White-collar crime

sentence if the individual is convicted (Kozinski). With the prosecutors beefing up criminal cases where no crime truly exist as well as over criminalizing pretty much every aspect of the American Life, many people who are facing long and over padded criminal sentences…

Since the introduction of the penitentiary and reformatories. The American penal system, has had a punishment and restitution approach to deviant acts. For many years the United States approach on crime has been a get tough approach. This approach has led America to the highest incarnation rates in the world. Due to longer sentences, incorporating harsh sentencing guidelines, and mandatory minimum punishments. Today, more than 2 millions Americans are incarcerated in either a state facility,…

2014), more so punishment should apply to the crime as opposed to the criminal, as the theorists believed that a certainty in punishment would deter both the public and criminal (Akers 1999). The perspective adopted throughout will focus on the theories inability to justify the actions of violent homicide offenders, such as Jeffrey Dahmer, and how the high recidivism rates fail to support specific deterrence, even when making the punishment fit the crime. Free will assumes that all…

The Controversial issues of Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Introduction Capital punishment is a very controversial issue in the countries where it can be found with long standing application in countries such as the United States. If a variant analysis could be carried out, what are the reasons that would explain people’s view on death penalty having any deterrent effect or what is the moral nature of capital punishment? Various opinions have been put across to discuss these issues…

sophistication of the offence, many minors are charged as juveniles, and this is just because of their ages. The severity of the crime should decide this (Goldmark and Newton 5). The fact that this is all decided on age is disturbing because everyone that commits the same crime should get the same punishment (Goldmark and Newton 5). All people should be tried equally for their crimes; there should be no special circumstances or leniency on the basis of age, most notably…

great importance to how the system has become today. There have been many changes made and new acts and programs introduced to better support the juveniles well-being. Without this system in place the youth of the world that have been committed for a crime would be in the same facilities as adults and would be serving the same sentences. This would create danger for the youth and less likely for them to learn from their mistake and be properly rehabilitated to ensure that it will not happen…

more media violence children are watching, the more negative influence it has on them. For example, children becoming more isolated, and violent because of what they have seen on the media. An example of violence seen would be murder, shooting games, crime television shows, movies, and the news in general as…

taxpayers $3.42 per day, compared to keeping an offender in prison which cost $78.95. If the perpetrator in not a violent offender it is better to have them on parole instead of having them in jail. Offenders would be more likely to come out and commit a crime spending time in a prison setting instead of being rehabbed in society. The two ways parolees end up in jail is by committing an offense or violating their…

provided by the media? No one person is perfect and we all have flaws, however, when those flaws are shown by the media as a reason someone is guilty or innocent of a crime that truly short-changes our justice system and it confuses people who are charged with the responsibility of determining if the person was guilty of innocent of the crime. The media use their own criteria to determine if they will work on a case, “a criteria that can influence, often implicitly the selection, production and…

unique strategy on dealing with crime, it pays the criminals not to recommit. This may seem irrational at first but with the community’s support the Office of Neighborhood Safety or ONS was founded. The City has seen a 66% reduction in gun related crime and a 20% in crime overall since the founding (Murphey). The ONS is seen as serving a pivotal role in this reduction. The program has a number of criticisms and among them are the possible encouragement to commit crime, the money that goes to…