As the days go by it seems as more and more people are breaking the law everyday. Frank Trippett’s passage from, “A Red Light for Scofflaws” points out some ways people are breaking the law. He then continues by saying every day law obeying citizens are starting to break the law. He does this to show people what is coming to this world. Trippetts has reason to argue lawbreakers are starting to rise because it is unsafe and disturbing to some. Many people do not care about how they act or treat the other people because it is only a “small” offence. For example music, who cares if one were to be blasting their music on the streets or parking lots? It is just a musical taste they like and most likely as well as other people. The fact is, that is a personal taste of someone's life. Not everyone likes the same music and like it loud enough where one can hear it outside of their home, their peace and living of tranquility. For example, my …show more content…
mother likes to blast her music, no matter the time of day. I personally do not like the music she listens to, I tolerate it, but not when she is playing it so loud I can hear it from my garage crystal clear. Not everyone has the same taste, and more people look at other people in disgust when they are being obnoxious. One can agree with Trippett’s argument because they want to live in a safe and ordered environment.
One out of the many hazardous things people are doing out on the streets is driving over the speed limit. There is a speed limit for a reason, to stay safe from major injury, but some like to live life on the “edge”, just like a fellow acquaintance of mine. Whenever i'm with this person driving I feel as if I need to wear a high tech seatbelt because of how fast they drive. I personally don't like fast drivers, I care for other people's safety, and feel as if there needs to be more police patrolling freeways and streets. Another thing is garbage, littering, all over the cities, cities that can look nice. For example, as stated is his passage, “ The slogan of the day seems to be ‘you're a fool if you obey the rules.’(Trippett). The sad thing is, people go by this when they have garbage, so they just dump it wherever, and make the area look bad and disgusting. People need to obey the laws to make the area a safe and clean place to be
in. People need to wake up and stop blasting their music, driving recklessly, and littering, because that is going to make them look bad, and the area that they are in look bad. It disturbs many to see people breaking the law, and even scares people because lawbreakers are rising. Everybody, even if they obey the laws, needs to take a good long look at their surroundings and notice all these little things they see, or are doing. It is scary to see the safety hazards people are causing, and for all this to go on everyday, no one wants to live in a world like this.
Society is not a realm in which all of the rules are listed on paper; people naturally abide them due to their countless experiences. The results of these incidents or the incident as a whole sometimes transform itself into an unspoken code that people are assumed to know by heart. For example, humans are treated differently - usually with more respect and higher expectations (such as CEOs or famous actors and actresses) - when they are in a very high position or level in an industry. No matter how much or little they do, they are frequently noticed more by the media than anyone else. But how about those who live in their normal lives trying to bring home the bread and milk for their families? Or those who do a substantial amount of service and deeds for their communities and companies? Ty...
The main topic that we get from this idea is popular punitivism. Popular punitivism is a process that is used all over the world to try and control crime. It is a concept that balances coercion and consent that uses movements that are with the popular opinion “to engage in vote buying and power maintenance” (Makin). The idea of this is that officials focus crimes that the public is seeing more often than usually. Looking at Cohen’s deviancy amplification process can help explain this better. The process shows that when the media begins to talk more about a certain crime then the public thinks that that particular crime rate is rising and the clear up rate is falling. After this the fear of crime increasing and there begins to be a mass panic. The officials see this panic and focus their attention on the punishment of that crime. New legislations are created that impose more severe punishments so that the officials can show the community that they see what is going on and they are trying to fix it. Citizens believe that if the officials are tough on the crime than the problem will go away. However, we know that the problem does not just go away and now that we have harsher penalties there are more people being thrown into
one of the most common ways that people break the law. When people break the law
Wilson, James. “Do the time, lower the crime” Too many people behind bars? The statistics suggest otherwise (2008) 1-3. Print.
...r society has come too. I feel saddened that violence and drugs are so prevalent that the most innocent of acts—eating a Pop-tart into the shape of a gun—is considered criminal. I feel blessed to have been raised during simpler times when sneaking out and tee-peeing the neighbor was the biggest concern that your parent had and at the same time I am sad at the things my own children will face as our society continues to change. I pray that we find the grey area in order to all of our students and children a service and to put reinstate the purpose behind the zero-tolerance policy.
The individuals within our society have allowed we the people to assess and measure the level of focus and implementation of our justice system to remedy the modern day crime which conflict with the very existence of our social order. Enlightening us to the devices that will further, establish the order of our society, resides in our ability to observe the Individual’s rights for public order.
