Hate crime

were not being punished enough. They wanted to come up with a way to give harsher punishments to those that broke the law. So, they came up with the idea of retributive justice. Retributive justice came from the notion that we needed to be tough on crime, particularly tough on drugs. Laws needed to be “toughened up”, or so people thought. This led to the apprehension and incarceration of more individuals, as well as the more frequent use of execution. Some states do not have the death penalty,…

describing the relationship between the policy agencies /police administrators and the media, I would say that it is a love-hate relationship. Depending on the severity of the news is how it's reported. One way that it conflict is how certain news station biases and report only what they know will cause conflict. The news affects an enormous number of citizens daily. Usually, crime news is a major topic, no matter if it has any merit of truth or falsehood, positive or negative. What a citizen…

Prosecution Service, the courts, prisons and probation work together to deliver criminal justice." (National Archives) Some of the initiatives are run by voluntary organisations such as the Victim Support scheme which offers assistance to victims of crime. There are forty-two local boards to share responsibility. These boards bring together the chief officers of the CJS agencies to co-ordinate activity and share responsibility for delivering criminal justice at a local level. Its main aims are;…

Gangsta rap gained its highest level of nationwide acceptance in the early 1990’s. The greatest spike in the violent crime rate occurred between 1989 and 1990 with an increase of close to 180,000 violent crimes being reported. Violent crime statistics show a gradual increase beginning in 1984, a year after gangsta rap pioneered. The increase in violent crime continued until 1993. Changing demographics, economic shifts, and policing procedures are just a few variables that contributed to…

The Charleston Shooting has been front and center in the news world lately. Not only has it been relevant because of the atrocity of the crime like it has previously, but because Dylan Roof’s trial has been postponed to at least January and the jury will be appointed in November. Roof, a white man killed nine African Americans in the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church an establishment that meant a great deal to the community and its congregation. This case is relevant because it deals…

If your friend shows any of the following warning signs, there is a high chance that they are suicidal. If they are: Talking about suicide Signs of self-hate Saying goodbye Self-destructive behavior Withdrawing from things Feeling hopeless If they are giving away prized possessions Major physical changes Past suicide attempts If you know of someone who is suicidal there are do’s and don’ts. The best…

As stated previously the main issue with this passage is that woman only is being punished for this crime, however, that issue is not the only one as are scholar are discussing. Scholars are also discussing the violence behind the passage. Scott writes, “As Gail O’Day describes it: ‘[the adulterer] is an object on display, given no name, no violence, no identity apart form that for which she stands accused’.” By not giving the adulterer any control or even a name, the woman becomes an object…

April 12th at a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks, two men were arrested for supposed “loitering” when they were essentially there to have a business meeting that inquired real estate they had been working on for months. The men, Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson, both 23, that was said had caused the uproar within the coffee shop just so happened to be black. Journalists reported that the men had endured a whole eight hours in jail for an enforcement discretion that was violated. Nelson, had…

that not all minors have a reason to commit a crime. They can argue that in Jenkins 's article, "On Punishment and Teen Killers," she mentions that a teenager murdered her pregnant sister and her husband for the "thrill to kill," as Jenkins describes it (Jenkins 91). They will argue that adults dont murder for the "thrill to kill," and that some juveniles do it without targeting anyone specifically. They might not have a reason to why they committed a crime, but they murder because they have the…

punishments were imposed on adults and children alike for offenses that were not always of a serious nature. Sentences such as branding, flogging, mutilation, and execution were common. During the time of King Henry VIII, for instance, no less than 200 crimes were punishable by death, many of which were minor offenses. This harshness eventually led to discontent in certain progressive segments of English society that were concerned with the evolution of the justice system. Slowly but resolutely,…