Essays on Homicide

No legal topic remains as controversial as the death penalty. The continued use of the death penalty divides the nation on some of the most fundamental moral and political debates. While the death penalty is a form of punishment that has been around since he dawn of time, many people question whether the use of the death penalty is compatible with modern society. The death penalty also raises some interesting constitutional concerns. There is widespread belief that the death penalty is not administered in a fair and impartial manner, which would mean that some groups of people are disproportionately ...

Over the period from 2010 to 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its rulings in a range of landmark criminal cases, dealing with diverse topics, such as freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, rights regarding counsel, detainment of suspects in terrorism, as well as criminal sentences. The case Miller v Alabama (2012) belongs to the last category. The major finding of the Court in this case was that mandatory sentences of life, not including the parole possibility, are unconstitutional in relation to juvenile offenders. The case was referred to the Supreme Court by Evan Miller, a 14-year boy, who ...

In this paper, the author addresses one of the most important questions in the criminal justice and law enforcement industry, as far as the job profiles and descriptions of two of its most important members are concerned: the difference between criminal justice and criminology. In order to draw real life evidence of being able to know the difference between the two disciplines mentioned, evidences will be drawn from the case of a Black American male under the initials of M.L. Without a doubt, the two disciplines, criminal justice and criminology, are directly related. For one, they are both concerned ...

Bloodstain analysis has been studied since the late 1800’s. The study of bloodstain can help in identifying if a crime was committed or if it was an accidental misfortune. A person who analyzes blood splatter patterns should be trained and educated in how this process works. If the specialist who examines bloodstain is not trained properly then outcome of the theory could be false or misconstrued. A person who is legally certified to analyze blood stain patterns must possess “characteristics of stain pattern, proper identification and examination of blood pattern, precise documentation of blood pattern and stains” . One ...

Discuss the Classic Methodology Autoerotic Asphyxiation and the Key Evidence a Forensic Team Looks for When Ruling out Homicide or Suicide at Crime Scenes Involving Paraphilia The term autoerotic asphyxiation refers to the act by which a person restricts oxygen from the brain mostly through choking with the objective of sexual arousal. The term describes the action if the person does the act by themselves. A person taking part in the action is known as the gasper and the erotic interest in the action is referred to as paraphilia. The personal interest is usually a major determinant of a ...

In terrorism cases, it appears that complicity and vicarious liability are in fact less difficult for prosecutors to establish in terrorism cases. In the case of federal law, there is a certain procedure by which prosecutors determine both complicity and vicarious liability with respect to terrorism cases. There is a certain ease with the charge of complicity given the nature of the law. In the context of conspiracy, each person involved in the crime – no matter how big or small his or her attachment, may be associated and thereby deemed complicit and subject to federal indictment (Dempsi 2006). There ...

The blueprint of murder has more criminality in it than the actual execution. Some murders are very impetuously carried out, often without much prior planning. In several cases murders are necessitated by considerations of self-defence, even in civil society. But murders that are a product of deliberation and stratagem cannot be seen at dichotomous levels of actual and attempted in retributive law. These should certainly be treated on a synonymous basis. Any attempt to take life is punishable unless there are rare extenuating circumstances, and a contemplated crime is not one shade different from an actual one. The fact ...

Introduction

Firearms policies of the United Kingdom are one of the strictest in the world. As a result, the rates of homicides and other violent crime are reported to be the lowest (Uttley 2006; Squires, 2014)). Today’s research shows that only 0,05 intentional murders involving the use of civilian firearms have been recorded per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013 (Van Kesteren, 2013). Moreover, only 2.3% of all homicides perpetrated in the country involved the use of guns (Office for National Statistics 2015). The only one killing spree to have ever happened in the United Kingdom was the notorious ...

- Lambert, Craig. “Death by the Barrel: David Hemenway applies scientific method to the gun problem.” Harvard Magazine. Sept.-Oct. 2004. harvardmagazine.com. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.

In the article, David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Contro Research Center at the School of Public Health, discusses how guns make crimes lethal. He argues that the issue about gun-control is not about taking away people’s guns, but is about forming strategies that will reduce harm brought about by guns. He added that reasonable gun policies are needed to be able to decrease the harm that guns cause. As ...

