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. Drug trafficking is another big issue, particularly around the United States borders. According to the New World Encyclopedia (2009), drug trades is a production of the black market. In some parts of the world, trading drugs is not enforced among all people. There is a large profit that can result from drug trafficking, which could be one of the reasons behind the crime not always being viewed under a zero tolerance policy.
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. Cloward and Ohlin further argued that as people were driven into this illegitimate structure they tended to join existing deviant subcultures i.e. the drug subculture as in the case of the drugs trade. The theory does well to explain many crimes of the working class as they are unable to succeed in a society driven by middle class values, however Cloward and Ohlin’s subcultural theory fails to explain the crimes of the powerful whom already have achieved economic wealth through legitimate means. Furthermore the theory
Women in those types of relationships were treated as objects instead of being valued as women of freedom which represent intelligence, compassion, love and beauty. That is why those women found the evidence regarding the murder. Since they were women too, they managed to search for psychological evidence because Minnie Wright only stayed on the house which meant any clue inside the house is key to solving the
* Does the perpetrator’s social network encourage his behavior? * What is it about Vancouver’s culture that allowed the perpetrator to commit crimes for such a long period of time? Could it be that missing addicts and prostitutes are so common that their cases are not taken as seriously? * Are there trends in locations of mass murder? (Pickton had access to vulnerable women through Vancouver’s red light district *prostitutes, drug addicts, easily manipulated Structural functionalism: could it be argued that murder like those committed by Pickton serve a purpose?
And most people won’t even know their identity’s been stolen until it’s too late and they become a victim to identity theft. Identity thieves can cause a lot of harm to their victims, such as stealing their personal information; several negative effects identity theft has on its victims are using your identity for criminal activities, financial loss, and it can even put people in physical danger. The most important effect identity theft causes is that criminals can use your identity to commit crimes. Such as drug smuggling or crossing state lines they can commit fraud to gain government benefits. And by using their identity to commit these crimes can seriously damage someone’s reputation.
It’s a unique privilege to be able to view the world, in all its faults and glory, as others see it. An ignorant assumption would be to think that all people relate to experiences seen, felt, heard or even read in the same manner. Christina Boufis first details this in her story, “Teaching Literature at the County Jail,” as she notices that her “Berkeley students don’t pick up on the drug connection” the same as her female prison students (69). Christina Boufis’s “Teaching Literature at the County Jail,” gives readers the insight on how ones personal experiences affect their connection with the rest of the world. Christina Boufis, an educated English and literature professor, takes the reader through her experiences as she teaches both female inmates in conjuncture with college level students about literature.
Even though Jacob Riis was poor prior to this, Jacob believed the the poor were powerless in society and that he had the power to help them by using this his journalistic skills to communicate this to the public. He wasn’t very sympathetic towards the poor. He constantly argued that the "poor were the victims rather than the makers of their fate" (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk). Jacob Riis says that the poor are so powerless in society that they don’t even have control over their own fate, they are victims of it. When he got more and more involved with the tribune during these times as a police reporter, Riis worked and wrote about the some of the most dangerous slums of the city.
It was the fact that the homeless addicts weren’t just sitting around getting high and injecting heroin, but were actually trying to go out and get jobs and homes once again. Most think that these people chose this way of life and that all they care about is their drugs. “Righteous Dopefiend” enlightens us, showing how many of these people became homeless because they were forced onto the streets because they didn’t have the education to get a good job, which to me is very disheartening. This ethnography showed me how protected and sheltered we are from some the things going on in, not just the United States, but around the world. Before reading this book, I believed ethnographies such as these to not be too important.
Deppen had pleaded guilty in court. "Deppen had motioned, through his attorney, that a woman who had contacted police about his plan to kill the victim had coerced him." Says Lancaster’s Online Newspaper. Deppen, had followed her commute to work daily, and stalked her to store in the nearby areas of her home. His ex-fiancée wasn’t sure as of how he knew where she was until she spotted a device underneath her vehicle.
That usually means reverting to street crimes. These crimes include burglary, vandalism, and selling drugs. Those individuals feel that street crime is the only way they will obtain material success. Merton's theory may stand true when comparing social status with street crime; however, his theory becomes weak when the crimes include white-collar and business crimes. Therefore, Merton's theory has become an “anomie theory”.