6. Four years of financial records of the Black Disciples street gang found their way into the hand of a University of Chicago graduate student because one of the gangs second highest member feared that he would soon be killed, therefore he figured that the financial records may help the next generation in some way or another. 7. J.T. maintained a regional monopoly over crack cocaine within the territorial domain of the gang by having his men at every possible crack dealing corner, and he invested a good amount into making his community satisfied with their gang, because a rebellious community is something that they cannot afford to have.
Jim Crow was a way of life, not just a set of unjust laws. African-Americans were treated as second class citizens. “Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-black racism. Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that whites were the Chosen people, blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation. Craniologists, eugenicists, phrenologists, and Social Darwinists, at every educational level, buttressed the belief that blacks were innately intellectually and culturally inferior to whites.
The Black Panthers and the introduction to gang warfare. The Bloods and Crips, two of the most infamous gangs to ever exist, how did they come to be, what could have been the reason for these groups of people to form and inflict the death and hate that lasted for over 10 years? Did it have anything to do with the largest African American gang, the Black Panthers, a group that aimed to protect, take care of their people and teach them to fight for their rights? In order to even begin examining The Beginning of Gangs like the Bloods and Crips one would have to start by looking all the way back to the late 1930’s and moving forward to 1965. Prior the 1940’s there were very few groups of what could even be called “Gangs” compared to 20 years later in Los Angeles in fact they were more likely groups of family members or community members who just formed and were referred to as clubs.
Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla Family, Mexican Mafia, La Nuestra Familia, Texas Syndicate, and Neta Association. These are the six largest prison gangs in the United States of America. Although a few benefits do exist, prison gangs mostly contribute to a threatening and unsafe atmosphere in today’s penitentiary system. There are hundreds of gangs throughout the system, but only a select few that actually have some sort of pull large enough to garner attention. These main gangs are known for a reputation of murder and assault of fellow inmates, many times with their targets being outside prison walls.
The Aryan brotherhood changed prison life as we knew it, Up until the 1960 prisons were segregated by race until it began to fall apart then inmates began to form alliance based solely on race. In 1964 a group of bikers in San Quentin State Prison formed what is now the Aryan Brotherhood or AB for short, it is believed that the AB was inspired from a prison gang, The Bluebird Gang. Their main mission is committed to white cultural superiority, their constitution states: "Our organization is a white supremacy group. No pretense is or will be made to the contrary." The Aryan Brotherhood is chiefly concerned with White-Supremacy and self-protection from Black and Hispanic gangs.
Cases of Prejudice and Discrimination: Tom Robinson and the West Memphis Three In the court of law, prejudice and discrimination often influence a jury and in turn result in the conviction of innocent or wrongly accused people. Prejudice and discrimination often affect those who are looked down upon or marginalized in society. The case of the West Memphis Three saw a young man sentenced to death row and two others to life in prison for the murder of three young boys. These young men had troubled pasts and were rumoured to be Satanists, they were inexplicably made lead suspects in one of the most poorly conducted homicide cases in American history. Similarly in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson is convicted and sentenced to death for the rape of a white woman without any substantial evidence.
Maria Everson Zaborsky Infamous Crime Cases An infamous case that was solved by forensic evidence was the Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy case. He was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile. He assaulted many women and girls killing between 30-40 people throughout seven different states, which Ted Bundy confessed to. He also cut the head of 12 victims off and kept the head in his house as a memory to always have, he would also kill women and later return to the crime scene to have intercourse with the body until it began to rot or was destructed by wild animals. In 1975 Ted was arrested in Utah but was released due to the little evidence, Two years later was convicted of kidnapping and escaped.
The main thing that is hurting our country right now is violence, when you read the news about Chicago they had more murders then the soldiers in Iraq due to gang violence. Furthermore if the police love arresting criminals they should arrest all the thugs and send them to prison because they are the problem. Arresting somebody for drugs is not that Title: Non-Violent Criminals Should Be Punish With Fines serious for being put behind bars that person should pay a fine for his or her punishment. Non-violent criminals have a recidivism rate of 3% according the Department of Justice. In other words a non-violent criminal has a slight chance of repeating the same
In my opinion James Gilligan - Harvard University criminologist - says it best: "It's really clear that the most effective way to turn a nonviolent person into a violent one is to send them to prison." The American prison system takes nonviolent offenders and makes them live side-by-side with hardened killers. The very nature of prison, no matter people view it, produces an environment that is inevitably harmful to its residents. America locks up five times more of its' population than any other nation in the world. Due to prison overcrowding, prisoners are currently sleeping on floors, in tents, in converted broom closets and gymnasiums, or even in double or triple bunks in cells, which were designed for one inmate.
Moses Sithole “The ABC Murderer” World records are being set by South Africa when it comes to the speedy arrest of serial killers, however, this is flawed by the fact that South Africa ranks among three of the world's most notorious countries when it comes to serial Killers. It has been documented that since 1936, 71 serial killers have been identified in South Africa with 11 still being at large. Johannesburg and Pretoria are the worst affected cities in South Africa, and Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal the worst provinces when it comes to serial killers and every year up to five new serial killers are identified across the country. Amongst the most notorious of them is Moses Sithole. Moses Sithole was born in 1964 to Simon & Sophie Sithole, one of five children in Vosloorus, a poor neighbourhood of Boksburg in apartheid-era South Africa.