Using this list provided by Dr. Oliver, choose a topic for your Contemporary Issues Paper:
- Current Trends of Crime in America, What Crimes and Why [last three years]
- Addressing Domestic Violence
- Capital Punishment
- Careers in Corrections
- Community Corrections
- Corporate Crime
- Correctional Boot Camps
- Crime Analysis
- DNA Testing
- Education and Training for the Future Police Officer
- Faith-based Correctional Programs
- Homeland Security for the Municipal Corporation
- House Arrest and Electronic Monitoring
- How to address prison overcrowding
- Identity Theft
- Judicial Activism
- Jury Consulting
- Jury Duty, how effective is this civic responsibility?
- Law Enforcement Accreditation
- Patriot Act
- Police Review Boards
- Private Prisons
- Prisoner Re-entry
- Removing Juveniles from Adult Jails
- Restorative Justice: what is it and how should it be implemented?
- Sentencing Guidelines
- Should Courts Consider Culture?
- Should police have school resource officers?
- The Current State of Community Policing
- The Domestic War on Terrorism
- The Peer Court-Youth Court Experience
- The Results of American Incarceration
- The Supermax Prison
- The Use of Shock Incarceration
- Use of a Public Defender Topic
- Use of Expert Witnesses
- Use of Police Lineups
