...Ryan Batista Casey Lukenbill SOCIOLOGY 1 TWTH 4:10-6:50 P.M. 2/3/2011 Violent Crimes in Society Deviance is the contravention of what society sees as normal. Crime is one of the main problems within deviance that society faces on a daily basis. One specific type of crime that many are affected by is violent crime. This type of crime ranges from minor traffic violations to murder. Violent crimes in the United States affect society domestically, personally, and sexually. One type of violent crime that affects men and woman is domestic violence. According to Professor Lukenbill’s lecture, domestic violence used to be a major dilemma that many would be scared to express freely, but because of how strict society has become on the issue, it is slowly declining. For example, stricter laws have taken a threshold on cutting down unnecessary abuse. The authorities did not take this issue as seriously as they did then as they do now. The police would merely show up, ask what was wrong, and leave the premises. Presently, the police now have to arrest the suspect of the abuse without further notification. The arresting takes place in order to ensure the safety of the victimized spouse. Also, this is an example of how the law is stricter than ten years ago. Another reason for the decline of domestic abuse is the wider variety of job opportunities that women have today. In fact, since women now have more employment opportunities, they can fend for themselves and not feel...
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...We have seen that different countries have different rates of violent crime. Why, in your opinion, is the violent crime rate higher in the U.S. than it is in Canada? "Criminologists calculate crime rates (or rates of incarceration, conviction, or recidivism) by dividing the amount of crime by the population size and multiplying by 100, 000. This produces the standard rate per 100,000; occasionally it is useful to calculate a rate per million or some other figure when looking at less frequently occurring offences" (Linden, pg.91). Crime rate is determined ultimately by population, and the question is why is the violent crime rate higher in the U.S. than it is in Canada, is simply because they have a higher population. According to Countryeconomy.com...
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...The nature of crime in Australian society is diverse and its occurrence fluctuates over time (Makkai & Prenzler, 2015). This essay will firstly discuss and define the concepts of crime and violence. Secondly, it will define violent crime from a contemporary Australian legal perspective. It will then examine the overall nature of crime in Australia describing its categories and sub categories. Fourthly, the essay will establish the official agencies who collect and collate data that measures the nature and extent of crime in Australia. It will finally use this data and empirical evidence to compare the extent of violent crime with crimes that are non-violent. The essay will ultimately conclude by asserting that the majority of crime in society is not violent in nature. Crime is a complex phenomenon that attracts a variety of definitions (Ransley & Prenzler, 2015). The varying definitions of crime provide broad or limited meanings and are all, to a greater or lesser degree, problematic. This is because crime is socially constructed; thus what is considered a crime, or no longer considered a crime changes over time to comply with the norms, attitudes and expectations existing in society at a given historical period (Brookman, 2005; Howitt, 2012). Violence is also a socially constructed concept that lacks a specific definition (Indermaur, 2000; Papalia, Thomas, Ching & Daffern, 2015), however, in the broadest sense, violence, is typically an action or type of behaviour that...
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...Children Who Commit Violent Crimes The numbers of violent crimes committed by children have greatly increased in the last 7 years. “According to the U.S. Department of Justice, approximately 10 percent of the murders that occurred in the United States in 2006 were committed by juvenile offenders. The Department of Justice also reports that the older the juvenile, the more likely he is to commit a violent crime; juveniles aged 16-17 are most likely to commit a violent crime. While the number of male juvenile violent offenders continues to outnumber that of female juvenile offenders, the number of female juvenile offenders is on the rise” (Baker). Children who commit violent crime have common characteristics such as “Narcissism, (the feeling that you are special and superior to everyone else and that other people have no rights), a history of animal cruelty and cruelty to other children, social isolation, repeated defiance of authority and a history of minor juvenile offenses, and unhealthy obsessions with death, violence and starting fires’” (Baker). However, when dealing with minors, it must be taken into account if children should be punished as adults. While many people think that children who commit violent crimes should be punished as adult, I disagree. Jessica Reaves, writer for the Times US, states, “Harsh sentencing acts as a deterrent to kids who are considering committing crimes. Trying children as adults has coincided with lower rates of juvenile crimes. Light sentences...
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...unthinkable happens; thousands of children are involved in crimes. They are the victims of sexual abuse, kidnappings, violent attacks or online predators. Data collected from the NCVS (National Child Victimization Survey) in 2010 showed that male (14.3 victimizations per 1,000) and female (13.7 per 1,000) youth were equally as likely to experience violent crimes such as rape or sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault. Compared to a study done in 1994 when male youth (79.4 in 100) were nearly twice as likely as female youth (43.6 per 1,000) to be victims of serious violent crimes (Lauristen and White). Because of the increase in children crimes, many investigators are strictly being assigned to cases that involve children as the victim. With the many...
