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The book Ordinary Injustice How America Holds Court is a novel written by attorney and journalist Amy Bach about the American legal system, and how it was become flawed. In four chapters, she discusses many different cases where injustice and corruption has occurred in the United States legal system all over the country. I chose to focus on a chapter titled “A Troy Champion” which is the second chapter in the novel written about a beloved city council president, and former judge, named Henry R.…

Statistics consistently show that there is higher crime rates in lower income areas then wealthier suburbs but the higher crime rate may not be the actual reason for criminal behavior in low income areas. Police tend to focus on the low-income areas where they assume is more crime leading to more arrest. Theorists Robert Sampson and William Julius Wilson in 2005 argued that factors that cause an area to become economically…

Race Relations within a Diverse Community The United States has been culturally diverse and unfortunately plagued with prejudice. Gran Torino analyzes how a man who went from majority to minority in the community views his changing world and adapts to the introduction of gangs, discrimination, and acceptance. The introduction of gangs leads to division within the community and creates a conflict Walt has not experienced before. Walt is already a very opinionated man when it comes to other…

For many years there has been arguments on how to effectively handle juvenile offenders in the court system. Regardless of the approach used, all parties seek to achieve the same outcome: decrease recidivism, improve the juvenile’s lives, and ensure the community is a safe place overall. However, with the public outcry and new laws being adopted, more juvenile delinquents are being bound over into the adult court system and sent to adult institutions. Throughout the years studies that have…

In a world of cold blooded law enforcers who serve no justice when it comes to underage teens who get charged as an adult for a crime and put on death row, death row is a prison block or section for prisoners who will be sentenced to stay in prison till death. Without parole or sometimes even trial, and just from reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson explaining how the courts and the justice system is illicit. Mr. Stevenson talks about the circumstance that have led to the teens that have been…

approach to looking at police legitimacy and predicting violent crime. This macro level study used the New York City Police Department and the United States Census bureau for data sources. The unit of analysis was the police precinct which a macro level approach that looks at a precinct as a whole. This approach does not bring in a personal level of analysis that correlates misconduct, and elements that affect police legitimacy with violent crime. This approach was much different than Spohn but…

of policing that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues, such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime (Scheider, 2008). The preceding definition is certainly a mouthful, but in Layman’s terms it simply means: law enforcement and citizens working together toward a common goal. There are many ways of reaching those goals and not…

committed people from jail who on average spent about 14 years in jail for a crime that they did not commit. That is 342 people who, without the Innocence Project, might never have had a taste…

Will gun laws stop violence? Almost everyone I know, knows what a gun is and what it is capable of. We know how dangerous they can be and how much damage they can do, but is eliminating the second amendment and taking our guns really going to stop any kind of violence with guns from happening? I would have to say no, because even though guns can be “banned” or “illegal” there will still be ways for people to get them just like they are getting drugs and other items that are illegal right now,…

Stalking is not a crime to take lightly. It is a new problem among mainly woman today. The book Courting Disaster discusses and analyzes woman who have been victims of stalking by previous men they were intimate with. It analyzes different types of stalking and how women can define themselves as a victim and make themselves believable as a real victim. Though there are different stages of stalking and many examples of stalking given throughout the book, it is hard for women to make the criminal…