Crime At Of Resistance Essay
CAN CRIME BE AN AT OF RESISTANCE
BY AKANSHA KOCHHAR
826-572-125
FOR
PROF. DOUG THOMPSON
CRIM 1000–0BW
DATE:
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
What leads to a crime? There have been many debates about how to stop crime but people tend to forget the key question which is why the crime occurred in the first place. Was the person doing the crime a born criminal, or he thought while checking his to-do list, let’s put going to jail as one of my tasks for today. Most of the people would not do that. In this paper, we are going to talk about one of the many reasons that most probably lead to a crime – resistance. There are many examples of different levels of resistance people do and their consequences based on the level of crime they commit. …show more content…
The lowest level of resistance happens in daily life, when parents tell their children to do a task, almost all teenagers start to argue.
These daily arguments and the peer pressure to go against the laws that are set by the families or authorities cause the teens to have aggressive behaviour, use drugs or consume alcohol which leads to many more criminal activities. Many people in the society treat and tend to label teens in general due to their previous assumptions or their bad experiences. Similarly, in the article ‘Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance’ the shopkeeper also treated Mike like that resulting in Mike stealing the potato chips to be rebellious. “…in the boys’ accounts, they knew they were facing severe consequences but decided to break the rules to make a point.” (Rios, 2012, pg. 53) Another example, in the course textbook, there is an article named ‘Bloody Saturday: The Breaking of the Winnipeg general strike by the RCMP, June 21, 1919’ about labour workers demanding to bargain for improved wages and better working conditions, which led to a strike of 30,000 workers resulting in many arrest and many injuries since the government did not support them. (Griffiths, 2011,
p.82)
The above examples are only the tip of the iceberg that consists of crimes in association with resistance. In general, resistance in any form or level leads to a crime.
References
Griffiths, C. T. (2011). The structure and roles of the police. Canadian Criminal Justice (p. 82). United States: Nelson Education Ltd.
Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (p. 53). (2011). United States: Victor M. Rios.
BY AKANSHA KOCHHAR
826-572-125
FOR
PROF. DOUG THOMPSON
CRIM 1000–0BW
DATE:
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
What leads to a crime? There have been many debates about how to stop crime but people tend to forget the key question which is why the crime occurred in the first place. Was the person doing the crime a born criminal, or he thought while checking his to-do list, let’s put going to jail as one of my tasks for today. Most of the people would not do that. In this paper, we are going to talk about one of the many reasons that most probably lead to a crime – resistance. There are many examples of different levels of resistance people do and their consequences based on the level of crime they commit. …show more content…
The lowest level of resistance happens in daily life, when parents tell their children to do a task, almost all teenagers start to argue.
These daily arguments and the peer pressure to go against the laws that are set by the families or authorities cause the teens to have aggressive behaviour, use drugs or consume alcohol which leads to many more criminal activities. Many people in the society treat and tend to label teens in general due to their previous assumptions or their bad experiences. Similarly, in the article ‘Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance’ the shopkeeper also treated Mike like that resulting in Mike stealing the potato chips to be rebellious. “…in the boys’ accounts, they knew they were facing severe consequences but decided to break the rules to make a point.” (Rios, 2012, pg. 53) Another example, in the course textbook, there is an article named ‘Bloody Saturday: The Breaking of the Winnipeg general strike by the RCMP, June 21, 1919’ about labour workers demanding to bargain for improved wages and better working conditions, which led to a strike of 30,000 workers resulting in many arrest and many injuries since the government did not support them. (Griffiths, 2011,
p.82)
The above examples are only the tip of the iceberg that consists of crimes in association with resistance. In general, resistance in any form or level leads to a crime.
References
Griffiths, C. T. (2011). The structure and roles of the police. Canadian Criminal Justice (p. 82). United States: Nelson Education Ltd.
Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (p. 53). (2011). United States: Victor M. Rios.