Burglary

In James Q. Wilson’s Just Take Away Their Guns, Wilson has fairly liberal views on guns, gun owners, and their respective rights, but Wilson also has a radical solution for gun-related crimes. Wilson boasts an increase in frisks as a better way to control the amount of guns on the streets illegally than the already instituted paperwork and background checks required to legally purchase and own a firearm. He also argues that blame and ill will should not be upon legal firearm owners and that it…

“ Safety is something that happens between your ears, and not something you hold in your hands” (Jeff Cooper). Guns should not be permitted on college campuses,because of the large amount of students on campus. If guns were permitted there is a higher chance of theft for unattended firearms. As well as the cost of being able to maintain the cost of implementing these firearms. Colleges are too crowded to safely allow the carry of concealed weapons, it can distract the learning environment .Even…

In the criminal justice system the research plays a very big part. The role of all the research is to basically to determine what the major problem is at hand. “Quantitative research methods are typically concerned with measuring criminological or criminal justice reality”(Criminology and Criminal Justice Research). There are many different research methods at hand for researchers to use. The first method being experimental and quasi-experimental research which helps to identify the cause and…

Malcolm X was an active and controversial leader in the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. His radical ideas and methods challenged other leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm did not have a stable childhood. His family of ten moved around the country frequently and was always subjected to acts of discrimination. His father Earl Little was a Baptist minister who was very involved in the fight for equality. Due to this early activism, the Little family received many death threats from the Black…

away from home, breaking curfew, skipping school, getting suspended or simply dropping out by 11th grade. Those who did drop out and joined gangs who “engaged primarily in violent attacks (including some cases of stabbing and subsequent injuries), burglary, vandalism, alcohol, and ‘soft’ drug use” (394, Sela-Shayovitz, Gangs and the Web). There were other studies that showed that gangs “are often viewed as a large city phenomenon. These studies also saw that majority of gangs in the Southwest…

In all cultures there is some sort of stereotypes that persist, despite laws that outlaw discrimination and teaching that has tried to enlighten our minds. In the United States, there are the pervasive stereotypes such as blonde women are dumb, black people are thieves and Hispanics are lazy. While each of those stereotypes don’t really hold true, still they persist. Even the Chinese are said to be racists with some regions feeling superior to other regions and admiring white people. (Quora.com,…

Trial Write-Up For the trial I was a lawyer for the Crown and did the cross-examination of Bobbie Bann and the closing statements. Our group’s goal was to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Bobbie Bann knew he was shooting Fallon King. We focused in on a few different areas, what possible motives Mr. Bann would have and the different holes in the story Bobbie Bann presented to the court. Looking first as the noise he woke up to, it was only the weathervane scratching against the roof, a…

Through the mid 1940s and the 1960s, many Americans were quite confident in their country with the majority of the population having a healthy lifestyle. During these decades, the U.S. made many achievements, one of them being NASA’s successful moon landing on July 20, 1969. The accomplishment of this trip caused many Americans to feel relieved knowing that they had beat the Soviet Union to the moon. Not only were Americans satisfied with their country’s status, but also many American families…

the age of 19, Alelard Cunin ran away were he switched his name to george Moran. Eventually Moran became active in gangs, which led to his first arrest in 1921 at the age of 21. He later spent several other times in jail for crimes of larceny and burglary (Taylor). Moran made friends easily at…

The Largest Crime in the criminal justice system is that it is a race based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way. The Bureau of Justice Statistics state that in the United States an estimated 558,700 African American adults were incarcerated under state and federal jurisdiction. African American males had an imprisonment rate of 3,059 per 100,000 while white males had a rate of 456 per 100,000. There are facts to counterbalance…