In this paper I will be talking about a couple of different crimes against people. Also according to statistics where you are more lightly to be a victim of one of these crimes. These statistics also show if your nationality might have an impact on you becoming a victim. Crimes against people can come in different forms unfortunately and from different people. So you never know who might committee the crime or against whom unless they have a pattern in killing for instance serial killers usually have a pattern. Any direst harm or force against another person. For instance stalking is a crime against a person because it does not require a threat or physical force to be a crime. As you learn more about these crimes you will notice that for some of them you do not need to show malice. Malice means the intent to take someone life without legal justification or mitigation. Pretty much you know you know you wanted that person dead and you didn’t care if you got caught and planned the whole thing in advance. They are a lot of crimes against people but I will only talk about three different kinds of crimes against people they are aggravated assault, sexual assault, and homicide.
Aggravated assault is a serious offense in Georgia you may get anywhere from one year to twenty years in prison. Aggravated assault is defined as an attack by one person upon another with the intent of inflicting serious bodily injury. In an aggravated assault there will always be a weapon in use or to threaten with. According to Holzman black women are at a greater risk of being attack.
The data came from the second phase of a 1998 Department of Housing and Urban Development study that used geographic information systems to measure levels of crime in and aroun...
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...ndant acts in a careless manner and it results in a death of a person. When they say being reckless they mean acting in a manner that generates a significant risk to death. As explained above, if the suspect acted in a manner that is careless as to a high probability of death, they will be charge with second degree murder, not involuntary manslaughter.
Works Cited
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Murder should include the elements of purposely, knowingly, or recklessly under circumstances showing extreme indifference to the value of human life (Brody & Acker, 2010).
Sampson, R. J., Raudenbush, S., & Earls, F. (1997). Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy.
Rape is a virus that infects every nation, culture and society. It is constantly referred to as “the unfinished murder”, because of the deep state of despair the rapist leaves the victim in. There is no common identifiable trend that determines who will be a rape victim. Women are not assaulted because of their attitudes or actions, they are attacked simply because they are present. With rapists, just as with their victims, there is no identifiable trend. The old myth that only “sick, dirty, old, perverted men” commit rapes is a lie that society tells itself in order to sleep better at night. The startling truth is that most rapists work under a veil of normalcy. In order for the percentage of rapes to decrease, we have to change our ideas about rape and let go of the old myths of the past. And until this happens, rape will continue to plague our world at large.
These crimes (Aggravated assault, Non-Negligent/Negligent Homicide) are serious crimes in America and throughout other countries, but in America you would face time in prison for the crime you committed. You have aggravated assault which is crime that it an attempt to cause serious bodily injury to another or it is consider purposely knowingly or recklessly harm to the value of a human life. Then you have negligent homicide which is a crime that it much more less intent, but can be charge if the person causes death towards another through criminal negligence. Last of we Non-Negligent homicide which is way different from Negligent homicide, but it is a willful (non-negligent) killing of one human by another. Out of all these crimes each
First degree murder is classified by murder with a malicious intent; it also includes murder while committing a crime. Second degree murder is the act of killing a person with no prior intent. Involuntary murder, which is sometimes called third degree murder, is murder that results from a disregard for human life; this would include acts such as drunk driving. Finally, voluntary murder occurs when a person with no prior intent to kill enters a circumstance in which his emotions get the best of him and murder occurs.
These interests are violated by the intentional torts of assault, Battery, trespass, False Imprisonment, invasion of privacy, conversion, Misrepresentation, and Fraud. The intent element of these torts is satisfied when the tortfeasor acts with the desire to bring about harmful consequences and is substantially certain that such consequences will follow. Mere reckless behavior, sometimes called willful and wanton behavior, does not rise to the level of an intentional
For decades, researchers have tried to determine why crime rates are stronger and why different crimes occur more often in different locations. Certain crimes are more prevalent in urban areas for several reasons (Steven D. Levitt, 1998, 61). Population, ethnicity, and inequality all contribute to the more popular urban. Determining why certain crimes occur more often than others is important in Criminal Justice so researchers can find a trend and the police can find a solution (Rodrigo R. Soares, 2004, 851). The Uniform Crime Reports are a method in which the government collects data, and monitors criminal activity in the United States (Rodrigo R. Soares, 2004, 851). They have both positive and negative attributes that have influenced
Groth (1979) recognised four types of rapists; power-reassurance, power-assertive, anger-retaliation and anger-excitation. According to Groth’s typology, Marc Ronald’s fits into two of the typologies, power-assertive and anger retaliation. Power-assertive rapists are those who experience feelings of inadequacy and have poor social skills; they doubt their desirability so result to using aggressive behaviour towards the victim to reinstate fears regarding masculinity. (Robertiello & Terry, 2007, p.509). Sex offenders that fall into this typology often use verbal intimidation against their victims to feel a sense of power.
The text provides some evidence to support this theory in Table 14, ”Index rankings of reported crimes in police incorporating the neighborhoods.” This chart shows Projectville ranked highest in every category except motor v...
Travis, J., & Waul, M. (2002). Reflections on the crime decline: Lessons for the future. Proceedings from the Urban Institute Crime Decline Forum (pp. 1-38). Washington, D. C.: Urban Institute Justice Policy Center.
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General intent means that the prosecution must prove only that the accused offender meant to do the act that is prohibited by law. Most crimes require there be general intent. If the offender intended the act’s result is irrelevant (General Intent Crimes vs. Specific Intent Crimes, 2017). For an example, battery would be considered a general intent crime because state’s law defines battery as an “intentional and harmful physical contact with another person” (General Intent Crimes vs. Specific Intent Crimes, 2017).
Rape is a crime that is committed when someone is forced to have sexual intercourse through physical force or duress. “683,000 rapes occur every year” (CVS) and the national average for people accused of rape is eight years in a federal prison. Rape is a serious crime as well as other crimes but rape is considered to be a more serious and heinous crime along with murder etc. There are also different phases of rape that the victim may go through depending on how they handle it. Eight years in prison is not a good amount of time for someone to serve for what they did, all of the things that involve the process of rape should be incorporated into the sentence: force, against someone’s will, and most importantly the physical and emotional trauma that comes along with it that only the victim has to deal with. When someone is raped the person who raped them should receive the amount of years in jail as long as it takes the victim to get over the rape meaning that the court system should allow the victim to decide the criminal’s sentencing based off of if the victim feels safe or not when the attacker is let out of prison. Victims also go through five different stages and those stages can/will have a huge effect on a person’s mental health and they may be considered unstable after the attack. The national average for years served for rape should not be just 8; it should be raised higher on the victim’s behalf.
A crime consists of an actus reus and a mens rea, in order to obtain a conviction of a criminal charge there must be a concurrence between the actus reus and mens rea. The elements of a criminal act (actus reus) are: act, cause, social harm or omission condemned under a criminal statute (Lippman, 2012). The elements of mens rea: purposely, knowingly, recklessly, and negligently (Lippman, 2012). Attempted murder is the failed attempt to kill another human being deliberately, intentionally or recklessly (USLegal, 2014). “Georgia Code Title 16, Section 16-4-1: A person commits the offense of criminal attempt when, with intent to commit a specific crime, he performs any act which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of that crime. Section 16-4-2: A person may be convicted of the offense of criminal attempt if the crime attempted was actually committed in pursuance of the attempt but may not be convicted of both the criminal attempt and the completed crime….” (Young, 2014, para. 1-2).
According to statistics, 90% of rape victims are female, and over 98% of rapists are male. Because of our patriarchal society, the majority of all rapes happen to women. A patriarchal society is a predominantly male based society, meaning that men are deemed to be more superior t...