Victimless crime

Tracking criminal data in the United States is a large part of the process in understanding and preventing further crimes in each community and every year the FBI releases an analytical statistics report for crimes committed in the United States, called the Uniform Crime Report (UCR). The UCR program data collection is done by individual agencies, such as police departments where they compile data by arrests and offenses. This system is called the Summary reporting system or SRS and the data…

Crimes against morality belong to the category of “contacted” and “reported” crime. Concerning the expression “contacted crime”, victim and perpetrator are (were) in a mutual contact and victim is usually able to describe the perpetrator. For instance there is a discrepancy with a property crime where victim is not in a contact and so ordinarily does not have a possibility to see a perpetrator to commit a crime, to steal something, etc. In comparison to that, quite a high number of reported…

There are many policies in the criminal justice system which, over time, have proven to be ineffective. The effectiveness of a policy is based on quantitative data that analyzes the trends before and after policies are enacted. One policy that has proven to be ineffective is the prohibition of Marijuana. The interesting fact about the marijuana prohibition policy is that not only is it ineffective but by over turning it we could generate lots of revenue from the sales and taxation of the…

throughout the 20th century, and claims it is these transformations that allow us to better understand the current landscape of modern crime control. Garland achieves this objective by distinguishing the differences between the penal-welfare system and the ‘late modern’ system and emphasizes upon the adaptive tendencies of prior conditions to define our present day crime control practices. In order to describe our current system,…

solely at fault. Though they played the biggest role in the “Kids for Cash” scandal, others contributed as well. The court can’t run solely on the shoulders of two men, other courthouse employees and prosecutors let the harsh punishments for ludacris crimes continue on for years. corruption played out throughout the courthouse and the responsibility lingers on all who knew and did nothing about what was happening . Blame can also be placed upon the parents of many of the juveniles, who waived…

In efforts to study crime, criminologists began to grasp the idea that just one theory could not meticulously reveal the true cause of crime. Because of this, we now have an abundance of criminological theories that work collectively to detect the underlying cause of certain criminal acts or criminal offenders. While most theories are in conjunction, such as socialization and the roots of concentric zoning, critical criminology contrasts with the views and theories found in mainstream…

killing the employees of where he used to work. Ronald committed his crime nine days before his 16th birthday making him a minor and he had to stay within the juvenile system. “A minor under the age of sixteen cannot be given a death sentence, and must be released with a clean record at the age of twenty-five” (Class Lecture). Despite of committing first-degree murder the court ruled that because he was a minor when he committed the crime he could not go to the adult…

Boot camps were created in the 1990s to help lower the rate of youth offenders and crime. As the name suggests boot camps are structured like basic training in the military, physical training, discipline, and strenuous labor (Demuro, 2008). When the idea of boot camps surfaced there was no research if boot camps would be effective to deter youth and lower the crime rates (Demuro, 2008). Although boot camps are meant for juvenile offenders there are some adult boot camps as…

why not prostitution? I always hear arguments about “it’s my body” why can’t this phrase be applied to this subject? The government will be able to make money of taxed prostitution, and save on various costs to the tax-payer. There would be less sex-crimes. There’s countries where prostitution is legal and regulated and there’s some countries where prostitution is legal, but not regulated as in not controlled or monitored by anyone. Sex is legal so charging someone for it shouldn’t be…

conflicting with the use of police discretion with respect to issuing traffic tickets and arrests made in vice crimes. For instance, if a small group gets together at the local pub to play a friendly game of cards in a state where gambling is illegal, and the officer arrests each subject, the deontological theory would remove the officer’s discretionary decision to enforce the law in victimless crimes. Such arrests can be viewed as harassment according to social norms. While this scenario can…