LibGuides: CJA628 Critical Issues in CJ: Module 3

Lesson 3

Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Burke, A., Carter, D., Fedorek, B., Morey, T., Rutz-Burri, L., & Sanchez, S. (2019). Recruitment and hiring in policing. In SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American criminal justice system. Open Oregon Educational Resources.
Chapter 6.5 in this book describes the process of hiring recruits. The book evaluates and explains each step of the process including the written test, the oral board, the physical agility test, assessment testing, background investigation, psychological evaluation, and medical evaluation.

Police Recruitment and Retention for the New Millennium: The State of Knowledge
Wilson, J. M. (2010). Police recruitment and retention for the new millennium: The state of knowledge. Rand Corporation.
This article from the Center on Quality Policing, a Rand publication, evaluates the dynamics of police staffing challenges and the importance of maintaining the police workforce level, and the challenge facing law enforcement today. The article discusses the supply of and demand for qualified officers at a time of increasing attrition, expanding law enforcement responsibilities, and decreasing resources.
Background Investigation Manual
Background investigation manual. (2022). Commission on POST > Home.
This manual shows how to meet the requirement in California of Government Code Section 1031 which requires a pre-employment background investigation for peace officers. The article is intended to guide to assist in satisfying these requirements and in otherwise ensuring that the background investigation of California peace officer and public safety dispatcher candidates are thorough, lawful and effect, alive.

Crime Scene Management
Gehl, R., & Plecas, D. (2017). Crime scene management. In Introduction to the criminal investigation: Processes, practices and thinking (pp. 116 -134). Justice Institute of British Columbia.
Chapter 8 of the book evaluates crime scene management. It discusses the importance of notetaking, securing a crime scene, evidence management, and scaling the investigation of the event.

U.S. Supreme Court Case Lange v. California 2021 4th Amendment
U.S. Supreme Court Case Lange v. California 2021 4th amendment. (n.d.). Supreme Court of the United States.
U.S. Supreme Court case Lange v. California 2021 4th Amendment case, Pdf. is the U.S. Supreme Court case ruling on the validity of a peace officer’s warrantless entry into a garage in violation of the 4th Amendment. Held: Under the Fourth Amendment, the pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always—that is, categorically—justify a warrantless entry into a home.

CJA628 IRAC Method
CJA628 IRAC Method [PowerPoint]. (2022).
How to find court cases
Larson, J. (2022). How to find court cases [PDF]
U.S. Supreme Court Case Nance v. Ward, Commissioner
Georgia Department of Corrections. (2021). U.S. Supreme Court Case Nance v. Ward, Commissioner [PDF].

Fundamental cases in criminal justice. United States v. Drayton. 536 U.S. 194
Fundamental cases in criminal justice. United States v. Drayton. 536 U.S. 194. (2002). Professor McKee’s Things and Stuff – Criminal Justice, Finance, Higher Education, OER, & loquacious orations that move everyone. https://www.docmckee.com/WP/cj/fundamental-cases-in-criminal-justice/
The case involved warrantless searches on the bus and a felony arrest.