In the same way, if we talk about violence, we might usually come up with those obvious severe acts such as assault, murder, and war without paying attention to that violence hidden as its root. However, violence itself seems to be more complicated and paradox than that when some acts are being tried to indicate as violence acts. There are many people who are trying to explain and categorize what to be violence acts is included. Two of those are Mark Twain and Slavoj Zizek who explained violence act almost in similar way –the one is the obvious cruel act but the one is invisible in
Capital punishment is often justified by saying that by executing the murders birth of new murders would be prevented. Executions especially when they are more painful and public create a sense of horror and halts those tempted towards criminality to violate laws. In countries such as Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Nigeria and New York crime rates are exceptionally high and this affects the population there. The police also works inefficiently in these countries and the criminals easily escape from punishments. Punishments in public especially capital punishment highly controls the crime rate in most of the countries with low crime rate.
The nightstick is an incredibly violent weapon which can be just as lethal as a handgun. If a law enforcement officer is attempting to apprehend a suspect and uses a nightstick, he first has to be close enough, but also control the level of force he is using in order to prevent serious harm. Many police departments have been held liable and sued for excessive force being applied with a nightstick. There is also the emotional damage that occurs in the unfortunate event of a police officer having to discharge his weapon of another human being. The long-lasting effects are incredibly tough on the conscience of the human mind, even if the policeman was justified in doing
This part countain 6 rules the first is to make crime unprobtile or has he puts it “outweigh the profit of the offense”(59). This is to scary most people straight so to speak. The second rule is to focus on the bigger offense then the lesser one. The third rule is if someone must commit a crime the object is to have the offender choose the lesser crime. The fourth rule is once the offender as committed the ctime the next object is to stop them from doing that crime again.
Felony vs. Misdemeanor: The punishment of a person really depends on what they did, and how their charge is classified. Felony is a more serious criminal act, which have harsher punishment on a person, examples for felony are murder, rape, kidnapping, fraud, assault, possession of a controlled substance. Misdemeanor is a bit less serious, examples of misdemeanor are public intoxication, prostitution, trespassing, reckless driving, etc. Penalties for each individual varies depending on their cases. I. Felony: a. Capital: Death or life in prison without parole.
When policy and claimsmakers label crimes as social problems, they do not always account for all representations of crime. They neglect to realize that crime is a reality that filters through a series of human decisions running the full scale of the criminal justice system (Silver 265). Jeffery Reiman states within “A Crime by Any Other Name” that, “although there is a wide range of behaviors that the law defines as criminal, people tend to view crime as involving only certain kinds of acts committed by particular populations of individuals”. For example, the rhetoric presented within the War on Terror in the United States lead to moral panic which exaggerated and distorted perceived deviant behavior (Silver 330). Similarly, the rhetoric presented
This syndrome is more fundamental than the popular assertion that officers’ racial animus is the main problem.” (477). Because high crime areas have such a strong dislike and mistrust for the police, answering some calls become dangerous for the responding officers. While answering these calls officers become more alert and anxious. Most of the time when an officer makes an arrest or discharges his/her weapon it has nothing to do with race but it has everything to do with the crime.
These attackers influenced a target risk elements called VIVA, which is the value, inertia, visibility and access. In contrast to theories of criminality, which are centred on the figure of the criminal and the psychological, biological, or social factors that motivated the criminal act, the focus of routine activity is the study of crime as an outcome, feature its relation to space and time and feature its ecological nature and the implications thereof (Mirὀ F., 2014). (Cohen and Felson (1979) “Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activity
Q5) Explain the differences between intentional torts and unintentional torts. Intentional tort is an act of civil wrong as a results from a person committing an offence which results in causing physical injury or harm to the victim. One of the main elements of intentional torts is the intent of the wrongdoer. With clear intent to commit the offence, the wrongdoer can be charged under the intentional tort.
In 1985 Robert Agnew a sociologist come to an interest of studying the theory and finds a potential for the theory in explaining several causes of crime in society, but due to its limitation he developed and reformulated the theory to widen its dimension or scope. After revising the theory he come up into General strain theory of crime and builds its foundation in 1992. General strain theory argues that frustrations and anger leads someone to deviance and may result into committing a crime (Agnew, 1992). GST defines strains as negative life events and conditions which are commonly disliked by the people who experience it or negative experiences of a person in a given group (Agnew, 1992; 2001; 2006). Strain is often classified in two distinct types, the Objective Strain and the Subjective Strain.
Alexander Natapolf wrote "Bait And Snitch: The High Cost Of Snitching For Law Enforcement", were she states that crime is worldwide. In both essays Maxwell and Natapoff had really good points on wanting the crime to drop, the pros and cons of snitching, But they both define snitching different.
Therefore, with this newly attach label, they must "live up" to it and show their deviance. This can all be shown through media; nowadays, crime, murders, and robberies are all you hear about on the news. As a result, this encourages people to deviate from the norms in order to "achieve fame." The same goes for death penalty, anyone on death row makes national news and can be talked about for days, weeks, or even
Criminal Law: It is mostly statutory and it covers specific wrongs that are considered social evils and threats to a community. The state not the victim are the prosecutors also known as a plaintiff. There are three categories for the offenses. There are misdemeanors, Petty offenses, and Felonies.
There is a lot of stuff constantly going on around the U.S. Mass shootings should not be taken lightly, the shooters generally take more than one innocent life in these situations. Most people ask the question how is that not terrorism? The answer to that is of course it is terrorism how could it not be. Stated “Under federal law, the term "terrorism" refers to any violent or dangerous crimes that "appear to be intended" (CNN 2015) and of course mass shootings are intended. Terrorist come in all shapes colors and sizes, "Terrorism" is determined by the nature of the crime, not the nature of the criminal.”
Violence consists of savagery, sadism, and power. Victims of violence are usually not liberated from the effect it has on them. In ‘A Long Way Gone’ by Ishmael Beah, he elaborates on his personal effects of violence in which he endures and taken part in. Throughout the book, he suffers the consequences of being part of the Sierra Leone Civil War. Ishmael experiences war flashbacks, nightmares, lost of innocence and a normal life in the result of violence.