Here is the breakdown. If you must use more pages, Sources, time or less pages, feel free to let me know…
Required Sections for Final Country Criminal Justice Project Report
You are REQUIRED to have major headings and subheadings in your paper for each of the following sections:
Section 1: Overview of the Country:
? Location
? Geography
? Population size and ethic composition
? Political system and system of government
Section 2: Description of Crime and Crime Statistics:
? Describe the major crimes and current crime issue
? Discuss the way in which the country acquires, compiles and reports crime statistics.
? Present examples of compiled crime statistics
? Comparison of your country with countries with similar legal systems
Section 3: Description of the Legal Tradition of the Country:
In discussing the Legal Tradition of the country, you should include a section that discusses both the substantive and procedural law of the country.
Substantive Law:
In the substantive law section, you should discuss how the criminal code/laws have been and are created and give examples of substantive laws. For example, are the laws in your country all created at the “federal” level or do political subdivisions also create criminal laws. In the US this is done at the federal, state, and local levels. You should discuss the degree of severity of the laws. For example, in the US we have felonies and misdemeanors. In the Islamic Legal Tradition there are three categories of crimes: hudud, quesas and ta’azir. Every country has a distinction between major and minor offenses. Typically these a distinguished by the penalty attached to the offense. You should give examples of these.??Procedural Law
You should also discuss procedural laws and give examples of these. In both cases, you should tie your discussion to the text. Be careful not to confuse this section with the section you will write later on the judicial system. While they are related, this section should focus on the Legal Tradition of the country and not the enforcement system or the judicial system. ??You should tie all of this back to the text. In fact you should consider using the text material as introduction to the research you found. For example, if your country uses the inquisitorial process, you might what to use the text material to set the stage for your discussion of the process in your country.
Comparison:
? Compare your country with countries with similar legal systems.
Section 4: Description of the Law Enforcement System:
? The section on law enforcement should contain a thorough description of the organizational structure including a discussion of how that structure fits the classification found in your book.
? The syllabus states that for each section “Compare your country to countries with similar systems discussed in the text”. You need to do this for this and all sections.
? In addition to the structure, you need to discuss what jurisdiction each unit or division of your countries police has. In other words, what type of crimes or offenses are they responsible for enforcing.
? This section must discuss the selection and training of law enforcement personnel.
? Comparison of your country with countries with similar systems
Section 5: Description of the Criminal Justice Court System:
? Describe the actors in that country’s criminal justice legal system.
? Describe what role they play.
? Describe how they are trained and selected to do their job.
? Describe how they fit in the structure of that county’s government. For example, as discussed in the US Court System, the judge’s role is as an independent adjudicator is aligned with the JudicialBranch of Government.
? Compare your country with countries with similar legal systems
Section 6: Description of the Corrections System:
In this report you should discuss the use of prisons and community corrections in your country. You should discuss the corrections philosophy, i.e. retribution, rehabilitation and etc. If applicable to your country, you should discuss the use of capital punishment. Finally, you should discuss any variation in punishment base on gender, ethnicity, religion, or residency status. Residency status relates to whether people are citizens of the country by birth, are citizens by naturalization, or are resident aliens.
? Comparison of your country with countries with similar legal systems
This paper should fully describe SWEDENS Current Justice System…
Must Be in APA
Paper must include the Works Cited/Bibliography page pertinent to the APA Style…
I would like you to use some material from my course book, that I am faxing in .
I would like you to use two internet sites that I chose:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/wfbcjswe.txt
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2138
That makes 3 sources, the other two are up to you – be it online or a publicly available book (I prefer online sources) I can not use any website like wikipedia, all sources must be professional and verifiable.
This assignment/Research Paper will be submitted to Turnitin.com and checked twice for plagiarism. I need a completely new, one of a kind paper.
I will also email these guidlines…
There are faxes for this order.
