Habitual offender

apartment where his estranged wife was sleeping. He attacked her before pushing her over the apartment balcony. The injuries she sustained included a broken neck. (Howard) Irreverent of the judicial systems mandates placed upon him Mitchel Lot did what habitual abusers do, he went after his victim again. The act of domestic violence is not based in logic, therefore, systemic consequences alone are not effective. The need to control, the sense of…

Determining crime and criminal behaviors depend on many factors. In most cases, negativity contributes to criminal behavior. For example, growing up in a dysfunctional home, where mom is an alcoholic and dad is a habitual criminal offender. Children that do not know any better will assume that does self-destruction act and criminal behavior is a norm (Adler et al., 2013). A person’s social environment contributes a person criminal behavior. It was once believed that gangs and violence only…

a system that would hand out punishment as well as establish laws for the people to abide by. Classical theorist believed that punishment that followed the commission of a crime was more just and useful (Brown, 2004, p. 1). This means that if an offender was punished following a crime that he or she committed they would be less likely to commit a criminal act again. Classical theorist believed that swift and just punishment was the key to deterrence. A criminal would think hard before…

deviance. Criminal offenders engage in behaviors that deviate from accepted social norms, they commit a variety of acts that are destructive and violate the rights…

Justice Robert Jackson once said, “The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America” (Neubauer, Fradella 2017 pg 155). I have always wanted to become a police officer, but if I could be a major actor in a courtroom it would be a prosecutor. It’d be a prosecutor because I love to argue. Prosecutors are lawyers who investigate, charge, and take to trial people whom they think have committed a crime (Portman). The reason I would want to become a…

is the anti-drug reform and the sentencing reform that has negatively impacted the economy by quadrupling its institutionalized population from eight hundred thousand in 1970 to four million inmates in 2008 according to Carla J Virlee author of "Offenders In The Community: Reshaping Sentencing And Supervision". Additionally, the U.S makes up 5% of the world’s population and yet institutionalizes 25% of the prisoners in the world according to John F Pfaff author of "Drug Policy Reality And…

in his article "Should Mandatory Minimum Laws Be Repealed?" explores the concept of minimum mandatory sentencing from the perspective of the federal legislature’s lack of faith in the ability of state judges to uniformly get sentencing right when offenders were found guilty of carrying crime. As a direct result of such legislation and as explored above, thousands of non-violent, first time…

Natasha A. Frost, the authors describe many instances where racial disparities led to the increase in incarceration rates. At first, the author starts out by telling the reader that it mainly began when the government began to target drug offenses and offenders. The punishment imperative targeted mainly crack users, this consisted of the poor and impoverished minority communities. The government made crack seem like the worst drug to ever exist, but due to the fact that white people did not…

that people will make rational decisions based on the extent to which they expect the choice to maximize or minimize their profits or benefits and minimize the costs and losses” (Akers et al, 2017). In classical criminology people believed that offenders calculated the rewards and punishments before offending. Individuals may still engage in crime after having indirect experiences through general deterrence such as punishment avoidance. For example, a 15 year old might make the rational choice…

In the case of the People vs Smith case, the supreme court of Michigan made an error in a trail of double jeopardy. The defendant Smith was being charged with first-degree murder of a store owner named Richard Cumming and one of the employees Stephen Putman. The victims died of gunshots wounds the store had been robbed. The police discovered the victim's wallets missing and over $2000 in cash from the drops and registers in the store. Smith was convicted of two counts of first-degree felony…