Crime fiction

to be injured or killed where gun ownership rates are higher, showing that gun levels affect homicide rates (1). Kleck does point out that in the same way gun ownership causes crime rates, higher crime rates can also increase gun prevalence, as some will chose firearms to provide themselves self-defense from the higher crime rates (5). Metzl, Jonathan M., and Kenneth T. MacLeish. “Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms.” American Journal of Public Health 105.2…

The Boston Marathon Bombing occurred April 15, 2013. It was a terrorist attack upon the United States. The Boston Bombing was a double bombing that killed 3 people and profoundly injured “at least 264” (Boston Marathon Terror Attack, 2013). The bombing occurred at the finish line of the marathon. The bombing led to “an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area. Sometime after the bombing, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose older brother and…

to prison is very painful and is a big punishment to themselves. Offenders are being tortured very badly day by day. This system seems very unfair. I learned that putting criminals in these prisons might not be the best way to treat them and handle crimes. Many people are going to jail so that the society does not have to deal them which makes me think that is so unfair, it basically destroying their lives. From his article, I recognized that we might never be able to find a good way to handle…

Italian Laws on Pinocchio In Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, the main character is a young marionette named Pinocchio who seems to find himself in problems all the time. One situation that instantly sticks out is the first time Pinocchio is treated like a criminal. A couple of scammers robbed Pinocchio of his four gold coins and because he allowed that to happen to him, Pinocchio was sent to jail for four months. This one example shows the gullible side of Pinocchio and the consequences of…

3.3 Age and Crime One of the few universally accepted facts in criminology is the fact that crime has a strong relationship with age, which is characterised by a typical pattern: the ‘age-crime curve’ (McAra & McVie, 2012). For both men and women (Ulmer & Steffensmeier, 2014), the crime rate increases from the minimum age of responsibility – which is ten in the UK – to a peak in the late teenage years; before declining in adulthood, first quickly and then more slowly; finally trailing off into…

The pro is juvenil crimes har serious, they are on the rise, it is costing the government more money. The cons side is J teenagers are committing more crimes does not justify them to be try them as adults, it does not benefit the juveniles, neither the entire society so everyone loses. Pro Are juveniles mature enough to see the outcome…

The Plea Frontline’s feature The Plea focuses on the incredibly popular and sometimes overlooked aspect of court, the plea bargain. Author Douglas Guidorizzi quotes Black’s Law Dictionary when providing the best definition of a plea bargain but a summary of that definition will suffice. The plea bargain, in short, is an agreement made between the defense and the prosecutor in a criminal case (if approved by the court) where the defendant usually pleads guilty to a lesser offense or to only some…

In A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men, written by John Hagedorn, the audience sees the connection Hagedorn’s makes between politics, socioeconomic status, racism, and it’s unwavering resistance to change. Street gangs are complex and cannot be reduced to simplistic pathologies, especially with the lack of research and unexplored history by scholars. The book focuses on the more social-cultural psychological concepts, stating straight off the bat that street gangs are not apart of “a subset of…

that sentencing someone to death for a crime is immoral. However, this agreement will usually end with the question of if these criminals are deserving of death and if we as a scoiety have the power to condemn them to death. Many believe that if the crime is deserving, we should have the right to end a life, but there are others who believe that no crime is worth a human life. Although some think that the death penalty deters people from committing major crimes and maintain that it has never…

Prison is a place no one willingly wishes to be in. Although many people do enter into this world, few actually tell their tale to the public. Stephen Reid is a criminal; a stone cold gang member and bank robbing criminal. He is also a father, devoted husband, friend and a writer. For those of us who have never been on the inside, Reid tells a story in his book A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden of how he was sentenced to many years in a maximum security prison and what life in prison is actually…