White-collar crime

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He argued that during the “golden age” media had represented young people with low rates of crime and the youth had respected the police. Pearson believes that the media are in a permanent panic about whatever manifestation of ‘youth as a problem’ is current: the Hooligans of Victorian Times, the Teds of the 1950s or the Travellers of today. A…

though Tito was doing time crimes were still being committed by the crips. His son wanted to become what his father was. Theirs a gang code they must follow and that is not telling or talking to cops about what happens. Meaning not giving no type of information to the law enforcement no matter what situation you in. Is very hard for officers to resolve a crime when nobody wants to talk or say what happened. A warrant was issued for Steven. The system knew that all the crimes that were happening…

about factors that lead to crime. Life domains are the main component contributing to crime and are also the areas affected by one’s definition of success. The web of crime shows how life domains influence delinquent behavior and also alter one’s opinion of success. “Many criminals are trapped in this web, that is, their personality traits and family, school, peer, and work experiences are all conducive to crime and all work to mutually reinforce one another” (Agnew,…

In social structural theories criminologist are understanding the correlation between individuals and their interactions with others. By looking at the interaction they are able to determine the cause of crime. Monster by Sanyika Shakur is a memoir about his gang life that started when he was eleven years old. Throughout his gang life he becomes the baddest gang member alive while his time was spent in and out of jail. Later into his life he came to a realization that the gang life was not going…

as long as humans have lived in groups, a concept of punishment by the group on the individual has existed. Overtime this concept has evolved into the forms of justice we see today. Across the world, ideas of what constitutes adequate punishment to crime vary hugely. This difference is due to different social ideas of what is a fair response to delinquency. However an undeniable trend has been the abolishment of capital punishment. More and more countries are turning away from using this, the…

Indianapolis, Indiana’s capital and the largest city in the state has one of the highest crime rates in the United States, which was ranked number nine in 2014 with a crime rate of 62 per one thousand residents (McQuaid). With a population of 6,596,855, based on the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) of 2014, the violent crime rate in Indianapolis was 365.3 per 100,000 residents. Furthermore, according to the UCR of 2014, Indianapolis had a murder rate of 5.0 per 100,000 residents, a first-degree…

A variety of criminological theories can be used to explain crime and why certain factors are more likely to lead to delinquent tendencies in youth. For example, truancy can be explained as a risk factor by analyzing Travis Hirschi’s bonding theory. The theory maintains that youths must feel a level of connectedness…

They share several principles including the belief that governments need to give up their monopoly over our society’s response to crime and must stop being the sole regulator of those who are most directly affected by the crime – the victim and the offender (p.93). However aboriginal justice systems do diverge from restorative systems in that they judge that a crime overwhelms a community’s quality of life (p.94). Braithwaite used restorative justice as a model to develop what he would term as…

in Action” While three strikes laws provided high hopes for many states, especially California, in controlling crime through deterrence and incapacitation, these laws produced many conflicting outcomes and consequences. As a means to better understand the actual application of these laws, the following will provide empirical research on the various impacts that three strikes had on crime, prisons, local and state criminal justice systems, and the public. While presenting both, positive and…