The article states that, last Wednesday a young man, who worked as a night manager at a McDonald’s restaurant, in New York was arrested due to his selling of cocaine and crack, out of the establishment in which we worked. Frank Guerrero, sold an undercover police officer almost $11,000 worth of cocaine and crack, over the spread of eight occasions. Guerrero cleverly hid the packages of cocaine in food packaging, as to discretely deliver it to his customers. Over $5000 was found in his daughter’s bedroom, during the raid of his house; here his wife was also brought into custody.…
The Adam Foss's video lecture was informative. I was impressed how his desire for prestige and power had changed because he realized that his decision as a young prosecutor could damage a person for life. However, I agree with him in his point of view that the Criminal Justice System needs to be reform by providing resources to help in understanding why and what gave the defendant the mindset to engage in criminal activities. Nevertheless, our prison system is not equipped to create a productive system because of its negative environment only just remake some of them into a career criminal. This is what I have seen and had many inmates to share with me during my assessment interview. Therefore, as Mr. Foss has stated if the Criminal Justice…
Picture the perfect criminal. Smart, intelligent, handsome, charming, and skilled. That is Neal Caffrey in the TV show “White Collar.” And although he seems like an immoral character in a very morally ambiguous movie, the show “White Collar” while different in its view of a god or an afterlife, puts forth strong Christian values and a worldview that has many similarities with Christian theism.…
Deft’s murder charge: A murder charge against Deft is proper if the facts show that Deft committed a homicide with malice. It is clear that Deft committed a homicide (unlawful killing of another) because Deft shot and killed Kyle. The issue is whether the killing was committed with malice.…
Hoover was only thwarted from breaking the firm American tradition of laissez-faire during a depression by the fact that the severe but short-lived depression of 1920-21 was over soon after he took office. He also faced some reluctance on the part of Harding and the Cabinet. As it was, however, Hoover organized a federal committee on unemployment, which supplied unemployment relief through branches and subbranches to every state, and in numerous cities and local communities. Furthermore, Hoover organized the various federal, state, and municipal governments to increase public works, and persuaded the biggest business firms, such as Standard Oil of New Jersey and United States Steel, to increase their expenditure on repairs and construction. He also persuaded employers to spread unemployment by cutting hours for all workers instead of discharging the marginal workers – an action he was to repeat in the 1929 Depression.(4) Hoover called for these interventionist measures with an analogy from the institutions of wartime planning and collaboration, urging that Americans develop “the same spirit of spontaneous cooperation in…
Agnews 8 propositions of crime, and the first one is delinquency occurs when motivations for delinquency are high and restrictions against delinquency are low. The second one is several Individuals traits of the individual immediate social environment directly influence the constraints against and the motivation of crime. These can be grouped in clusters in the life domain, The third proposition is the life domain have a reciprocal effect on one another, but some effects are stronger than others. Fourth proposition is that crime sometimes affect the life domain in ways that increases the likelihood of subsequent crime. Fifth proposition is that the lfe domain interact with one another affecting crime.…
Innovative and experimental in approach, contemporary American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) has long been considered the pioneer of the modern art world, spanning his late 20th to early 21st century artistic career to the blurring and challenging of boundaries and distinctions between the artist, the art world and the audience. By his combinative exploration of multiple art forms including painting, sculpture, photography, performance and screen-printing, much of Rauschenberg’s practice exemplify the artist’s long held aim of transitioning subject matter to ordinary and found materials, as means of questioning the alienation of everyday life in the approaches of the prominent artists and art styles of his time. Particularly in a period of abstract expressionism where personalisation and highly emotionally charged works fuelled belief in the artist’s conceptualisation being key to the appreciation of their respective works, it is by Rauschenberg’s deliberate confrontation of the disconnect of the artist’s personal and circadian realities that enables his works to retain avant-garde in meaning and definition of artistic beauty, easing the audience’s ability to interpret his works due to its universal theme of the ordinary.…
Select one of the following Activities from Chapter 10 of Crime Prevention for your initial post.…
A social science studying crime and related phenomenon such as law making, criminal behavior, victimization and punishment…
The case of Miller v. Alabama (2012) is the result of Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals case No. 10-9646, which involves a 14-year-old named Evan Miller who was convicted of aggravated murder, and sentenced by the Alabama state court to a mandatory term of life in prison without parole. Miller and a friend assaulted Miller 's neighbor, and set fire to his home after spending the evening drinking alcohol and using drugs. As a result of his actions, the neighbor died. Miller was originally charged as an adult; however, his case was removed to adult court, and he was charged with murder and arson. During the trial, the jury found Miller guilty of the crime, and he was sentenced to a punishment of life without parole as statutorily mandated (Supreme Court of the United States, 2011).…
Statutory and judicial guidelines inform the exercise of judicable discretion in the area of sentencing. These guidelines aim to provide greater uniformity in sentencing matters and enhance the integrity of the process. Judicial guidelines are judgements from superior courts that aim to structure discretion, this is shown in the case R v Jurisic (1998), this case was used by the Criminal Court of Appeals to set guidelines that any non-custodial sentence for culpable driving should be exceptional. Judges are bound to any relevant legislation which impacts upon the sentencing process such as: The Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) this prescribes the maximum sentence that may be imposed for various offences. The Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) this prescribes general guidelines in relation to sentencing. For example it identifies what might constitute a mitigating or aggravating circumstance. However, it is left to the exercise of judicial discretion as to how much weight should be given to such circumstances. Mandatory sentencing takes away the exercise of judicial discretion. The court has no choice but to impose the legislated sentence. Amendments to the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW), have prescribed minimum non-parole periods for specific offences, such as ten years for aggravated sexual assault. The provision of statutory and judicial guidelines means that limits are placed on a judge’s discretion when sentencing, and this ensures sentencing consistency. However, some people feel that judges still have too much discretion when sentencing, and that some sentences are too lenient. Link…
References: Hartley, R. D., & Rabe, G. A. (2008). Criminal Courts: Structures, Process, and Issues (2nd ed.).…
In this essay I will be discussing the case of David Bobby, Warden vs. Archie Dixon, I will express my feelings of the case and what caught made me interested in the case I selected. The sources, purposes and jurisdictions of the criminal law related to this case will also me mentioned within this essay, I will define accomplice liability and criminal liability and express how it relates to the case that I will be discussing. The difference between the various elements of crime, including Mens Rea, Actus Reus and Concurrence will be included in this essay with the relations of the within this case.…
Freeman, C.G. (2013). Supreme court cases of interest. Criminal Justice, 28(1), 46-49. Retrieved August 10, 2014 from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1353616933?accountid=458…
The reading “A Crime by Any Other Name” by Jeffrey Reiman explored the biased nature of our criminal justice system, more specifically why we categorize acts as crime while others are labeled as tragic accidents. According to Reiman, in our current society, we generalize the idea that crime is a deviant action committed by an individual of color that usually male, poor and black. As a nation, we overestimate how these crimes impact our lives, when the truth of the matter is, more Americans die of unhealthy or unsafe conditions in the workplace than by homicide (). Reiman uses the example of “accidents” that have happened in our recent history that have killed innocent people and hurt the global economy. He specifically explains how corporations like BP oil can cut corners on safety regulations to save money and end up killing 11 people and devastating the local ecosystem in the gulf of Mexico: they only got a slap on the wrist. BP oil was able to pay a fine and was able to get away with the death of 11 people: these people have families whose lives are completely altered because of their sudden death. The reading also described another example in which a Kentucky mine had to pay a fine for “misconduct” after a methane explosion took the…