Victimless crime

How can we reduce intellectual property theft and pirating? Many people, even in wealthier countries do not see intellectual property as a “victimless crime”. Educating public about the harm of pirating might reduce demand for pirated copies. When it comes to countries whose governments refuse to adequately protect intellectual property, economic sanctions should be imposed. I also believe, that…

Violent crimes were taking place day to day, such as murders, assault, and disorderly conduct. Men had begun brutally beating their wives due to large consumptions of alcohol and bar fights became a lot more common. Another problem that industries were facing was…

White Collar Crime in America White-collar crime is typically a nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals, it is a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status during the course of his career. Most of these crimes for the most part include fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, copyright infringement, money laundering, and forgery, but can go to much bigger lengths. Many people consider white color crime as victimless, but it is all…

facility, we have put more people away for petty crime, ruined the lives of millions of others, and shown that this system format is not effective for anyone but those who own stock in these companies. We have more prisons and more prisoners per capita than any other country in the world. We are also an industrialized modern country. Why are people be sent to prison and being sentenced to a cycle that never seems to stop? If a person commits a crime that…

Introduction “A Plea Bargain is an agreement in a criminal case between prosecutor and defendant that typically involves the defendant agreement to plead guilty, often to lesser offense or to a reduced sentence that has been agreed upon in advance” (http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/plea-bargain-pros-and-cons.html? version=2). Plea bargain has been gaining attention because it has become an issue between people. On how plea bargain is affecting the court system, plea bargain has…

The article "Not Victimless: Understanding the Harmful Effects of Police Corruption" defines police corruption as "any illegal conduct or misconduct involving the use of occupational power for personal, group, or organizational gain" (Tyed). Hence, power corruption in the…

service were "mostly in the main thoroughfare of the city." Police also received complaints about prostitution from businesses and residents. Some of the officers saw the problem firsthand. Presence of the prostitutes in the community increased other crimes associated with it. It also lowered the property values of the businesses and the residents. Visibility of the prostitutes attributed to decreased patronages of the businesses by locals and visitors. “Thirty…

We, the public, are led to believe that crime is all around us, rampant and ever increasing. It is intentionally placed in our line of sight on a daily basis where we are bombarded with it through various forms of media; from TV, Radio, Newspapers, and online ads and headlines, it is impossible to avoid. This seed of fear is planted in our minds, and then watered with sensational crime stories to promote its growth until we accept what we are being fed without question. We are told that our…

population have gone up and prisons are becoming over populated. Craig Jones and Don Weatherburn proves, “The sentenced adult prison population has increased by about 20 per cent since the mid 1990s” (10). People are ending up in jail for small and victimless crimes for longer periods of time that they need to be. Sometimes when criminals are released they end up back in prison because they do not know how to survive on their own.…

rates. Countless young children, especially those living below the poverty line or in poverty, notably Black and Hispanic children are more likely to commit crimes than those living in the middle class or upper class and who are White. It’s simple; children with a lower social economic status are more likely to find themselves committing crimes and then being sentenced than children with higher social economic status’s. According to The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology “People in lower…