Essays on Homicide

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

1. From 1962 with 1.43 for every 100,000 population, Canada’s homicide rate rose to 3.03 for every 100,000 population in 1975 (Statistics Canada Table 253-0001 2013). 2. The year 1982 registered the highest rate of robbery (Cansim D9506 2014). 3. Ontario registered its highest rate of robbery in 1991 at 9,823 (Cansim D9638). 4. Percent change of cocaine offences in Ontario: Possession: 20.52%; Trafficking, Production & Distribution: 16.28% (CANSIM 252-077 2014) 5. As can be seen from Fig.1, these years start from 1973 to about 1994 (Cansim D9501 2014). 7. ...

Importance of Motive in Criminal Investigation

Criminal justice usually does not deal with motivations of the crime, but only the crime. The judge does not ask why the crime was committed, but only whether the crime was committed. The question of motivation related to ‘why’ a particular crime was committed (Steinberg, n.d). Although, it does not make much of a difference in courts of justice, but for criminal investigations, it does. Particularly, in case of homicide, the investigator does seem to form hypotheses about various people around the victim regarding the possible motives for which those people may have committed the crime. Even though, this does not ...

Theory

Since the start of the 21st century until 2012, the homicide rate of Colorado, USA has been in a declining rate. There is a need to discuss how incarceration rates affect the society, especially how it influences crime in the area. Incarceration assumes that the offender is prevented to further commit crimes by incapacitation. Strategies of incapacitation focus on reducing crimes by interruption or disruption of the offender’s career (Piquero and Blumstein, 2007). In addition, incarceration affects not just the present crime rate, but it is also believed that the future of the community is being influenced by the ...

Section 1: Summary of the Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace Report.

A well written and researched CRISP report, “Summary of the Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace,” offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the main causes of workplace mass homicide. In the most articulate and forceful voice, the report presents profiles of workplace mass homicide (WMH) that has occurred in America since the year 1986 to 2011. The report critically analyses the negative consequences that accrue to the immediate areas, organization and the entire community. The Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace report further offers a critical insight on how several stakeholders such as high-rank security ...

Stand Your Ground Law, Racial Disparity, and Homicide Rates

There are racial inconsistencies all through the criminal equity framework. From a stop and search, to vehicle looks at activity stops, to sentencing and the requisition of capital punishment, African Americans excessively are reached by the criminal equity framework in bunch ways. Outstandingly, discovering a racial difference is not synonymous with discovering racial disparity. African Americans are more prone to live in thick, devastated spots, and neediness and isolation are unmistakably joined to criminal rate and predominance. Recognizing racial enmity inside racial incongruities is exceedingly troublesome with existing datasets that do exclude such key measures as setting and connection. Then again, ...

Final Project: Cold Case Arrest Warrant Report

Final Project: Cold Case Arrest Warrant Report This report represents an outline of a homicide investigation. The first section presents the action plan for solving the case. The report also provides a summary of the homicide, armed robbery, and witness statements, and a briefing of evidence and forensic reports. Additionally, it describes the criteria for decision-making and determination of facts regarding the homicide. The report indicates what the investigating officer concludes about the case, in an attempt to obtain an arrest warrant for the suspect.

First, I will manage all evidence collected from the crime scene effectively. Effective evidence management of ...

Introduction

Enhanced partnership between police officers, community residents, activists and other public agencies have been significant in crime management, with statistics showing that community policing have capacity to control crime. Community policing is favored by the increased crime rates motivating community engagement, police allocating resources and communities’ plurality of deliberations making a crime to be prevented in multiple ways. Crimes such as robbery and burglary can be effectively controlled before and when being committed. There was significant crime reduction in San Fernando Valley by 1993, this is 18 months after innovation of community policing in Los Angeles. For example homicide ...

In the United States, significant concern has been raised by the public over the issue of violent crime over the years (Maguire and Pastore, 1996). Unlike other forms of crime, there has been considerably more debate surrounding violent crime, with the intention of causing or threatening to cause death or physical harm. Violent crimes range from a simple assault to a more severe homicide. Although, homicide is the most severe violent crime that any individual can commit, there are various other types of violent crimes. Assault is the most frequently committed violent crime in the United States, and even though ...

Although the “State Codes and Statutes” regarding crimes and offenses such as capital murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and negligent homicide vary from one state to the other. Nonetheless, under the following typical facts and circumstances, the student could be charged with any of these offenses: Capital murder: Capital murder is punishable by the death penalty in most states ("Capital offense law"). Although vehicular accidents that cause death are regarded as a felony, a defendant is rarely charged with capital murder. Perhaps the student could have been charged with capital murder if he thought out about killing the professor beforehand, ...

