Furthermore, murder is a very dramatic crime. It seems as if murder in small towns can be more painful because of the familiarity of each family. Small towns hit by murder could have survivors losing relatives and friends that they have known all of their lives. Also, in some instances the survivors know the killer. People have been shot over small problems and threatened whole communities. Killing six or more people in a small town seems much more devastating than six people in a large city with millions, though both are very tragic events. The percentage of lives touched can truly be a shock to the core of a close knit township.
Earlier this year in the city of Tyrone, Missouri, a man shot and killed seven people and injured another before turning the gun on himself. The town only had a population of 50 people; therefore he ended killing two of his cousins and their wives. All of the victims were neighbors (Mass Shooting, news.vice.com). That is the kind of senseless killing that really creates despair in a town so small. Another drastic killing took
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place, right in my hometown. On September 24th, Montezuma Police Department received a disturbing call. 2 young men, who were wanted in Lousiana for murder, robbed a store, and held the owner of the store hostage. They then took the owner to his home, and shot him. Later that day, the two suspects were found dead. They were shot and killed, and put into a car where they burned along with other evidence. This case is still open to today, to discover the reasonings of the violent crimes (South GA murder, walb.com). The crime rate for murder in Montezuma, GA is not as high as surrounding cities; However, it is very difficult for the town to deal with such situations, considering the size of Montezuma, GA. Rape, also known as sexual assault, is an act of someone forcefully having sexual intercourse. It is usually with females or with a person who is beneath a certain age (Rape, Merriam-Webster.com). The age of consent vary from state to state. In the United States, most states set their age of consent between the ages of 16 and 18. In Georgia, the age of consent to engage in sexual intercourse is 16(age of consent, legalmatch.com). Rape is a very consistent crime that is being committed rapidly throughout the state of Georgia. In April of this year, a drastic event occurred in Fort Valley, Georgia. There were five break ins, in which three women were raped. In three of the five residents, the suspect fled the scene without the victim being able to see his face. In two of those residents, there were males in the homes. The males in the home scared the suspect away to where he did no harm to the woman that lived there. The rapes occurred on and near the campus of Fort Valley State University. The suspect was described as a black man, who was later identified by a Peach County Sheriff. He was a very violent man who carried little about people's feelings. He was also very dangerous. In all break ins, the suspect carried a weapon and threatened the victims. He also abused the victims, sending two to the hospital with severe injuries (FV rape, Macon.com). Hours after the last rape, the Peach County Sheriff received a call from a woman that stated she saw a man pacing outside her home and looking suspicious. The suspect was then caught and sent to prison. He is being charged with criminal trespassing, prowling, rape, possessing tools while committing a crime, and having a gun while committing a crime (Fort Valley rape charges, 13WMAZ.com). The crime rate for rapes in Fort Valley, Georgia has increased drastically throughout the last 6 years. Much illegal activity has started to occur in smaller cities among youth. Yet many in the smaller communities don’t see the trend that is occurring. In some cities, crime among gangs has risen by as much as 25 percent. Unfortunately many small town police stations are not equipped to handle the danger of sophisticated gang units. Many gangs are moving to rural areas to recruit more members. From 2005 to 2011 cities with fewer than 50,000 residents saw gang crime rise 232 percent. Illegal drugs, illegal weapons and prostitution have been a huge draw for violent gangs. It is the community that ends up making the most effort to prevent crime through families, schools, labor markets and retail establishments and the police.Though half of all homicides are in the 63 largest cities, some crime prevention programs fail at tackling forces that fuel inner city violence. Gang prevention programs have ignored the most likely causes of the recent growth of gangs, the community structure of growing urban poverty ghettos. Small towns are susceptible to expanding metropolitan areas and the search for new clientele that may also become victims. Combating growing problems with community based mentoring and recreational programs seem positive, if implemented with rigorous action (Crime Prevention, National Academy of science report). In conclusion, crime negatively affects the community and its residents.