INTRODUCTION

The Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), which allows physician to prescribe lethal drugs to competent terminally ill patients was put in place to ensure that suffering patients end their lives in a humane and dignified manner (Smith, Goy, Harvath & Ganzini, 2011).Prior to its enactment in October 1997, numerous researches had been carried out which showed that towards the end of their lives, terminally ill patients usually suffers tremendously, thus going through a lot of pain. Family members had to sit and watch their loved ones writhe in pain and wither away to nothing. This pain had to be controlled. ...

Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors That Explain The Decline And Six That Do Not. Experience by Steven D. Levitt

The entire criminal activities in almost all parts of United States experienced heartening drop in the late 1990’s. According to Levitt experience, the year 1999 witnessed the least rate of reported cases homicide for the past 35 years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reports highlights that in 1998, property and violent crimes declined by 29% and 34% respectively. Levitt states, “homicide rates fell in nine of the ten years in the decade of ...

Kleck and Barnes Article Analysis Project

Basic issue Arguably, many people over the years have stated that more police officers should be employed as it negatively encourages potential criminals from committing crimes. An example is during President Clinton’s tenure when congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The Act allowed the federal government to hire 100,000 police officers nationally. This article examines if employing more officers affects the rate of criminal activity in the area. Specialists in this field however argue that the said policy had been poorly researched at the time. However, Kleck and Barnes (2010) ...

Introduction

The Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), which allows physician to prescribe lethal drugs to competent terminally ill patients was put in place to ensure that suffering patients end their lives in a humane and dignified manner (Smith, Goy, Harvath & Ganzini, 2011).Prior to its enactment in October 1997, numerous researches had been carried out which showed that towards the end of their lives, terminally ill patients usually suffers tremendously, thus going through a lot of pain (Miller, Hedlund, & Soule, 2006). Family members had to sit and watch their loved ones writhe in pain and wither away to helpless beings. It ...

Intention and knowledge of a crime cannot be of the same type of mens-rea. For example, murder and culpable homicide are intentional and knowledge based respectively. The intention based mens rea places mental element of murder foremost as an intention to cause death. At a lesser degree is an intention to cause a specific bodily injury which the offender knows will cause death of the victim. This is almost the same as the mental element for murder as the offender knowingly causes the bodily injury that it can cause death. As such, the offender is liable to be convicted for murder. Next ...

Medication errors can have potentially serious consequences for patients and healthcare workers. For patients, they can lead to serious injuries, disability, and even death (Hashemi, 2007). For healthcare workers, they can lead to withdrawal of practicing licenses and other disciplinary actions. The indictment of three registered nurses for negligent homicide following the death of a newborn occasioned by a medication error in 1997 ushered in a chilling novel level of disciplinary action: criminal prosecution. This paper will discuss emerging issues related to an instance of medication error that resulted in criminal charges against the nurses who were involved. The incident involved three ...

The United States has encountered a wave of crime in recent years perpetrated through the use of guns. Statisticians blame this rise in crime on the poor regulation on the arms business which contains numerous loopholes through which criminals can access guns. Recently, they released some very disturbing and worrisome statistics. An estimated 31,000 people in the United States alone die as a result of gunshot wounds. Another worrisome statistic is that the rate of homicide in the United States is up to seven times higher than a combined rate of homicide for 22 other high GDP countries (Webster et al, ...

For a few years now, income inequality has been a topic widely discussed by the media and among tax payers. It is a sensitive subject as the gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow, bringing the existing social classes even further apart. Inequality is a social issue best examined through the scope of two popular opinions. The first of these is that the unfair distribution of profits may also be viewed as a motivation to perform better, work harder and make more than the average worker. The less optimistic and more widely accepted view is that as the rich and powerful ...

1. There were six victims killed – two females and four males (Bovsun, 2010).

One of the female victims was pregnant. Her door was unlocked and the perpetrator entered the house just as she was about to bring the garbage out. She was alone. The other female was babysitting an infant and had her son with her when all three of them were killed (Ramsland, 2012). The son was supposed to go to a friend’s house around the time of the killings. A male friend was in the house and also died. Both the female victims were sexually assaulted.

