Crime in the United States

percent are children. Sixty percent are males and only forty percent of the 14.2 million are female (“21 million). While some people think that it is acceptable to buy products from other countries where labor trafficking is a recurring event, the United States…

“America's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse.” (Nixon) Heroin struck the U.S in the late 1960s, causing the U.S. to spend billions. What shocked many was the majority of addicts being white. Statistics show that 4 in 5 heroin user started off my misusing prescription drugs. Thousands in the U.S began by taking prescription drugs, such as painkillers containing opium. America was fiercely losing the war on drugs and the harsh laws were seem to be a mistake. New York city…

explanation of how each works and contributes to the United States criminal justice system. The Police Looking at the police on the state level, this can include a wide variety of state level policing forces such as a highway patrol or even fish and game. The police responsibilities in the United States criminal justice system holds a plethora of duties, and interestingly enough many do not relate directly to controlling and/or preventing crimes. A police officer’s role can include routine…

Today in 2018, one issue in particular seems to be at the forefront of the minds of Americans all across the United States. It is an issue that has always been relevant, yet due to a rise in violence, crime, and the number of individuals who are fed up and speak out about it, the issue of safety is causing parents to keep their children home from schools. It is causing individuals everywhere to become increasingly untrusting of the authorities who are supposed to protect them. It causes mothers,…

competition theory, which states that “ethnic group relations are profoundly affected by competition for limited or scarce resources in a common environment” (as qtd. in Soule & Van Dyke, 1999). In other words, the threat of potential competition alters individual and group behaviors, and increases ethnic violence, for example in the form of discrimination and intimidation. The authors used…

Each Country has their own Justice System and each will differ slightly from the United States. In the end the end result is all the same which is getting their country as safe as possible and looking up the offenders that cannot be a good member productive member of their society. The two Justice System in this paper that will be discussed are the United States and The German justice system. Three items will be compared and contrasted within this paper such as International Police Cooperation…

On September 20, Eric Schlosser visited the University of North Dakota Law School to discuss the expanding prison system and the mass incarceration rate in the United States. He explained that the United States encompasses the largest prison system in the world. There are currently 2.2 million people incarcerated throughout the country. Schlosser specified that number of individuals incarcerated is not due to a population increase, but due in part to New York Governor Rockefeller’s harsh drug…

This includes federal jurisdiction, state and local jurisdiction. Question 2 It is a fact that a local police officer usually has a very broad authority although very limited jurisdiction. On the other hand, federal police normally have broad jurisdiction though very limited authority. All federal agents have jurisdiction in every part of the country while the local agents only have jurisdiction in his city, town or country. Therefore, they cannot deal with crimes committed from other places…

take up a large percentage of crime around the world, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Gun crime is defined as a crime or offence that is committed with the use of a firearm but there is no set definition as to why they are committed. Firearm legislation are a set of laws and guidelines that surround the topic of gun crime that are put into place by the government to try to control gun crime. From Prohibition to shootings, gun crime has only worsened and has…

Whether people sell or buy drugs, the involvement with drugs is not a victimless crime. Many believe that the use of drugs does not affect the people around them because the individual may be using drugs within a closed environment and is not causing any harm to anyone else, but themselves. This is true to an extent, at the moment of doing drugs the individual possibly is not harming anyone but themselves, but eventually the individual will come into contact with other people such as friends or…