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For the purpose of this essay I will be considering Nils Christie’s (1986) concept of the ‘ideal victim’. In considering this concept, I will discuss what is meant by an ‘ideal victim’ and will also be focusing on the high profile Australian criminal case of Anita Cobby in Blacktown on 2nd of February 1986. Anita…

It has been seen all over the country, causing riots and looting. These controversial events that seemingly happen more often than ever. The racial discrimination of our criminal justice system some may say have hit an all-time high. Nobody is saying that everything about the system is wrong but one person summed it up better…

As part of my Aspects of family law module, I have been asked to write an assignment about children in the Criminal Justice System. This assignment will discuss as to when a child is to be held criminally responsible and how the process of detaining a child works. I will discuss the main children’s detention…

Case Study 3. 1 HY DAIRIES, INC. Discussion Questions: 1. Apply your knowledge of stereotyping and social identity theory to explain what went wrong here. The case covers issues of how perceptions affect individual decision-making process. As an introduction, Syd Gilman, the vice marketing president at Hy Dairies perceived Rochelle Beauport as a potential marketing…

Gary Watson presents a moral predicament currently in the social justice system, particularly relating to social injustice. On one hand, if the state unjustly treats the dispossessed, then this would undermine the justice of punishing criminals. On the other hand, if the state fails to convict and punish criminals among the dispossessed, then the peoples’…

17 year old Marty Tankleff woke up to a terrible sight on the first day of his senior year in high school. On September 7, 1988 he woke up to his mother bludgeoned to death and his father clinging to life in his office. From this day forward the Long Island teen’s life would change…

How would you feel if the police arrested kids all over our country to jail for just crossing the street the wrong way or pushing another kid on the playground? That is what is happening to many underage juvenile all over the United States; they are being sent to adult prisons for crimes that do…

According to the United Nation’s World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision, the world’s population currently sits at around 7.6 billion people, with the Earth’s carrying capacity maxing out at 9-10 billion people, we are at the brink of overpopulation.(United Nation’s World Population Prospects, 2017) Many countries, including China, realize this and have taken steps individually to…

Over the years, acts of corruption by the administrations in authority have for a long time shaken the public faith in government. However, the loss of public confidence is particularly acute when those involved are the police. Unfortunately, the police have acquired a dubious reputation. They have been accused of committing acts of corruption which…

There are multiple theories to explain criminal behavior, one of which emphasizes the impact of associations on individuals’ actions. To delve deeper into this theory, we will analyze robbery data from the Uniform Crime Report, which encompasses one of the four violent crimes. Additionally, we will give an outline of a study that investigates this…