There are four crime scenes. One home was entered into by the perpetrator and ...

Aday, L. A. (2001). Who are the vulnerable? In At risk in America: The health and health care needs of vulnerable populations in the United States (pp.1-15). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers

Each chapter of this book has a question that needs to be explored with regards to the health care of vulnerable populations. The author begins by defining vulnerable populations as those groups that are under risk of poor psychological, physical, or social health, consistent with the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health. The book highlights several groups to indicate and analyze how the framework for studying vulnerability may ...

After viewing these data sets about the leading causes of injury deaths in the United States between the ages of 1 and 24 years, I noticed that, unintentional motor vehicle traffic accidents cause the highest number of injuries and deaths among most of the age sets. The statistics show that since children between one and four years get little exposure to traffic, motor vehicle traffic accidents to do not cause much of the injuries for them. However, as children grow up and start moving out of the home settings without the guidance of their parents, they get exposed to ...

Introduction

Organized crime refers to a network of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals in an organized manner and who are engaged in illegal activities. Such criminal organizations are well organized with a clear chain of command and segregation of duties among its members in much a similar way to a lawful organization or government. The only distinction between organized crime organizations and other lawful organizations is that they are engaged in illegal activities. It is organized crime organizations that are usually responsible for transnational crimes. Transnational crimes denote crimes that have significanteffects in more than one country. This is because such transnational crimes ...

Question 1

Various strengths and weaknesses are associated with the federal engagement in the crime prevention and community safety. Strengths of the crime prevention strategy include direct contact, social development approach and increased funding. The officers engaged in the crime prevention have the opportunity to develop direct contact and relationship with the society they serve (Tilley 2005). The social development approach is also considered as strength because it opens the window of opportunity to the community to handle crime before crime happens. The increased funding that allows expansion for the strategy and enables it to cover more communities also boosts the ...

Violent crimes involve the use of threats and aggressive force on the victim. Such crimes entail violence as the main idea such as in murder and where it is the goal such as in robbery. When using weapons, such crimes are termed as violent, where in most cases except rape, male are the most venerable victims of violent crimes. Classification of violent crimes in criminology is not a well agreed concept as different legal terms and constitutions are used to define various crimes differently. In United States, there are over 53 jurisdictions into violent crimes and murder (Carey, 2001).

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The dynamics of interview and interrogation are different. The two processes are dissimilar in such a way based on the actions of the interrogators. The terms interview and interrogation; process and suspect informs the readers that I shall be the responsibility of the interrogator to gather facts and to attempt to acquire an admission from one of the suspects (Cendrowski, Petro, Martin, & Wadecki, 2007, p. 190). The term interview refers to the non-accusatory gathering of facts or behavior-provoking conversation that will be able to determine the facts, sequence of events, or some alibis that will confirm the information with a ...

1. Outline the categories of violence as described by Jamil Salmi.

According to Salmi, the phenomenon of violence has many characteristics, with particular causes per characteristic and with particular causational agents per cause. Violence also exists in several forms, including direct violence, indirect violence, repressive violence, and alienating violence.

Direct violence is characterized by any physical, in-person act causing intended harm. In this category would be included A) any act resulting in death (homicide, genocide, infanticide); and B) any “coercive or brutal” (Module 6, 44) at threatening or resulting in physical or psychological damage or suffering—including rape, spousal abuse, political imprisonment, for example.

Indirect violence is characterized by ...

Manslaughter

Manslaughter is a civil terminology used to describe the act of killing an individual which is slightly culpable as compared to the commitment of murder. The distinctive factor between murder and manslaughter is the mental state of the individual committing the felony(Loveless, 2012). Manslaughter is categorized into voluntary and involuntary.

Voluntary manslaughter is the instance where the culprit has an intent which leads to a serious injury or death of an individual. Voluntary manslaughter usually carries light degree of charges basing on the mental state of the defendant and the circumstances he or she faces. According to Collings (1962), a homicide ...

