Drug-related crime

In 1990, the city of Phoenix, Arizona was experiencing an increase in gang activity among their youth. Adolescents were engaging in illicit activities such a drug dealing, which often caused issue with other gangs and led to violence. The Phoenix Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) created a program in order to prevent future youth from joining gangs. The program was part of ATF’s Project Outreach and it received funding from the federal government…

Recidivism Introduction Finding techniques to reduce high recidivism in this country can positively impact the society, the economy and certainly the criminal justice system. Seto and Eke (2013), conducted a study to predict “recidivism among adult male child pornography offenders” by using an original method they created, called “child pornography offender risk tool (CPORT). Basically, the method consisted of an organized checklist of risk factors to predict recidivism of child pornography…

was related to a family. Therefore, gang is an organized group of family. Each family controls a city, and the conformation of these families is like a tree. All of these families are controlled by a don, or leader. And also each city has own advise who helps his boss. Like most of the countries, the USA also suffers from gang related criminals, but the USA has a different history…

La Viuda Negra Who exactly is “La Viuda Negra,” or formally known as “Cocaine Godmother?” Many know this criminal by her first name, Griselda Blanco, who was a powerful drug trafficker and murderer. Anyone who crossed paths with her or did her wrong in any way, would pay with their blood. Blanco’s criminal career started at a very young age, she was born to a physically, abusive mother in Medellin, Colombia, which then lead to, “her as a pickpocket,” (Ovalle, 2012). Blanco became notorious in…

interviews with 170 women who committed violent crime in New York and portraits the social structure around those female offenders. The book itself is devided into seven chapters but can be restructured into three parts that relate to the main questions Baskin and Sommers tried to answer: “How are women’s careers circumscribed specifically by gender? And what accounts for the increasing pull of certain groups of women into the world of violent crime?”(p.7) In the introductory part the authors…

Punishment is society’s form of justice, however social structure changes and so does what we perceive to be true justice. Making the victim whole is no longer the sole purpose of punishment. Deterrence is the key to making sure that people who commit crimes are reformed through punishment and given the opportunity to demonstrate that they can become law-abiding citizens. Parole, probation, halfway homes are some programs designed to give criminals this second chance. However, according to the…

An effective punishment would be one that deters crime and offers alternative outcomes other than incarceration, which is a harsh tactic that serves only one purpose: to protect the public. This is the primary role of a retributive approach to punishment, to protect the public by deserting the offense and inflicting the equivalent harm as caused (Banks, 2014). However, retributive punishment philosophy neglects the future welfare of society and of the offender. With social and economical…

purpose is to “reduce the number of offenders serving state prison sentences by permitting them to be resentenced to an intermediate form of punishment.” With this approach, more prison rooms are opened for criminals who have committed rather heinous crimes while less serious offenders are placed on intensive…

classes can partially be attributed to the “war on drugs”. In the book “The New Jim Crow”, written by Michelle Alexander, argues that law-enforcement officials, due to the erosion of the Fourth amendment, inflict discriminatory practices. The Fourth amendment was put in place to protect citizens against unwarranted searches and seizures, however this is hardly followed by law-enforcement because of the governments affirmation on the war on drugs. Over our societies history and…

Since the 1990’s the crime rate in the United States has dropped dramatically. This drop in crime could be related to the adjustment in police tactics, adoption of community policing techniques, and to the combination of innovative police strategies. Policing changed from an incident based response to a problem-oriented strategy. Prior to the 1990’s police had the discretion to handle a situation with their own judgment to use force. Police were looked upon at the “enemy” and not the savior.…