Backround Of The Study On Victims Of Stalking

State Crimes are defined as “acts that are largely committed, instigated or condoned by governments and their officials” (International State Crime initiative). These crimes are considered to be very serious crimes in society today, due to the fact that they are either committed or condoned by governmental personnel with the aim of achieving certain goals. Having said that, scholars today do not have the knowledge of how important these crimes are since it violate international and criminal law within that state. Eugene McLaughlin identified four categories of state crime; Political crimes, crimes by security, economic crimes and social and cultural crimes. However, I will focus on the two that are more widely acknowledged Political crime is corruption and censorship, a state has the right to label a behaviour as political crime if it’s seen as a threat to the state. Crime by security has to do with genocide and torture, a great example of crime by security is the Rwanda Genocide that occurred in 1994 which ended up killing 800,000 citizens in just a few weeks. According to Grabosky and Stohl (2010), state crimes can be divided into six main types; State terror against another state, state terror against private interests, State facilitation of another state’s terrorism, state terror against its own citizens, state facilitation of private actors and political terror scale. In this essay, I will be mainly concentrating on the Rwanda Genocide, Libyan civil war of 2011 and

The first state to implicate stalking laws was California in 1992 which is no surprise because we needed to protect our stars in Hollywood. It only took roughly six years for all 50 states to implicate some sort of law to protect people. There is a grey line when it does come to stalking however because there is a difference between making threats and actually threatening someone. Unfortunately if you feel you are being stalked it is important to remember that the constitution protects our rights and the first amendment is freedom of speech. In this country we are allowed to say what we want technically. In 1996 president Clinton signed a more stricter anti-stalking bill and made it nation wide restraining orders and even allowed it to include victims family members. It basically was a law that made it illegal to cross state lines with the intent to stalk and harass someone. This is to allow a victim to move and start a fresh life elsewhere. If this law got violated it resulted in a minimum of five years in jail and twenty years if a person was injured in an way during the process of stalking. The anti-stalking laws have been ratified over and over again for the past several years. It is now understood that if a stalker is making consistent threats and shows the possibility of a threat being carried out can get into trouble due to causing fear to a person’s safety. For every state the laws

Within the criminal justice system, officials abuse their power. The officials of the justice system have a duty to protect and perform their duties with unbiased decision making. The abuse of power jeopardizes people’s lives who are not able to sustain oneself and their families. Some people do not understand that poorer people find themselves in jail more and once a person is released, that person is subjected to return to jail for the amount of money owed to the state. There are many obstacles for the poor, especially those of color. People of color are treated unfairly in the justice system, from the arrest, the sentencing, and the release. The criminal justice system is supposed to be just but that is not the case. The criminal justice system allows for the police, public defenders, and judges to bend the laws and not be punished for their actions or that apologizes can fix the wrong that has been done. This paper will discuss the abuse of power from the justice system and the solutions to rectify the damages.

Radical feminists also suggest that domestic violence is evidence of patriarchy as men use the threat or use of violence to control women. Domestic violence is a widespread problem being a sixth of all violent crime in 2007 and the cause of over 100 deaths per year. Domestic violence is mainly perpetrated by men against women with 1 in 4 women being assaulted by their partners at some point in their lives and only 1 in 7 men being assaulted. However these figures may be under

Andy is trapped in the language game of the lawyer. In fact, he is confused and the lawyer is using the situation to attack him in a stand of power. Andy remains inferior since there exists no proof to exonerate him of the crime. Though Andy denies of committing such a crime, even the reader is rather convinced that Andy is pretending to be innocent. The dominant discourse of the attorney takes the upper hand since it is higher in the level of power and has the dominant discourse of law. Ergo, the powerful speaker is abusing his power to entrap and force him into a direct answer for the crime attributed to him.

Stalking has been a label for a long-term pattern of persistent pursuit and intrusive behavior directed by one person toward another (Logan & Cole, 2007). It is a term that has been around since

Melissa T. Merrick. "Prevalence and Characteristics of Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 05 Sept. 2014. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.

•1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

Because of the nature of this case, where the wife is accusing the ex-husband of cyber-stalking it is important that we as investigators have all details of the claims because cyber-stalking is also closely related to:

The Culture of Control, Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society, David Garland (2001) is certainly one worth the read. Garland, one of the leading criminologists, begins the book with a fantastic insight on ‘history of the present’ of penological developments in the US, compares it with Britain in late 1970’s. He picks out indicative theories by Foucault and several examples to support his arguments. He portrays an intricate argument about the rise of crime control and punitiveness. Garland continues throughout to link new developments in both countries to identify each countries crime control stratergy and the effect of their strategies. He ends it with further theories and opinions on crime control and social order. Garlands purpose of writing the book is to give a deep analysis and an absorbing read of crime control in USA and UK to his readers. The purpose of the following review is to give the readers a brief understanding of some issues by Garland on crime and social order in contemporary society.

How do we as a society define what goes against our public morals and what is acceptable? For example, in some countries in Europe the legal drinking age is 16 years old. This would never be accepted here in the states. There is a growing list of crimes against public order today. Public order crimes are also referred to as vice offenses, victimless crimes and even nuisance offenses. The term “victimless crime” isn't very realistic. There is always an impact of some kind or another. As with any other list of criminal offenses, there are those which are taken more seriously than others. Things such as the sale and distribution of illegal drugs would be treated more seriously than say prostitution. All members of the laundry list of public order

•1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in the United States have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner.

1 in 7 women and 1 in 18 men have been stalked by an intimate partner during their lifetime to the point in which they felt very fearful or believed that they or someone close to them would be harmed or killed

Political crime is crime drive by a specific philosophical view. In the United States, there isn’t a sanctioned classification of criminal behavior called political crime due to the First Amendment. Our Constitution restricts the government from taking measures against people for voicing their views in a peaceful assembly. Political crime is an act carried out with the intention to harm our federal, state, or local government under certain circumstances. Politics and crime have been linked together since the beginning of time dating back to tribal leadership. “It is virtually impossible to find a history of any society which does not record political criminals. They have always existed, they exist now, and they will exist in the future, in spite of the historical experience that the ideal behind the political crime is often destroyed the moment it becomes reality” (Schafer 1971).) Any crime committed to purposely harm the state government and political system can be viewed as a political crime, but a crime committed by a politician is not automatically deemed a political crime. If a state senator decides to abuse her children, she would be committing the crime of child abuse. In spite of this, if she began taking bribes to back a law to benefit large corporations, then it is considered a political crime. Violence can also be included in political crimes, there can be be non-violent in nature. The U.S does not have a crime class that applies primarily to political crimes,

This chapter starts the off the morning after Dounia broke off her engagement with Luzhin and he is coming to the realization of what had happened. He is currently living with Andrey Semyonovitch who is lately getting on his nerves and Luzhins finds himself losing his temper at him. Luzhin also fantasizes that he should have showered Dounia and Pulcheria with a lot of gifts and money so that they would have stayed with him. All while thinking about how he “would find another bride and, perhaps, an even better one” (Dostoevsky 357). Where later it becomes clear that things between Dounia and him do not look so hopeful.