Robert Thompson and Jon Venables: Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were both 10 years old when they abducted and killed two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. The young boys snatched the toddler from a shopping mall while his mother was inside a store, and took him on a 2.5-mile walk across Liverpool. The boys were seen walking by approximately 38 people, but many assumed he was their younger brother. Venables and Thompson took Bulger to a railway line where they tortured and brutally attacked the toddler. Bulger suffered multiple skull fractures from blows to the head, and was sexually abused by the two older boys.
He was a gay man who was beaten and tied to a fence post and left for dead, all because he was gay. He was found several days later, but unfortunately he had died as a result of his injuries. The same applies for crimes that are religion and disability based. One of the biggest hate crimes to strike the United States was the attack on September 11, 2001. This is a day that will forever be burned in the minds of not only Americans, but other cultures and races across the world.
STOP AND SEARCH DISCRIMINATION FOR ETHNIC MINORITY IN UK CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Racism thinking and practice still can be found in UK in the last decade, for example, in the criminal justice system. In the UK criminal justice system, stop and search is the early process that has a critical point whether somebody can be arrested for the next process or not. This short essay will explain the evidence of ethnic based bias for ethnic minority, particularly black people by police officers in the stop and search stage. Stop and search is the most critical points which police officers tend to discriminate ethnic minorities. The obvious examples in the past were when police officers have a power to arrest with ‘sus’ laws, under the 1824 Vagrancy Act (s4 and s6).
The riots came about due to racial tensions sparked by the acquittal of three officers accused of police brutality against Rodney King following a high speed chase on March 3, 1991. It would be easy to suggest that the Rodney King trial and verdict was the cause of the rioting, considering the immediate reaction to the news. However, although the acquittal of the police officers was the immediate precipitant, the Los Angeles riots of 1992 were the result of many underlying macro social conditions - specifically racism, social Injustice, and poverty. The living conditions in South Central Los Angeles in the years prior to the riots were below average. The per capita income was less than half that of Los Angeles as a whole, and poverty and unemployment rates were more than twice as high.
(1863). Utilitarianism. London, GBR: ElecBook, 1863. p. 13. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=2001606&ppg=11http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=2001606&ppg=11 Reuters. (2012, October 9). U.S. never responded to officer asking for more Benghazi security ahead of deadly terror attack.
Why did the riots of 1981 happen and to what extent did the reaction to the riots reflect institutionalised racism? The race riots that erupted throughout England during 1981 were the result of a growing tensions between the black community and the local police forces. Indeed, 1981 has been described as “an annus mirabilis of UK race relations” (Cashmore & Troyna, 1990). But why was there such tension between the local communities within the affected areas and their local police force? Could steps have been taken to avoid the civil disturbances, the largest seen in the 20th century in Great Britain, that followed?
In Nepal when a Maoist supporter is found the standard scenario is the Nepali police barging into homes arresting the supporter so they can beat him/her severely for a few days and then let there family know that they were shot dead in an “encounter” with the police. In the case of fifteen year old Subhadra Sapkota, a dancer from Naubise was performing in Kathmandu to support Maoist rebels was gunned down by the police. Violence caused by the police affects Lucas 2 thousands every year world wide, and the fear of it never ending affects even more, even in countries like Nepal that people would never think of such an act being committed. Justice. Just what does this word mean?
Police History Paper Sylvia Knight CJA/214 - Introduction to Police Theory and Practice August 27, 2012 Mr. Daniel Jones Police History Paper The history of police can help us understand policing today. American Policing has changed tremendously. According to Bayley (1994, Chapter 2 ), argues that “the last ten years” of the twentieth century may be the most creative period in policing since the modern police officers were put onto the streets of London in 1829, (Bayley, 1994). Historically policing in the 1800’s officers had received no training, patrolled on foot and had no radios to receive any dispatched 911 system calls and carried no weapons. In addition the officers had little education and manual of policies or procedures.
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Drug addiction causes young people to drop out of school, and it makes parents lose interest in their children. It pushes people into lives of crime and poverty, destroys ambition and ruins lives. Drug dealing brings crime and violence to otherwise peaceful communities, and makes people feel helpless and afraid in their own home towns (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/drugs/). The link between drug use and crime is not an original one and there are various questions to be asked when considering the drugs and crime link, the first and maybe the most confusing question is, do drugs cause crime or does criminality come first? (Hayles, 2000:78) investigates these using three methods of investigation.