Drug-related crime

Over the past century, the crime rate has exploded and there are more people incarcerated than ever before, or that’s what the statistics say anyways. Over the past few decades, the government has been cracking down on chronic offenders by enacting policies such as the mandatory sentencing laws, three-strikes laws, and the truth-in-sentencing laws that lock them up for longer periods of time. These laws have created multiple shifts in society that principally affect where money is spent. These…

resources that are made available to them. With each era of service the level of policing has evolved, especially when the concern is raised from the expectation of the community. New forms of police liability, an improved prominence on combatting crime together with extensive cuts in budgets brings about a significant trials at a time when globalization,…

Throughout history, crime rates associated with gender have changed within the United States. Since the 1970’s, both the Uniform Crime Reports and National Crime Victimization Surveys have reported that crime rates have indeed declined in both sexes. Through the investigation and gathering of facts surrounding the relationship between crime and gender, it can be shown that gender does play a significant role when it comes to criminality. It impacts on the types of crimes being committed and…

Among these, drug use in America plays an enormous role in people 's lives, due to how recurrent they are in day to day life. In an effort to reduce the mass amount of drugs, mandatory minimum sentencing laws were implemented into our country. Mandatory minimums are laws with set minimum sentences for certain crimes that judges cannot lower, even for extenuating circumstances. The most common of these laws deal with drug offenses and set mandatory minimum sentences for possession of a drug over…

statement ‘There is no such thing as a victimless crime’. It will firstly support the claim by arguing that recreational methamphetamine use is not a victimless drug crime because it directly exposes users’ dependents to grave physical and psychological dangers, is strongly associated with violent crime, and results in acute indirect harm to society. Then, the essay will oppose the assertion by arguing that active voluntary euthanasia is victimless crime in cases where it follows Dutch…

that the majority of crime in our society is violent in nature as the media surrounds the public with images of violence on wide range of platforms, from newspaper headlines about king hits in Sydney to television interviews with Gold Coast bikies. The crucial question that this essay will answer is whether or not the majority of crime in our society is violent in nature. To reach conclusions, this essay will rely heavily on statistical date to define the true nature of crime in Australia.…

Policy The Comprehensive Crime Control Act There are currently five million Americans in the criminal justice system that are under community supervision like probation or parole (Walshe, 2012). This equates to approximately 1 in 45 adults. This is nearly double the incarcerated prison population. In 1984, the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, among other things, made probation a stand-alone sentence. This means that probation was no longer only a post-release condition. An offender can now be…

“tough on crime” approach and the start of the “war on drugs” during the Nixon period. The numerous attempts by the government to modify policies have failed and actually lead to the increase in the incarceration of non-whites. Nonetheless, despite the drastic numbers, Americans as a whole have been desensitized to the entire process and something needs to be done to fix the crisis of mass incarceration (Reid,…

number of the prison population is alarming contrasting to the decrease of crime in the United States. The Caging of America depicts the relationship between mass incarceration and racism and mass incarceration and the crime rate. Gopnik shows that during the period of which incarceration rates were going up in the entire country, the crime rate was dropping, particularly in New York, therefore showing the cause of the crime fall had no linkage with prison over population. Gopnik sheds light to…

Crime is the violation of a normal behavior that has been made into a law (Godwin, PPT). Variations and differences between crime exist because some crimes are classified differently. Violent crimes, for example, are crimes where violence is the motive (Godwin, PPT). One example of a violent crime would be aggravated assault, because the person committing the crime was intended to injure another person due to conflict or rage. Property crimes however, are different than violent crimes. Property…