War crimes

more law enforcement practices to combat the rising crime rates. Then President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Law Enforcement Assistance Act, which according to a Time article entitled “ Why we should reconsider the war on crime”, first established a direct role for the federal government in local police operations, court systems, and state prisons by means of federal funding, served as a means to combat this and simultaneously ushered in the “ war on crime”. The next few years of Johnson’s…

Throughout the semester, we have repeatedly discussed statistics regarding current crime and incarceration rates. In comparison to previous rates, from earlier decades, it is clear that society’s viewpoint on crime has changed significantly. Beginning in the early 1970s, the United States initiated a more punitive criminal justice system (1). In The Punishment Imperative, authors Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost created a concept for the reasoning behind this mass incarceration. Referred to as…

that they are put in is evil? Paul Joseph Watson is showing in his article that military soldiers are normal individuals that are put in situations that they can not do anything about but do what they were told. Watson is revealing a story of an Iraq war veteran named Daniel Somers who committed suicide after fighting posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “ Somers’ suicide note is a powerful indictment of the invasion of Iraq and how it ruined the lives of both countless millions of Iraqis as…

their freedoms and liberty. The War on drugs has done more harm against its citizens then good. It’s really a war against the people of this nation because they are the one that suffer the most. From not having the proper resources they need to advance in this society makes it tuff for a certain class to prosper. All the money that’s wasted in the War on drugs is money that well never be spend on education or in the reform of citizens. The War on Drugs is really a war against the people of this…

World War II was one of the hardest times in our world, especially with the Nazi overtake. Nazism was very destructive, and it is built on criticism. Nazis committed terrible crimes. Some Nazis are still in our world today, and some former Nazis are still out there, even after committing these terrible acts of hatred. It is debated whether or not that older former Nazis should be tried and incarcerated. We are still trying to capture former Nazis on the run. Particularly the top five most wanted…

nonviolent drug offenders made to serve a minimum term for the crimes they committed. Where the phrase “if you do the crime, you do the time” held a lot of truth and the “war on drugs” was just the beginning. But what if it is not so true anymore? What if I told you we have lost the war on drugs? And, what if mandatory minimums were responsible for some of the problems with in our criminal justice system? What was once put in place to keep crime off the streets and the public safe, is now…

In “Symbolizing crime control," Tim Newburn and Trevor Jones argue that zero tolerance has become a frequent concept in the crime control landscape that has been frequently used by police, politicians and policy makers. The authors suggest that zero tolerance is mostly associated with policing and how zero tolerance is a particular strategy that the police adopted for crime control. Throughout the article, the authors are identifying the key components of zero tolerance and how through the…

penalty, is the legally authorized killing of a person as a consequence of the crime committed. Some people have said that this punishment is ineffective and immoral,…

the UN convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of Genocide states: “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and punish”. (http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=a/res/260(III) )Article 1 of the convention significantly emphasises genocide as a crime whether it be in times of peace or war. In…

individuals. Two explanations Davis provides for the rise are the public fear of crime perpetrated by the media that leads to racist policies and the relationship of globalization and prisons. Intertwined throughout her arguments is the impact of the war on drugs which is the federal government’s campaign on the prohibition of drugs. When we analyze Davis’s arguments alongside Michelle Alexander who argues that the war on drugs is the cause of the rise and Julia…