It’s raining. The drops trickle down the side of the window wall while some roll into the hut, but are too blurred for Sanjay to watch each one as it rolls down. He is much more aware of the drops he feels gliding down his own face, rolling off of his eyelashes, giving him a salty taste on his lips. His collar is wet, yet there is not one thing he can think about but his brother. He can’t stop thinking of yesterday. He still remembers the look on his brothers face as he lowered his eyes to the ground in shame, the confusion yet crystal clear understanding of what his brother was trying to say. He remembers the way his heart had dropped, the way he was overcome with a feeling of shame and guilt for his brother, the way for a minute he couldn’t recognize his own identical twin as if he had never seen him before in his life. Sanjay remembers the small police station vaguely. The police had put up signs around town asking for cheek samples from residents of the village to help them narrow down their search for the person responsible for the rape of a 16-year-old girl in town named Niti. Sanjay knew her from school, and wanted to do something to help his classmate get justice. That’s why he had set out to the police station unhesitatingly, until Sanjeev grabbed him as he stepped foot into the station. “No, please don’t Sanjay. For me.” Sanjeev had pleaded. And that’s when Sanjay knew, his own brother, his own blood, was responsible for such a sickening act. And that was when his brother ran away, and no one in the village has seen him since. Sanjay was overwhelmed, as he sat gazing out the window, by what he knew and what no one else had any idea of. He was beyond disgusted with his brother, but yet it didn’t make sense how Sanjee... ... middle of paper ... ...nt in the womb. After they confirmed that the baby was not Sanjeev’s or Sanjay’s they freed them. They then carried out a gang raid for the next couple days and arrested all the gang members. Sanjay and Sanjeev sat together at dinner with their family. As they sat side by side, they knew that what had happened had not only brought them closer but instilled in them a trust for each other that no one could come in between. They not only knew each other well but also trusted that their common genes, or their “shared blood”, will help them always identify each other even in a large crowd. Works Cited Cohen, Patricia. “Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look .“ The New York Times. The New York Times, 19 June 2011. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. Starr, Barry. "Genetic Sleuthing, Or How To Catch The Right Identical Twin Criminal." QUEST. KQED, 25 Feb. 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.
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Boo’s story begins in Annawadi, a trash-strewn slum located by the Mumbai International Airport. This “sumpy plug of slum” had a population of three thousand people living within 335 huts (Boo, 2011, xi). The land owned by the Airport Authority of India and was surrounded by five hotels that Abdul’s younger brother described as “roses” versus their slum, “the shit in between” (Boo, 2011, xi). Abdul is a Muslim teenage who buys garbage of the rich and sells it to recyclers to support his family. Abdul’s family, Muslim, is a religious minority in the slum of Hindus; in fact a major element of tension within the book can be distilled to these Hindu-Muslim tensions. This difference in religion makes Abdul fearful of his neighbors for two reasons: (1) they would attempt to steal the family’s wealth, and (2) if Abdul were caught, he would not be able to support his family. The other major character was Fatima, a woman who burned herself by attempting suicide through self-immolation. She accused Abdul, his father, and sister of beating and threatening her; in India, it is against the law to convince someone else to kill him or herself. With a corruption-ridden legal sys...
Nature versus nurture has been argued in attempt to understand how criminals behave. The theory of what influences psychopath and serial killers’ violent and destructive pathways has not been agreed on till this day. Criminals such as psychopaths and serial killers have been researched for the past two decades. Scientists have found that genetics is a determining factor of who becomes a serial killer. It is important to understand the determinants involved within a serial killer, because if these social and environmental causes are discovered, they can be altered and controlled to reduce crime (Lykken, 1993). With more studies, we would therefore prevent mass murders and could assist in significant reductions of crime within society.
Crime has always been a hot topic in sociology. There are many different reasons for people to commit criminal acts. There is no way to pinpoint the source of crime. I am going to show the relationship between race and crime. More specifically, I will be discussing the higher chances of minorities being involved in the criminal justice system than the majority population, discrimination, racial profiling and the environment criminals live in.
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A day I’ll always remember… when Priten, Pooja’s brother, came home to a party which my sister Tasreen held, with his two lifelong loves… Pooja and a bottle of Jack Daniels. We all thought that Pooja was his girlfriend, but as the night progressed, we noticed Priten paying much more attention to Jack… and Pooja was left unattended sitting on the balcony stairs… Salim came onto the scene, baseball cap carefully placed to cover his bald spot, surveyed the terrain and pounced on the stair next to Pooj… Pooja was startled… ‘hi’ Salim said, ‘you have really nice feet’… Pooja’s startled...
They also explore the myths about the connection between genetic factors and criminal behavior. The first myth they looked at was “Identifying the Role of Genetics in Criminal Behavior Implies That There Is a “Crime Gene.”” This myth is dismissed because of the unlikelihood that that a single gene is responsible for criminal behavior. The second myth they look at is “Attributing Crime to Genetic Factors is Deterministic.” This myth is also easily dismissed because of the fact that just because someone has a predisposition to a certain behavior doesn’t mean that the person will take on that behavior.
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I now know that criminology prefer to highlight the correlations between crimes’ social climates and criminals’ psychological states of mind. While some argues that criminal behavior is a result of individuals’ association with criminal peers, other claims that crime is a reflection of an individual’s genetic disadvantages. I have come to learn that there are no universally agreed formulas on decoding crimes and criminal behaviors. What we have, however, is a manual full of academic opinions and subjective views that have emerged alongside of the development of criminology. At the same time, the volume of conflicting perspectives that I have stumble upon in studying criminology reminded me again that the success of our current assessment models has yet to be determined. Thus, the study of criminology is an appropriate practice that will further prepare me to conduct meaningful research on legal studies and to provide accurate and in-depth findings in the near
Urvashi Butalia in her book, The Other Side of Silence, attempts to analyze the partition in Indian society, through an oral history of Indian experiences. The collection of traumatic events from those people who lived through the partition gives insight on how history has enveloped these silences decades later. Furthermore, the movie 1947 Earth reveals the bitterness of partition and its effect of violence on certain characters. The most intriguing character which elucidates the silence of the partition is the child, Lenny. Lenny in particular the narrator of the story, serves as a medium to the intangibility created by the partition. The intangibility being love and violence, how can people who grew up together to love each other hate one another amidst religion? This question is best depicted through the innocence of a child, Lenny. Through her interactions with her friends, the doll, and the Lahore Park, we see silence elucidated as comfort of not knowing, or the pain from the separation of comfort and silence from an unspoken truth.
When they go with them in their respective houses, their children as well as maids start ill-treating them. Raj and Pooja feels exhausted and wants to get rid of this loneliness. While living with the second son, Raj used to go to a cafe, run by Paresh Rawal and Lilette Dubey. They use to call him ‘couch potato’ i.e. big brother. To kill his leisure time Raj starts looking upon the cafe’s account and also writing a book on family values and thoughts.