It mostly affect the families of the individuals committed the crime, or the victim. High crime rates can lead to population reduction. Residents of communities with high crime rate may find it safer to live elsewhere. Which cause the communities population to decrease. A decrease in population can eventually lead to an economic problem. However, the emotional and physical toll of crime also may serve to empower communities in which residents are brought closer together. In such situations, community members may organize grassroots efforts to fight crime, such as watch programs that encourage citizens to report criminal activity, increased group involvement in community affairs through city council participation and voting to approve a referendum for funds to increase public safety funding and similar programs (Crime Affect the Community,
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Burglaries, robberies, and shootings, all of which may leave victims or innocent bystanders severely hurt or dead, are now frequent enough to concern all urban and many suburban residents. Living in a dangerous environment places young people at risk of falling victim to such malicious and aggressive behavior observed and learned from others. Social institution such as education, family, religion, peer groups, etc., play a major role in the influence of crime in the urban neighborhoods that Anderson describes. As said in the essay, "although almost everyone in poor inner-...
When horrific crimes occur in large cities, many of them can be chalked up to gang violence or to the larger population of that specific city. But when horrific crimes happen in small cities like Lincoln, Nebraska, people begin to ask questions like who did this and why. In 1958, a nineteen year old man named Charles Starkweather put the entire state of Nebraska and possibly the entire nation in a state of terror. With his murder spree taking only three days, Starkweather had collected a body count of ten bodies, including two teenagers and a young child. Understanding Starkweather’s past and state of mind begins to answer the second question of why.
Why are some neighborhoods more prone to experience violent episodes than others? What is the extent and in what sociologically measurable ways do communities contribute to the causation and prevention of crime in their neighborhoods? Are neighborhood-level predictors adequate to explain differences in violent crime rates in the respective communities? These are some of the questions addressed by this statistically intense paper published in Science 1997, by Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls.
Criminal profiling, first undertaken within the nineteen-seventies, has been used throughout thousands of police investigations from bureaus all over the globe, currently some question their practicality in police investigations. This essay argues the utility of offender profiling in police investigations. Police Investigations utilize Offender and Criminal Profiling methods because it narrows the field of investigation, needs diminutive physical evidence to begin investigations and uses victimology to predict future actions of the offender.
The media is a dominating aspect of American culture. The way the media depicts crime and criminal behavior has an effect on the way society views crime and criminals. Television series such as CSI, NCIS, Law and Order, Criminal Minds and countless others, have become very popular in our society today showing that our culture has an immense interest in crime. It is clear that there is a fascination with criminals and why they do the things they do. To analyze the way crime dramas represent crime and criminal behavior, I completed a content analysis of one episode of Criminal Minds. The episode I chose was season one; episode eight, which first aired in 2005, titled ‘Natural Born Killer’.
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a fact-based, unique, written novel by John Grisham. The book is about Ronald Williamson and Dennis Fritz of Ada, Oklahoma. Both men were sentenced in 1988 for the rape and murder of Debra Carter in Ada. Ron was an old minor league baseball player who was penalized to death. After serving 11 years on death row, he was protected by DNA evidence and other factual points by the Innocence Project group and was released in 1999. Dennis Fritz was convicted and given a life sentence, leaving behind his mother and daughter. His wife died seven years prior to the murder. Fritz had to work hard to get his own second trial because he didn’t have the help that most people on death row received. These two men seemed guilty because of their life situations and their personality when in the beginning they should have looked at suspicious Glen Gore.
Crime will always surround us, but it often avoids the attention of monitoring systems which are established to measure the amount of crime and its victims (Skogan, 1977). There is truth in the fact that many crimes are not reported to the police, while other crimes are reported but never recorded. There are many reasons as to why this occurs. Firstly, the phrase “The dark figure of crime” is a concept used by criminologists and sociologists alike. It is a concept used to describe the crimes that remain undiscovered, unrecorded or unreported. It is believed that there is no complete way of identifying how much crime is actually out there, therefore, there is always questionability and doubt in regards to crime statistics as they cannot ever be accurately represented. (Skogan, 1977) This essay will aim to explain some of these reasons why not ally crimes are reported or registered.
