Criminal Behavior Case Study: Portland

“There is sometimes a fine line between a cop and a criminal. What drives their personality may be the same, and they have simply chosen different roles and professions to call their own.” – Dr. M.L. Rapier PhD, Clinical Psychology. Upon the first meeting one will generally have a curious mind. With this inquisitive mind a person will engage in two types of arbitration, conscious or unconscious. The determinations may very well be based on several characteristics to include attire, confidence, linguistics, ethnicity, and/or race. While some judgements are small others will determine the very category in which a person, whom one has never met, places you.

Understanding the criminal behavior system and crime typologies that the book demonstrates; it is kind of hard to distinguish what type of serial killer Robert Durst is. Judging from the book examples of different type of serial killers, I would have to say Robert Durst is a hybrid serial killer. While some of his actions from the video series, “The Jinx”, lead me to feel as if he was an expedience killer who wants to protect themselves from a perceived threat as the book states. Some of Durst’s actions also lead me to believe he was a mission killer, who had a vision for killing someone. None of his victims seemed as if they were some random act of murder. I feel as if he had a mission to kill all of them.; one reason making me suspect

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?

My first step for my research was to see who is involved. The issues I have chosen involve Victor who was the shooter and for biting a police officer. Victor’s mother for hiding him from the police when questioned if she knew where he was. The police are included for pushing the mother out of the way and entering her home to search and apprehend Victor and shell casings without a search warrant. Also Benny for throwing the gun used in the shooting over the bridge. The crimes happened in New Hampshire and they are criminal in nature. I searched for the legal terms attempted murder, attempted homicide, manslaughter, assault on a peace officer, assault, aiding and abetting, conspiracy, accessory after the fact, hindering, search and seizure,

Decreasing crime is a major effect of installing a Neighborhood Watch program. Adults can take turns on who watches for crime on an agreed schedule. Someone may even volunteer to buy video cameras to ensure safety. This will make crime reduce significantly in the Alpena community. Realistically, not everyone will be willing to participate, but even a few volunteers will suffice. Imagine a community where there is little to no crime, because every criminal know they will be seen by their neighbor, friends parents, or family members. Every neighborhood will be at least a little bit safer.

Community crime prevention programs incorporate practices that target changes in a community’s culture, physical environment, or infrastructure to reduce crime such as gang involvement and violence (Citation Needed). This paper will examine the following three different strategies used in crime prevention programs: focused deterrence strategy, problem-solving policing, and situational crime prevention. Deterrence strategy or theory states that crimes can be prevented when the costs of committing the crime are perceived by the offender to outweigh the benefits of committing the crime (Braga et al., 2001). Programs that use the theory of situational crime prevention believe that crime can be reduced by identifying and then eliminating the forces that facilitate would-be offenders’ criminal acts (Clarke, 1992). Problem-oriented policing is an analytic method used by police to develop strategies that prevent and reduce crime. Under this method, a law enforcement agency will systematically analyze the problems of a community, search for effective solutions to the problems, and evaluate the impact of their efforts (Weisburd et al., 2004).

Toms patterns of his criminal behavior began when his family moving to a lower class area in Edmonton, they were poor family and his mom was unemployment because she was physically unable to work, his brother left the house when they moved to Edmonton because he did not like it, Toms father currently in jail and Tom did not see him since he was two years old, at the age of 15 Tom joined his brother to sale drugs and make easy money, at the age of 16 Tom was arrested by Edmonton police for selling drugs and theft, Tom dropped out of high school when he was 17, he didn’t not fit, he was bad and his mom could no longer control him, he went to live with his brother, who is selling drugs, ad knowing as drug house, by the age of 18 Tom had already

Pittsburgh is experiencing a reoccurrence of violent crimes. In 2010, Pittsburgh implemented a crime prevention program called “ Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime” (PIRC) and in the past five years more than $1 million has been put into a faded program. A strategy that police didn’t buy into the program with an unclear with the effectiveness of the program working. David Kennedy, a director at the Center, developed the program model for Crime Prevention and Control at City University of New York’s John Jay College of criminal justice stated that, “PIRC was never remotely properly implemented” (Kerlik, 2015). As the coordinator of PIRC, Jay Gilmer stated that, “it does work, and it will work. It’s just getting

