You could receive the death penalty or have been sentenced to many years in prison where the thief would end up dyeing anyway. In the 18th century, English courts felt they needed to develop and enlarge the definition of larceny. They made a new offences called embezzlement which included misappropriation of property after lawful possession. Embezzlement was punished much more severely because it involved a breach of trust. After that, larceny by trick was created to punish those who obtain personal property by fraud or deceit in order to get the victim to agree in handing over property.
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.
Mika Kobayashi English 4 Ms. Hitchens 28 April 2011 The Executioners In Middle Ages, executions were often held by the judges from the criminal trials, or the prosecutors to behead those who were found guilty or given a death penalty. Later, throughout the ages, societies started to call these men the “executioners” or the “Henkens”. These executioners’ main jobs were to use swords or axes to behead the criminals. In Middle Ages, judges gave these punishments even to thieves, depend on the degree of what they stole from who. These jobs might sound easy since there were not many people getting executed, but in fact, it was not an easy job considering their nearly low incomes, families, and society positions.
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
1 Crimes of Society Punishments of the people of the Elizabethan Era differed based on crime and status in the community, obviously. Status mattered because people of lower status (commoners, as they were called2) were raised differently and needed- or wanted- certain things that people of nobility or wealth already had. Commoners were often convicted of petty thievery (e.g. pick pocketing, pilferage, etc.) as well as begging, adultery, continuously being in dept, fraud, and forgery.3 Alternately, nobility was frequently accused of crimes such as treason, sedition, irreligion, spying, active rebellion, murder, and witchcraft.4 Though commoners and nobility committed different crimes, their punishments were much the same.
Having the occupation as a “poor beggar” was considered illegal and the punishment would to be beaten. The beatings were extremely bloody and merciless, those who were tediously being caught could be sent to prison for life or even hung by the neck. Punishment for lower classmen during the Elizabethan period included the following: hanging, burning, whipping, brandings, pressing, the wheel, boiling in oil water or lead, starvation in public places, and cutting off body parts. Being burnt at the stake was an appalling death, some executioners showed mercy to their victims by placing gun powder at the base of the stake which helped to more swiftly and less malevolent death. Other deaths were suffocation through respiration of the smoke creating less oxygen witch you can not
Aside from that, he had promised to pay back the money he had stolen and believed he would. He was stealing the money because he wanted people to like him and he thought this was the way to do it. 4. The framed T-shirt tells me that he really wanted to have things and needed the money to have the things he wanted. The lifestyle red flags that could have tipped off the company to the possibility of fraud would be the new expensive cars, the expensive clothes, the houses that his income would not have been able to support.
They send out one friend to get food and water while the other two wait with the treasure.Towards the end they kill each other for the money. So no one ended with the money, they all died for the greed of money. "If one could only get the gold away, Back to my house, or else to yours, perhaps For as you know, the gold is ours, chaps- We'd all be at the top of fortune, hey? But certainly it can't be done by day. "(206-210) This quote is important to the story because it shows that they starting to get greedy.
It made criminals out of ordinary, working class people. Gangsterism flourished running the illegal trade. It became hugely profitable and lead to a growth of violence. The general flouting brought the rule of law in general into disrepute as police ‘turned a blind eye’, like taking bribes on the streets. Corruption was widespread.
People who are already wealthy and commit white-collar crimes should not be let off easily. They hurt innocent peoples pockets while pocketing money for themselves. Prison time is like a death sentence to those who grew up having everything they ever wanted. Once people become greedy and start committing crimes like Martha Stewart then they deserve to get punished for stealing money. Prison rehabilitates criminals and once freedom, money and life’s luxuries are taken away from white-collar criminals then they will learn that committing such crimes are not worth prison time.