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Winkler, A. 2007. Scrutinizing the Second Amendment. Michigan Law Review, 105.

Winkler analyzed the individual-rights view to gun ownership and its challenge in court citing the Second Amendment and surmised that the individual-rights view would survive challenges in most states. There are forty-two states that recognize the right of its citizens to bear arms and when their laws are challenged in court they rely on the reasonable regulation ...

Overview of the Health Issue

There are four lifetime stages of alcohol use (Swendsen et al., 2012). These include use, regular use, abuse without dependence, and abuse with dependence. Similarly, there are four lifetime stages of illicit drug use. These include opportunity to use, first drug use, drug abuse without dependence, and drug abuse with dependence (Swendsen et al., 2012).Data from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) showed that 59.8% of the sample had alcohol use at some point in their lifetime. The prevalence was 78.2% among adolescents aged 17 to 18 years and 42.5% among those aged 13 to 14 years old ( ...

Introduction

Capital punishment has been used by many countries since time immemorial to punish people and bring justice in society. Death penalty as a form of punishment continues to elicit different opinions among many groups of people with the punishment receiving an almost equal measure of support and condemnation. The death penalty has been introduced in several states in the United States and whether this has succeeded in reducing crime is a debatable issue. Capital punishment has not been effective in reducing crime. The death penalty does not deter others from committing murder. The rates of homicides are consistently higher in states ...

In a legal environment where attorneys formulated a “twinkie defense” to explain hyperglycemic homicide, it is no surprise that battered woman syndrome is a popular legal defense strategy. Domestic violence is a serious societal problem, which is often hidden behind closed doors. (Gillespie 4). When a woman murders her husband because he has been tormenting and abusing her physically and psychologically, defense attorneys often use the “battered woman defense,” which is a legal approach that focuses on emphasizing the woman as a victim who was only guilty of self defense (Wimberly). The condition can be used to help the court better understand the motives and experiences ...

Introduction

Nowadays Mexico is mostly known as one of the world’s largest consumer economics and moreover, as one of the biggest drug producers and sellers. Rapid growing number of criminal cartels in the country priory benefit from drug trading. Unfortunately, Mexico has a weak judicial system and police institutions. Hereby, the government cannot neither diminish the cartels’ activity, nor control them. Definitely, many actions both inside the country and within the international cooperation were made in order to change the situation. In order to understand the reason of social deviance and inactivity of native civilians in such circumstances a Theory of ...

Homicide has become one of the many lethal and widely reported forms of murder in our vast society. According to Vries (2011), the suicidal tendencies witnessed in our neighborhood in result in retaliations that end up in protracted battles between law enforcement officers and the perpetrators. This wave of violence is usually intertwined with scandals. A probable reason reasons is that most governments and concerned authorities have always shown their shown an ineptness to handle homicides effectively. In statistics laid out by United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) (2013), homicide is growing up into a catastrophic phenomenon. ...

Introduction

Reasons for Violent Crimes/Homicides Drug Trade Police Corruption Prescriptions Economy Incentives Accountability Conclusion Having been hired as a criminal justice expert by the Puerto Rico homicide investigation authority, it is important to examine the facts and the justification behind the increased homicide rates in the country. 779 people were killed in the United States commonwealth in 2003. This statistic is far above the national average of the states themselves. These numbers are essentially due to the increased amount of drug trafficking that the country has seen. The increase in cartels has essentially ...

Introduction

The given assay seeks to illustrate whether young criminals should be tried and punished as adults. In particular, the paper studies a current legislative position pertaining to a judicial treatment of juveniles and a prosecution of their offenses. Typical instances of referring adolescents to adult courts will be discussed, as well as real stories requiring that a criminal be sent to an adult court. THESIS: Juvenile offenders should be tried and punished as adults in cases where they have committed serious crimes (homicide, rape) and pose a serious threat to society.

Procedures of Transferring an Adolescent to an Adult Court and Protections Granted

Characteristically, the United States criminal system recognizes two types of criminal courts: ...

