Drug-related crime

More gun control laws could reduce gun related deaths. According to an article written in the Huffington post author Jennifer Bendery said that in 1999-2013 most of the murder and suicide deaths were from guns. More gun control could also lead to a decrease in suicides. According to a study published in the International Review of Law and Economics, when gun ownership went down in the United States, overall suicide rates went down. Mandatory firearms training could help prevent accidental…

can be shared across local, state and federal levels. We showed how the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) has data input at a local level, but it is a national database that allows any agency to obtain information about a prior criminal, missing persons, stolen property, etc. We then reviewed how the Regional Information Sharing Systems Program (RISS), Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN), National Drug Pointer Index (NDPIX), and National Tracing Center are all beneficial for…

A final explanation put forward amongst biological explanations for the crime-age curve situates around childhood diseases such as ADHD, and individualistic differences in impulsivity, condition ability and other temperamental characteristics crime due to low self-control or impulsive temperament. (Wilson and Hernstein 1985) Individuals diagnosed with ADHD are consistently found to be overrepresented in juvenile detention centres, jails and prisons worldwide (Rosler et al., 2004) And the…

their high violence rate is drugs. All those who live, work, and even those who visit the city and the city itself are affected by the violence. In the city of Missouri, children are committing crimes, taxes are rising, and lives are lost because of senseless…

of what country the prison is in (Reichel, 2013). Three big reasons for women prisoners being treated similar around the world is a result of “the consistently small percentage of female inmates in all countries, the worldwide tendency to imprison drug offenders, and the general similarity of needs and problems among women prisoners” (Reichel, 2013, p 259). Since the number of women inmates is low all over the world, there is not as much attention given to the women (Reichel, 2013). On average,…

As a result of the high number of crimes being committed by juveniles, with the weapon of choice being guns, in 1995, COPS took action to help selected police departments in the United States with the fight against these crimes; The Youth Firearms Violence Initiative. Ten cities in total were selected to take on this task (Baltimore, Maryland; Birmingham, Alabama; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Cleveland, Ohio; Inglewood, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Richmond, Virginia; Salinas, California; San…

Issue 3 Capital Punishment Capital Punishment is defined as “the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.” Did you know that the U.S. is the only western country still continuing to apply the death penalty and the are credited with the creation of the lethal injection that five countries have now also adopted? One of my favorite quotes by Bryan Stevenson (founder of the EJI project) is this; “Capital punishment means people without the capital get punished.” The U.S…

offenders (Tillotson, 2012). This was done with the intention of preserving the well-being of society after the release of an inmate. It wasn’t until the 19th century that the idea of rehabilitation was founded. The concept of rehabilitation accepted that crime is the conclusion of both psychological and societal variables that should be examined. Correctional facilities should strive to remove those that have acted out as a result of their psychological conditions, if such conditions are…

Juvenile Delinquency, or also known as teenage crime, is the involvement in illegal behavior by minors. It is like any other crime committed, but these crimes differ since it is accomplished by juveniles. Legal systems offer special procedures to deal with juvenile delinquents such as offering juvenile detention centers and courts. A juvenile delinquent in the United States is considered to be a minor if he is under the age of 17 and commits a crime. There have been times when juveniles have…

No matter where you live throughout the world, there is always going to be crime in that area. But when you compare the United State’s crime rate to that of countries like Canada, Norway, and Sweden, the result are shocking. According to the textbook, “over 1.9 million people were incarcerated in 2010 (1 in every 104 adults in the United States), by far the highest rate in the world” (pg. 306, Stanely, Zinn, and Smith). As a nation we need to stop using our prisons as a place of punishment…