The Impact of Drugs on the criminal justice System The smuggling, distribution, and use of drugs in the United States have a considerable impact on the criminal justice system and its counterparts. Drug use has become one of the main factors for the increase in crime. Individuals that use drugs provide a demand for a product that is illegally marketed. In turn, the public demand for illegal drugs has influenced drug cartels to smuggle drugs into the United States to be sold to lower income and under developed communities. The distribution and use of drugs has led to an increase in arrest and conviction of individuals under economic strain.
After, organized crime grew quickly in the 1920’s during prohibition through the smuggling of liquor and separate crime organizations worked together in order to have more control over the law. Next, the separate groups became more structured due to figures like Salvatore Maranzano in the 1930’s. From then on the drug business has been very popular which caused the rise of drug
Many organized crimes have evolved from illegal immigrants, not to mention the bridge that has enabled cross-border terrorism. Having participants on both sides of the border give better intelligence to form many terrorist attacks within this country. “International fraud, money laundering and other economic crimes (particularly carried out via the Internet) are a growing problem, and one that can be expected to spread.” (Cetron & Davies, 2008) The increasing levels of cross-national crimes will raise the amount it costs for an investigation. This makes fighting these crimes significantly more expensive. There is suspicion that these immigrants will start to impose hate crimes within this
Drug Trafficking in the United States Shiann Allshouse ENG122: English Composition II Marsha Beckwith-Howard November 4, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Drug law enforcement agencies face daily challenges in protecting the country's borders from drug traffickers trying to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States. This has been an ongoing problem for many years. Despite the efforts of the law enforcement, the amount of illegal drugs coming into the United States continues to grow. The two most common illegal drugs that drug traffickers try to get pass the border are methamphetamine and crack cocaine. The various ways of transporting the illegal drugs into the United States include concealing
This paper will look at the reasons and effects of the increase policing of national borders. It will first of all look at terrorism and the fear that it cause to a lot of countries prompting them to be more watchful about what is entering and leaving their countries. Secondly, it will highlight other organised crimes such as human trafficking and drug trafficking as other reasons why there is increase in border controls. Thirdly, mass human migrations across national borders for various reasons in many regions throughout the world that also contributed to tighter national border controls will be highlighted. Fourthly, money laundering is another factor that contribute to the tightening of regulations related to the so-called national soft infrastructure such as banking services to deal will illegal and suspicious international monetary transactions will be discussed.
Because of the continuous growth of the population and crime, officers have been force to treat them all differently. Today we are going to look at the history of policing in the United States as it relates to how officers relate to different ethnic groups along with the social issues that come with it. Over the years the crime rate have went up making the law enforcement officers job hard to do. Since the border have been open for everyone to come over to the United States, the crime rate have risen. Law Enforcement is making arrest every minute from different ethnic groups.
With the increasing re-offending rate in recent years, it is a fundamental importance to understand those factors affecting the people to commit sexual crimes and the reasons of the reoffending. The second part is to evaluate the most commonly used sentence which imposed on the sexual offender on the aspect of rehabilitation. In this research, secondary resources and data it mainly used to examine the sentencing system on the sexual offences, some of other countries' work is also cited out as reference for the research. The existing sentencing system is obviously incompleteness that the reoffending rate of sexual crimes is high and devastating. Therefore, recommendations are also made in relation to the factors of this issue.
The consequences and effects of the “three strikes and you’re out” laws on States and offenders. With the ever increasing rate of crime in the U.S. during the early 90’s the states of Washington and California led the way to implement a true form of the three strikes and you’re out laws. The main reason for creating these laws was an attempt to crack down on career criminals and/or repeat/persistent offenders who commit three felonies by locking them up for long periods of time. Additionally, it was an attempt to get those who are “predicted” to commit a crime off the streets and into long term prison sentences. There are many issues involving three strikes you’re out laws which not only affect the state that enforces them but also those
In the late 1960s the illegal use of drugs began to be more widespread and the government acted very aggressively with a broad program of arresting drug law violator, having a large number of the drug law violators incarcerated, patrol the borders in an attempt to stop drug smuggling, forming an alliance with other countries to assist in shutting down criminal organizations that manufacture and distribute drugs, and mounting efforts to reduce demand for drugs. The increase of violent crimes committed by juveniles rose at a fast rate. Violent crimes committed by juveniles had reached its epidemic proportions by the late 1980s. The growing market for cocaine and its derivative crack was tied in the 1980s and the easy access to guns. Young people started to get involved in street gangs by working as street soldiers in drug distribution networks, arming themselves, and began to kill each other at a high rate.
Another problem could be gang related violence that has led to this increase in violence that would also have an effect on Newham’s neighbouring boroughs. This high increase of recorded gun crime could cause the government to change social policy. Such action could be taken as a change in legislation for tougher sentencing if you are caught in possession of a fire arm and Police undertaking more stop and searches on the public to try and find weapons. More