Violent crime

According to the law, a minor or a juvenile is anyone who is below the legal adult age of 21 years old. In 2012, the Supreme Court decreed that any juvenile that has committed a heinous crime, such as murder or rape, could not be sentenced to death or to life in prison. I am against the death sentence because I feel that taking ones life to justify another’s is morally repugnant. Even if all teenagers grow and mature at a different pace, I agree with the minority who argued to retain the…

propensity to commit crime. This paper examines the correlation between such internal and external influences as a way to reach this goal. I do believe that some people have the propensity to commit crime. The propensity of crime can arise from an array of influences including genetics, mental disorders,…

Three strikes laws, also known as habitual offender laws, were enacted after a series of violent crimes occurred where defendants had multiple convictions but had attained parole despite those convictions. One such crime, according to pollyklaas.org (n.d.), was that of 12-year-old Polly Klaas who was kidnapped, molested, and murdered by known sex offender Richard Allen Davis who was out on parole at the time of this occurrence. Polly’s father, Marc, pushed for a change in the criminal laws that…

people with mental illnesses are more likely to commit crimes than those who do not suffer from mental illness. This paper will evaluate society’s unfamiliarity of mental illness and how this created a stigma on mental disorder. The literature reviewed provides argument that people with mental disorders are no more prone to commit crimes than people without mental illness. “Research has shown that the vast majority of people who are violent do not suffer from mental illnesses (American…

No matter what country, state, city, or town you live in violence will be there regardless of guns being present or not. It is argued that guns are responsible for the violence that is caused by them, if those involved in the crime did not have a gun the violent act would not have occurred. “This theory holds…

data and analysing crime scene information to paint a picture of the characteristics of the offender or offenders. A fingerprint is science, but using that fingerprint/DNA strand/hair follicle/nail to construct and create is art – the information is your paint, you are the paintbrush and the end result is the artwork. During an FBI-style offender profiling, there are four stages (Howitt, 2011 pg 263-265): 1. Data assimilation, which is the collation of police reports, crime scene photos,…

In America, adolescents can be charged as adults for committing a violent crime. Behind the bars, they have to share their living space with potential dangerous criminals. Since they are influencing each other everyday, they might get traumatized by that criminal. The prisoners do not get great food like what you have right…

“If the crime rates are decreasing, then why is the prison population increasing?” However, The Perpetual Prisoner Machine provides the answer to this question and, shockingly, it has little to do with crime or justice. The answer is “profit.”The Perpetual Prisoner Machine is not simply the prison system and the institutionalized practices which it gives rise to and necessitates, but is also the profit-driven news media, voting and polling practices, and our individual fear of violent crime…

Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years and policy makers try to implement law in other to reduce its growth. But doing so, it seems to interfere with other existing issue such as drug use. Therefore, crime and drug appear to be two sides of the same coins and the dilemma here is how to be cautious in decision taking toward one issue and avoiding side effects on the other side. The relationship between drug use and criminal behavior has been of primary…

mental health poster This commentary will critically examine the way that mental health has for centuries arguably been associated with crime. It is evident that on occasions individuals are subject to discrimination because of their mental health issues and are often labelled as more likely to participate in criminal behaviour, particularly when it involves violent or aggressive acts. This commentary will also examine the way the media and television are thought to strongly influence the…