...including spread of ICT, the global mass media, cheap flight and easy movements of businesses. Many crimes now happen on a global scale due to globalisation such as cyber-crime and drug and people trafficking. Castells (1998) argues because of globalisation there is a globalised criminal economy worth £1 trillion. This is from different crimes such as arms dealing, human trafficking, green crime, sex tourism, smuggling illegal immigrants and trafficking in body parts as well as others. The global criminal economy has both a demand and supply side, the third world countries fulfill the demand in the west. For example with drugs and prostitutes, in the third world drug producing country of Columbia, the poor people rely on producing drugs to supply to the west to keep them and their families alive this then links to the globalisation process. Their main drug production is cocaine as it is simple to produce, they get high prices for it and it sells better than other drugs. This means that not only countries in the west that consume the drugs have to be looked at its also the third world countries that produce these drugs that need to be looked at also. Taylor (1997) argues globalisation has led to changes in the pattern and extent of crime. By giving free rein to market forces globalisation has created bigger problems in inequality and rising crime. Globalisation has created crime at both ends of the social spectrum. It has allowed transnational corporations to switch manufacturing...
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...someone who commited a capital crime, like murder. There are many reasons as to why the Death Penalty should be legal but there are just as many reasons for why it should be banned. Death penalty should be legal because it gives closure to families that have been affected by those who have been convicted for a capital crime. In the article “Reform, Don't Repeal, the Death Penalty,” written by The Los Angeles...
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...Did you know that nine out of ten people plead insane and get away with the crime they commited? Many people use the insanity defense to get away with crimes so they don’t have to face the death penalty. You must commit a huge crime to get this specific penalty. Everyday people get out of crimes using this defense. Adacia Chambers is a good example. She drove her car into parade spectators in 2015. This was in Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade. “She killed four people and injured dozens. She was arrested and charged with four counts of second degree murder and 39 counts of assault and battery by force. She was supposed to be put to death, but instead she will be in prison for 45, plus ten extra years,” said BBC news. John Wayne Gacy,” he murdered and raped thirty-three men in Cook County, Illinois, he was one of the only people the court tested and didn’t prove completely insane. He did all this dressed as a clown, famously known by “Pogo The Clown”. He was convicted for sexual...
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...people who have commited a crime. What happens if a person is given capital punishment and evidence shows up later which reveals that this person is innocent? Witnesses, prosecutors and jurors can all make mistakes. When this is coupled with flaws in the system it is inevitable that innocent people will be convicted of crimes. Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right. It is better to let a criminal live with his guilt rather than giving him a capital punishment (Should the death penalty be allowed?). Everyone has human rights to life, even those who commit murder. Sentencing a person to capital punishment violates that right. In Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it states "everyone has the right to life". The justice system has the right to put people in jail. It does not have the right to kill a person, who might be innocent. Capital punishment brutalizes the society that uses it. It normalizes killing, and is not a good solution for crime. Other states in the U.S where they use capital punishment do not have lower crime rates in comparison to states that don't use capital punishment (UN and the Declaration of Human Rights). There is no clear evidence that the capital punishment decreases crime more effectively than imprisonment. States that have capital punishment laws do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws. States that have abolished capital punishment show no changes in crime rates (Arguments...
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... what do you think of dealing with most related crime of trafficking drugs has effect us. And the government. Claudia Alvarado what do you think of dealing with most related crime of trafficking drugs has effect us. And the government. Crime Crime why is it that when we hear the word crime everybody panics? Crime can be view in many different ways for example traficing drugs, rape, murder, child abuse etc… crime has actually decreased this past few years because not all people report a crime is it so, but why? Many people don’t report, because there are probably scared that they have to deal with the police or maybe a family member threaten them not to say anything or else they would kill their love ones. If you would be that position what would you do? I mean is your family do you want a family member to be a jail because you love them, but in the other side you have to look at it that you”ll have it in your conscious and there probably be comiting other crimes because of you, because you didn’t say anything. And also its sad when your mother gets to know that her own son or daughter has commited a crime its hard for them to handle a monstourus disaster, because they don’t know what to do in that case its hard for her and for all the mothers that go through and effects them. Crime has influenced people all over the world in many monstorous cases. But in this case many of us tend to believe that crimes starts, when poverty hits them because of lacks of...
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...didn't have enough time too. What I believe that exists in police departments is sadly enough, something that has plagued our lives for years past, and years to come, Racial equalization. As we have stated and discussed in class on various occasions, race plays a huge part in our society. It was interesting in the first part of the trial that was shown on the video, how the husband acted when being questioned. He seemed to have NO idea on what happened, he just kept referring to what was stated on the deposition. It seemed to me that he just knew it was a black person who killed his wife and he had it in his mind set that Butler was the one who commited to the crime. Now referring back to the police departments in general, I think that the generality of issues we have discussed have pointed to the fact that in any crime statistics, race plays a part. Even when we discussed the departments that were found to pull over and ticket more black people it goes to show that they didn't even think or believe that the numbers they boasted were larger then they were. But as a country we have grown to always accuse or suspect black people over white people. Referring to the video, there were simple assumed facts stated. "This is the guy. Are you sure thats him? Yes I'm sure. Ok then" Is basically how it went. I think that the cops realized how they fucked up and they ended up beating a confession out of him to make up for their wrong doings. But...
