Crime fiction

have spent the rest of his life in jail for a crime that he never committed. Even though that James was set free, he had to endure 35 years in prison for a false accusation and to make matters worse is that the actual perpetrator has not been caught yet. On March of 1974, a young boy was dragged from his house in Lake Wales, Florida and was raped out at a baseball field. The victim and his uncle gave a broad description of the person who committed the crime. They stated that the person looked…

In today 's society it is safe to presume that the criminal justice system is doing it 's best to combine various amounts of theories to prevent and solve crime. The criminal justice system is supposedly blind, allowing everyone to be treated equally. However, records show years and countless evidence of how class, race, and gender play a negative role in our criminal justice system. Making the idea of ' 'justice is blind ' ' seem little more than a fictitious ideology. Just what would happen…

Within the topic of criminal corrections in the United States, there are many practices or programs that have been created in order to possibly rehabilitate, enforce order, or deter a person or persons from committing the same crime(s) again. One of them that has struck many as a very positive program is boot camps for any offender including juvenile offenders. Boot camps are one variation of shock incarceration. Shock incarceration is a short period of incarceration followed by a sentence…

answer negatively to this whereas Haag response who is retentionists will answer positively. Nathanson believes the death penalty is immoral, he talks about two versions of what he calls equality, as a retributivist, where the punishment must fit the crime committed. The two versions are strict Lex talionis “eye for an eye” or that the punishment must bring about the same harm to the wrongdoer as it did to the victim. Nathanson argues that there are problems with Lex talionis, it suggests…

The book Ordinary Injustice How America Holds Court is a novel written by attorney and journalist Amy Bach about the American legal system, and how it was become flawed. In four chapters, she discusses many different cases where injustice and corruption has occurred in the United States legal system all over the country. I chose to focus on a chapter titled “A Troy Champion” which is the second chapter in the novel written about a beloved city council president, and former judge, named Henry R.…

Statistics consistently show that there is higher crime rates in lower income areas then wealthier suburbs but the higher crime rate may not be the actual reason for criminal behavior in low income areas. Police tend to focus on the low-income areas where they assume is more crime leading to more arrest. Theorists Robert Sampson and William Julius Wilson in 2005 argued that factors that cause an area to become economically…

Race Relations within a Diverse Community The United States has been culturally diverse and unfortunately plagued with prejudice. Gran Torino analyzes how a man who went from majority to minority in the community views his changing world and adapts to the introduction of gangs, discrimination, and acceptance. The introduction of gangs leads to division within the community and creates a conflict Walt has not experienced before. Walt is already a very opinionated man when it comes to other…

For many years there has been arguments on how to effectively handle juvenile offenders in the court system. Regardless of the approach used, all parties seek to achieve the same outcome: decrease recidivism, improve the juvenile’s lives, and ensure the community is a safe place overall. However, with the public outcry and new laws being adopted, more juvenile delinquents are being bound over into the adult court system and sent to adult institutions. Throughout the years studies that have…

In a world of cold blooded law enforcers who serve no justice when it comes to underage teens who get charged as an adult for a crime and put on death row, death row is a prison block or section for prisoners who will be sentenced to stay in prison till death. Without parole or sometimes even trial, and just from reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson explaining how the courts and the justice system is illicit. Mr. Stevenson talks about the circumstance that have led to the teens that have been…

approach to looking at police legitimacy and predicting violent crime. This macro level study used the New York City Police Department and the United States Census bureau for data sources. The unit of analysis was the police precinct which a macro level approach that looks at a precinct as a whole. This approach does not bring in a personal level of analysis that correlates misconduct, and elements that affect police legitimacy with violent crime. This approach was much different than Spohn but…