Shoplifting

labels some people a lot more often that we can even imagine and that has very negative impact to the person’s who’s been negatively labeled. For an example those individuals who have been in jail for couple months based on any small charges as shoplifting or drugs possession. They been labeled as criminals and integrating in the community are becoming very hard for them. Ones the individual is convicted felon there is a lot of restrictions by the law like: no access to food stamps and other…

A large survey in the United States has found that the actual number of teenagers with marijuana-related problems is on a decline. The decline has been prominent across a quarter of a million adolescents, despite decriminalization of medical marijuana in nearly 50 percent of the American states. The survey, conducted by a team of researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis looked at the drug use trends among 216,000 teenagers aged between 12 and 17. The team…

a 16 year old African American male who was living in Pine Hill, Alabama with his both parents. Recently, Marcus was kicked out the home because his parents, who are conservative Christians, learned that Marcus is gay. After, Marcus was caught shoplifting in Midtown Mobile at the Walmart off Hwy south of Interstate 65. Mobile is the third populous city in the state of Alabama. According to the U.S. Census reported Mobile population estimates at an approximate 195,111 people living in the land…

Discussion Interpretation of major findings In this study, age, sex, type of drug related offense, and drug type were all controlled for. Only individuals that were charged with a class-six felony or less were studied. These individuals were sentenced to a term of incarceration or to probation. These crimes were not considered dangerous crimes. All individuals in this study were either sentenced to prison or to traditional probation. For four years, between 2010 and 2013, these criminals were…

Introduction Crime is an issue in South Africa which occurs daily. South Africa has a very high rate of murders, assaults, rapes (adult, child and infant), and other crimes compared to most countries. Crime affects all social and ethnic groups of South Africa. It has a very negative effect on all age groups of our society. Most emigrants from South Africa state that crime was a big factor in their decision to leave. Being such a dilemma in South Africa it affects every person in a different way…

For instances, if the woman who was caught shoplifting suffered through the electric shocks, she would have committed the same crime in extreme circumstances. If the woman thinks that in order to feed her daughter, she would have to steal again, and if caught the consequences will be electric shocks…

While maximizing profits is considered an important responsibility for a company to accomplish, it is not more important than fulfilling the responsibility of being socially responsible to the society in which it operates. Social responsibility can be defined as the duty of businesses to behave ethically and with sensitivity towards economic, cultural, and social issues. In other words, businesses are socially responsible when they maximize the economic, cultural, and social benefits of all…

In this article, Dale Greer expressed how “peer Pressure causes teens to make decisions they later regret, such as joining gangs” as Quoted in “Peer Pressure Influences Gang Behavior”. Dale Greer spoke upon a boy named Hubert and how his inability to resist peer pressure guided him to his involvement with a gang. Greer concluded this article by stating how father figures are assets to instill values teenagers need to resist peer pressure. Hubert Morris, a thirteen-year-old male, who lived in…

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there are many examples of Archetypes and evidence that you have many archetypes within a society. One of the Archetypes is the outcast, defined as the character that is banished from a social group for some real or imagined crime against his fellow man, usually destined to wander from place to place. In the novel, a likely crime would be owning or reading books, and also people who possess knowledge that could potentially pose a threat to the government and…

In 1999, Andrew Goldstein pushed a young lady named Kendra Webdale in front of a moving train, killing her. He has a history of schizophrenia, claimed to hear voices. Knowing that he has this mental disorder the insanity plea will give him freedom and he may put others life in danger. This disorder made him physically push this lady in front of the moving train. Without the insanity plea he would have been punished and maybe learned how to deal with this disorder. So no matter what the reason…