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...Violent Crime against Gay Men and the Law The involvement of the court, police enforcement, and law as a whole can also play a role in hate crime rates. Not only that, the judgements made about hate crimes and the extent to which they are viewed as severe is another aspect to consider. In a study, researchers (Cramer, Wakeman, Chandler, Mohr, & Griffin, 2013) examined the effects of victim sexual orientation and hate crime evidence on sentencing recommendations and victim blame. The participants that the researchers (Cramer et al. 2013) included were 409 introductory psychology students from a southeastern public university (n = 226) and a public mid-Atlantic university (n = 183). With regard to methodology, a demographics form was used to...
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...It is not right for children to go to jail children who commit violent crimes should not be tried as adults.Death penalties can get out of hand and be unnecessary at the moment when children do not understand what they have done, they get into therapy or observed places to make them realize what they did was wrong.Children are too young to live on their own, vote, have a job or buy drinks or cigarettes at a store, but all of a sudden they make one mistake and get to the point where they get punished for even a lifetime.While they are in jail for their crime, they cannot defend themselves there.Too many bigger/older people harass, violate, mistreat and pick on others imagine how it would be with the younger kids. Young ones who commit violent crimes should not...
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...MACROECONOMIC EVILS ON PROPERTY AND VIOLENT CRIMES IN MALAYSIA Chor Foon Tang♣ University of Malaya ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of macroeconomic evils – unemployment and inflation on different categories of crime rates – property and violent crimes in Malaysia via the multivariate Johansen-Juselius and Granger causality techniques. This study used annual data from 1970 to 2006. Johansen-Juselius cointegration tests revealed that property and violent crimes are cointegrated with unemployment and inflation. Furthermore, the empirical evidence exhibit that unemployment and inflation are the driving factors for crimes in Malaysia. Therefore, supply-side economy may be an ideal choice of policy to reduce crime rates in Malaysia. Keywords: Crime, Inflation, Unemployment, Malaysia 1. INTRODUCTION Recent deliberation on whether “Malaysia is a safe haven for travel and investment?” was frequently asked by the international tourists and foreign investors owing to the increasing trend of crime rates in Malaysia. From the visual inspection in Figure 1, both property and violent crime rates in Malaysia has increased quite significantly between 1970 and 2006. Over a decade from 1970 to 1980, both property and violent crime rates in Malaysia increased more than two folds. The property crime rate increased drastically from 25 thousand cases in 1970 to 66 thousand cases in 1980. In the similar vein, violent crime rates increased from approximately...
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...What has changed with violent crime in the last 10 years Sarah Reese Sociology 113 Dr. Lynne Van Trieste Carrington Although crime rates have dropped steadily for more than ten years violent crime rates have gone up 5.2 percent (Russell). This included a 3.2 percent rise in aggravated assault (Russell). Boise was ranked third among the states six regions. As a whole this does not sound too bad; however the fact that violent crime is on the rise gives as cause to consider the possible causes. With the top five locations for violent crime being bars, roads, parking lots, residences and schools, these are mostly very social areas. Obviously the fear of a violent crime having witnesses is not a deterrent. We could blame shifting demographics with young males, females of relatively low skill levels increasing in the area. There is also the rise of gang activity in the treasure valley (ADA County Web). Higher number of drug crimes can also be associated with this trend. Idaho also has very high poor or low income families, many of them homeless or living day to day. With fewer jobs and more layoffs this trend will continue. The Conflict theory relates to the idea that the essential cause of crimes happen to be the effects of society and their economical leagues working inside the social order (Conflict Theory). Society once was built on hard work and respect. The parts that make up our society have slowly broken down, everyone is afraid to run their own house...
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...parents by requiring the parent to obtain a state teaching certification, there are still many that don’t require any regulation. Without regulation of schools, whether they be public, private or in the home, we are risking our risking our future to a generation that has little adaptability to our ever changing society. Credible sources expected to use: (Kreager, 2010); (Waddell, 2010) Topic 2: Should minors who commit violent crimes be tried as adults? I have chosen this topic because it holds the future of our children and the future of our country within its laws and courtrooms. The audience for this paper will be Professor Eric Thompson and peers. By treating our children as adults for crimes they commit are we holding them accountable or are we creating “super-predators” out of our troubled youth? Not only are we creating our future criminals, but we are arming them with experience and an education that far exceeds that of a classroom or book. The end result will be a future of violence that will only escalate and end with more deaths, heinous crimes, and an increase in mental health issues, drug and alcohol addiction and eventually the deterioration of our society. Parents, policy makers,...
