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Whether it be in decisions made in daily life or a court decision to condemn criminals, we as people are constantly looking for the right answers and constantly trying to eliminate the wrong answers. Using Hanna’s admitted illiteracy, Bernhard Schlink is able to create a tense and dynamic situation which pushes the readers to think about how we approach the exploration of right and wrong and also express his own opinions on how unreliable the law system can be. The line that separates right and…

Although society will always have rules surrounding deviant behaviour, resulting in the creation of criminal bodies, the way in which these behaviours are defined greatly fluctuate over time. To a large extent, this is due to the specific contexts of the respective time periods , as it is the ideas, values, beliefs, morals and attitudes that shape the concept of the normal and hence also the abnormal. These concepts additionally shape the penal structures surrounding the identified crimes,…

The Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas case has been labeled as one of the most controversial cases in history. Clarence Thomas was a 43 year old judge who had just been nominated to the Supreme Court in 1991. Soon after he was nominated, Anita Hill accused him of sexual assault in the workplace during the time that they worked together at the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. As controversial as this case may have been it only hindered Clarence Thomas’ way up to the Supreme Court. The case…

stated that by upholding the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 that it could lead to the government creating a list of topics that were illegal to lie about. Simply stating a lie is protected speech under the first amendment. However, lying about being a police officer while committing a secondary overt act is a felony. By the Supreme Court ruling that a lie about military awards and honors is protected speech under the first amendment, they are showing that it is ok to lie about earning our nation’s…

Crime Theory Paper Over the past two decades’ crime rates in Detroit, Michigan have fluctuated but continues to hold the highest rate of homicides for a major city in the entire country. Many citizens of Detroit find it difficult to meet their own basic needs to survive. The education system has steadily failed many of the youth, and the city has just emerged from bankruptcy. With it’s crime linked to economic decline, and substantial poverty, Detroit’s state of crime may be best explained using…

other at intersections. Christopher Browning’s novel, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, uses records from the trials of Nazi crimes in Germany to examine the perpetrators. Browning, just like the scientists, could not come to any solid conclusion to explain how a regular man could commit such horrific crimes. He did nonetheless pose an important question: “If the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 could become killers under such circumstances, what…

Being an emergency dispatcher is not an easy task. People mistake the job of an emergency dispatcher to be easy since their primary responsibility is to answer phone calls. However, it is forgotten that these calls pertain to traumatic situations in which the dispatcher must remain calm for the sake of the caller. Despite the training dispatchers receive to remain calm, collected, and professional during all aspects of any call, they are not truly prepared to handle the stress that accompanies…

“The sophomore's body was found that afternoon, floating under the bridge. He died from blunt-force trauma to his face, palms, and chest -- the result of a headfirst fall from 20 feet, according to the coroner”(Berrett). Tucker Hipps, a college student who suffered from emotional and physical abuse of hazing, ended his own life from performing the ritual of jumping off the bridge. When surveyed, eighty-one percent of college males admitted they had been hazed. (Babson College) Hazing can range…

Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson introduces to the idea of what white-collar crime is by analyzing it and then uses a theory, in which they can apply to both white-collar crime and normal crime, to try and explain the causes of white-collar crime. They outline a general theory in which they are able to understand and organize crime in general and white-collar crime at the same time. The authors use this theory to enable the ability to compare and contrast between white-collar crime and any…

1. What are the four body types in William H. Sheldon’s somatotyping? Describe each body type and identify which one Sheldon believed was related to delinquency and crime. Sheldon believed that there were four body types. There were; endomorphs, who are usually overweight and have a large stomach, mesomorphs who are athletic and muscular, ectomorphs, who are frail and thing, and finally, balanced, who are neither too thin nor overweight or muscular. Shelden believed mesomorphs to be most…