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...leaves clear spots in the bone. The force of the bullet had to be dissipated. 7. Do you think forensic police work would be interesting to do? Why or why not? I think forensic police work would be interesting to do because I would have the opportunity to collect, preserve, and analyze scientific evidence. Learning about how to test evidence and put criminals away in forensic police work would be an amazing opportunity. 8. Why is studying crime an important part of trying to stop it? Give an example of how studying crime may prevent future crime. Studying crime is an important part of trying to stop it. When you study a crime, you look at patterns, what and how the crimes are commited, background of the victims and criminals, and where they are taking place at. With all of this information it would help solve a lot of continuous and similar crimes that take place over periods of time. For example, if a man were to go around committing the same crimes in a specific area and time period. The information gathered from the first couple of crimes would help the FBI, or police find the man committing them....
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...Kathy Holder Punishment Philosophy Paper Punishment philosophy has been studied for centuries for it plays a huge factor in criminal justice and the reform of the offenders when entering back into society. Obviously there are many different forms of punishment that an offender can face after being convicted off a crime. The punishment philosophy studies areas of incarceration rehabilitation, and whether or not these punishments hold any type of deterrence from committing crimes again. Punishment philosophy and its effects on the post-conviction process There are specific types of punishment which are deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and retribution. Deterrence is largely used throughout the community and has effects on offenders by deterring them to not re-commit a crime out of fear of facing the same consequence. It also affects the community for when people hear of the punishments one may face for committing a crime, or when a judge makes an example out of a criminal by giving the max penalty, it can deter the community from committing such a crime. Incapacitation is when offenders commit a crime and are then are incarcerated in prison, losing their freedom, their rights, and many then having a criminal record which will in many cases unless pardoned or expunged follow them for life. Rehabilitation is used as a way to in other words give the offender a chance to not serve prison time, for the judge or jury may feel that...
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...Opposing arguments do not hold up due to a limited amount of bias thoughts. Reasons death penalty should be legal in all fifty states because of deterrence, retribution, and it is the only moral response to some crimes. Back in the old days death penalty was a fashionable event but, people do not see death penalty that way anymore. Death penalty acts as a deterrent to crime is widely removed but there is plenty truth in death penalty than the liberals and abolitionists like to acknowledge(Anderson). Studies show that three to thirteen lives are saved each year due to death penalty by killing a guilty killer. Documents shows that some governments try to raise fee cost to prevent human killing each other but that seemed to increase the crime rates. More research needs to be embarked upon to ensure the quality and accuracy of the methodology and data but the results seem incontrovertible(Anderson). The death penalty acts as a deterrent and as a result saves and secure lives....
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...Cooper and Roe (2012) estimate 10-17 year olds account for all recorded crime, with nearly 85% of this committed by males. A 2002 self-report survey found that almost half of Britain’s secondary school students admitted to breaking the law. Roe and Ashe (2008), based on findings from the 2006 offending, crime and justice survey, found 22% of 10 to 25 year olds admitted to committing at least one of twenty core offences in the previous 12 months with theft and assault making up the main offences. The reason most often given for law-breaking by young people are to impress others, and boredom. The edinborogh Study of Youth Transitions and Crimeis a continuous longitudinal study of events in the lives of 4300 young people who were aged 11-12 in autumn 1998. This found that about half the offences commited by 11-15 year olds involved rowdiness and fighting in the street with the rest consistently mainly of shop lifting (usually sweets) and vandalism (usually graffiti). While many young people will break the law at some stage, the kinds of offences they commit are usually fairly trivial, opportunistic, short lived and isolated incident and related to peer group activities, such as under-age drinking, vandalism and shoplifting. There are several inter-related factors which combine to explain the link between age and offending. Some of which consist of weakened social bonds, which would otherwise discourage crime and deviance due to...