Mass incarceration has caused the prison’s populations to increase dramatically. The reason for this increase in population is because of the sentencing policies that put a lot of men and women in prison for an unjust amount of time. The prison population has be caused by periods of high crime rates, by the medias assembly line approach to the production of news stories that bend the truth of the crimes, and by political figures preying on citizens fear. For example, this fear can be seen in “Richard Nixon’s famous campaign call for “law and order” spoke to those fears, hostilities, and racist underpinnings” (Mauer pg. 52). This causes law enforcement to focus on crimes that involve violent crimes/offenders. Such as, gang members, drive by shootings, drug dealers, and serial killers. Instead of our law agencies focusing their attention on the fundamental causes of crime. Such as, why these crimes are committed, the family, and preventive services. These agencies choose to fight crime by establishing a “War On Drugs” and with “Get Tough” sentencing policies. These policies include “three strikes laws, mandatory minimum sentences, and juvenile waives laws which allows kids to be trialed as adults.
Over the past several decades, the number of prison inmates has grown exponentially. In 1980, prison population had numbers around half a million inmates. A graph of statistics gathered from the U.S. Bureau of Justice shows that between 1980 and 2010, the prison population grew almost five times, topping out at nearly 2.5 million. According to an article in The New York Times, the average time spent in jail by prisoners released in 2009 increased by 36% compared to prisoners released in 1990. Many people, such as those at Human Rights Watch, believe that the increase of these numbers has been because of tough-on-crime laws, causing prisons to be filled with non-violent offenders. This rise in crime rates, prison population, and recidivism, has led politicians as well as ordinary citizens to call for prison reform.
It appears that people will always break the law to indulge in their personal vices, the difference lies in how far they are willing to take their law-breaking.
Our promise of "Never Again", though made in good faith, was destined to be broken. "Never Again" should not only be a promise we make to others, but a promise every individual, group and society makes to itself - to not only prevent the committing of such a crime, but to never commit it ourselves. It remains to be seen whether this utopian vision will materialize, but until then, as Stanton said, "we must never let the wreckage of our barbaric past keep us from envisioning a peaceful future when law and democratic freedom will rule the earth."
...rent groups’ laws, it becomes a hegemonic entity within society. Some norms are considered more important than others, and differ within societies due to cultural beliefs and historical thought. Laws are often disowned by sub ordinate classes, who may not agree with the ways laws are structured in society. (For example, in Uganda a law is currently being passed on the killing of homosexuals, which can be called an inevitable part of society with some people who believe they are ‘born gay’ ) Many people break norms in their life, but not everyone is accused of deviance which brings attention to gender, age, economic and cultural ethnic groups, which all play a role in the statistics of criminal behaviour.
First of all, you wouldn’t want to curse at someone, sometimes the person may react back in a violent manners. I experience a lot of fight for just cursing and or disrespecting. I think triggering someone in a violent manner can result you to be either get beaten down or something worse. All in all, I think everyone should be respecting others.
Incivility has skyrocketed in the last couple years it seems that just about any public place people go incivility is always present please, thank you, and excuse me have been replaced with silence or insults. Movie theaters are a perfect example of incivility in common places. The common courtesy of turning off one’s cellphone so it doesn’t ring during the movie has become a suggestion as oppose to a courtesy that many people choose to ignore. Not talking during the movie has also become a rule many choose not to follow more focused on what they want to say instead of how it will bother others. DMVS, parking lots, stores, and public libraries all demonstrate how uncivil we as a society can truly be. In crowded stores, people are bound to bump
It’s clear – as we come together today – that too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. It’s clear, at a basic level, that 20th-century criminal justice solutions are not adequate to overcome our 21st-century challenges. And it is well past time to implement common sense changes that will foster safer communities from coast to coast (The US Department of Justice, para. 8-9, 2013).
As stated by Alex Packer, “many people just don 't think about how their behavior affects anyone else. It 's me, not we” (Tarshis). We want what we want and are willing to leave a wake of destruction in our paths to obtain it. Consequently, never taking account for the innocent bystander that may have just been offended by whatever action infringed upon during that moment. "There 's a manners meltdown in America, people just don’t know how to treat others anymore," says Alex J. Packer, author of the Teen Manners Guide How Rude! (Tarshis).