The U.S. Constitutions ensure against the burden of unbalanced criminal punishments. The Excessive Fines Clause and the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the eighth Amendment deny the use of disproportionate of sentences. The eighth Amendment disallows the central government from forcing unforgiving punishments on wrongdoers which now and again can wind up questionable. With […]
Based on the various hypothesis, theories, and strategies supplied by the likes of Shaw & McKay (1931), Sampson & Groves (1989), C. Ray Jeffrey (1971), Jane Jacobs(1961), Oscar Newman (1972), Cohen and Felson (1979) , and Paul and Patricia Brantingham (1981), it seems that environmental criminology focuses not only on the criminal event itself, but […]
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Get started“Should I skip school?” or “Should I skip this class?” is a question that has passed through many teenagers minds during boring classes such as math and history. Even if the student manages to skip class, there are many more consequences than getting a call to home or a talk with the principal. Not only […]
The rate has increased over the past years. They call America now a slaughter house; killings leading to uproars in the cities and mass shootings. Police brutality does not only happen to African American, but people of all ethnicities. Police officers were once called the peacekeepers of our community, but now we as people are […]
In our current climate due to the police’s actions, they have earned a bad reputations. Some of their actions are beating up innocent civilians, not following laws, and how times have changed. Now people are scared of the police because of what they have done and now civilians do not feel safe whenever they are […]
Have police changed from one decade to the next? Police brutality has only changed in the way the abuse is viewed, but not in the way that it is committed or the motivation behind it. In the Martin Luther King era, there was acceptable police brutality in which African American citizens were blatantly assaulted, mistreated, […]
In the book, The Hate U Give is based about a 16-year-old African American girl named Starr to witness police brutality against her best friend. Starr and her friend, Khalil, was leaving a party when Khalil was pulled over for a traffic violation of a broken taillight. The police officer asked for license, registration, and […]
Mass incarceration ranks high among the most significant social problems that the United States faces in contemporary times. While the United States makes up approximately five percent of the world’s population, it makes up 25 percent of the global prison population. These figures highlight the fact that something is fundamentally wrong with the justice system […]
The death penalty has always been and always will be an extremely controversial topic. While some people believe that it is wrong to take another person’s life after the victim’s life has been taken, others believe that capital punishment is justifiable. Each state in America has their own set of rules and regulations for this […]
The case of the infamous Zodiac Killer is one which has stumped all forms of law enforcement, code breakers, and private investigators from its beginning in 1968 to today. This case involves an unsolved string of murders, alleged killings, and numerous taunts to law enforcement and the public in the Northern California region. This killer […]
Police brutality has been an ongoing issue and controversy throughout the years. When you think about police officers, you usually think about someone who is there to protect you from danger but that is not always the case for innocent citizens. Police brutality is defined as “the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police […]
Hurricane Katrina was one of the top five deadliest natural disasters that have occurred. There were approximately 2000 deaths; however it was not just the storm that caused all of these deaths. There were many other reasons for deaths during Katrina and one of those was police brutality. There were multiple incidents that occurred which […]
