White-collar crime

An eye for an eye; this is a type of retributive justice which considers punishment to be the best response to crime. This is an extreme example of how punishments use to be determined; it has helped set the stage for how retribution is established today. We use the principle “Let the punishment fit the crime”; facts and evidence are presented to aid a jury and judge in this decision making process. This is widely accepted concept, but the question that we have to stop and think about is, when…

the community. According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, “The number of inmates are bing released is an average of 590,400 each year,” so it is a big number, and plays a huge role in our society. But the question is, why so many offenders commit crimes after being released?…

truth-in-sentencing laws that were enacted to reduce the possibility of early release from prison. The primary goal of the truth-in-sentencing laws was focused on retribution and was implemented to provide tougher punishment with the hopes of reducing crime rates (Foster, 2006). Unfortunately, the guidelines set forth interoperate the amount of time offenders will serve while eliminating the opportunity for early release afforded through goodtime…

that children account for the vast majority of violent crimes, but these crimes are only 15% of crimes committed by minors. Offenders who represent the majority of crimes committed by minors, sometimes called serious offenders, violent, and chronic. During most of the 1980s, the number of juvenile arrests (ages 10-17) remained stable. Since 1988, the juvenile arrest rate increased dramatically and peaked in 1994. The overall decline in youth crime corresponded to a significant improvement in the…

The Central Park Five is a documentary film that talk about five young men that were involved in a rape case. A white woman was raped and left for dead in the central park in 1989. The group of teenagers were charged and convicted for assault, robbery, rape, sexual abuse, and attempted murder, which is known as the infamous crime as The Central Park Jogger in New York City. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise served sentences between five to thirteen…

When someone commits a crime there are few choices in the way their punishment will go. Most commonly they will either get the charges dropped, get probation, or get sentenced to jail time. If they are sentenced to jail time often times they will be allowed the chance for parole in the future. Just because the offender is only given probation or is released on parole, that does not mean they are free to do as they choose. There are sanctions placed on both probationers and parolees, and they…

that exacerbate our penal system: generational poverty, the war on drugs, and racial profiling. When you hear of a disparity between minority and Caucasian prison populations, you would probably think it’s a result of minorities committing more crimes. There are way more minorities in jails than Caucasians because of demographic issues, racial profiling, and skewed societal views and stereotypes. There are so many cases of preventable deaths and injuries because so many people base their…

“Behavior of a child or youth that is so marked by violation of law,persistent mischievousness, antisocial behavior, disobedience, orintractability as to thwart correction by parents and to constitute amatter for action by the juvenile courts” (Dictionary.com, 2015). According to the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) the costs we bear for overreliance on youth confinement is “sticker shock” (2014). There is a criterion which affirms that temporary confinement of juvenile offenders is still…

Prisoner at the Bar, Arthur Train includes many different examples of different magistrates and their interpretation of the law. First, the case of defendant “Izzy” is pronounced to the magistrate. It was obvious to the magistrate that there had been a crime committed. However, Train focuses more upon the supremacy of…

instinctive desire without any scruples. Sexual assault is not simply unplanned crime of passion. Rather, it is about exerting power over the victim to take away any control the victim has is this…