Statistically speaking, a substantial gap exists between the cities of San Jose and Oakland in California. San Jose is one of largest cities of the state with a land area of about 176.5 sq. mi., while Oakland is one of the smallest cities in the state with an area of about 55.9 sq. mi. Aside from the land size difference the population of the two cities also places a marked distinction between them: San Jose has a population of 998, 5437 as of 2013, while Oakland has only 406,253 persons officially residing within its jurisdiction (US Census Bureau 2015). Despite its bigger ...

Firstly, Neil Websdale shows the difference between an everyday and abstracted empirism. The author believes that the last one dominates in the criminology of the United States. However, this approach limits the understanding of a homicide as a process (Websdale 2, 1999). Also abstracted empirism lacks the knowledge on human interrelations. Websdale illustrate the limitations with the help of the Florida statute on domestic homicide. Further, the notions of “intimate-partner homicide” and “family homicide” are explained. The intimate-partner homicide is examined in details. It includes the killing of a spouse or a lover. Websdale does not only provide the statistical data on race, ...

Homicide is divided into four types according to the Association of Chiefs of Police. It can be domestic, confrontational, youth, and robbery related. The categories of homicides are different in the selection of arms and reasons. Besides, the murders are driven with the different feelings and causes of their crimes. Finally, the juries react differently on different types of homicide. Moffatt (2000 8) provides two examples to demonstrate the last statement. The first one is the case of Theodore Bundy, the serial killer. He has problems and psychological traumas in child and teenage age and later killed 28 women. ...

Psychology of Criminal Behavior

In the contemporary world, not a day goes by without numerous reports of acts contrary to the law thus obliging the criminal justice system to play its indispensable role in comprehending and rehabilitating offenders into law-abiding citizens. Renowned psychologists such as John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner as well as Edward Thorndike through their theories in fields of behaviorism and operant conditioning exemplify the underlying concept by which the Criminal Justice System is founded. This paper thus seeks to describe the theories of behaviorism and operant conditioning in relation to the criminal justice system. I will succinctly analyze how these theories ...

As debates continues concerning gun laws and the amount of violence in the United States, many citizens have voiced increasing concerns about personal safety and the amount of force that is considered to be justifiable when faced with threats of violence or death. As a result, Stand Your Ground laws have been enacted in many states to establish the legal boundaries the rights afforded to individuals to protect themselves from imminent threats. The legalities provided by the Stand Your Ground laws gives pause to reflect on are laws of this nature necessary in this ever-changing world or do these laws ...

Increasing Rate of Black on Black Crime in Baltimore City

This is my proposal for solutions to the above named problem, which is growing to catastrophic levels in the community. The rate of black on black crime in Baltimore city has been on the increase, necessitating an immediate solution to address. The proposal identifies the causes and effects of the crime, and comes up with practical suggestions to policy makers in the city. I have proposed practical solutions based on evidence from research, which if effectively implemented will achieve greatly in preventing and controlling the crime in the city. As a member of this community, I have realized the ...

Abstract

The concept of the death penalty is one of the world’s most sensitive issues due to the fact countries are divided over its use and validity. While there are nations who have slowly removed the death penalty in their penal code, there are states who still see its worth and continue to practice it against the worst criminals in their history. Currently, countries like the United States and Iran continue the practice of the capital punishment despite the controversies regarding their executions and the nature of death penalty itself. However, it is visible that both nations varied extensively ...

Abstract

The death penalty is the oldest form of punishment that humankind has known. It has been changed over the years by advanced societies to lose its barbaric outlook and bear resemblance towards a civilized approach to deter violent crimes. Yet in recent times, studies have indicated that this form of punishment cannot provide valid justification for its existence within the criminal justice system for want of purpose. Our nation has witnessed several wrongful death sentences and some of these unfortunate people were exonerated posthumously. This nation’s laws were founded based on the natural law and did not copy those ...

Violence against women

Research paper proposal Any act that emotionally, physically or psychologically harms a woman or a girl is violence against the woman or the girl. Despite race, religion and geographic locations, the acts of violence against women are increasing in every corner of the world. However, intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women and girls prevailing in the world. It is one of the serious public health concern and a threat to the women’s rights and to national development. A. The violence against women has serious health consequences like physical injuries, depression and post-traumatic stress ...

