Introduction
Today’s society defines crime as “A violation of social rules of conduct, interpreted and expressed by criminal code, created by people holding social and political power” (Siegel, Worrall, 2014) There are three specific perspectives of crime which include, consensus view: “The view that the great majority of citizens agree that certain behaviors must be outlawed or controlled and that criminal law is designed to protect citizens from social harm.”, conflict view: The view that criminal law is created by those who hold political an economic power and is a tool used by the ruling class to control dissatisfied have-not members of society.”, and interactionist view: “the view that criminal law reflects the preferences of people who hold social power in the society and use their influence to impose their own values and moral code on the rest of the population.” (Siegel, Worrall, 2014) Throughout this paper I will use the three perspectives of crime along with examples from both The Purge (2013) and The Purge: Anarchy (2014) and other scholarly sources such …show more content…
These laws included rules such as; only weapons class four and under are allowed, government officials ranking ten have been granted immunity, and all of emergency services will be available again at 7 a.m. Those laws illustrate that even in a virtually “crime free” period, there are still laws that have to be abided by and can still be punished by the justice system if ignored. The function of police, courts, and corrections is to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate the law. I think it is important to have a functioning justice system with different agencies in our society because, I each individual agency is able to bring different aspects of crime control to our population while ultimately working towards the same
Today’s society defines crime as “A violation of social rules of conduct, interpreted and expressed by criminal code, created by people holding social and political power” (Siegel, Worrall, 2014) There are three specific perspectives of crime which include, consensus view: “The view that the great majority of citizens agree that certain behaviors must be outlawed or controlled and that criminal law is designed to protect citizens from social harm.”, conflict view: The view that criminal law is created by those who hold political an economic power and is a tool used by the ruling class to control dissatisfied have-not members of society.”, and interactionist view: “the view that criminal law reflects the preferences of people who hold social power in the society and use their influence to impose their own values and moral code on the rest of the population.” (Siegel, Worrall, 2014) Throughout this paper I will use the three perspectives of crime along with examples from both The Purge (2013) and The Purge: Anarchy (2014) and other scholarly sources such …show more content…
These laws included rules such as; only weapons class four and under are allowed, government officials ranking ten have been granted immunity, and all of emergency services will be available again at 7 a.m. Those laws illustrate that even in a virtually “crime free” period, there are still laws that have to be abided by and can still be punished by the justice system if ignored. The function of police, courts, and corrections is to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate the law. I think it is important to have a functioning justice system with different agencies in our society because, I each individual agency is able to bring different aspects of crime control to our population while ultimately working towards the same