War crimes

Research Indeed, there must be a connection between crime rates and incarceration rates. Whether the problem of mass incarceration tends to lower the rate of crime is up for discussion. It is only logical to think that when people are behind bars they are no longer able to contribute to crime and raise the crime rate. The more people that are incarcerated must mean that crime rates are expected to fall as a result; studies have shown that this statement is false. An explanation for this could…

International crime involves any act or omission that has international consequences on nation states. This includes transnational crimes, which are crimes that take place across international borders such as, human trafficking and people smuggling across borders, arm trafficking, fraud, cybercrime or terrorism. Unlike transnational crime, crimes against the international community are a collection of offences that are recognised by the international community as being of universal concern, such…

Thirty years ago, policy makers declared a war on drugs and began to believe that criminals were not being punished enough. They wanted to come up with a way to give harsher punishments to those that broke the law. So, they came up with the idea of retributive justice. Retributive justice came from the notion that we needed to be tough on crime, particularly tough on drugs. Laws needed to be “toughened up”, or so people thought. This led to the apprehension and incarceration of more individuals,…

Variables There is previous information on crime and what factors will influence crime. For this study, multiple independent variables will be used. The independent variables are age, race, abuse as a child, social class, gender, and substance abuse. Age is one of the factors that can influence crime occurrence. Sweeten, Piquero, and Steinburg research suggests that a majority of crime is committed by people between the ages of 12-25. The peak at which crime is committed frequently is around…

Over the past few decades, the United States has contributed to the substantial war on drugs and its impact has continued to affect many people in more than one way. Unfortunately, it is a war that has focused its efforts on the criminalization of drug use and distribution. It has certainly not eradicated the mass destruction that has been marked in communities around the United States and globally. There is an obvious correlation between drugs, racial justice, and aspects that reach beyond…

Harsh minimum sentencing practices around drug offences exist because of the Reagan administration’s rhetoric that blamed drugs as the primary cause of violent crime in the US during the 1980s. Prior to Reagan’s “War on Drugs” era, drug crime in the US was relatively minor, however, beginning in 1980, the number of prisoners in jail for drug related offences skyrocketed. While there were just 41,100 of these prisoners in 1980, by 2010 that number had tripled, an increase of 1,100%. One of the…

found in The Washington Post, a political theorist from Harvard University by the name of Danielle Allen wrote “How the War on Drugs Creates Violence”. Allen makes a solution to the war on drugs, she emphasizes that making drugs a public health problem will then decrease the incarcerations, homicides, and poor education rates. If drugs were being tried like a health issue, not a crime, the rates of everything else that is carried on with the drug use would drop. The quantitative amount of…

their crime, the lowest and highest. The lowest is set by the Mandatory Minimal Sentencing policy. The policy impacted prisons across the country. There has been an enormous rise in the prison population, along with the guidelines causing discrimination with in the justice system. When the policy was reintroduced, it was a way to help make people feel safer in their towns. Being a main part of the war on crime, it was thought to keep criminals off the streets and in prisons. For certain crimes,…

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…

of black youth. Many believe that the issue of mass incarceration is not an issue of systemic racism, but an issue of “black on black crime”: crime that occurs within black communities. Harvard professor Randall Kennedy writes that, “most crime is intra-racial, so black victims suffer disproportionately at the hands of black criminals” (Bibas). The belief that crime only exists within black communities between black men reinforces the stereotype that black men are criminals by nature. Black men…