Law And Order Case Study

Are Wealthy People above the law? People with money think they have the ability to get away with their unlawful actions, to buy their freedom. In the show Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, in the episode “Wonderland”, Sarah Walsh was a victim of rape. She was unaware of who had raped her but eventually found out her rapist appeared to be one of her “friends” who was very wealthy. He had paid off his other victims to keep him away from the title of a criminal. Throughout the show, you can see the way people with money think about their position and the law. In the episode “Wonderland” of Law and Order: SVU, the creator portrays that criminals with money are punished not as severely as average income people. The issue of people who believe,

"… Cynthia Hood, 55, was entitled to a lighter sentence because she was not the ringleader of fraud and because her children would be in jeopardy without her presence"("Furst"). Cynthia Hood is one of many people who thought they would get away with criminal actions, yet her husband did the time in jail, even though she had the money behind her. Even though wealthy people believe they would get away with their crime they still had to pay the

The article “Crack down on corporate criminals" explains the actions of these people by taking away Americans jobs and using the extra money to increase their bank account. An example is the way corporate uses their money as an advantage for the everyday average income people of America. But most importantly, it is the way they think they are better than everyone, their mentality. Throughout this issue multiple appeals are portrayed such as value, emotion, and ethics. Values are what you find important within your religion or even culturally. Ethics on the other hand, are how you act upon these values. Within cultures the way law enforcement or even the court system deal with this issues are not done right in the way, in the manner of not being aware of the criminals within our corporate companies. They should be said by only a few forms of cultures but the most common issue within the justice system that is the biggest problem is death row. Emotion is the feeling you get when something occurs, such as when rape occurs the emotional damage is unexplainable. The absurdity of being able to get away with criminal behavior, is the emotional impact it makes on the victim or even the personality it