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

Criminal homicide is the act of ending another person’s life by the hand of another (Luckenbill, 1977). There are many different ways in which criminal homicide is defined in the American criminal justice system; different degrees of what constitutes homicide, as well as other mitigating factors, can help to determine the sentencing of an individual or individuals who take part in the act, whether voluntarily or not. This is meant to apply as individualistic a sentencing as possible on the particular situation, instead of making standardized choices for criminal homicide on the whole. All of this leads to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction.

Deaths related to criminal gang violence has been severe and remains challenge to authorities in United States. The criminals who have been killing people are mostly organized criminal groups, drug traffickers and criminals from Central America e.g. the violent Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 and “the 18th street” or M-18. United States is among the regions with highest homicide rates (4.6) in the world mostly in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Education and crime have unique, inverse relationship i.e. the lower person’s education level the more likely they are capable to engage in criminal activities. Youths who have ...

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, ...

A brief policy analysis

Abstract Capital punishment or death penalty is among the most debated topics in contemporary times. The opponents and supporters of capital punishments put forth several arguments in support of their stand. Capital punishment has had a long history, and effected differently at different periods of times, by different cultures. In modern times statistics has shown that capital punishment is not a deterrent to crime, as countries without capital punishment have less crime rate compared to those that have capital punishment. In a progressive world the practice of capital punishment must be reconsidered urgently as it doesn’t serve any individual or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction

The Ashley Smith case was ruled as a homicide by a 5-judge bench in 2013, 6 years after the after the 19-year old inmate with mental problems killed herself in a secluded prison cell. In passing the judgement, the jury came up with 104 recommendations (nationalpost.com, 2013). While I agree with nearly all of the recommendations, I shall discuss three of them and three others among the few that I disagree with. I agree with the following “That Smith’s experience within the correction system be taught as a case study to all Correctional Service management and staff at all levels” (nationalpost.com, ...

Personal Crimes and Homicidal Crimes

Introduction There are different kinds of personal crimes. These are assault, battery, mayhem, battery, rape and statutory rape. There are also different kinds of homicide such as first degree and second degree murder, manslaughter, felony murder and suicide. This paper is a discussion of personal and homicidal crimes and the relationship between them. According to the Federal Bureau of Statistics in 2009, in every 100,000 people, 500 crimes that occur in their lives are personal crimes (FBI, 2009). Of the crime statistics, 60% are usually assaults, 30% are robberies while rapes and murders stood at 6.4% and 1.2% ...

Introduction

Many Americans remember a horrible and sorrowful day of December, 14, 2012, when 26 people, including 20 students, were shot to death at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut (7). After that, the USA has seen an awful string of new gun massacres, and question of control of gun ownership and usage had become acute as never before this. It’s well-known, that in some states a teenager requires parental permission to play in a sports team, but not to own a shortgun. In many states, the number of firearms owned by one person is not limited (1). The rate ...

The collection and processing of forensic evidence in the course of death investigation is an endeavor that requires different professionals from various disciplines. During death investigations, the specialist such as the forensic experts works in collaboration with the law enforcement, coroner officers, and medical practitioners. The forensic experts have the training to perform analysis of the forensic evidence that other personnel do not have. Forensic archeology is one of the disciplines that provide specialized expertise during a crime scene. A crime scene that has human remains can complicate the process of forensic evidence. The complexity in the issue leads to ...

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis how gun control is bad for America. The paper elaborates on several aspects such as homicide, crime rate and economic cost occurred due to gun control. Gun control impacts human and society in several ways. Gun control is America is responsible for the higher homicide rate in the country. The paper also elaborates on rules and regulations that government adopted to control the crimes causes due to gun control.

Introduction

Gun control is one of much debated issues in United States of America in recent years. This issue attracts the attention of people every time ...

Abstract

Guns vs. Crime present a controversial topic, which has attracted the interest of the global community. The subject is attaining high relevance due to the crimes committed through firearms. Some individual argue that strict gun regulations has the potential of reducing crimes and fatalities. However, other people believe the global community would witness less crimes or fatalities if more people were armed. Further arguments indicate that the availability of gun motivates otherwise law-abiding people to engage in crimes especially in moments of upsetting emotions. Challengers of the idea of controlling gun believe armed citizens minimize criminal’s incentive to engage ...

