In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub in her home. This was very disturbing news. I am a native Houstonian. I was at home that day. The television was on and will never forget the news breaking announcements that broke the story of a homicide in Clear Lake. All the information the reporters had was a mother killed all her children then called the police to report it. The full story and the details that lead to this tragedy did not unfold until years later. It was sad because as details unfolded if Andrea Yates had been treated properly and followed her doctors recommendations the whole situation might have been avoided.…
In the article, “On Punishment and Teen Killers” (2011), Jenkins uses the weakest ethos when she argues, teens who commit heinous crimes should receive life without the possibility of parole, and that victims’ rights should be considered. Jenkins is a high school teacher who was a victim. In the light, she works with teenagers which gives her a small amount of credibility, but on the contrary, her sister and unborn child were murdered by an adolescent. Be as it may, this gives her a biased opinion, because she wants revenge for her family members’ death and does not care about the person who killed her family members. In addition to that bad ethos, she uses a lot of pathos in her article which, not to mention, lowers her credibility. Consequently,…
The movie “The Central Park Five” was a documentary film. It is talking about five young men were involved in a rape case. One white woman was raped and left for dead in the central park in 1989. Police officers arrested five fifteen years old suspects. The government did not have enough evidence to judge these five black men and Latino Americans; however, because of the racial discrimination, the justices judged them as guilty and sentenced them to jail about 9 to 15 years. After few months, Matias Reyes confessed to the rape case and the lab test also showed that the sperm was matched. The five teenagers were released after the suspect confessed his crime. Directors of the movie, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David Mcmahon, used this movie to show audiences the dark side of the police officers and the government, and the way that a lot of people judge others.…
One-third of Canadians have experienced some form of child abuse when they were young whether physical, emotional or viewing it happen. In the novel, lullabies for little criminals by Heather O’Neill, and the films Gardens of the Night and Gracie’s Choice, there are many themes of abuse; the reader/viewer becomes exposed to the extent of the abuse and its resulting behaviour years later. Drugs are used as a symbol of each character’s unhappiness, while the more unhappy a person is, the more drugs they will abuse. Parental decisions are a huge factor into a child’s happiness, and as well as their own decisions, parents are able to influence their children into believing that certain lifestyles are better than others and while children are young,…
Bogat, G. G., Eye, A.V., & Levendosky, A.A., (2007) New Directions for Research on Intimate…
The brutal murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on Christmas night in 1996 shocked America to its core. Just as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder seven decades earlier had seared the nation's consciousness, this murder of a beautiful and talented child in a wealthy Boulder, Colorado home --renewed every parent's worst nightmare. It has been nearly three years since this violent crime occurred and no one has been brought to justice.…
United States of America (USA) is known for having the “American Dream” where everyone lives a happy surreal life. The American dream is difficult to achieve for most, because not everyone is given an equal opportunity to attain the material goods that come with the dream. This leads a person to commit crimes which further gets them into trouble with the law. All countries have their own perspectives on how criminals should be punished, some using retributive punishment while others use restorative justice. The Americans are lacking in thier direction of crime control, and there prison system is not very successful in the sense that incarceration solves all criminal problems. Therefore, Canada should not follow in the footsteps of USA instead they should think of new policies and laws in an effort to decrease their crime rates and their prison populations.…
In the Frontline documentary entitled “When Kids Get Life,” five young Colorado boys are profiled. There are over 2,200 juveniles who have been convicted of crimes and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, 46 of whom are in the state of Colorado. Jacob Ind, Nathan Ybanez, Erik Jensen, Trevor Jones, and Andrew Medina were the five teenagers profiled in the documentary. Jacob Ind committed double homicide when he killed his mother and step-father in his Colorado home. Nathan Ybanez killed his mother, while Erik Jensen helped with the cover-up and clean-up after the murder had taken place. Trevor Jones was in the process of trying to scam a classmate with a gun exchange when the gun discharged and killed Matt Foley. Andrew Medina was charged and sentenced to felony murder for a carjack involving two accomplices. All five of these teenagers were sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. Frontline’s overall theme of the documentary was that these murders were justified in these five cases and encouraged the audience to sympathize with these five teens.…
