violent crimes should generally never lead to a generation-long sentence is something that must be kept mind (Mills & Romano, 2013).
When it comes to truly violent and heinous offenses, the current pattern is probably fine as it is. The three strikes law can obviously be enforced when it comes to murder, manslaughter, rape, sexual assaults and so forth. This is especially true if all three of the “strikes” a person commits are violent offenses. In many instances, a single “strike” like that can itself lead to a life sentence.… Continue Reading...
committed against people too. The FBI has shown that the rate of violent crimes committed in the US has been declining for the past two decades. Violent crimes can be classified into types that include rape, murder, aggravated assault, and robbery. Statistically, the rate of crimes committed to people in 2016 decreased by 1.1% when it is compared with those reported in 2015. The rates of crimes against people vary across regions. For example, the FBI reports that in 2016, there was a positive change in the rate of 2.0% in murder cases in Northeast region and 1.2% in Midwest (Federal Bureau… Continue Reading...
robbery fall under the violent crimes category, while arson, burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft fall under property crimes.” A database like the one maintained… Continue Reading...
perpetrators to commit crimes?
Of course, the idea that coverage of violent crimes can lead to the perpetuation of violence is not a new one: As noted by Conti (2015) “….what the scientific literature has found—almost universally—is that there is a very small but statistically significant correlation between consumption of violent media and raises in level of aggression” (par. 6). The fact that there is a link between observing violence and committing violence, no matter how small, raises alarms about covering graphic, violent incidents, including serial killer’s murder sprees. There are documented incidents of disturbed individuals replicating the actions of such… Continue Reading...
“although psychopaths make up less than 1% of the population, researchers in the United States have estimated that psychopaths may be responsible for up to 30% of violent crimes committed in the United States” (66).[footnoteRef:57] This effectively means that permitting psychopaths who have committed crime to roam freely effectively compromises the security and wellbeing of other members of the society. As it has been pointed out elsewhere in this text, studies have established a clear link between psychopathy and criminal behavior. Indeed, as Dhingra and Boduszek observe, psychopaths tend to perpetrate what is referred to as instrumental violence (221).[footnoteRef:58] Instrumental violence ought to be contrasted from reactive violence in that while instrumental violence appears to be “controlled,… Continue Reading...
the numbers of the reported cases were 685,724 in 2011 before slashing down to 533,042 in 2012. The goal of stop and frisk policy is to reduce the incidence of violent crimes and keep guns off the street to improve the quality of life of New Yorkers. By adopting the frisk policy, the New York City administrators have been able to reduce the crime rate substantially over the last 20 years. Despite the benefits of the stop and frisk policy, large percentages of people stopped and frisked are African-Americans and Latinos. Moreover, only 5.9% of people frisked in 2011 led to an arrest and 2% led to a weapon recovery.
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact… Continue Reading...
