Larceny

The Cries that Never Should have Happened, or did they? It was a typical brisk december morning in December back in 2012. Families woke up that morning like any other. The parents, woke their children up, feed them breakfast, got them dressed and packed them into the mini-van to go to school. Once, they got to school they stated their day like any other. Meet their friends in the halls and walked to class. Neither the parents nor, teachers, nor kids believed that today would be unlike any other…

White collar crime, for all practical purposes, is just high-end criminals getting away with fraud and other felonies by hiding behind corporate veils and political agendas with little regard for their victims. Whether considering the elite white collar criminals like Madoff or the middle class violators, this cross section of criminals is different. In attempt to put aside the obvious favoritism and lopsided application of the law, white collar crime has the tenets to more than adequately…

When the three men rushed onto the stage, they honed in on their target, and mercilessly shot the man 15 times. Elated with their success, little did they know that in their futile attempt to silence the man’s message, their bullets had only amplified his call for civil liberties of the African Americans. Malcolm X, an individual gifted with a divine hand in education, had concluded that ignorance and greed, are fundamentally responsible for race prejudice in America. His statement, radical for…

In community corrections the probation officer is taught that the only difference between us and an offender being on probation is being caught. This general statement is meant to keep the officer level headed as a deterrence of letting power of authority create an inflated ego. In many cases, citizens commit crimes that if they were caught it could possibly land them on probation. However, many of those citizens are not the typical offender on probation. Probation is an alternative sentence…

percent increase in juveniles arrested for robbery. This included 90 percent of boys that were under the age of 16 (Hope #). This increase of arrests also correlates to an increased number of juveniles that are waived into the adult court system. Every year around 200,000 juveniles are sent directly into adults prisons (Hudson, Juveniles should not be treated as adults #). As these numbers of arrests increase in different states, states continually add more criminal offences that can be…

A CEO took power too far that lead to himself behind bars. Dennis Kozlowski, CEO of Tyco International, and Mark Belnick, former general counselor, were both charged with more than 30 accounts of misconduct. Power lead Dennis to an unethical decision when it came to stealing money from his company and because of his actions, he was arrested and charged with millions of dollars’ worth of fines. Abusing power to benefit yourself only leads to consequences. Company Background . Johnson Controls is…

Crime is a common yet concerning structure of society. With many types of crimes, sociologist work to discover why certain crimes occur. Through research and examination, we get sociological theories of crime. The theory I chose to explore in hopes to explain property crime was Anomie. Anomie is thought to be the instability a society or individual holds due to a lack of values or inability to meet societal pressures. Anomie can be caused by unemployment, racial or immigrant inequality, or other…

were a young girl who stole at the age of thirteen, like Sarah Doman, and denied taking money, you would be sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and three years in a reformatory (Barrett 278-9). There are many other examples of offenses, including: larceny and assaulting the police; assault; alleged cruelty by a step-mother; alleged thefts; highway robberies and indecent assaults, etc. Other forms of punishment for these actions included a certain amount of time of imprisonment, depending on…

Annually, immigrants from all around the globe, lawful and unlawful, come to the United States. These people have various inspirations for coming to America. Individuals leave for different reasons, some for money related circumstances and others because their country has a lack of occupations, overpopulated or is war-torn. A considerable amount of these individuals truly believes that the United States is the best place to go. This is what the United States wants immigrants to believe in order…

Marijuana is a topic at the forefront of public discussion in our society today. Today, support for its legalization is at an all-time high. As society has become more lenient of marijuana, we have begun to know more and more about it. Currently, marijuana is classified as a schedule one drug, which places it alongside drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine. I believe medical marijuana should be nationally legalized or rescheduled. Marijuana has a light impact, produces plenty of benefits to…