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This Competency Assessment assesses the following outcomes:

CJ101-1: Identify the elements that constitute the three core components of the criminal justice system.

Assignment Instructions

Part 1: What happened to the Lindbergh baby?

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lindbergh-kidnapping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lindbergh-baby-kidnapped

https://www.britannica.com/event/Lindbergh-baby-kidnapping

Resource: Chapter 1 of your text

The ability to think critically is a key skill for success in the criminal justice field. It means not taking what you heard or read at face value, but   using your critical thinking faculties to weigh up the evidence and consider the implications and conclusions of the situation.

The criminal justice system encompasses three main components: Police, courts, and corrections. These three components interrelate in several ways. First, they interact in the processing of specific cases. For example, police officers’ conduct investigations and make arrests. Offenders must then be processed by the court system, but police officers play a critical role in this process, as they might confer with prosecutors or

testify at motion hearings or trials. If an offender is convicted, prosecutors might recommend the sentence and judges may consider prison    overcrowding issues when deciding the final sentence.

Second, these components interact at a policy level. The formal and informal decision-making processes of each component can impact the strategies and priorities of the other components. Third, the components are increasingly working together in various ways to respond to specific types of crimes. The interactions between components often result in conflict. Each component focuses on achieving different goals, and the priorities of the different components may not be consistent.

Review the details of the Lindbergh Baby Case.

Write a 700–1,050 word analysis of the Lindbergh case. Include the following components in your discussion:

• Discuss how the three components, police, courts, and corrections, apply to this case.
• Discuss first appearance, preliminary hearing, and arraignment as they apply to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
• Discuss adjudication as it applies to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
• Discuss sentencing as it applies to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
• Discuss corrections as it applies to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.

Minimum Submission Requirements

• This Assessment should be a Microsoft Word (700–1,050 word analysis) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
• Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your paper should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
• Your paper must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
• Your paper should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
• Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
• A separate page at the end of your research paper should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.

• Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations were appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. For assistance with APA requirements, please go to APA Style Central. You will find the link in the Academic Tools section of the course. (It should include a cover sheet, paper is double spaced, in Times New Roman 12-point font, correct citations, Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors, and correct references at the bottom of the last page.)

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