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...strict in other cases. "The deep sample analysis showed that disparities in sentencing appeared to be most common for cases in which an offender who killed intimate partners received shorter sentences than other offenders, despite the intimate partner homicide appearing more serious in nature" (Dawson & Sutton, 2017, pp. 58-70). I have worked for the sheriff's office for three years now and I have seen many inmates come and go. During this time I have heard about their sentences that were received in court. I have seen a man sit in our jail for a driving on revoked charge much longer than a man who was charged with assault on an officer, felony evading and posession charges. I believe that sometimes the sentence is not paralleling the crimes commited. I have also seen two people come in to the jail to be booked in on the same charges with no previous history and receive different sentences. This causes me to think that there is error in the sentencing process. When it comes to reform, I do not believe that jails and prisons are hard enough on the inmates to make them want to stay out of jail. I had one of our inmates tell me that jail was the easiest life he had ever had. He was not required to wake up early, go pay bills, go shopping, was allowed to sleep as much as he wanted and he did not even have to make his own food because it was made and handed to him. In other cases, I have heard inmates while being booked in say things such as "It's great to be home again, I am going to...
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...Restorative Justice Rose Stevens CJA/224 June, 16th, 2014 Restorative Justice Restoration is one of the goals of the criminal justice system. The idea of restoration is to restore the criminal and the community affected by the crime. Restorative justice stems from the idea of restoration. Restorative justice is different than retributive justice. In this essay I will discuss the restorative justice process, the difference between restorative and contemporary justice, and how restorative justice worked for the RJ city case study. Restorative Justice Process Restorative justice deals with "the need to compensate victims, the need to place appropriate responsibility on the criminal offender, and the need to attempt the reintegration of the offender with the community" (Schmalleger, Hall, & Dolatowski, 2010, Chapter 14). The way we used to view crime was like a violation against the state. We now understand that crime also violates an individual. The idea of restorative justice is to restore the victim and the criminal instead of just the criminal. There are three main processes involved in the restorative justice system. There are restorative circles, restorative conferencing, and victim-offender mediation. Restorative Circles Restorative circles are meetings that include the offenders, victims, friends and families, interested members of the community, and some representatives of the justice system. ("Restorative Justice Online", 1996-2014). There is a facilitator...
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...PG 1 GRAND ISLAND NEBRASKA CRIME RATE IS A PROBLEM GRAND ISLAND NEBRASKA CRIME RATE IS A PROBLEM RACHAEL KUSZAK KAPLAN UNIVERSITY LOGIN COLLEGE COMPOSITION II DAVID HAYES CM220-48 12-17-2013 PG 2 GRAND ISLAND NEBRASKA CRIME RATE IS A PROBLEM Crime in Grand Island, Nebraska is a serious problem. Criminals are getting away with much more, security tends to be forgotten in Grand Island and is not something that is thought of everyday as it should be. The security level is not where it should be and businesses and residents are losing more and more of their personal belongings on a daily basis. If this was more of a concern to business owners and residents and strictly enforced by local authority as well as the residents of Grand Island the crime rate would gradually start to decrease. Grand Island needs to make proper security not only to business owners , but also residents who are willing to make the changes that must be made to make Grand Island safer. Technology often makes possible what once was impossible. ( RIch, 2013 PG 796). Community members must do their part and look out for other residents instead of only about yourself, what you own, what you can gain from helping that person, would make a tremendous...
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...My main topic is crime and punishment. And as my own topic have chosen to work with human nature. By chosing human nature as a subject i would like to find out why humanbeing from the beginning of mankind have chosen punishment as the way to react when people commidet crimes. It seems so distend to me, but i really want to understand it. My interest 2 years ago i visited the prison Alcatraz siuated on an island close to sanfransico. those feelings and impresions that i had when i left the island, will follow me for the rest of my life. So i wanted to take this journey back in time, and find out how the way of punishment has changed through out times. I desided to start my examination at the very beginning Crime has always existed, and it has always been a part of any society. From the very beginning of mankind, when god created the world the first two crimes were commided. First of all adam and eve was expelt from the garden of eden, because they ate the forbidden fruit. Afterwards their son Cain killed his brother Abel, simply because of envy. These acts witch is written in the bible shows that punishment has existed since the very beginning of mankind. Moving a little forward in time punishment became even more sevier. In ancient times no mercy were shown toward crimminals. The kings and the government were trying to suppress the population and Death penelty was frequently used. Minor crimes were punished with imprisonment, sometimes for life. The main ideas of...
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...To the Editor: You might think the American justice system should be exactly that, just. However that is not always the case in the USA today. African-American people are regurlarly being discriminated by the state somply because of their descent. In recent years it has been shown time and time again that the American judges and juries are not as blind to your heritage and your social status as one might have hoped. If you are a poor african american you are more likely to be convicted of a fellony than if you are white and wealthy. You are also more likely to get a tougher sentance even if you both commited the exact same crime. According to the U.S department of justice, black people are being imprisoned at twice the rate of white people. However, this problem is not merely confined to our courtrooms. These racist views can also be found out on the streets. African-Americans are stopped by poliece more often than a person of a differnt descent and the police are also more inclined to use violence against you. More and more stories about police shootings of unarmed African-Americans have surfaced during the last couple of years. Take for example the Ferguson shooting were an 18 year old black man was shot despite not carrying any weapon and having surrendered. This is probably...
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