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...As the Prison system is overburdened, judges are giving Community Service Sentences instead of imprisonment for Minor Non-Violent Crimes. Will this be good for the society in the long run? Offences that are defined as Minor Non-Violent Offences are those that are against the law but are not usually viewed as serious enough to be taken to the court if done once or twice (Notton, 2010). An example of non violent offence is burglary or motor vehicle theft. Community Service is an alternative of imprisonment imposed by the Court for minor non violent crimes. Community service is an unpaid work for the criminal so that he can repay the debt to the society for committing the offense (An tSeirbhis Phromhaidh The Probation Service, n.d.). Community service can also be a job for which any particular individual can volunteer for. An example of a community service is cleaning up the environment. Giving community service sentences instead of imprisonment for minor non-violent crimes would be good for the society in the long run because the criminal will get a second chance in life, it will reduce the burden on the prison system and society will benefit from community service. However individuals may take advantage of the system by taking too long to complete their community service work, although people might try to take advantage, if the work is done slowly then the criminals will be severely punished. Everybody makes mistakes, while others don’t bother to make it right, some people...
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...Corporate Governance & Business Ethics Gun Control vs. Gun Violence The debate over gun control in the United States has been a topic of controversy over the years. In particular, the killing of twenty schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut. In December 2012 this mass shooting fueled a national discussion over gun laws. However, compromise legislation would have banned semiautomatic assault weapons and expanded background checks was defeated in the senate in 2013, despite extensive public support. Arguments for more restrictive gun laws http://gun.laws.com/gun-rights/gun-control-versus-gun-rights As society continues to diversify and human beings become more individualistic, we drift further apart from understanding each other. The gun control debate is not directly effected by this, but psychologically human beings fear what we don't understand. In a society with hundreds of cultures, differences and arguments can arise out of nothing. Words are one thing but the use of firearms is an entirely different topic. With less restrictive laws on purchasing and ownership a seemingly pointless feud could intensify into murder. Guns give a man power, with power inevitably comes abuse. There is a high rate of gun-related violence http://gun.laws.com/gun-rights/gun-control-versus-gun-rights The United States leads the world in gun violence and ownership. There is a direct correlation. This is perhaps the most obvious argument made in the gun control debate-guns...
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...Guns and Violent Crime “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” (The Charters of Freedom, n.d.). The National Rifle Association (NRA) is widely recognized as America’s foremost defender of the Second Amendment. Wayne LaPierre executive vice president and CEO of the NRA made the statement, “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (LaPierre, 2012, p.5). Is LaPierre correct? Do more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens reduce violent crimes? Moms Demand Action (MDA) states that stronger and more sensible gun laws are needed to protect children, and loved ones (MDA, n.d.). There are only eight states left that are considered rights restricted or very limited issue by the NRA in issuing concealed carry weapon (CCW) permits (NRA, n.d.). Florida alone issued 251,882 CCW permits in one year (Florida Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 2014). The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) performed over sixteen million background checks for the purchase of a firearm in 2011 (Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 2011, p.8). Record numbers of law-abiding citizens are choosing to get concealed carry permits than ever before, and gun sales have reached an all-time high. Violent crimes, however, have almost steadily declined over the last 19 years (FBI, 2012). Carrying a Firearm Law-abiding citizens of...
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...movies." | | "The question whether movie violence should be regulated or not is a difficult and complicated matter." Although many people criticize violent movies, if there is a movie which does not contain sex and violence, who will go to see that movie? Most major movies, such as "Lethal Weapon", "Die Hard", and "Independence Day", were really popular in spite of the fact that the "good guy" killed more people than the "bad guy" did. In my opinion, Hollywood tends to produce few kinds of movies--action, panic, love story, and comedy. Whenever I watch a movie or a video, there is at least one murder in each movie. The biggest number of deaths are in the panic movies, in my opinion. Action movies with violence take heat from adults who blame them for real life violence because they are closer to reality than other movies. For example, in "Natural Born Killers" we can see around 50 deaths, whereas in "Independence Day" thousands of people die. In both movies, tons of people are killed, though the ways to kill are different. The big difference between them is about reality. |[pic] | |PHOTO BY THOMAS PETERS | |"Although many people criticize violent movies, if there is | |a movie which does not contain sex and violence, who will go| |to see that movie?" | Children might imitate behavior they see...
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...violence is a major topic in organizational behavior. In order to better understand workplace violence, our group decided to take a look at exactly how often work place violence occurs, past example of workplace violence, and how one might prepare themselves on preventing it at one’s job. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2012) “Workplace violence is defined as nonfatal violence (rape/sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault) against employed persons age 16 or older that occurred while they were at work or on duty”. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) gathers statistics on violent criminalities against people in the workplace. “Attempts are included with completed victimizations” (BJS 2012). Between 2005 and 2009: Law enforcement officers, security guards, and bartenders had the highest rates of nonfatal workplace violence. Workplace violence accounted for 15% of nonfatal violent crime against persons age 16 or...
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