Fiction can serve a true and critical part in uncovering and inspecting non-narrative truths, particularly truths on delicate subjects like race (Campbell and Bebe 962). Often an obstruction to legit race report is the protectiveness that Americans use as a hindrance to piece the correspondence when gone up against by racially chronicled certainties. The utilization of writing to inspect ourselves by looking at narrative characters might be a circuitous method for accomplishing immediate racial report and progress. Many of the issues encountered by the characters cause the dysfunction in their families and the public arena by and large (Davis). At one ...

The rising numbers of homicides across the United States are closely attributed to the weak gun controls and stand your ground laws. According to the FBI data analysis, there has been a twenty five percent increase of civilian justifiable homicides since the introduction of the controversial self-defense laws from 2005. Stand your ground measures, allows people to use deadly force when they consider their life to be under threat without requiring them to try to escape or retreat the threat first. The stand your ground law was first introduced in Florida in 2005 and similar measures have been adopted ...

Abstract

There exist numerous defenses to criminal charges. The defenses are usually used by the persons facing particular charges in a bit to negate the requisites of a crime, especially the aspect of intent. In criminal cases the general rule is that crimes are offences that are usually committed against the government. Every person is usually presumed innocent until the contrary is proved. As such, the burden of proof lies on the government to prove that a crime was committed and that the accused person committed the alleged crime. The prosecution side, which represents the government in a criminal trial, must convince the judge ...

Introduction

Relationship between drug and crime Drug abuse occurs as a result of maladaptive habits of drug use. It is manifested by recurrent and significant impact associated with repeated intake of the drugs. These problems occur repeatedly during the period of 12 months. The criteria include; harmful impacts of repeated use rather than tolerance and pattern of compulsive use. Drug abuse leads to addiction and drug dependency. The dependency raises the maladaptive pattern of substance abuse, resulting to cluster of behavioral and psychological phenomenon that develops after several drugs intakes. Drug dependency includes a strong urge to take the drug; difficulties in ...

Do Strict Gun Control Laws Reduce the Number of Homicides in U.S.? Do Strict Gun Control Laws Reduce the Number of Homicides in U.S.? People fight for stricter gun control laws in order to minimize crime rates. There is no evidence to support this claim, but it is a strongly held perception amongst people. Citizens believe that if there are stringent laws on gun ownership then there will be fewer deaths. However, in reality this will only reduce the deaths resulting from gun shots. Criminals do not just use guns in order to create havoc; rather they have ...

Who are the minority groups and what are the challenges have they been facing currently? Why blacks do commits the highest homicide or crime rate, and even kill among themselves despite the abolishment of slavery and segregation systems? These are some of the questions that I am going to handle in this paper. It is a fact that the minority groups in the past have gone through hard times of their life, whereby they were discriminated by the majority and the elite whites. Some were even killed by whites. But at present, blacks continue to indicate the highest rates of ...

In this presentation, I will be making a presentation to the court seeking an arrest warrant against one Damien Jones following the murder of Paul “Shorty” Alcorn. I have sufficient evidence to enable me to present a prima facie case against the said accused person. That evidence ranges from police reports regarding the homicide, police reports regarding the robbery with violence; we have forensic reports and also the analysis of the forensic reports. In the analysis of the forensic reports, we will be looking at the various pieces of evidence including documentary evidence. We also have the various property records of ...

Introduction

Social injustices such as prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping, and aggression manifest themselves in almost all communities in the world. The injustices are often very complicated in places inhabited by multiethnic and multiracial communities. Although, racial prejudice and discrimination has been largely minimized, there still exist some social injustices based on other factors such as gender, age, ethnicity, nationality among other divisive lines. Many times these incidents can be explained using social psychology theories. Regina Rose’s 1957 film Twelve Angry Men perfectly captures issues about prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping, and aggression through the eyes of a jury, in a homicide trial. The theme ...

