Mexican Drug War Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-drug-war-statistics-2012-6 Sole, K. (2010). Writing college research papers. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Urban Violence and Crime. (2005).
With a future study of African Americans or Hispanics offenders have dealt with twenty-five year sentences to only 2.4 times the harshness of a ten-year sentence. The second part is the increasing throughout the 90's and beginning of 2000, with the possession charges against felons being prosecuted by the state and local courts. Later on revealed many reasons that gun related cases will continue to increase because sentencing could contribute to lowering crimes that are violent. Also to add with part II there were results that led to hard federal sentencing within violent crimes. Goals were too hash to complete throughout the federal government to provide such programming that would be missing, so in most districts harsh sentencing could be the result of controlling crime (Karl C. McDonald & George K. Alpine,
3/2/2011 Fixing America’s Immigration Issues The United States due to increasing economic concern needs to address our current immigration policies. An estimated 12 million illegal immigrants are in the United States and this number is increasing every year. In many areas illegal immigrants can receive public assistance including education, welfare and medical care without paying in taxes. Immigration reforms could help in reducing the national debt while allowing us to retain many of the current benefits given to American citizens. The American public in general realizes reform must take place, but the direction the policy reform should to take is still very much up in the air.
Just recently the Telegraph Media group in the United Kingdom has reported spending 124 billion euros a year on violent crime. The UK has proposed a new bill to increase funding for violence prevention. The UK Peace Index (UKPI) “provides a comprehensive measure of where the most peaceful and least violent places to live in the Britain are” (Evans, 2013, p. 1). This document allows legislators to hone in one the most at risk areas like Lewisham in south London. “Using figures from the Office for National Statistics and other sources, researchers estimated the economic impact of certain types of violent
Final: The Three Strikes Law In picking the topic of "Three Strikes Laws" and researching weather to expand it, preserve it as is, or abolish it is believed that an expanding with modification is in the best interest for the justice system and the people that repeatedly find themselves within it. Offenders with repeat offences, are costing the court system an extreme large amount of money each year on an already tight economy. With this being said, from the research that has been conduction for this paper it is felt that expansion with clear recommendation for Federal guideline to be established for all 50 states that it is to be only use in serious and or violent crimes. This is believe to be able to define the Three Strikes Law in a way
Retrieved October 23, 2013, from the Academic Search Premier database. Llana, S. (2007, May 23). Escalating drug war grips Mexico. Christian Science Monitor, pp. 1-10.
It is very important to make the public aware of the new bill passed and the new doubled prison terms if convicted of armed robbery. If the bill were passed there would be the issue of financial responsibilities, which the innocent public would be responsible for. Doubling a prison term could be costly and one solution would be to seek some funding through fundraisers and grants from the state. The bill would costs the citizens but it would keep them at ease and at peace knowing that almost anyone would be discouraged of committing such a crime. We hope that this bill would have an impact on the would be criminals because not only would their sentence be longer but their chances at parole would be harder to
Prison Term Policy Recommendation Proposal XXXXXXXXXX CJA 314: Criminology August 6, 2012 XXXXXXXXXXXX Abstract I am a criminologist that has been hired by the state legislature to examine a possible bill of doubling the prison sentencing of individuals committing armed robbery. I will provide recommendations as to whether or not this prison policy would be the best benefit for parties that are involved. Prison Term Policy Recommendation Proposal The state legislature will be voting on a bill that will double the maximum prison time that an individual will receive for armed robbery if convicted. The reason for this proposal is too help give different solutions that may help the state legislation members see other solutions that may be more beneficial. The bill is popular with the state legislature; there is a must to examine the factors that could be a factor.
The gathering of forensic evidence at a crime scene is now paramount. It is now considered that this type of evidence is the most likely to not only identify the criminal but to convict him as well. In 1991, in recognition of this fact and to help deal with the growing demand for expert scientific help in policing, the Forensic Science Service (FSS) was set up as an executive agency of the Home Office. Providing a service to all police authorities in the UK and even abroad. In 2001, The FSS handled almost one new case per working minute, totalling 135,000 for the year.
If we look at the statistics alone we see in many areas we are already winning. According to the Uniform Crime Reports and Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests for drug law violations this year are expected to exceed the 1,663,582 arrests of 2009. Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations (an estimated 1.6 million arrests, or 13.0 percent of the total number of arrests) than for any other offense in 2009. Someone is arrested for violating a drug law every 19 seconds.3 The current Commissioner of the New York City Police Department Raymond Kelly said “If you look back in history, if you look back 20 years ago, we had about 25 million drug users in this country. They say that we are down below 13 million now.