Crime reconstruction

states,” when we have more prisons we have less crime and when we have less prisons we have more crime” which is accurate because the unjust incarceration of people for petty crimes and sentences that doesn’t match the crime. Otis also goes on to say “that in the sixties and seventies we had less use for prisons and very few mandatory terms with a belief that rehabilitation worked and with the trust of the judge’s decisions, we got ourselves a national crime wave”, Otis is stating an opinionated…

punishment for a crime.” Edward I. Koch, a New York mayor from 1978-1989, supports the death penalty while David Bruck, Harvard College alumni, opposes the death penalty. In the essay “The Death Penalty: Is It Ever Justified?” and “The Death Penalty” both Koch and Bruck talk about the death penalty, yet they both argue the value of life very differently by elaborating their points of view. Imagine a life where there was no existence of any type of crime. Sadly, we live in a life where crime…

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a book written by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor named Alice Goffman. Goffman’s book is written after her completion of a six-year ethnographic observation of a poor black community in Philadephia. This observation allowed Goffman to really understand the sudden prison boom and the hidden practices and surveillance practices lying in this one community. The completion of Goffman’s observation assignment also points out her main…

Guns: Stay Safe When I drop my kids off at school, I take my gun off of my hip, (which I have a license to carry) and place it safely in my truck. Why do I do this? I do this because plastered on the front door of my children’s school the sign reads, “No Guns Allowed on School Premises.” With that being said I want to take a second to ask you, over the last 10 years, how many school shootings have occurred in America? According to the credible website I have found in my research, “Since 2013,…

“Crimes against humanity” In Abby Mann’s play, Judgment at Nuremberg readers ask themselves if Janning really should be charged with crimes against humanity. Was he in fact the most cruel and devastating murderer and torturer, this world has ever seen? Or was he just doing his job for the love of his country? Jannings may have done what he thought was for the love of his country, but he most certainly committed crimes against humanity. Tragedies like the one that happened in Germany has…

correct way to deal with extremely dangerous convicts. The death penalty may be cruel and inhuman, even so, if someone were to murder multiple civilians or commit a massive massacre, more than likely, no one would object to the execution. Not every crime should end in the death penalty, only the ones that reach a certain quota that should be punished with death. If someone steals a potato there would not be any need for death, the death penalty should only be used in a last case scenario…

Milne v Harrower Milne v Harrower tackles the crime of threatening or abusive behaviour in s. 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. Within this section it is stated that a person has committed the crime if their behaviour “would be likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm” , as well as the accused “intends by the behaviour to cause fear or alarm or is reckless as to whether the behaviour would cause fear or alarm” . This definition was clarified…

1. “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin is a short story that starts in media res (in the middle of things) with the narrator, who is a high school algebra teacher in Harlem, New York, reading from a newspaper article that his seven years younger brother, Sonny, is arrested for using heroin. After some time, the narrator writes to Sonny after his two-year-old daughter, Grace, dies from polio. The narrator has a flashback to a time his mother was alive to tell him that he had an uncle, but the uncle…

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak’s “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism” and Dr. Zimbardo’s “The Stanford Prison Experiment” are not considered extremely recent; still they retain relevance and applicability today. Szegedy-Maszak proposes that the Abu Ghraib scandal possesses three key aspects conducive to a torture driven environment: authorization, routinization, and dehumanization. Szegedy-Maszak attempts to provide an explanation for the inhumane actions of American soldiers toward Iraqi…

The movie Fruitvale Station written and directed by Ryan Coogler take you on a journey through an american tragedy that sparked nationwide riots and debates on social justice in America. On January 1, 2009, Oscar Grant, an african american man from Oakland, California, was on a transit train home after celebrating the New Year in San Francisco. On arriving at his local station, Fruitvale, he and the other passengers were stopped by local police officers responding to a report of fighting on the…