Name CJA 394 Global Crimes Analysis Date Global Crimes Analysis The safety of the people in the world is an issue called global crime. Trading weapons, human and drug trafficking, and groups of prostitutes are all things that may be involved in international, or global, crime. There are some nations that do not follow rules or guidelines and that are sold nuclear weapons by other smaller, less powerful nations. One of the issues that has been taken way out of control is human trafficking. According to International Trafficking (2010), victims of human trafficking are traded inside of their own country's border as well as inside of the border of another country.
Reefer Madness The first focus of Schlosser’s book spotlights on the booming business in marijuana cultivation. Marijuana, what should be America’s number one cash crop, apart from corn and soy isn’t because it is still illegal. The government would rather spend roughly 4 billion dollars of tax payer money to fight the war on marijuana. Why not save that 4 billion dollars of federal tax revenue and instead decriminalize marijuana, tax it, and start making money hand over fist? Plausible estimates indicate that marijuana could pull in around 25 billion dollars a year.
Drug sentencing is unfair to minorities in many different ways. More than 1 in 4 blacks and Hispanics, compared to 1 in 7 whites, were in jail for drug charges. (Profit of jail inmate 1996) In 1986 the average federal drug sentence for African American was 11% higher than whites, 4 years later it was 49% higher. People of color are typically sentenced to longer jail and prison terms than white counterparts convicted of the same offenses. Ronald Reagan pushed the war on drugs to take the drugs off the street.
Plans of starting a rebellion and spying were a few common crimes committed by the noble back in those days. (Elizabethan crime and punishment) Another common crime done by the rich included blasphemy; the act or offense concerning god or sacred things. Crimes were committed by the commoners; the poor, out of desperation and lack of resources they needed to survive. (Elizabethan crime and punishment) Some of the most common crimes committed by the commoners were theft, and begging. Adultery; to have a sexual intercourse with someone who is not your husband or wife was a common crime done by commoners.
Opposite the high rates of alcohol and tobacco use by teenagers, only 18% of seniors use illicit drugs, which are illegal for the entire society. This increase in drug use will not come easy for American society, but instead it will come at a very high price. The price will be that American society will be overrun with drug-related accidents, lost work productivity, and hospital emergency rooms filled with drug- related
Not only are these crimes becoming violent and involving money, guns, and sex, but also murder. Financing these activities exceed national levels of debt; Worldometers real time world statistics reports that $329,576,150,900 and counting have been spent on illegal drugs this year (Worldometers Statistics, 2012) The amplitude of this problem has become out of reach for our neighbors, state and local drug agencies, Federal Drug Enforcement, national and transnational Security this problem has to be regulated, enforced
However subcultural theorists developed this idea claiming that people experiencing strain seek different forms of success. More specifically Cloward and Ohlin put forward the idea of the 'illegitimate opportunity structure’, which they used to explain subcultural crime. This structure was operable outside of the mainstream structure and ultimately lead to the attainment of success and money through deviant means. For example, Cloward and Ohlin argued that organized crimes such as the drugs trade could be explained by failures in mainstream capitalism. Cloward and Ohlin argue, that the majority of criminals involved in the drugs trade were unable to succeed within capitalism and were driven to an illegitimate means of obtaining wealth.
)Marijuana use is WRONG-whatever one's moral beliefs about pot, marijuana laws have caused far more harm than marijuana use itself: marijuana prohibition drained precious criminal justice resources from our communities, made it difficult to keep pot from our children, and destroyed the lives and families of otherwise law abiding citizens 2.) "Marijuana regulation would send the wrong message to teens"- Regulation wuld REDUCE teen access to marijuana by taking it off the streets, regulating it, and sending adults to prison if they sell pot to young people. According to the White Houe, more than half of US teens try pot before graduationg from high school. In the Netherlands, where marijuana use is regulated, teen marijuana use dropped to only
Prisons are overcrowded and the cost to incarcerate and maintain them is very high (Kouri). However, the opposing side believes “Illegal Alien” is not a legal term. An Alien is defined as anyone who is not a citizen or national of the United States. For some, the use of the term “illegal alien” is likely based on misconception that an immigrant´s very presence in the United States is a criminal violation of law. While the act of entering to the country without inspection is a federal misdemeanor, and for repeat offenders could be a felony, the status of being presence in the United States while being out of status is a civil infraction, not a criminal
Gianna Bianca 04/04/2013 Protecting the Children with Jessica’s Law Every two minutes in the United States, someone is sexually abused. 44% of these victims are under the age of 18 years old (CDC). These statistics are bold, but even worse – these crimes can be prevented. Crimes against children that involve sexual abuse can be prevented in one giant way: by keeping the predators in prison there they belong. This seems like a no brainer, however some judges and members of senate disagree that these illicit crimes are punishable by lengthy sentences and strict court conditions.