Introduction

Many people frequently use the words “homicide” and “murder” interchangeably, but they are not the same. Homicide is a legal term referring to any killing of human by another human being. On the other hand, murder requires the intent to kill another human being. Homicide involves any death where a person has a fault, but there appears mitigating circumstances that can influence the charge of homicide. Those convicted of murder carry two charges, which include homicide and the malicious intent to kill. The United States laws carve exceptions form some killings, which would otherwise fall under criminal laws against murder or manslaughter. ...

What are the strengths and weaknesses of this response?

Violence in our modern-day society can take a myriad of forms, but its basic definition always includes an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power. Since the recent history of domestic violence provides a clear illustration of the social construction of the field of violence, it will serve as a tool to demonstrate the problematic nature of the system of criminal laws when applied to crimes of violence. This essay is designed to outline the strengths and weaknesses of the criminal system’s response to domestic violence in Australia. The first part of the paper provides information essential to the understanding ...

Research Report: School Shootings

Introduction Incidents of school shootings have been recorded in the United States since 1700’s. The 20th and the 21st century are especially notable because of the sharp increase of school shooting incidents in the U.S. Despite the previous occurrences of school shooting in the past, authorities recognize the huge gap in understanding such occurrences. Apparently, school shooting is quite a random incident of which “lie outside of specific crime issues such as terrorism, drug trafficking, gang activity, and domestic violence that have federal policies, law enforcement structures, and laws tailored in many instances to specifically address them”. Because ...

- Introduction Establishing justice for the victim of a crime is one of the purposes of the legal justice system; it is a founding basis upon which other legal principles are built. There is a difference between justice and revenge, however; and revenge is often the topic of discussion when including victims in the legal process is concerned, particularly in the sentencing phase. The discussion here will center around the question of whether the victim or victims should be involved in the sentencing process, given their close emotional connection with the crime in question. - Literature Review A number ...

Introduction

Homicide is defined as the act in, which a person kills another person. There have been times when people have compared homicide with murder. This is the reason that has caused many researchers in the society to try to investigate the difference between the two terms. Some of the findings that came out were that homicide is much more than just plain murder. The truth is that murder can be said to be another form of the homicide, which is stated to be in the criminal homicide characteristics. The other types of homicide can be stated to be capital murder, ...

Important aspects that shape the life of the time of Chaka

All through Chaka, Mofolo remarks on the pervasiveness of sin. Senzangakhona's evil in considering Chaka before marriage makes ready for gossip, which prompts further corruption, and at last to an administration described by the desire for force. Senzangakhona's dismissal of his child, with the goal that Chaka "knew just loathe" runs precisely in spite of the estimations of both, which urge a father to accommodate all his natural youngsters. Each one wrong doing disregards the conventional evaluations of the individuals. Isanusi gives Chaka time to choose to murder Noliwa in return for the authority, so that the choice to utilize ...

The Death Crisis

Death paves the way to several crises. In the criminal justice, crisis is also an indication of the death. The death crisis is increasing, and this increase is continued since 1980. In 1980, the number of deaths increased because of various reasons. These reasons include suicide, murder, violence, substance abuse, poverty, sexual abuse, unemployment, teenage pregnancy single parent families, families having two working parents, and joint families (Steele, and Raider). Suicide is a major cause of death in most of the countries. Majority of people in the developed as well as developing countries commits suicide due to depression. In 1980, ...

Victim Presipitation

Insitution Victims of Crimes in the United States

Victims of crime are those persons who have directly been on the receiving end of criminal acts. Such act include but are not limited to rape and other sexual assaults, robbery, burglary, property theft, homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and motor vehicle theft. Acts of violence like domestic violence and violent victimization where weapons are involved are also included. Victims classification also depend on the state where a crime is committed; some states only classify one as a victim in case of a violent crime. A victim of crime should not be ...

The Death Penalty

For the first one hundred and fifty years in the history of the United States of America the federal government played a minor role in the setting up of policies toward the death penalty. Executions were common until the late 1950’s. Michigan was the first state to abolish capital punishment in the late 1840’s and subsequently 13 states took the initiative and called for the abolition of capital punishment. The United Nations makes an impassioned plea to all countries to work towards abolishing capital punishment. However, even in countries where this has happened, many persons are still calling ...