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The Pros And Cons Of Murder Victimization

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There are murder rates that are in different countries and in their biggest cities that have been analyzed, and with the next logical step and that is to zoom-in on the "United States." There are comparisons of the international that are in Tables 4.1 and 4.2 that have highlighted some of the facts that are well-known that some of the facts that are in parts of the world that have a lot more violence, or that some are more at peace than all the other states. But, "what about the spatial distribution of the lethal violence" that are in the United States? Is there some differences that are striking in the rates of murder from the different parts of the country, and from the different cities, and that is even from the …show more content…

"According to the researchers, the disparities are not simply a function of size but seems to be determined by conditions such as population density, the local economy (poverty and unemployment rates, wage scales, and the gap between rich and poor), special problems (the easy availability of illegal handguns, the extent of drug trafficking, and the ineffectiveness of the police strategies), traditions and customs (including the persistence of a subculture that condones violence), and demographic factors (especially divorce rates and the proportion of the population that is poor, male, young, and of a marginalized minority group) (see Tardiff, Gross, and Messner, 1986; Chilton, 1987; Land, McCall and Cohen, 1990; Messner and Golden, 1992; and Karmen, …show more content…

But the offenders never got want they wanted. So there was a "one-quarter (27 percent)" of those robbers that had stopped after the unsuccessful attempt to grab some money and some of the valuables. There was the typical victim that had lost about $150. Most of them have been relieved of their effects, like their portable electronics a camera gear, and their jewelry, they will also take purses and the wallets that will contain credit cards and the cash. Some of the victims of a robbery will never be fully recover any of those stolen items by themselves even after an investigation has been done by the police in the year 2008, in the last year with detailed analyses that were available (NCVS,

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The article by Karen Sternheimer provides some insight into the stats of murder in America. In doing so, the article also highlights some issues with the media today. We learn that the media turned a statistic in way to help themselves instead of properly providing the real statistic. What the media provided was based on a small number of people, but when looked at from a larger pool of people, it can be seen the opposite had occurred (the murder rate had decreased). We also learn that most murder victims are male, specifically, African American males.

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The author expands his explanations with various sociological theories. Moreover, he discusses why the poor urban areas attract police officers to patrol them more often. The content of certain chapters is used in sociological and political explanations of police brutality. Holmes, M. D., & Smith, B. W. (2008). Race and police brutality: Roots of an urban dilemma.

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Gary Ridgway Many people are murdered in the United States in a year. However, it seems to be decreasing slowly from year to year. “In 2011, an estimated 14,612 persons were murdered in the United States. This was a 0.7 percent decrease from the 2010 estimate, a 14.7 percent decline from the 2007 figure, and a 10.0 percent decrease from the 2002 estimate” (Murder).

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Death Comes for Everyone The Black Death in Europe caused around 50 million people to die. Prince Prospero is living in his castle having a good time while others are outside suffering from the Red Death. The are all having a good time care free because the castle supposedly has no way in or out.

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Why do US police keep killing unarmed black men? US police is under a serious controversy after the recent killings of Afro-American men; one in Tursa and another in Charlotte. Police is trying their best to defend their action of shooting the two men down and in this scenario, they have failed to cover the unjustifiable fatal killing of Terrance Crutcher in Tursa as the video of the killing has been aired on news channels which mirrors the reality of an innocent unarmed black man who despite of following the commands of the police, was shot to death. This is inexcusable and a true case of excessive force.

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Wong utilized coarsened exact matching, or CEM to increase rigor to the analyses. CEM can improve causal inference by statistically matches counties sanctuary counties to comparable unsancuary ones, which controls for differences in population, the foreign-born percentage of the population, and the percentage of the population that is Latino. However, correlation may not be causation because there may still be confounding variables to cause both independent and dependent variables. In this research, it is possible that because the median income in sanctuary counties is higher than in nonsanctuary counties, the crime rate is lower because people are much more educated so that their higher education cause both crime rate low and median income high. In a high-income community, it has better resource to keep residents safe so it can cause crime rate low, which can be a reverse

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I think this falls under question 3 and not question number 2 if we are going on question of murder statutes. However, I could be mistaken, but I will answer according to the murder statutes. For First Degree Murder, if I were a legislature would have to add that if a person intentionally killed another person and that murder was premeditated and the victim was a pregnant female, then the offender would also need to be charged with a second charge of First Degree Murder. There is debate on what is a viable fetus and what is considered life. Even though a fetus has not fully developed, they have been born premature and have been able to survive.

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Disparities in the criminal justice system are in part a function of the interrelationship between race and class and reflect the disadvantages faced by low-income defendants. This can be seen most prominently in regard to the quality of defense

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The sudden rise in deaths among African Americans in police shootings led to a hard questioning to why it was happening. Many of the African Americans who were in support of victims of the shooting blamed it on white cops being racist towards African Americans. In past events of police brutality such as , “ The deaths of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, and other unarmed Black victims at the hands of police sparked a national conversation about racism and policing”, which made African Americans to automatically assume that these white cops were killing African Americans because of their hate towards their race. This also led a step further towards investigating as the school of public health had informed the public that, “ A new study led by School of Public Health researchers finds states with a greater degree of structural racism, particularly residential segregation, have higher racial disparities in fatal police shootings of unarmed victims.” (School of Public Health).

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Minorities still experience oppression from the time they are arrested up to the time they are sentenced, which includes capital punishment. Studies carried out in order to explain the differences in racial victimization and offending show that, violence and crime is highly facilitated by the lifestyle or routine activities that individuals engage in (ASA, 2007). the convergence of the minority groups, which mostly consist of the weak and informal communities has greatly motivated offenders and at the same time exposed various groups (including the minority) to the threat of being victimized. Scholars have explained causes of racial disparities as mainly, the high levels of inequalities. Inequalities have led to poverty among the minorities, leading to frustrations among the people, which later results in cases of

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Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is a legal process in which a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime by the government of a nation. The United States is in the minority group of nations that uses the death penalty. There are thirty-three states that allow capital punishment and seventeen states that abolished it (Death Penalty Information Center). The morality of the death penalty has been debated for many years. Some people want capital punishment to be abolished due to how it can cost a lot more than life imprisonment without parole, how they think it is immoral to kill, and how innocent people can be put to death.

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Psychological Effects of Murder Once an individual has acted irrationally, opposite from one’s own preferences and beliefs, the individual will have a difficult time fitting into the society that they once associated themselves with. They will begin to feel isolated from their close friends and family members. This is commonly seen among criminals who do not medically suffer from a mental disorder, and have had time to reflect on their actions while incarcerated. Individuals who have committed first degree murder also have a difficult time controlling their inner thoughts and expressing their own emotions. This greatly impacts their day to day lives and often makes it unbearable for them to suppress their unconscious thoughts.

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