Case Study: The Unusual Suspect According to the case The Unusual Suspect, Diann had committed an embezzlement fraud that she pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $500,000 from her employer and she was sentenced for 18 months in Florida prison. Diann's fraud scheme is a form of an anti-organizational crime, and she had committed several types of the fraud schemes such as: First, she started to mistakenly pay for her vacation expense through her company’s account, Second, she called the payroll company and told the company to make changes to her salary range. Third, she made duplications of her bonus checks.…
As history has shown us, homicide in the United States is a differing matter than that of Europe. In Erick Monkkonen’s article, Homicide: Explaining America’s Exceptionalism, it is stated that one big difference between the two is their contrast in crime rates. Data shows that as Europe has experienced a decline in homicide and stabilization has occurred, the United States has had an increase in in murder occurrences. There is currently no explanation as to why these two nations experiences such a stark difference in homicide rates. When compared with other countries, the United States actually has murder rates similar to the poorest nations in the world.…
In the article “ Americas Real Crime Element: Lead” by Kevin Drum published in Mother Jones magazine, the author gives possible reasons behind crime rates in the 1990’s. Drum introduces many theories, to later discredit them through evidence. Such evidence leads him to the real reason behind violent crimes. The evidence presented by Drum makes his argument credible to most, including parents of young children. Parents with young children have many fears.…
In this article, I feel that Thomas Abt is trying to express that since the crime rates keep rising, we need to find a solution. He argues that the National Network for Safe Communities helps efforts to lower violence, minimize jailing, and improve relationships between the police and the community. Abt states that, “Civic, community and criminal justice leaders confront criminals with a simple message: “The killing must end now. If you let us, we will help you.…
Crime and Punishment in Colonial America In Colonial America, crime and punishment were a new idea that was just starting to be formed. During this time, they had a different set of rules and regulations that had to be followed in their towns and states. For each town, or even state, they had their own rules to follow, based on the men in charge during this time. Colonial America had forms of punishments that would not be allowed during this day and age because they would be considered inhumane and unlawful. While it was often considered a more simple time, it is amazing what was thought of as punishment for a crime and one could also draw the conclusion that the more horrific the punishment, the more of a deterrent it would be for the next…
Authors Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa stated, “In 1991, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (complied from over 1600 laws enforcement agencies covering 96 percent of the nation’s population) estimated that one in four U.S. college woman was a victim of rape or attempted rape…,” (Kirk and Okazawa 264). Accordingly, to Dictionary.com the word victim is a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious actions or agency. How I can remember the word victim by I was a victim of rape at age 10 to two males, victim is a person that in danger, Law and Order help rape victims. Authors Fregoso and Bejarano in 2010 stated, “Rather than using the term femicide (femicidio in Spanish, which means the homicide of woman) …,” (Kirk and Okazawa 272). Accordingly,…
It was the crime of the century in the 1920’s, it was committed by two wealthy college men, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Lobe. They wanted to prove that they were smart enough to get away with murder. They said it would be the perfect crime and went on to perform the crime for the thrill of it, “To kidnap a child would be an act of daring—and no one, Loeb proclaimed, would ever know who had accomplished it.” (Baatz 1). It was indeed not the “perfect crime” they imagined.…
Crime and punishment are like peanut butter and jelly. Back in London during the 1800’s London's crime rate went up from about 5,000 per year in 1800 to about 20,000 per year in 1840. The Victorians were firm believers in punishment for criminals. The crime in London was starting to rise during the 1800’s. And the punishments started to get more civilized.…
The 1920’s was an era of growth, modernization, and technological revolution as well as the advancement of organized crime. Long before the start of the prohibition there were small time racketeers but nobody payed close attention to them or really cared what they had to offer. The major shift in popularity came in the early 1920’s when organized crime became increasingly commercial. Daily headlines in the newspaper transitioned from movie reviews to the previous night’s bloody massacre.…
Please answer the following questions related to Deviance. The answers should be from one to four sentences depending on the question. To give you more space in the answering, you may attach a word document at the end. 1. Define Deviance.…
Crime is a major problem in the United State and many argues over crime statistics in our neighborhoods and country. For many years, citizens have questioned the importance of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). One particular problem with the UCR is that several victims of crimes do not contact or fellow up with police to make an official report. “The statistics collected in the Uniform Crime Reports entail crimes that have actually been reported to the police. Since submission of such data is voluntary, how can the Uniform Crime Reports be accurate?…
African-Americans communities like Minneapolis see a lot of black on black crimes more often than anywhere else. Blacks are more likely to get arrested in Minneapolis for low-level crimes such as disorderly conduct or possession of marijuana than a white person (Gilbert, 2015). This cycle of unfairness all goes back to slavery when a white person calls a black person the “N” word or kills a black citizen it is looked at as heinous. Whites had control over the black population in 1619 which was when slavery first started. They mistreated the minorities by beating, kidnapping and lynching them.…
“The Road to Mass Murder and those who did not remain silent” By the beginning of 1939 the National Socialist German Workers ' Party or more commonly referred to now as the Nazis began their mass murders. These first mass murders were not to be of Jews, Roma, Sinti, or any of the other numerous people who were seen and to be seen as hindrances and impurities in the way of the coming “Aryan empire”, but they were to be disabled individuals. These mass murders were first a testing ground, so to speak, by the Nazi leadership to see what the German people would accept, as well as, a future blueprint concerning how these mass murders should be carried out and conveyed. Within this paper, exploration concerning the beginnings of the Nazi euthanasia…
For this discussion I would like to talk about the rise in homicides. America is considered to be the pride of world society and the role model for other countries. But we also sit number one (1) in violence. Crime rates in America have always been higher than in other nations of equal or greater wealth. We also have higher murder rates then Europe, Japan and even our neighboring country Canada.…
As an effect of globalization, today states are increasingly faced crimes which crossed national borders. Thus, more and extra international cooperation is an essential component of criminal investigation or prosecutions. Since criminal activities go beyond the national borders, it is clear that the international community has recognized the need for enhancing cooperation, particularly with respect to gathering evidence located outside national state borders. Officially demarcated borders cannot keep out transnational threats and such threats have not yet addressed because of some obstacles including mistrust and lack of regional cooperation. In an increasingly interconnected world, security issues are transnational and cannot be addressed…