CJA 323 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Future Crime Scenario

Learning Team Assignment: Future Crime Scenario Paper

Read the following: A doctor has applied for a patent on new technology, involving the use of advanced computers to create a new type of organism. One goal is to genetically alter these organisms for use in human organ growth and transplant. The doctor says that, if she is not granted a patent, she will continue her research.

Write a 1,750- to 2,800-word paper, addressing the scenario.

Address the following questions in your paper:

Should the doctors activity be considered a violation of the law, a deviant act, or neither?

If this activity is a violation of the law or should be, how may it be stopped, especially if the doctor goes overseas?

Is the doctors research an abuse of technology?

Does such research have any victims?

Should those who develop new technology be required to have their innovations screened?

What other strategies may be used to allow society time to evaluate new technology before it is implemented?

Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to accompany the paper.

Format your paper and presentation according to APA standards.

Discussion Questions

Describe the current state of the law with regard to restricting access of children to online pornography. Has the Supreme Court ruled that such access cannot be regulated? If it can be regulated, how? What is your opinion in the matter?

Describe how cultural taboos prevent the implementation of policies that could be effective in eliminating or greatly reducing crime in the United States.

Explain how national boundaries can provide an advantage to todays criminals over law enforcement authorities. What can be done about this situation?