Arson

less serious crime. The index crime is the violent crimes, property crimes, and human trafficking. Violent crimes include homicide, assault, forcible, rape, and robbery. The property crimes include larceny or theft, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The second category of the UCR is the less serious crime such as vandalism, gambling, drunkenness, disorderly…

states that, coupled with the intent to intimidate, cross burning can be banned.13 Since the skinheads were well within their right to free speech and there was no mention in the narrative of New York's arson law, I decided to let the skinheads go. The skinheads could have been prosecuted under the arson law, so I missed that one. A student's Fourth Amendment rights are tested in the next simulation. My partner and I have been assigned to the local community college to look for evidence of…

Background and Significance The Council Bluffs (IA) Fire Department has a long, rich history of providing quality emergency response services to its citizens. The department was formed on January 5, 1883, by resolution of the city council to establish a full-time, paid department (Petersen, 1992). This resolution came after numerous devastating fires exceeded the capabilities of the several volunteer fire companies that had protected the city during the previous 29 years. In 1918, the…

1. Both rural and metropolitan police face problems. The metropolitan police face corruption. They have to deal with the increasing risk of terrorism. They deal with more crime, because of the bigger city aspect. Metropolitan police have to also deal with more homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, and child abuse crimes (p. 44). The rural police deal with problems, such as not having immediate backup. They have less officers, where bigger cities have more officers. Rural police have to…

receive lax sentencing due to his age?, although he knew exactly what he was doing. The answer is emphatically no. He should be tried as an adult because he made an adult decision by killing. Juveniles who commit violent crimes such as rape, murder or arson should be tried as an adult. Courts focus on age, not the crime now a days. In 2006 a 12-year-old girl who killed her whole family due to them not liking her boyfriend, was only given ten years (Flow 2016). Many would argue that she just…

small car, causing a large explosion. Said explosion resulted in the death of two people: A store clerk who went outside to investigate, and the owner of the car, Aisha Holst. It is believed that the act of arson had been an accident, but later details confirmed it was a deliberate act of arson. Due to the location of video cameras, we were not able to immediately identify the culprit. After talking to witnesses and reviewing video footage, we have come to two possible suspects. We are about to…

The YCJA, Youth Criminal Justice Act, is a law activated to differentiate youth criminals from age of 12-17 and adult criminals.The act was enacted in 2002, but it came into power at April 1, 2003.The YCJA is a practical act that insures the rights of young offenders over public safety. Public safety is important, however, the protection of young offenders rights it's of paramount importance. A fine example such as the Sherwood Park case illustrates the YCJA perfectly. An acute policy of the…

Set in the late 1800's, William Faulkner's short story, “Barn Burning”, tells a tale centered around the complicated relationship between two characters: an empathetic, ten-year-old named Colonel Sartoris Snopes (Sarty, for short), and his tyrannical father, Abner Snopes. Typically in life, a father is a son's first role model – they expect their fathers to be the caretaker of their family; the one to provide, protect and encourage; to always have his family's best interest at heart. In…

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Crime and Punishment The main mandate of the justice system is to investigate, make arrests, gather evidence, bring charges forward, conduct trials, render a sentence and carry out a punishment. The judicial system is therefore trusted to make the right judgments and to give punishments only to those who deserve it in proportion to the nature of the crimes they have committed. They are not expected to make mistakes because they are supposed to conduct a…

Despite violent and non-violent economic and political suppression the freedom riders continued the protests. The Ku Klux Klan is a secret hate group that started in the southern Untied States. The group is uncontrollable towards the law and uses violence on whomever they are attacking.the white citizen councils is an organization founded in the southern United States that was founded to oppose racial integration of schools, voting and public facilities. There were many attacks where the local…