Poverty may mean that crime is the only way that the working class can survive, as crime may e the only way that they can obtain the consumer goods encouraged by the capitalist advertising, resulting in utilitarian crimes such as theft. However, it isn’t always utilitarian crime that the working class commit as sometimes the alienation and lack of control over their lives may lead to frustration and aggression which results in non-utilitarian crimes such as vandalism and violence. Marxist’s sometimes argue the state and law-making are a cause of crime because they believe that all laws serve the ruling class, most law is based on protecting private property. The crimes of the working class and ethnic minorities are punished harshly while crimes of the powerful go unnoticed. The ruling class also have the power to prevent the introduction of laws that would threaten their interests.
The inmates in the Pelican Bay Prison have committed crimes, such as murder and robberies so they can get what they want without working for it. Many people who come from proof neighborhoods often choose crimes as a means of getting by because they feel that society is not set up to help
Gaol plays a significant role in achieving justice for society and victims as it incapacitates the offender so they cannot reoffend, provides a serious punishment for serious offences and keeps dangerous criminals off the streets. However as seen in the study by the Bureau of Crime Statistics Research, outlined in the media article “Prison is an Expensive Way of Encouraging Crime Study Finds” (SMH 22.09.10) gaol is a very expensive form of crime control and may turn prisoners into worse offenders while charging society approximately $260 per day, per prisoner. Gaol also leaves the offender unemployed, with no money to survive when released and it may lead to difficulties finding a job with a criminal record. Therefore it can be seen that gaol plays a varying level of extent in achieving justice for the victim and society and for most offenders it plays a low extent in achieving justice. Another penalty applied during the sentencing process is an Intensive
The main concept behind these explications is that different races are faced with their own unique types of strains. These types of strains are economic, family related, educational, communal, and discriminatory. All of these strains have some level of interconnectivity with one another that can lead to people committing criminal acts. The reading mainly focuses on the African American and White racial groups. Even though all of these strains have an influence on the racial differences in crime, I believe that the community contributes a lot to these differences.
Violent, preventable crimes by minors have long plagued America’s larger cities but have scarcely been punished because of the age of the perpetrators. Protected by a lenient and highly outdated juvenile justice system, violent youth have taken advantage of such benefits and have run rampant in our cities. High profile slayings are quite the norm on the evening news, and every once in a while, disaster strikes and we lose a large number of lives at the hands of young offenders. And sadly, naive America continues to lose more and more lives at the hands of reckless teens and repeat offenders because we choose to give them as many chances as they need so long as they are not legal adults. Unfortunately, we have to lose and destroy more lives because we refuse to
As shown in City of God the underprivileged children in this community suffered from a lack of so many of life necessities, that they were willing to participate in anything that they could to earn a little extra money; even joining a gang. They ended up joining these gangs because the encouragement to join a gang is just like it is in every other city: temporary protection, a sense of belonging, and the opportunity to make more money than anyone else in the neighborhood. City of God was a perfect example how poverty and crime are linked. It would seem as though the people in this movie were unable to obtain any resources that would improve their condition. With that being said, it is no wonder as to why the young men of this city were involved in committing small to major acts of crime.
Since many of them didn’t have much of a family or supervision, they would often commit theft and other acts of vandalism. Since these religious groups thought that they would continue to commit crimes into their adult life, they intervened. The same attitude was adopted by many philanthropists and reformers. This caused a variety of work programs to be created. It gave them a good living conditions and the most important thing, adult supervision.
Crime is around every corner and has been a part of the world throughout history, crime will never become extinct. Whether a person speeds in a vehicle or murders another human being, they are crimes and there are consequences for every crime. The most heinous crime is murder against another person. To the whole world it is wrong except for certain circumstances. Even though the accused are thought to be evil they like everyone else have constitutional rights before they are arrested.
It is obvious that nothing will stop crime completely. There will always be someone committing crime. Even though our prisons are overcrowding, we cannot stop punishing individuals for their criminal activity. However, we can provide punishment alternatives and the community correction programs provides that option. It has reduced state government costs, and reduced overcrowding prisons.
The criminals mindset can not be changed at times. 66% are convicted of serious crimes and 52% come back due to violations or other serious crimes. This shows that criminals are not learning right from wrong. That is what most people think of the prisoners who go back, they are still terrible people but this is not totally true. Without family they have no motive to stay out, they have nowhere to go.