Instead of enjoying going out on trips to the shops, cinemas or work, people will feel vulnerable and isolated. In areas of high crime people may move away from their neighbourhood causing a decrease in the value of local house prices and new businesses may avoid the area, while existing businesses may be forced to leave the area or close down because of repeated theft or vandalism, which then force residents to shop outside their local
The world will always be full of crime, thus it is necessary for scientist to grow along with the gruesome and increasing amount of violations. Due to this it sparked scientist to develop crime theories in which emerged to explain why crime is caused by individuals. Some of the few theories that have advanced over the past century and provided many answers to why crimes are committed are biological theories, psychological theories and learning theories. These theories provide an insight to its first use and change in order to provide answers.
By the end of Dostoyesky’s Crime and Punishment, the reader is no longer under the illusion of the possible existence of “extraordinary” men. For an open-minded reader, and even perhaps the closed-minded ones too, the book is a journey through Raskolnikov’s proposed theory on crime. It is a theory based on the ideas that had “been printed and read a thousand times”(313) by both Hegel and Nietzsche. Hegel, a German philosopher, influenced Dostoyesky with his utilitarian emphasis on the ends rather than the means whereby a superman existed as one that stood above the ordinary man, but worked for the benefit of all mankind. Nietsche’s more selfish philosophy focused on the rights to power which allowed one to act in a Hegelian manner. In committing his crime, Raskolnikov experienced the ultimate punishment as he realized that his existence was not that of the “extraordinary” man presented in his theory. In chapter five of part three in Crime and Punishment, this theory is outlined by its creator, Raskolnikov. Such an innovative theory would clearly have placed him in the “extraordinary” category, but when he fails to meet its standards, by submitting to the common law through his confession, the theory crumbles right before the reader’s eyes.
We are all affected by crime, whether we are a direct victim, a family member or a friend of a victim. It can interfere with your daily life, your personal sense of safety and your ability to trust others.
While the bodies pile up in what we call our Nation's Backyard, the rest of the country chooses to deny the facts and to remain blind to the truth. The gruesome statistics, and tales of violence in "The Murder of Thirty of My Neighbors" by Jim Myers has the ability to force just about anyone into understanding the severity of the situation the residents of service area 109, also known as eastern Capitol Hill, are facing. It isn't often that people see or hear about this violent world, partly because they would rather not deal with it and also because the politicians who have the power to do something about it are the ones helping to keep the rest of society ignorant. That is why it is important for someone like Myers to step in and invade the serenity of these ignorant lives and prove that violence and murder are the reality for many people living in America. Myers speaks of the cold-blooded murders, drive-by shootings, robberies, and hate infested streets he sees every day in the place he calls home. He uses these violent facts, blunt statements, and sometimes even sarcasm to convey the seriousness of this matter as well as the reality he and his neighbors have come to accept as normal.
Sociologists have been examining crime and its causes for over 150 years, and through several researches, various explanations have been used to describe crime and deviance. Crime is a behaviour that goes against all formal written laws of a given society (Haralambos, Smith, O 'Gorman, & Heald, 1996). Laws in different societies differ, so do crimes i.e. what may be considered as a crime in one society may not be in another different society. For instance, while same-sex relationship is accepted in some countries like the United States, United Kingdom etc. it is illegal in countries like Nigeria, and most Arabic countries. Other examples of general crimes are theft/robbery, murder, kidnapping and others. Once a crime is committed, sanctions
Kourtney Pierce 2/18/14 CRJ 201 Addressing the Issues of Juvenile Justice and Crime in the City. Washington, DC is one of the most beautiful cities in the nation. Known as the nation’s capital, it is home to the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the Monument, and many other historical attractions. While DC brings tourists from near and far to visit its natural and manmade wonders, there are some not so great aspects to the city.
Police, fire and emergency services are affected by increased workloads and false alarms. Also, facilities, such as parks and public rest rooms which everyone in the community uses, become vandalized. Vandalism affects your pocketbook too. People pay their taxes for a reason, to build a better community for the future generation. When the community is vandalized, the people are the ones who have to pay for someone else’s damage.