Category: Criminal Law

Discussion Prompt:
Symbolic interactionism is at the core of Chicago School sociology/criminology. Discuss an interaction with your friends or family and document the symbolic interactions that occur.
How does the symbolic interaction prevent or support criminal activity?

Select a case from the ICC CasesLinks(https://www.icc-cpi.int/cases) to an external site., then:
Provide a brief overview of the case
The reason the ICC is hearing the case
Challenges the ICC faced/faces in the case
Your opinion on the effectiveness of the ICC to adjudicate the case

Problem Space
Write a Basic Memo. Your Project manager, Dr. Samma, wants to know what your basic approach is to develop a theory. Dr. Samma also asked that you write a memorandum that presents your ideas on theory development. Use the basic memo format.
Discuss what you will need to show to make your theory credible. Assignment Criteria
You will use the following criteria to write your writing assignment:
Use The Professional Strategies as your Download The Professional Strategies as yourprimary source for formatting your memo.
The length of your writing assignment will be from one to one and a half pages in length. You will be penalized for shorter or longer correspondence.
Text will be single-spaced.
Cite at least two sources using footnote or APA style in-text citations only.
Use proper grammar and punctuation.
In-text citations will be made using APA style copyright footnotes or APA style in-text citations. Use only one style per paper. Review how to use ibid, supra, etc. in your footnotes.

Did you know that there is an American Tort Museum? Take a look at the below link:

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Please visit it virtually and look around. You’ll find a number of really interesting cases, including that of the famous “flaming rat”. While you are there, please find and discuss a case that you found there. Tell us about what kind of a tort was involved, what the legal elements ere, and what happened. Why do you think that the museum included your selected case to be one of its exhibits? How long ago did your chosen case take place? Has tort law changed since then? How so? Compare and contrast your selected museum case to a recent case involving similar circumstances. Apply what you have learned in this course to what you discovered in the tort museum (e.g., how was your selected museum case investigated, and how would you investigate it nowaday?).

Please find and then discuss a news story or a court opinion published or issued from the date of the start of this class dealing with a tort law topic explored in this class. Ideally, you should locate a news story or court opinion decided in your home state. State: Texas Start date: December 2, 2024

Part I. Assume that you are working as a litigation support paralegal at a personal injury law firm in New York. As such, you have been asked to work with the attorney performing the preliminary interview of each potential client. Identify what kind of investigation you would like to conduct and the different sources you would consult to further the investigation for prospective client Daniel (see below). Be sure to consider each of the facts of the case, as well as all the potential defendants.
Daniel, a lawyer from New York on a business trip to Birmingham, Alabama, exited a steak house after a client meeting. While walking from the hotel after his meeting with his client, Daniel noticed a car (parked by a valet driver for a nearby fancy restaurant in Birmingham named Casa La Femme) rolling down a hill and out of the private parking lot in his direction. When questioned after the accident, the valet driver testified that he put the car in park and turned off the car’s ignition when he parked the car. In a futile attempt to avoid the car, Daniel pushed an elderly homeless man out of his way. However, the car struck Daniel, breaking both of his legs in several places.
The homeless man whom Daniel pushed out of the way picked Daniel’s wallet, took his watch, and then walked away. A passerby named James, an online instructor on a visit to the city, called the police and ambulance. After the accident, Daniel learned that the car was manufactured by Volkswagen and serviced by Billy Bob’s Auto Repair, a local repair shop in Birmingham, Alabama. Because of Daniel’s injuries, he lost several weeks of work and now walks with a permanent limp.
In preparation for the preliminary investigation into Daniel’s case, the attorney asked you to outline in some detail about the following:
What needs to be learned from Daniel, and why?
Who else needs to be interviewed, and why? What kind of information are you seeking from each? What other kinds of background information you would want to acquire? Why? What sources would you use to gain that kind of knowledge? What theories of liability are relevant? What is the plan for proving or disproving them?
What defenses, if any, could any of the potential defendants use — and why?
Are there any other principles or regulations from other fields that could affect Daniel’s case?
Are there any other kinds of obstacles that could affect either Daniel’s case or the defense by any of the potential defendants? If so, what are they and what are the potential implications?
What are the legal / ethical / logistical or other challenges to your New York law office possibly accepting Daniel’s case?
Assuming that your office accepts Daniel’s case, what is your plan for keeping track of the incoming data and synthesizing it for easy use by the attorneys in the forthcoming litigation?
What specific resources did you use to formulate the investigative plan? Did you find any contradictory resources? What did you do about them (e.g., dismiss them as irrelevant, include them in your analysis, etc.)? How do you know that your resources are relevant, current, accurate and reliable? How did you find them?
In light of all that you have learned, what is your recommendation to the lawyer: should Daniel’s case be accepted or not? Why?
Part II. Please create your own original fact pattern that illustrates several of the concepts dealing with tort investigation, discussed in our readings. Explain why you set up your fact pattern as you did.

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this is order number above. The assigned writer to look at the comments from the professor and make revisions to the concept paper. Also, to lessen the number of pages. It is currently 34. it should be at least 30 but no more than 33. The apa format should be for professional papers

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You are in charge of the police force at a large college. Recently you have had multiple sexual assault incidents and you need help figuring out what to do with some of them. Here are two cases that you are currently handling:
#1: A male and female student, both over 18, were drinking at a frat party. They ended up in the female student’s room, where they had sex. Neither one completely remembers the night, but they agree that they did have sex and that neither one wanted to have sex with the other. #2: A male and female student, both over 18, met at the same frat party, where the male student was completely intoxicated and had consumed alcohol and cocaine. They had a class together and she had previously asked him on a date, and he had indicated that he was not interested. The male student does not remember anything about the evening, but woke up with the female student in his bed and it was clear they had engaged in various kinds of sexual activity. The male student is adamant that he would never have done this if he was sober. The female student was completely sober and admits that she knows he was not interested in her sexually.
Questions for discussion: How do you handle each of these situations (both real scenarios)? Are there laws that could cover them both? What are schools currently doing with these kinds of scenarios? Are these kinds of scenarios treated differently by school officials than they are by police? What societal interests should be considered when drafting rules that cover these scenarios? Does anyone think that no crimes have been committed here? Does using the word “scenario” instead of “crime” make you think there might not be a crime? What if the male student in the second scenario was your friend/brother/son? What would you advise him to do? Would it matter if the genders were reversed? SHOULD it?

In this assignment, you will prepare three case analyses based on hypothetical fact patterns. These fact patterns all deal with the topic of due process. Step 1: Thoroughly read the Case Analysis Instructions
Step 2: Download the Case Analysis Fact Pattern 4 Prepare your responses to each fact pattern based on the instructions.

Drawing from the theoretical frameworks presented in the reading, analyze how psychological processes (such as implicit bias and stereotyping) interact with institutional practices to create and maintain racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes. Select two major empirical findings from the reading that demonstrate these relationships. Critically evaluate the methodological approaches used to study these issues and their limitations. Then, analyze the potential effectiveness of two evidence-based recommendations discussed in the reading, considering both psychological and institutional factors in your assessment. What additional research questions need to be addressed to advance our understanding of this issue and inform policy reform? Support your analysis with specific evidence from the reading.