Crime fiction

Historically, America has been predisposed towards racism against African-Americans. However, Americans, for the past century, have effectively ignored the issues with race that the American society still faces in the criminal justice system. In his TED Talk entitled “We need to talk about an injustice,” Bryan Stevenson addresses the issues with the American criminal justice system by detailing the problems and showing the important role the citizens of American can play. Although the topic is a…

Can a juvenile offender be rehabilitated or do we lock them up and throw away the key? The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution directly addresses Cruel and Unusual punishment. The Supreme Court has decided that all non-homicide related crimes by juveniles are not eligible for a LWOP verdict. The argument is, “because juveniles are less culpable and more likely to be rehabilitated than adult offenders, the sentence of LWOP is disproportionate and, hence, unconstitutional” (Greene and Evelo…

general topic the class experiment was how attractiveness affected the sentence length of a crime. This is important since it directly affects the lives of defendants in court room situations. Judges should be aware of this potential bias as they are deciding ruling. Sigall and Ostrove, conducted a study focusing on the same topic. The independent variable was the level of attractiveness with the crime committed. The dependent variable was how long the sentence was that the participant…

three areas: personality profile perspective, serial murder profile, and the serial killer’s seven rituals of murder. Criminal personality profile is identifying the offender’s characteristics and infers personality and physical traits based on the crime scene and victim interaction. Profiling is used to narrowing down list of suspect. This method cannot solve the case, but develops potential suspects and further investigative follow-up (Hadley, 2005). The profile seeks for the offender’s…

Race and Crime: Discrimination vs Disproportionate Offending The problem with racial discrimination in the criminal justice system is debatable because there is a considerable amount of evidence that addresses the fact that it is both individual and systemic biases. What is already known is that there is a relationship between race and crime, but through research we aim to find whether or not the cause of this relationship has to do with discrimination or disproportionate offending. The…

The Farm: Angola is a film based on a prison named Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) located in Louisiana.The film looks into the lives of six inmates in the prison. All of these inmates featured are sentenced to life, except one who is on death row. The central messages of the film shows how the criminal justice system is corrupt, survival and freedom is the central goal for every inmate in the prison, and how racism is portrayed in the prison. The film does a great job on displaying how…

For the individual, the community health profile also stated that, “People who are incarcerated have higher rates of mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction and other conditions” (p.7). Individuals who go to jail for crimes like murder and gun possession have a higher possibility of becoming mentally ill, drug and alcohol users etc. Activity in gun violence leads to higher risk of death for a person. In terms of Microsystems it affects families and friends creating fear…

While the prisons in America are well-regarded as system to protect society from dangerous individuals, it has largely been inefficient, as more than a handful of those convicted of a non-violent crime are sent to prison. In the article “The Incarceration Explosion”, Conyers explicates on the status quo of the current prison system in America, and how it has failed. For instance, he presents the statistical collection of the rise in imprisonment…

From a written viewpoint, the idea of having a different legitimate structure for juvenile guilty parties is moderately new. All through history, children as young as 7 years of age who were blamed for crimes were detained with adult offenders. In the mid nineteenth century, the thought of changing youth guilty parties flourished in the United States. The House of Refuge in New York, which opened in 1824, was the main juvenile place of change in the United States (). This was the primary attempt…

applicable in certain situations than another. Deterrence can be defined as sanctioning convicted offenders to reduce crime by…