Criminal Acts

I grew up in a neighborhood which is riddled with crime. Unfortunately, people who I grew up with became involved in gangs and criminal activities. Those actions led to them having a criminal record. When looking through the options of the podcast, People who are involved in the criminal justice system is the one I thought would be most interesting. The person Bradley Jacobs discusses what he does in the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES).

This first week the assignment was to Define crime, its relationship to the law, and the two most common models of how society determines which acts are criminal, Describe the government structure as it applies to the criminal justice system, Identify choice theories and the their assumptions in regards to crime, Describe the components of the criminal justice system and the criminal justice process, Identify the goals of the criminal justice system.

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

This provision outlines a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment if found guilty of deliberately and negligently choking, suffocating or strangling an individual to the point of significant harm. It further outlines a maximum penalty of 25 years imprisonment if found guilty of committing such act with additional

In today’s criminal justice system in the United States, there is a lot of dispute between what the qualifications are for juvenile and adult crimes. Some believe that the only difference is age. Others say it is the severity of the crime. It’s obvious that when adults commit crimes, whether they are a misdemeanor offense or a felony, they pay for it. The confliction comes when a juvenile commits a crime. What exactly determines if they are tried as an adult or a juvenile? Does it vary by state-to-state? Are there federal laws that govern that debate? There have been cases where children have been tried in a court of law as an adult. So what exactly is the clear cut reason why juveniles are tired sometimes as adults, and other times as juveniles?

“The victim was standing at the front door of the school entrance when the suspect and her mother attempted to open the door. The victim would not open the door, according to school policy. Suspect and mother cursed the victim. Suspect then began punching the victim in the face numerous times. The victim received bruises and scratches to the face. All of these events occurred while school was in session and disrupted the daily business of

The fact that the court has tried this officer will continue to warrant safer staff and safer schools. Most students would agree that some staff at their school gets out of hand but this case can keep the staff on their toes about how they handle students. The students are at school to feel safe and learn, and with these actions students would be scared to say anything. Students are that environment to learn from their mistakes and if their mistakes are warrant for arrest why would kids ever want to go to school? Especially for kids with disabilities or special needs, that’s a lot to handle and take on at such a young age and the officers at school need to be aware of student with those

Argue for or against the theory that the courts should not hold a defendant of questionable competency to the standard sentencing guidelines.

A crime is an act or omission committed against the community at large that is punishable by the law.

The differences between legal rules and other kinds of rules is that criminal law refers to the consequences associated with breaking them. As the substantive law meaning that it is the law of crimes, referring that Criminal law is the code conduct that all in the society need to follow the rule, and the prohibitions on murder, assault, and burglary. Meaning that if an individual violates or commits these crimes they are going to be treated as a criminal by punishing act from the state. Civil law is refers to procedural law to follow the rule of the state from someone that has committed a crime. Which it is divided into 5 categories, for example torts, property, contract, family, and juvenile law.

State crime refers to crimes committed by the government and its agents ( Green and Ward). It includes crimes committed by politicians and state officials who work in the government and agencies such as the police. Inevitably, there are many problems associated with studying state crime, ranging from the fact that states set laws, and are therefore in a position to define what is criminal and what is not. States can be so powerful that they can control what sociologists want to study. Michalowski and Kramer (2006) argue power and crimes are inseparable. The states monopoly of violence gives it the potential to inflict massive harm, while its power means it is well placed to conceal its crimes or avoid punishment for them.

1. Outline and explain the three key goals victims can pursue through the criminal justice system.

A NYPD officer was recently recorded telling a traffic violator it was Mayor de Blasio's fault the violator was getting a traffic violation summons. However, the fact of the matter remains--who committed the violation, you, or the Mayor?

Assignment Title: Functionalism claims to account for the functions and causes of crime and deviance within contemporary British society, yet it fails to account for white collar crime. Evaluate this statement.

Laws serve several purposes in the criminal justice system. The main purpose of criminal law is to protect, serve, and limit human actions and to help guide human conduct. Also, laws provide penalties and punishment against those who are guilty of committing crimes against property or persons. In the modern world, there are three choices in dealing with criminals’ namely criminal punishment, private action and executive control. Although both private action and executive control are advantageous in terms of costs and speed, they present big dangers that discourage their use unless in exceptional situations. The second purpose of criminal law is to punish the offender. Punishing the offender is the most important purpose of criminal law