Crime is everywhere in America. Different places react in different ways to the same ideas. The question being asked is, “Are certain policies and procedures effective and/or ineffective and why?” In my opinion, crime prevention is measured not by methods and intentions, but by the outcome of the procedure/policy. Honestly, no matter how brilliant the policy or procedure may be, the result will not be the same in one place than it is in another. For example, training police in community policing may not directly reduce crime in the community. In order to learn whether certain policies or procedures can reduce violent crime in different places, strong programs should help out. In other words, “strong” programs with rank should address multiple

One thing the chief in Gresham needs to keep in mind is that more police does not necessarily mean a reduction of crime. In fact studies have shown that simply increasing the quantity of police in a given area has little to no effect on the areas crime rates. (---) The disparity between the residential burglary rates in Gresham and the rest of Oregon probably reflects the fact that despite having a large number of police the city's policing tactics are not directed toward the source of the issue. this is exemplified primarily by the fact that each of the surrounding cities which have seen a reduction in residential burglaries have pre uabl sful mmunity outreach programs to promote the reduction in general residential crime. For instance one

But another aspect I see as being critical to the success of this program is the coming together of law enforcement, community leaders, and churches. While law enforcement alone might not make a dent, this combination can be quite effective. Community leaders I feel will make a big impact because the people will be willing to listen. In crime ridden neighborhoods people might be hesitant to listen to law enforcement because they might not be willing to trust them. But by combining the collective effort of not only law enforcement and community leaders but churches as well, you are creating this positive atmosphere that just might be able to reflect negative feelings and criminal

The first proposition by Sutherland is “criminal behavior is learned and acquired from the environment” (Van Cleve, Social Learning Theory 2017). Growing up in the poor community of Waterhouse, Kingston is the negative environment that has shaped Biggs and Wayne’s criminal behavior because the community is infested with illegal guns and drugs. As young men, their only goal was to be gangsters because their communities were crime-ridden. Around the age of 10, Wayne knows where to find a gun that he uses in a robbery. In the slums of Kingston, it is not difficult to get ahold of guns because they are used for protection by many young people. As mentioned above, Biggs and Wayne robbed a soda truck but prior to that incident Biggs told Wayne “he

They examined 102 evaluations of situationally focused crime prevention projects and evaluated 574 observations by using certain search strategy, inclusion and coding strategies, and quantitative analytical approach, including the gross effect (GE), net effect (NE), the total net effect (TNE), and the weighted displacement quotient (WDQ) (Bowers and Johnson, 2003; Clarke and Eck, 2005). They found that the possibility of diffusion of benefits (27%) was even a little bit greater than the possibility of displacement (26%). This provided the consistent support for the argument that crime did not simply relocate because of the situational intervention, however, its opposite, the diffusion of benefit was more likely to happen. Moreover, even though displacement could happen in some situation, crimes tended to be less than before, so the initiatives were surely

When looking at criminal activity and the direct connection to the criminal behavior we see that there have been many research trials that have taken place over the history of humankind (Mishra & Lalumiere, 2008). Two of these research areas that have been developed to attempt to understand the causes of criminal behavior are known as biological and psychological perspectives of crime causation. These two sectors have their principles that are held in their theories as a standard scientific understanding of the basics that each evaluation of criminal behavior is built on (Dretske, 2004).

The first solution is to establish a neighborhood watch team for the most troubled neighborhoods. Security equipment can be equipped around the blocks and it can be monitored on a shift basis by willing locals. The price would be little to nothing if residents are very passionate in keeping their neighborhood a safe place, they can work for free and in return they will have a secure neighborhood. Security equipment can be either paid for by the city or the watch team can crowdfund for the funds to pay for it all. Benefits for this solution will include less crime, criminals won’t act as much knowing that now someone is watching them, and new people can move into the neighborhoods. Some major drawbacks that this can probably cause is residents not taking job seriously and lying about their shifts since they are not being paid for it, and maybe even seeing crimes take place but being paid off to not report it to the