Assignment:
1. Discuss how television and media have impacted your view of criminal investigation. What television show or program had the greatest impact on your view of criminal investigation and law enforcement? If you are currently in law enforcement, have television and media changed your views in some way? If you are aspiring to enter the criminal justice field, how has it influenced your decision?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
2. Imagine that you are working with another police officer to investigate a crime. The officer you are working with believes that the individual you are investigating is guilty, but there is no real evidence linking him to the crime. In order to ensure prosecution of the individual in question, your coinvestigator makes up evidence and presents it as factual, which results in a conviction of the individual. What is your opinion about what the officer did? Do you believe that the end justifies the means? Why, or why not?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.