to the police department and the community?