A lot of people want to blame the parents of the offenders, asking “what did you turn your child into?” 36% of serial killers were physically abused, 26% were sexually abused, and 50% were psychologically abused (Mitchell and Aamodt 45). Many people have logically come to the conclusion that just because someone is abused, it does not mean that they will become a serial killer; or even a murderer; which is true. In the general population (people who have never committed murder) only 6% are physically abused, 3% are sexually abused, and 2% are psychologically abused (Mitchell and Aamodt 45). The dramatic difference of abuse frequency between people who are serial killers and people who are not seems evident enough to support that serial killers are created.…
Steven Truscott was , in 1959, the age of 14. He was convicted for murdering his 2 year younger classmate, first being sentenced to death, to life in prison, and finally exonerated nearly 50 years later. Truscott was an immediate suspect due to the fact that witnesses saw him and Lynn harper cycling together before her body was found 2 days later. Truscott claimed to be giving Harper a lift to the highway being he was the last one to see her alive.…
“My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail,” stated President George W. Bush on March 19, 2003 when he justified the United States’ need to invade Iraq (Khan 64). Within the borders of Iraq, US soldiers dehumanized Iraqi citizens by torturing them in a prison known as Abu Ghraib and photographed themselves doing so.…
I am sentencing Nathan as an adult. His charge would be manslaughter. Why would I choose manslaughter? That’s easy enough; Nathan had been sexually, and emotionally abused by his own mother, and physically abused by his father, which did not help in the fact that Nathan is not mentally, and emotionally stable. Nathan’s sentence includes 15 years in prison, with mental help, anger management classes, and other benefitting courses.…
Antonin Scalia Antonin Scalia was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, he was often described as the intellectual anchor of the Court’s conservative wing. Antonin Gregory Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey on March 11, 1936. He attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate and obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School.…
On 22 September 2012, Jill Meagher went for drinks with her friend, Tom Wright. She rejected Tom’s request to her walked home so he walked home alone after the drink. During this walk, Adrian Bayley stopped Jill and raped her in a laneway off Hope Street before strangling her to death. A CCTV footage showed that a blue hoodie man talking to Jill Meagher and after identified as Adrian Bayley as the blue hoodie man. According to the police summary, Bayley put Jill’s body in his white Holden Astrabury’s boot after he murdered her and went back to his Coburg home.…
Since Fuller was acquitted of counts two, three, four and the count one was deadlocked. He should be dismissed of the charge in count one due to double jeopardy. On Fifth Amendment of U.S. Constitution, it states “nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb”. Since count one and count two share similarities whereas they charge of the same degree of assault, he should not be subjected for the same offence twice based on the Fifth Amendment.…
A convicted felon is a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison. So the United States have restrictions for convicted felons to vote. But it is up to your state which restrictions they want to put on convicted felons. So there are five things that your state can do for convicted felons to vote.…
Individuals convicted of a felony are not eligible to vote while incarcerated, on parole, or on probation. Voting rights are restored a couple years after the completion of all supervised release. Felons who have served their sentence and have followed protocol should have the right to vote in less than two years. Voting is vital aspect of our lives. Being confined for so many years, deprived of freedom and a few rights taken away, an individual would love to vote in a major election like this year.…
Solitary confinement, or also known as Security Housing Unit, is defined as isolating an inmate from the general population for twenty-two to twenty-three hours a day for months or years. Its main purpose is to punish inmates who break prison rules or endanger prison guards and other inmates. First, let’s take a step back and look at the downfall of solitary confinement. U.S prisons must ban solitary confinement because it causes psychological effects on inmates, it is considered cruel and unusual punishment and doesn't provide any known rehabilitation for inmates. Imagine being in a room the size of a walk-in closet, with cement walls, a four-inch wide window to look outside.…
From today we will not see any criminals and crimes in the world. All we know that each country has serious dangerous criminals, but do we know that there are international criminals? There are plenty of desperadoes who like to pursue violent without thinking about consequences. When these insane people perform an unsatisfactory way, they will try to escape to other county looking forward surviving. In this case, they will have fun in their life's without caring about what they did, and this is enough reason to make them insist regarding about what they do.…
Once a sex offender term has been expired, some of them are heartfelt and want treatment, others go back to their ways which lands them back in prison. What if I told you that I found a solution to decrease the amount of underage children being raped or molested? Would you consider my proposal? If so, other policies have to change in order to make this policy more beneficial. Suggestion: Sex offenders volunteering for castrations.…
Homicide is the killing of a human being by another human being. In old common law, the only type of homicide recognized was murder. Today, U.S. law makes many distinctions between each type of homicide, classifying them as justifiable, excusable, or criminal, and gives varying degrees of seriousness to each type. Where criminal homicide is concerned, it can further be broken down into murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. Each subset of criminal homicide has several elements and characteristics that distinguish one from another.…
The laws of the justice system are the backbone that give it form and unity. The victims of crime existed unrecognized in the justice system. Victims had few roles when it came to the justice system. The passing of the first crime victim’s state bill of rights in Wisconsin in 1980 gave way to a new era of improvement for victim’s rights. The enactment of federal acts and task force in 1982 brought national importance to the victim’s concerns.…
It is said that boys who are raised without a father are often deprived of the necessary maturation and as a result, they overreact through use of delinquent behavior ("Juvenile delinquency-family structure," 2011). “High rates of broken home among incarcerated youths were taken as evidence supporting his assumption ("Juvenile delinquency-family structure," 2011). It is said that children who are raised in a single parenting home are more likely to have been exposed to crime promoting influences such as parental conflict and alcoholism ("Juvenile delinquency-family structure," 2011). A study revealed that children with alcoholic or fathers with criminal history were more likely to have sons convicted of serious crimes, whether the father was present or not in the child’s life ("Juvenile delinquency-family structure," 2011). Other issues raised in single parenting environments are supervision issues.…