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At any given moment, individuals, businesses, organizations, and corporations can experience loss. Necessary actions are needed to recover from said loss. Loss can range from identity theft to embezzlement. Consequently, immediate identification of loss can lessen the impact and add to recovery of said loss.

Focus your discussion on the following:

Discuss comprehensive control programs and how these programs add value to loss prevention.
Similarly, to paid law enforcement professionals, security professionals are added value in our society. Identify several areas security professionals prevent loss to individuals, corporations, and retail businesses.
Be sure to explain the following:
Role and responsibility in loss identification
Criminal investigation and civil litigation
Suspect apprehension
Criminal and civil loss

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You have been working for about 10 years within the private sector as a fraud investigator. You are now the director of fraud management of a well-known amusement park. Because your amusement park handles hundreds of thousands of dollars and credit card information, you must have a great fraud prevention program. Management is aware of a need for increased requirements for the amusement park to maintain a system of internal control to help prevent and detect fraud. The chief executive officer (CEO) of the amusement park, Mary Moore, is also interested in using a pro-active posture toward building an antifraud prevention program, including exploring the use of a pro-active auditing approach for fraud discovery. You have had discussions with the internal auditor and your external fraud investigators, as well as accounting and consulting firms for pro-active approaches for detecting fraud.

Management is aware that eliminating the opportunity for fraud is critical. Recently, the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) have adopted a comprehensive guide for managing the business risk of fraud.

Answer the questions below in preparing this paper of 35 pages. As you answer each question, you must provide support or evidence that will enhance and empirically prove your answers. Academic criminal justice articles or real-life criminal justice findings that are not found in journals or other academic sources must be used when supporting your answers. Use American Psychological Association (APA) style for all cited sources, including your reference page.

What are the benefits of a comprehensive control program? If you were advising this corporation, what would be the specific benefits for it?
What procedures should be considered for detective controls, including independent checks and a system for documents and records?
Because an amusement park deals with a large amount of cash and electronic funds such as credit cards, discuss the possibility of a fraud hotline as part of your program. Remember that an amusement park is just like a corporation in organization and has goals for making profits. How can a hotline be implemented as a tool for preventing and detecting fraud?
What recommendations would you offer the CEO to encourage a culture of honesty, openness, and assistance?
Do you think that a culture of honesty, openness, and assistance can exist as suggested by Ms. Moore? Or is it a utopian idea with no understanding of how human nature works? Provide examples to justify your answer.

Write a 56-page paper that answers the following questions:
Why are tribunals very important among two or more countries? (25%)
How can the cultural and political differences that exist between nations affect a tribunal? (30%)
What would happen if tribunals did not exist? (20%)
While the significance of tribunals among nations is important, what are the limitations of tribunals? Explain. (20%)
Please provide APA citation and references where necessary. (5%)

After reviewing the reading topics and course learning objectives, students will select a subject of interest for a 7-10 page research paper supported by a minimum of 5 academic peer reviweed sources. The paper is due at the end of Week 7. In your response to the discussion board Research Paper Topic, post the topic you wish to research, the course learning objective with which it aligns, and why this topic is of special interest to you. I will approve, comment, or disapprove. Please wait for approval before you begin your research. This should be completed by the end of Week 2. The following are the six course learning objectives from which you can base your topic:
1.Examine the organizational structure and the administration process of the U.S. justice system.
2.Differentiate among the various components that influence the administration of the criminal justice system.
3.Describe the use of force and the use of discretion in criminal investigation.
4.Examine the administration of the courts when addressing sentence alternatives.
5.Analyze the American correctional system and its use of alternative programs when administering justice.
6.Identify common ethical issues that occur in the criminal justice system.

Research paper topics must be based upon one of the six course learning objectives. When submitting the selected research topic by the end of Week 2, students must identify not only the topic of their research paper but also the course learning objective with which it is aligned.

When writing your research paper be sure to focus upon the aspect of criminal justice that you are addressing from the perspective of the course learning objective with which it is associated. You must support points made in the research paper with scholarly resources. Your personal opinion must be limited and will not be a determining factor in the final grade. Instead, your grade is determined by how well you support your argument utilizing the materials discussed in this course and research and reference material you locate.

What I do not want is a regurgitation of what is in the readings. Expand on the readings; do not repeat it. Direct quotes should be used sparingly and limited to instances where the original meaning would be lost if not directly quoted. Document your facts utilizing the current APA style edition.

This paper is to be submitted to me as indicated on the Course Schedule and Grading Policy Summary Table.  The paper is to be in the current APA Style format and the body of the paper is to be between 7 and 10 pages.  The body of the paper does not include the title page, table of contents, appendix or references. Abstracts should not be included and will not count as part of the body of the paper if included.

This is to be of high quality, free of spelling and grammatical errors, and of original work. Plagiarism will be dealt with harshly.  You are to title your paper by your last name.  For example, an individual with the last name of Smith would name their paper smith.docx with .docx being the MS Word file extension.  You are to submit your paper by uploading it to the Assignments area in the course site prior to the due date as indicated in the Course Schedule and Grading Policy Summary Table.

You must submit your research paper to this assignment as a Word document. Other formats will not be accepted. The date of your submission is based upon the date you successfully submit your research paper in the correct Word format.

Papers will be graded based on the Criminal Justice Paper Rubric