Category: Government homework help

1.What is the total number of people incarcerated in this country at the federal, state, and local
level?
2. How does this compare to other countries around the world? (100 + words)
3. In your opinion, what do you think about the death penalty? (100+ words)
4. List the counties in this world that have the death penalty?
5. How does America fit in this list? (150+ words)
6. In your opinion, how successful is the “War of Drugs”? (150 + words)
7. What are the positives of the “War on Drugs”? (150 + words)
8. What are the negatives of the “War on Drugs”? (150 + words)
9. In your opinion, has putting drug users in jail helped stop or lessen the use of drugs in this
country? (150 + words)
10. Assess critiques of the criminal justice system made by both conservatives and liberals. (250)

please review the chapter material. Once you do that, research a recent news article from within the last 6 months that addresses the current state of criminal justice in this country. Download a copy of the current event template (provided below) and answer all  4 questions. For question one, paste the URL of the news article you found from the internet. For question 2 , write a 250 word summary of your news article. Quoted text will not count towards the 250 word minimum.   Question three you will need to discuss contemporary issues and debates on crime and punishment. Please provide specific details to support your opinion. For question 4, you are to write a one or two sentence critical thinking question related to the article you just read. What unanswered questions did you find in the article?  This question can be related to the subject of the article (such as the President or Governor) or the journalist who wrote the article (biased view point). 

Discuss in detail the types of communication skills listed by Montgomery Van Wart in Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service (Oral messages, Written messages, Listening, Nonverbal messages) 
Suggest a leader communication strategy for effective leadership communication. 
Consider communication strategies found by leaders in the Bible. Apply at least 1 biblical passage that speaks to biblical communication approaches and style. Explain why you picked the passage and what it means to you. 

 
Politics plays an immense role in the nomination process. Consider the nomination of Merrick Garland by Barack Obama in 2016 to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia (an icon of conservative ideology). However, at that time Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, declared any appointment by the sitting president to be null and void. He said that the next Supreme Court justice should be chosen by the next president — to be elected later that year.
Based on this information, analyze the process by which U.S. judges are nominated and confirmed. Does this seem like a fair process? What extent does it have on the political lean of the Court, and therefore, on United States law (specifically civil rights and civil liberties

 
Politics plays an immense role in the nomination process. Consider the nomination of Merrick Garland by Barack Obama in 2016 to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia (an icon of conservative ideology). However, at that time Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, declared any appointment by the sitting president to be null and void. He said that the next Supreme Court justice should be chosen by the next president — to be elected later that year.
Based on this information, analyze the process by which U.S. judges are nominated and confirmed. Does this seem like a fair process? What extent does it have on the political lean of the Court, and therefore, on United States law (specifically civil rights and civil liberties

 Case Study 15.1
Choose the Case Study that is most interesting to you. You will only be addressing one case study and its discussion questions
You will use the discussion questions (or an abbreviation of them) as the heading correctly formatted in center, bold, and title caps.
The textbook is a starting off point. To complete this assignment correctly and earn full points, you must cite an academic journal article that you locate in the  Library databases only. Open source sources (available without a login) will not be accepted. Hint: If you locate a good article, you only need one for each assignment rather than locating one to address each question.
 
Attached Case Study In file

 Describe the institutional features of the President of the United States (POTUS )
Details and complete work is in document attached.

Montgomery Van Wart’s top 10 traits an
effective leader should have includes decisiveness, emotional maturity, need for achievement, personal integrity etc…). Choose the most important ones from this list and from other books/peer-reviewed articles and justify them. 
Choose traits that are not desirable for
Christians in public leadership and explain why?
Finally, research and describe the ‘Rational Actor’ or ‘Rational
Choice’ models and assess how traits can influence ‘Rational Actor’ or ‘Rational Choice’
decision-making.

 
 Describe the institutional features and powers of the Congress of the United States.  
Complete work in document attached.

 
Apply a criminological theory we have studied up to this point to a popular song selection. In particular, pick a song that has appeared on any of the American Billboard year-end charts from 1990 to present. In addition, to the application of the lyrics to key tenets of the chosen theory, acquire background information on both the artist(s) and the chosen song, and use this information to strengthen your analysis.