Victimless crime

Jacoby shows he understand that his opinion may sound irrational to them by speculating his audiences’ thought about flogging. He wrote “‘Too degrading,’ some will say, ‘too brutal.’” to show his understanding, it is natural for people to think flogging people-even criminals is brutal, and this is a point people would like to speak out without hesitation because it may make them sounds merciful and justice. Somehow, Jacoby still insists his point, display that the problem may even worse than…

whether it is for our own good or for the good of others. Most people would agree that every person deserves a specific punishment for every crime a person is guilty of doing. If justice was real, a person has to pay the price of what he/she owes and the punishment should equally weigh to that person’s crime. Therefore, if…

Saying the word “abortion” usually sparks people’s interests, because it has been a controversial topic for a long time. Such a topic is a hard one to bring to a conclusion because the controversy behind it continues to evolve and change in accordance with the times. What is an easy way to end a debate that has been going on for years between two groups of people who both think that the side they are on is the right side? Well a compromise must be made, one that both sides can agree on and walk…

legal system in ways that will improve the capability to control crime and secure justice. To support our legal system, a wide range of technology advances have been employed. Technology have changed and helped our legal system but technology have also helped criminals commit more crimes and because of technology, new crimes are being established on a regular basis. New technological innovations have been industrialized to prevent crimes and to improve the performance of police officers and the…

zone. This means that officers are further away from back up and response times may be longer than those experienced in the city. Rural departments are unlikely to afford specialized units meaning that bomb disposal, drug cases, and special victims crimes must be handled by either regular units or an outside element. This trend of requiring outside assistance is common in rural departments and may be seen anytime the department encounters any out of the ordinary calls for assistance.…

Exploitation with digital forensics is a well written article discussing the outrageous growth of child sex trafficking due to the growth of technology and the easy access to speedy communication around the world. The increase in this category of crimes is in a 1,000-percent increase since 2004. Along with that statistic, “The National Consumers League states 56 percent of children between the ages of eight and twelve have a cellphone, with the average age of receiving a first hone being 10-11.”…

The most plausible reason for racial disparities regarding sentencing is that minorities “are more likely to be subject to facially neutral laws and policies that prescribe more severe sentences or sentence enhancements” (Walker, Spohn and Delone 2012:286). For example, police patrols in a minority-housing complex on one shift disregard anyone with a joint or two when they search an individual. Occasionally they may write a summons to court therefore the residents get comfortable that they have…

The media initiated fear within the community, therefore stirring the pot for moral panics to take hold of the system. Juvenile crime rates were on the decline as data shows “over the past two decades, from nearly 200 victimizations per 1,000 students in 1992 to fewer than 50 victimizations per 1,000 students in 2011” (Curtis 2014). However, the media covered multiple stories of…

The introduction of this research paper discusses Alice Goffman’s observation of the increase in policing and supervision in poor Black neighborhoods. In this paper, Goffman explains what this increase has meant for wanted African American males and the inhabitants of poor communities. Since, according to Goffman, such studies done in poor minority neighborhoods were written before the expansion of the criminal justice system, she worked with a group of poor African American males for six years…

However, Christians who favor capital punishment for certain types of crimes such as premeditated murder than those who would oppose capital punishment without reservation, are probably just among the majority. This is because of a common interpretation that the Old Testament has the capital punishment, and nothing in the New Testament says that maximum punishment, as society 's means of dealing effectively with serious crimes is a bad thing. Islam as a religion strongly believes in the death…