Gangs and criminal organizations" come in many forms - street gangs, youth gangs, organized crime gangs, drug gangs, terrorist gangs, prison gangs, etc.. A gang is a static or fluid organization, network or collective, possesses identifiable leadership or a leadership structure, associates on a cont...
This was of course before the industrial revolution when goods began to be mass-produced, creating the opportunity to steal more, and also to sell more: "The growth of mass-produced and mass-owned consumer goods, of which there is little chance of being traced or recognized by the owner, paved the way for "receivers" who on a large scale buy stolen property to resell it, often at a distance or after a time has elapsed, for a handsome profit."... According to The Fence, there was little chance of being caught when dealing in mass-produced goods, so the benefits of committing a crime outweighed...
Stay with me, we're almost to the U.S.A. little do we know, but Britain paved the way for us as far as the death penalty goes. ... Thousands of people crowded the streets in order to catch a glimpse of the macabre; a man or woman executed by mean of hanging. ... Vendors would use this time to make a little extra money, selling alcohol and souvenirs. ...
On March 19, 1978 Willie Bosket took the life of an innocent man on the subway, after attempting to rob him. A few days later Willie would go on to take another man's life on another subway as well as attempting to rob two other people. ... In the process of the violence taking place Aaron Bosket witnessed a lot of his friends lives taken by the hands of a white man and soon enough became numb to the killings that were going on around him. ... Standing up for himself and showing signs of ignorance by not listening to his Landlord would make Pud lose his job as well as fighting back to t...
What is worse is the problem (as mentioned earlier) about juveniles falling under the same three-strikes law, among the juvenile offenses which could be punishable by 25-to-life sentences are the obvious ones, some may be considered borderline: "murder, kidnapping, rape, assault, even discharge if a firearm into an inhabited or occupied building, carjacking, escape from a juvenile detention center, even selling as little as one-half ounce of a controlled substance." ... "For Ernest Pizarro and his family, the move from one apartment to another within the same complex might not have seemed like...
My dream of being a police officer started at a very young age, as a child playing I was always a cop, never the bad guy, or every time I passed a police cruiser or officer of the law I was astonished at the man in the uniform, not the man, but "the uniform" was a symbol of lawfulness to me. ... Years ago if you had high school and were big enough you had the job. ... Which leads me to wondering can I actually do this job to the best of society's potential. [ By no means do I consider myself old but DNA, forensics, shift work and family, holidays, in some cases alcohol abuse, drugs, an e...
This causes a flaw in the "system- where nobody can be absolutely positive on every inmate's guilt. 5 When people bring race into the issue of capital punishment, I believe they are a little out of line. ... Despite my views, others believe race is a big issue in capital punishment. ... The first case is about Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, a Tennessee man on death row who is suing the state for the use of pancuronium bromide (one of the three drugs...
Hypothesis: Due to the dubious and unproved value as a deterrent to violent crime, the inequity and mistakes inevitable in any system of justice instituted and administered by fallible human beings and the degrading and hurtful impulse toward retribution and revenge that it expresses, the abolition ...
Handguns and long guns are not little killing machines. ... The factor that changes in the equation above is the presence of a man. ... On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero. (4) In one study, researchers found no significant differences in total robbery rates between cities where guns were widely available and cities where they were not; in cities with fewer ...
