School of Training Division of Psychology and Counseling Psychology Program: Undergraduate COURSE TITLE: Pondering & Writing in Psychology COURSE NUMBER: PSYC 2102-06 CREDIT HOURS: Four INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Molli Mercer SEMESTER: Fall 2021 E-mail: mbachenberg@govst.edu Workplace Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-Four:00pm – on-line by appointment Thursdays 2:00-Four:00pm – on-line by appointment Class Conferences: On-line asynchronous conferences. We could […]

This presentation will allow you to explore the participants within the judicial process, as well as practice an important skill within the criminal justice field: creating a presentation. There are many participants in the judicial process. Narrowing your focus to the courtroom, create a presentation that addresses the roles of the courtroom workgroups and assess […]

For this assignment, you will conduct Internet research on the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping trials. In brief, Smart was abducted at the age of fourteen from her home in Utah. Over nine months later, she was found with her kidnappers, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Ileen Barzee (now deceased). During Mitchell’s trial, consideration was given with […]

Radicalisation is a complex term which has different meanings and can be used in different contexts. To be radicalised does not necessarily mean that one has to resort to violence or terrorism. It is not a synonym to extreme religious teachings or activities either. Radicalism can be intolerant behaviour or intolerance towards the views of […]

In this assignment, we will be analysing both security issues of terrorism and organized crime as national and international security threats. Terrorism and organised crime, both two different forms of criminal activity and an equal threat to human security. It is important that establish the precise definition of both these activities, so we can categorically […]

Rehabilitation, Treatment, and the Management of Offenders: Can Punishment Cure? Abstract This paper will discuss how the authors of three particular articles, Megan Comfort, Mona Lynch, Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Paula Maurutto, interpret the rehabilitative processes for criminal offenders. The authors’ arguments of who is responsible for this rehabilitation vary widely. There will be a brief […]

Conceptions of race within the criminal justice system have always been a controversial issue. Indeed, there is no denying that in terms of prison population ethnic minorities are grossly overrepresented: despite making up only 2% of the total population of Britain, black people still make up 15% of the population of prisons (Ashworth). If one […]