Understanding of crime

Many teenagers are being tried and sentenced the same way as adults for crimes, receiving harsher sentences and being put into adult prisons instead of juvenile ones. As far as sentences for juvenile offenders go, the landmark Miller v. Alabama case of 2012 prohibits mandatorily sentencing juvenile offenders to life without parole, saying “mandatory life without parole for all juvenile murderers violates the eighth amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment” (Clark); however, they

Over the course of time crime rates have fluctuated heavily throughout the United States, raising concerns for the general public. With that in mind many Criminologists have come together attempting to explain why, as well as how crime occurs. Dr. Robert Agnew has lead the charge in this field in regards to his affiliation with something called: The Strain Theory. The word, “Strain” in this instance can be defined simply as, “anger or frustration that results from negative relationships or experiences”

Organized crime is often described similarily by groups like government, the press and popular opinion. This similar definition is described through the knowledge people have gained from pop-culture movies, television shows, magazines, novels and stories from newspaper articles. Often these newspaper articles are written by authors who have little more knowledge on the structure of organized crime then what their favorite Sopranos episode dictates. It is extremely rare in today's society that

scientific study of crime and its control? One definition of crime is “behaviour that breaks the criminal law.” Crime is constantly changing because of our ever changing society; things that were not considered a crime become so. Though most people would argue that a criminal is someone who breaks the law; many people will break the law at some point in their lives and not be regarded as a criminal. The police are constantly applying different methods to control crime. “Crime control is a reconfigured

has been fluctuation in particular crime categories, overall crime in general has decreased in Australia in recent years (Dearden & Bricknell: 2008). It is due to this fluctuation in particular crimes that the media continues to play a role in misrepresenting crime rates, creating community fear and concerns regarding crime in this country (Kidd-Hewitt: 2002). The flow on effect is that it creates extra pressure on law enforcement agencies to try and bring crime under control. Law enforcement agencies

Criminology describes crime, criminal behavior and its causes, and how crime can be controlled and prevented (Schmalleger, 2015). It encompasses a vast realm of disciplines including biology, psychology, and sociology. The field of criminology is composed of many different elements that help make the discipline whole. Some of those components may include criminal behavior, criminal justice, theoretical criminology, translational criminology, and the criminal justice system. Without understanding and studying

strengths but also their weaknesses. Government reports and statistics are of great value for criminologists. Those reports include data that can be used by criminologists to research, examine and understand the phenomenon of crime. The Uniform Crime Reports collect official data on crime, which in turn provides the criminologists with a basis to conduct research and to establish theories that may in turn benefit the criminal justice system and society as a whole. For example, by studying local statistics

on a variety of perspectives that challenge the traditional understandings and expose false beliefs about crime more often than not by taking a contradictory path, where integrated theories try to combine the traditional understandings into one. Downfalls to the critical concepts, such as labeling are that this theory denies the individual responsibility and it is also very deterministic. An advantage of labeling could be that crime stats are more of a documented record of activities of control

The case that I am focusing on is the accounting scandal by WorldCom in 2002. WorldCom was a telecom company that purchased many other firms and eventually bought MCI, currently owned by Verizon. In the years it was still operating as WorldCom, it had already taken over most of the Internet and data communications market, being known as the second largest long distance telecom company before it went bankrupt. With all this happening, the company would have to face two challenges if they were to be

Infancy is a criminal defence that attempts to disprove liability for a crime by reason of the defendant's very young age. They are under the assumption that minors are incapable of forming criminal intent in the same manner as adults. The infancy defence operates under the idea that children cannot be prosecuted as adults because they lack the emotional and cognitive maturity to understand the moral nature of their actions. Infant are divided into 2 categories under section 82 and 83 respectively