In September of 1993, Christopher Simmons broke into the suburban St. Louis home of Shirley Crook with the intention to rob and possibly kill her. Simmons and a friend tied the victim up with duct tape and drove her to a nearby state park. At the park, Simmons pushed the victim, who was still alive, off of a bridge and into the Meramec River where she drowned. Simmons was 17 years old at the time of the murder. Before the crime, he had told several of his friends of the plan to burglarize a home and kill the occupants, noting that they could do it and “get away with it” (not get charged for it) because they were juveniles. 1…
This will be a very long but necessary and thoughtful post detailing current event issues regarding police, racism, and black on black crime in America and their correlation. Specifically regarding the LaQuan McDonald case (may your soul rest in peace) and the city of Chicago. I'm not activist, revolutionary, and I don't even have a college degree, yet, but I do have passion, a voice, and means to articulate myself to those willing to listen/read as I exercise my right to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.…
The United States has been a world leader in homicide for centuries. Indeed, “since the early 19th century ...[America has been] the most homicidal country in the Western world” and holds that title today (Kelley, 2009). In a 2007-2008 list of 31 nations, only two nations, Mexico and Chile, had higher homicide rates (Comparison, 2010). Nations with higher populations, such as India and China have fewer homicides (Comparison, 2010). Further, a nation such as Japan, which has a lower population but a higher population density then the United States, has one of the world’s lowest homicide rates (Comparison, 2010). Population size and density, therefore, cannot be the chief reasons for this nation’s higher homicide rates. There are, however, several factors in the United States that create the conditions which make this nation a world leader in homicide.…
Throughout the term we have encompassed an array of information pertaining to international criminal justice practices. The examination of past, present, and future trends facing global justice systems has led us to embark on research and topics for many different countries. This paper will cover the topics of social phenomenon, social behavior, legal traditions of contemporary society, Interpol and Europol, and what is forthcoming for future trends in international criminal justice practices.…
According to US legal (2016), “child neglect or abuse occurs when a caregiver fails to care for the youths physical or emotional needs.” In my opinion, I think that the parents should be charge with neglect. The reason I think that the parents should be charged with neglect is because they dropped their kids off with a complete stranger. Lester and Betty Likens only sent money to Gertrude for the girls but never came to visit to see if they were being treated properly. Even after the Likens received a call from the girls with concerns about the checks being late they still never came to see what was going on with the girls. I think that the actions of Lester and Betty Likens were neglect because they didn’t care about their daughters needs but their own. As a result, of Lester and Betty leaving the girls with a stranger resulted in the death of Sylvia. The Likens had no idea how Gertrude was treating the girls because they never called her to see. They only sent letters in which the girls never wrote back and should have been a red flag to them that something wasn’t right with their daughters and that they needed to come visit…
Punishment is defined as the infliction of a penalty for an offense. The novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky took place in St. Petersburg, Russia, mid 1860s. The main character, Raskolnikov, committed the murder of a pawn broker and her sister which he became ill with guilt. He is accused as the murderer but denied it until the end where he eventually confessed and was sent to Siberia. In the novel, Raskolnikov had an unbearable amount of guilt, faced punishment by imprisonment, and gave his heart to God for forgiveness. Conflicts he was put through helped illuminate the meaning of the novel: For all crimes, there will be punishment.…
Print page 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abduction ................................................................................................ 71,72 By Relative.........................................................................................380-384 See Kidnapping Abuse, Animal ...............................................................................................326-330, 333-335 Abuse, Child ................................................................................................73-75 Abuse, Vulnerable Adult ...............................................................................77, 78 Accessory After The Fact ..............................................................................35 Adultery ................................................................................................ 325 Aircraft Explosive............................................................................................416 Alcohol AWOL Machine.................................................................................16…