Crime: A Case Study: The Crime Of Marcus Hutchins

The unreported crimes are referred to as the dark figure of crime. I found this interesting because I have never heard unreported crimes referred to as the “dark figure of crimes” until now.

a. Imagine asking 100 strangers to describe a criminal. Predict whether those descriptions would be likely to focus on street criminals, or the variety of topics covered in this video.

Crime and punishment in the 1800’s was very unlike today. Punishments were much more violent and severe back then with crime rates being high. However, a lot of the crime was unaccounted for due to how easy it was to get away with crimes back then. Compared to today, where as crime rates are increasing daily. As such, crime rates today surpass the rates in the 1800s. However, punishments are not as fatal today compared to the past. Almost all criminals in the 1800s were penalized with death in some way, typically by hanging. According to Gooii, some crimes, such as treason or murder, were considered serious crimes, but other ‘minor’ offences, such as picking pockets or stealing food, could also be punished with the death sentence.

This book shows viewpoints that contradict one another about crime related issues. In showing that there is two side to looking at crime, such as saying poverty causes crime verses poverty does not cause crime. There can be different ways and theories and trends relating to poverty causing crime but there also is evidence that not all poverty causes crime. This book shows both viewpoints of how one angle of an issue could cause crime but does not always. Looking at crime this way shows that people think it is a stereotype of who commits crimes.

Craig Jones known as Ice Cube, a twenty two year old man living in South Central Los Angeles, California, has just lost his job, after being framed for stealing. Not having any plans, he hangs out on his front porch with his delinquent best friend, Smokey (Chris Tucker), a pothead who sells drugs for Big Worm , the psychopathic neighborhood supplier. Throughout the day, Craig and Smokey observe the on-goings in their neighborhood. They encounter Ezail a crackhead who supports his habit with petty crime; Debbie, an attractive girl on whom Craig has a crush. Craig's neighbor, Stanley whose wealth like supercilious attitude bemuses Craig. Red Craig's former colleague and childhood friend whose bike and necklace have been stolen by Deebo who

ideas on what exactly crime is, how it is represented by the media, and how

Bail is the next step of the process and the suspect may try to get bail, “ Bail is an amount of money or other security that is designed to insure a criminal defendant 's return to court if released from jail. Although bail may be reconsidered at any stage in the criminal process, this is usually the first opportunity to set it (Wright, 2012). A judge can also deny bail if the crime is very serious, or if they are considered a risk and if they have a criminal history.

So what does the criminal justice system do to avoid this? What are the policies put forth to deal with this inevitable dependence on crime? Although difficult, it is essential to strengthen the non- economic social institutions, like church or public school educations. There must be less emphasis placed on the importance or status of private school education. In addition, it is necessary to equalize the opportunities for success. The lower level employees must have the same amount of opportunity that the upper level employees have, or once had. The lesser employees must not be alienated within the workplace or held accountable for things that the upper level employees are excused of. The current crack down on white-collar crime is an example

optimal behavior by the State would balance the reduced spending on police and courts from lowering the probability of conviction against the preference of risk-preferring criminals for a lesser certainty of punishment.” In the early stages of Becker’s work on crime, he claimed to be puzzled by why theft was harmful it seemed to simply be a redistribution of goods from typically wealthy individuals to poorer ones, like Robin Hood. He came to the conclusion that the difference was that criminals spend on weapons and invest time in planning and carrying out their crimes, this brand of spending was “socially unproductive”, because it does not create wealth, but rather forcibly redistributes it. Beckers study on crime shows us that we must widen

Criminal anthropology refers to the study of physiological differences between criminals and non-violent people. Every day we hear of crime that occurred somewhere in the world. For example, a big topic now is ISIS and the attacks they have recently made on Paris, France. In class we talked about a man by the name of Cesare Lombroso. Lombroso is credited with coining the term “born criminal.” By this, he meant that criminality is strictly inherited; it is a personality trait one possesses and not a learned behavior. Lombroso also included that criminals can be identified by anatomical characteristics such as unusually wide or narrow skull, long arms, hairy body, large incisors and many more.

There are two main views that explain who or what may be responsible for crime: The classical view, which views crime as a result of a person’s decision to commit a crime. This is due to the belief that every human has free will and are therefore responsible for their actions. The second view is the positivist view, this view believes that a person’s decisions are not made due to free will, but shaped by society and the environment that they live in. From these two main views branched many different views to explain who or what may be responsible for crime; known as criminal behavioral theories. Influenced by the classical theory is the rational choice theory, all the other theories; biosocial, psychological, social learning, and social structure is influenced by the positivist view.

Actus Reus is the physical part of a crime and it consists of Result Crimes, Conduct and Circumstance Crimes, Action Crimes and State of Affairs Crimes.

It is not an easy task to try and figure out why people commit criminal acts. Criminal behavior has been studied for many years and theories have been suggested as to this very topic. Criminal behavior is when an individual commits a criminal act. A criminal act constitutes the violation of breaking the law. Criminal behavior can be linked to many crimes like organized crime along with misdemeanors and felonies (Jones, 2005).

For hundreds of years society has sought a theory of criminality with which to strike back against the dark figure of crime. Theories of crime have always been heavily tinted by the social climate in which they were created. For example, until the 18th century Western European criminological thought was firmly rooted in Christianity, which considered crime the work of the Devil. Punishments were meted out not based on the merit of one 's actions, but to turn away the evil and reinforce order in a community. With the dawn of the Enlightment and the parting of the philosophical clouds a cast of venerable philosophers and scientists arrived to begin imparting their insights to the growing intellectual community. Men like Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham embraced humanist principles that declared all men equal, rational actors with the ability to make logical choices of their own free will. Thus Classical School criminologists advocated punishments that were rational, logical, and proportionate to the crime so as to outweigh its benefits and deter other rational actors from committing the same prohibited act. Early 20th century criminology was heavily influenced by Darwin 's Theory of Evolution and Herbert Spencer 's derivative philosophy of Social Darwinism. Criminologists of the Social Darwinism era were men like Cesare Lombroso, who used the pseudo-scientific principles of Atavism to promote his theory that criminality can be traced to genetic and physiological traits like

commit crime, and on the other hand there are criminologists who seek to understand the nature