War crimes

is announced as a new plague, and finally street gangs begin growing rapidly and terrorizing the streets of America. Not just any street gang had as much notoriety as the Crips. The Crips, a gang of young men that specialized in a wide array of crimes. They would steal everything, terrorize neighborhoods and kill for nothing. Typical demographics of gang members in the ‘80s was male, between the ages 12-25, and of a minority group, In this project the focus is more on cultural and social…

as criminals even though they are not. As a human being if you are being treated differently you would get a sense of being an outcast, shamed, defeated, or hopeless, this is what i believe is the reason why the youth commit or continue to commit crimes. If someone treats another person as a criminal even though they are not, eventually that person would turn into a criminal or at least have criminal thoughts. Moreover, if a youth come from a family that is considered a working class, or poor,…

shaped labeling theory over time. The basic question for labeling theory has been asked even before the leading the theorists. If society labels an individual after they have committed deviant behavior or a criminal act, will that lead to further crimes from that individual? Simply put, does society guide individuals to commit deviant behavior after society has labeled the individual a criminal? Frank Tannenbaum did much of the early research, along with Edwin Lemert. However,…

rehabilitation centers to help them get out of trouble. There were at least 30,000 gangs and 800,000 members active across the US in 2007. About 147,000 were in prisons in 2009. Half of these gang members are female but there is no easy way to stop all this crime, because the conditions that lead to gangs are complex. While police presence is important in keeping neighborhoods safe, a more successful way is to give people something to life for other than a gang. This can include helping young…

Penalty Still be Legal? Origins of the death penalty span all the way back to the time of Hammurabi about three and a half millennia ago. “In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty for twenty five different crimes” (Reggio, PBS.org). Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, the reasons that justified these so called “inhumane” punishments, was the reason that surpassed all others, logic. The death penalty was archaically considered the norm in classical…

of Rome started to begin throughout the Etruscan states (Britannica.com). The expansion of Rome was caused by the population increasing throughout the cities and towns. During the expansion of the city-state, Rome went to war with Fidenae, Veii, and they also started the Latin War, which happened between 340-338 BCE (Britannica.com). After dominating central Italy, the expansion grew faster and they were pushing forward its frontier. The growth of Rome has caused many incidents to happen…

American criminals of all time, Charles Manson, created a cult in the desert of California known as the Mason Family. Manson brainwashed his followers to believe Beatles songs like Helter Skelter warned of a coming race war between black and whites. Manson wanted to jump start the race war by sending his followers out to kill wealthy white people in the Hollywood area. Manson wanted the murders to look like blacks killed the white victims. During the summer of 1969 there was a bloody five week…

youth to factors such as the end of The Great Depression and World War II which led…

The relationship between race and crime and its impact on decisions in the criminal justice system is a topic of controversy in both public and academic spheres. The imprisonment of ethnic minorities at a higher rate than their White counterpart occurs in most western nation (La Prairie, 1999; Tonry, 1995, 1997). In Canada, the overly represented groups are Aboriginals (First Nations, Inuit, and Metis) and Black Canadians relative to their incidence in the general population (Roberts & Stenning,…

The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties on the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war and soldiers who are otherwise rendered hors de combat or incapable of fighting. The first Geneva Convention was in 1864 that was when it first got started. After, there were revisions of the Convention in 1906, 1929, and 1949. The case I want to look at that violated the Geneva Convention is when theUnited States violated the Convention in 2002. On January 11, 2002, the United States announced…