While national crime reports yield a mild but favorable .7% fluctuation in homicide cases per capita from 2000 to 2010, two major American cities have seen extremely volatile shifts in homicides per capita through the first decade of the 21st century. The District of Columbia and Detroit, with its metro area, are currently at two opposite ends of the spectrum of city-wide improvement in regard to creating a safe haven for all of its citizens. The historic notoriety in capital crime of both cities poses an initial challenge to discerning the more progressively lethal of the two; however statistics are showing ...

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 ...

Overview

The movie Thelma and Louise is a feminist movie that revolves around two women. The set up rotates within a couple of themes and characterization. It opens up with best friends, two ladies who are middle-aged; Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend Louise (Susan Sarandon) start the movie with a plan to go for fun over the weekend. Louise works as a waitress while Thelma, who is a housewife married to abusive husband, sells carpets. Both Thelma and Louise have a problem in their marriages and this happens to be the reason as to why they want to take a break. The major effect ...

All children have a right to life as American citizens, and a child’s parents are supposed to give the child the necessary support the child needs in order for the child to grow well, be successful and for the child to meet his/her American dream. Children are born without blemish, and have no choice of the families they are born. Children also have minimal chances of influencing their life experiences at an early age. Therefore, parents and the community have the responsibility in reducing child violence and juvenile murder by controlling the media that children access, taking good care of ...

Graham was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Thirteen jurisdictions do not allow life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders convicted of non-homicide crimes. Thirty-seven jurisdictions permit sentences of life without parole for a juvenile non-homicide offender under certain circumstances. The Supreme Court held that sentencing a juvenile to life imprisonment without parole for a non-homicide crime violates the Eighth Amendment.

Key words: actus reus, mens rea, concurrence, accomplice liability, criminal liability, Eight Amendment, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, jurisdiction,

Graham v. Florida 560 U. S. ____ (2010) Terrence Graham, at age 16, was arrested for attempted armed robbery and armed burglary with assault and battery. The Florida trial court sentenced him to probation and withheld adjudication of guilt. ...

Photography in modern criminal investigation

Advancements in technology have transformed the lives of many people, organizations, and the criminal justice system. Modern criminal investigation is highly dependent on photography and chemistry. It is imperative that every judge knows the difference between an authentic and a doctored photograph. Although most digital photographs have been held inadmissible in court because of the high possibility of alteration, a single photograph can convince a juror that an individual is guilty. A prosecutor just needs to show the juries a single picture and the opposing lawyer will spend very much time trying to convince them otherwise but photographic evidence cannot be disputed or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

The purpose of this study is to determine the deterrent effect of the death penalty or capital punishment in the commission of future crimes. Most of the criminal experts believe that the justification for the imposition of the death penalty against criminals should be for retributive grounds and to make the criminals suffer the consequences of their actions. Thus, when a person kills another, the retributive effect of capital punishment or the death penalty is take the life of the murderer (Radelet & Akers, 1996). The main reason for the imposition of the death penalty is to discourage the murderers to ...

The movie Thelma and Louise revolves around two women and tackles feminist issues. The set-up rotates within a couple of themes and characterizations. It opens up with two middle-aged ladies who are best friends; Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend, Louise (Susan Sarandon), start the movie with a plan to go away for the weekend and have fun. Louise works as a waitress, while Thelma, who is a housewife married to an abusive husband, is a carpet-seller. Both Thelma and Louise have problems in their marriages, and this happens to be the reason why they both want to take a break. The major ...

Introduction

Regarding the contentious issue such as gun control, several advocacy groups representing their side of the claim on the matters of public safety and gun control have weighted on mixed public opinions. There are large majorities that support policies to control the manufacturing and sale of firearms to insinuate safety of the greater public from criminals acquiring firearms. However, pro-gun advocates are extending their opinion on the grounds of each individual’s self-protection of life and properties. Some individuals have praised the effectiveness of gun control in reducing crime rates in the United States. These individuals believe that gun ...

Psychology

What is the significance of a detainee's biography in the forensic psychological assessment of mentally ill offenders? A forensic psychological assessment seeks to provide information to attorneys and courts for the purpose of making legal determination. The psychologist seeks to discern the relationship between the detainee’s mental disorder (if any) and the offence they are charged for (if proven). Biographical investigation is one method of performing a forensic psychological evaluation. The detainee’s biography provides background information as a source of knowledge to form the basis of a biographical investigation. A biography gives a unique and personalized narrative of an individual devoid ...

