Getting Rid Of The Criminals

Growing up, my father was a prosecutor. I always had this image of good versus evil and thought that these bad people were sent to prisons to be punished for their actions. Throughout this course and through the many readings we were assigned, I have started to see my perspective shift. These ideas of putting people away for committing crimes has been so pounded in my brain over the last twenty years that it is hard to perform a 180. Yet, I feel that know I have a deeper understanding of the complexity to the prison and justice system, realizing that this notion of good v. evil is not reality.

A hero is defined as someone who is selfless and courageous.A hero also follows high principles strictly and has a great sense of morality. It is also likely for a hero to knowing act to risk his/her own life to save someone else. On the contrary, a villain is someone who acts destructive and is quintessentially evil. A villain will

In the case that the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least, the hero is then undoubtedly the person who knows the least but cares the most. If we go by the adopted definition of Chuck Klosterman, then George Zimmerman is arguably a hero in the famous case known as the Trayvon Martin Case. Trayvon Martin was shot dead in an altercation with George Zimmerman that happened because he chose to pursue Trayvon for looking suspicious. Keeping in mind that Trayvon was a young African American teen in a generally white neighborhood. George Zimmerman knew least about Trayvon and what he was up to, just that he “looked” suspicious, and cared for the wellbeing of his neighborhood for he was on a volunteer neighborhood watch.

Connection and disconnection between people and the effects positionality have on the judgment of others are the themes that are focused on in the articles for week two. In “What Difference Does it make?” both McCorkel and Meyers separate themselves from their respondents because of their differences in race or economic standing, and by the same statuses judge the position of their respondents. The judgment that is based on race or economic status can also be seen in No More Prisons, but in this case, Wimsatt, speaks from the side of the “others.”

Heroes are everywhere. Not all wear a badge, or let their efforts be known. In some cases a hero is also the villain. For instance, if a sniper takes out a bad man, but the bad man was a father to a child, the child might see the sniper as a villain who took his father. Others would see the sniper as a hero.

Research Question No. 1 - Did Three Strikes You're Out contribute to the problem of mass incarceration and overcrowded jails and prisons?

A police officer is a law enforcement official whose job is to protect and serve the people, not to abuse their power. Due to the fact that the U.S is consisted of many different races and ethnic groups, the ongoing conflict between police officers and citizens of color is at a constant rise. Although policies today no longer directly target those of colors, the policies applied by law enforcements in African-Americans communities are discriminating. Officers sometimes abuse the policies resulting in citizens viewing it as discrimination. By changing the way laws and regulations that unfairly impact Black and Brown communities can improve the justice system (Policy 5).Racial impact has changed the view of the government resulting in more inclusion of people of color in the system. Policies that are not racially excluding anyone of color should be used within police departments to evaluate the impact of different policing.

Society has developed a series of programs meant to assist individuals in being able to successfully integrate and re-integrate the social order. Through being subjected to such programs criminals and potential criminals gain a better understanding of their role in society and of the fact that they need to adopt a lawful attitude in order to experience positive results in life. The fact that they are encouraged to get actively involved in social activities influences individuals in adopting lifestyles that are in accordance with the law. This basically means that potential criminals are unlikely to engage in criminal acts as long as their needs are met and as long as someone provides them with constructive activities that take up most of their time.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness written by Michelle Alexander, presents the evidence of mass incarceration as a racial caste system. Alexander indicated that in the prison system, it is legal to discriminate against criminals practically in similar ways it was legal to discriminate against African Americans in the past. After being characterized as a felon, the previous ways of discrimination become legal, such as being denied numerous rights and are relegated to second-class status for the rest of their lives, permanently losing their right to vote, all the while, legally being denied work and not being able to engage in social programs in order to recover and restore what they have lost while in prison. In

Can one be a hero and not a hero at the same time? One act alone cannot make someone a hero. They could have been forced against their wil. It mostly depends on the person’s history such as if they did a bad deed multiple times or if they did it just once. A hero is someone that does an act that either saves a life or does it for the greater good. Anyone could do anything helpful and can be called a hero. Majority of the time, there is a hero and there is always a villain, someone who does something to ruin the hero’s plan. Most likely the hero succeeds and the villain fails.

It is commonly known that crime in Canada has gone down over the last few years, and that this is or has been advertised in just about every online news outlet in Canada. Overall, this is great! However, we still see and hear about many stories based around crime daily in the news, and this is not surprising. What is though, is that the crime reported in the news is typically violent crime, regardless of the fact that crime statistics typically indicate that only about 10 percent of crimes committed in Canada are actually violent. Stats Canada (2014) indicates that there are approximately 340,000 violent crime violations (e.g. homicide, sexual assault, robbery) per year. This may sound like a lot, and it is! But not when you consider that there is approximately 1,00,000 property crime violations (e.g. break and enter; theft over 5,000) and 582,000 other crime violations (e.g. administration of justice violations, impaired driving, drug violations) per year. It is argued that the media disproportionately reports violent crime because is more serious and creates a better news story, which in turn gains more views for the media. Not many people would be intrigued hearing about how many parking violations occurred that day or how many petty thefts occurred. Non-violent crime is unintentionally, and sometimes

When it came to prisoners it would have been less costly to have alternative punishments or other treatments that could be involved in the community, but if you incarcerate the inmate then it makes them more likely to reoffend, and by this process it is creating more cost in the future. When it comes to women “Incarcerating women, in particular, increases the social cost of prisons because someone has to pay to take care of the children, and furthermore, when mothers do not care for their children personally, the kids are more likely to become offenders in the future” (Pryce, Vicky 2013 Prisonomics: Behind Bars in Britain's Failing Prisons. London: Biteback , 336 pp). But if we were to invest money into other ideas that would give better

The difference between a hero and a villain is the same as the difference between right and wrong or good and bad. A villain is bad while a hero is good. Some villains may not look like villains. Villains could wear a disguise as a method to get through people or to get away with any of their wrongdoings. Just like a villain, a hero may wear a disguise if needed. Sometimes a hero can be a random civilian or a bystander when something bad takes place. I, like many other Americans, consider men and women in the military or armed forces to be heroes. I don’t think the word Villain is used as often as the word hero is used. While watching the news, you may hear reporters calling someone who does something heroic a hero but they usually don’t call

Terrorism is very serious criminal offense affecting numerous countries in the world today. The United States of America is not left out in this grave problem. In fact, it is one of the countries most affected by terrorism. This could be attributed to the fact that the country has acquired several enemies around the world. Several militia groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's Branch in Libya (ISIL), Boko Haram, Hezbollah, and HAMAS, want revenge for perceived crimes committed against them. Fortunately, the US has enough resources to apprehend some of those suspected to be involved in terrorist organizations. The civilian court process is for a defendant is very clear because the US constitution grants them rights and they must be given a fair hearing to determine whether they are guilty of terroristic activities or not.

Crime is an action, illegal activities that can be prosecuted by the state. It is any behavior that is against the law. This behavior are hold for uncountable because they can be at risk or even harmful of hurting another citizen. There are different type of crime and each has their own consequences. They have civil, to state to federal crime. This means that each crime has a certain place that it is being judge and each also comes with each punishment. For example, you have misdemeanor, shoplifting, felony, white collar crime, murdered, first degree murder and more. Basically, each crime is not the same because each person has their own story. However, each action fall under one particular crime that has its consequences otherwise we would have a multiple of crime that has no category. Moreover, the consequences are very important because the person that commit the crime should get punish enough that the person is not willing to do it again. Punishment are involve because without them the world will be out of control.