Abstract

Crime is a problem that has been persistent in society in the past and still is today and will be there in the future. The study of the trends of crime is one aspect that will assist in policy making. The past makes the present and the future. This essay will show how the crime trends have evolved in the past present and their impact in the future. Crime trends are defined as a significant change in the nature of selected crime types within a defined geographical area and time period. It is a measure of significant change in an area’s crime ...

Abstract

Possession of firearms long ceased to be a preserve of the disciplined forces. As earl y as the 1960s, there was widespread debate on whether the licensing of firearms was necessary or not. Associations such as the Handgun National Control were at the forefront of fighting for the rights of individuals to own guns. Several years later the debate goes on with several countries having a specific code with regard to gun ownership. For instance, Canadians who wish to possess a firearm, they must be issued with a Firearms Acquisition Certificate (F.A.C.) from the police. Acquisition of the certificate requires that the applicant ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apparently, those that argue against gun control have a considerable number of reasons. Firstly, irrespective of the fact that there exist policies and laws that regulate possessions and use of guns by civilians in United Kingdom for instance, the rates of murder are still considerably high. Based on research findings, the homicide rates in UK as of 1996 during the time of Dunblane massacre was 1.12 per 100,000 (Lott 34). It was before the firearm act came into effect. As of 2002, when this act had already been implemented fully in UK, the homicide rates stood at 2.1 per ...

Introduction

The topic that was chosen for this research study is the death penalty. The occurrence of heinous crimes and rise in the criminality rate supports the restoration of death penalty. Many of the death penalty advocates believe that is a legitimate sanction against murderers for retributive purposes. The more compelling reason to restore the death penalty is the positive claims on its deterrent effect to future crimes. Thus, the punishment can be regarded as a lawful discipline to discourage hardened criminals from their wrongdoings. This topic was chosen because there are several countries around the globe which questioned the legitimacy ...

Introduction

The execution rate reached its peak of 98 executions in1999 after the Supreme Court has restored the imposition of capital punishment in 1976. However, there has been a significant change thereafter, since there was a downward trend in the executions due to the fact that there are some high-profile cases involving death row inmates, who had been acquitted after undergoing the DNA testing. According to the report of Christian Century, even though the number of the death row inmates who were executed in the year 2012 remained unchanged at 43 since 2011, the opponents of death penalty argued that the capital ...

Should we rape the rapist? Should we torture the criminals? Is Vengeance the right approach? Should criminals be reformed or executed? These questions crop up often especially when an inmate is executed. Death Penalty or capital punishment is a contested concept mainly on the basis of ethics and fundamental rights. There are arguments and equally strong counterarguments depicting the irrelevance of this practice. Those who are against the death penalty argue that human life is valuable and even the worst offenders shouldn't be deprived of their lives. In addition, everybody has the 'right to life' and death penalty deprives a person ...

THE CASE AGAINST ROMEO

- i) According to the law, a person is guilty of committing theft if he or she dishonestly acquires another person’s property with the aim of permanently depriving him or her of it. In the case of Romeo, the act of walking out of the shop without paying for the condoms was not carried out intentionally. He intended to pay for the condoms but forgot. According to Romeo, he intended to pay for the condoms but forgot after receiving the distressing phone call from his girlfriend Cleopatra. At the time of the crime, Romeo was not aware of his behavior ...

Shoot out rampage involving guns has become a common incident in US, resulting in the loss of innumerable innocent lives. After the shootout in Connecticut elementary school in 2012, the recent mishap of a 5 years old boy gunning down his 2 years old sister in Kentucky has sparked the debate anew whether the Federal government should come up with a strong gun control law in regulating hand guns and firearms. The most savage opponent to federal gun regulations is the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the group strongly supporting the stance of federal regulations is Handgun Control Incorporated (HCI) reinforced by its ...

The moniker 'Three strikes law' aka “Three Strikes and You’re Out” refers to the statutes that make imposition of harsher sentences mandatory on repeated offenders of serious or violent felonies. This law grants life sentences without any possibility of parole for minimum 25 years on the third strike of offense. The crimes listed under 'violent' include murder, rape, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, sexual abuse and violent physical assault. Under this statute, a criminal who has been convicted of serious crimes in two prior charges might receive a maximum sentencing on the third felony even if that is a minor felony such as ...

The issue of gun control in United States of America has faced number of ups and down. Sometimes it becomes so stronger and important for all the citizens as well as authorities of States and sometimes it becomes so weak that it has no importance for the discussion to be hold at all. The latest brutal killing in Newtown during December 2012 has once again prompted the entire nation to discuss the gun laws and to have a serious debate on the issuance of military weapons and gun laws. This recent incident has compelled the authorities and civilians to have a ...