Inventions and Modernizations Effective in Preventing Mudgett’s Crimes Due to today’s advanced inventions and modernizations, Mudgett would not have been able to commit the majority of the crimes he did back in the late 1800’s. Police and investigators today are much more capable of preventing murders and fraud than they were centuries ago, mostly due to modern technology. There are also various modernizations such as laws that have been passed since then that would have proven troublesome for the crimes Mudgett committed. The innovations today including credit checks, safety codes, and insurance audits would likely result in Mudgett’s arrest and prevent the majority of his crimes. If credit checks were in place back in 1800’s Mudgett …show more content…
Because the hotel was designed by Mudgett and not by a professional architect, the construction of the building would be deemed unsafe by inspectors out of pure lack of architectural knowledge; the building would be found to have many hazards to the customers, both intentional and unintentional. His building would have needed to be inspected before it could be used for commercial purposes and would have had a very hard time passing the inspection, thus preventing or at the least delaying it’s opening. The inspectors of the building would have found gas lines running throughout the structure and would have adamantly rejected the commercial use of the building due to its odd safety hazards. Inspectors of the building would also be wary of the surgical tables in an office with no reason behind medical accommodations in a hotel, only deepening their suspicions and increasing the likelihood of disapproving of the building’s commercial use. As if that wasn’t enough to warrant concern; the dynamics of the vault would prove inadequate for glass making purposes, the claimed purpose behind the vault. By the end of the inspection, the building would have a number of safety issues that would have to be resolved before it could be opened and the inspection itself would likely result in contact with the police due to the abnormalities inside the …show more content…
The innovations put in place after the 1800’s were aimed specifically to target loop holes and inhibit negligence, fraud, and murder. Credit checks would have made it impossible for him to have taken out as many loans as he did, and would have warded off those that had lent him furniture in hopes of later payment. If Mudgett could not complete the design of his hotel, it might not have attracted as many victims as it had. He would have also had to deal with safety codes when he tried to open his building for commercial use. And because he didn’t use a professional architect to build his hotel, it was inevitable that there would have been unintentional hazards to the customers that would be found by the inspectors. The inspectors of the building would have also found the gas lines and vault, which would lead to suspicions and ultimately the rejection of the building. Mudgett’s name on multiple life insurance policies would have led the insurance auditors to be wary of him in suspicion of fraud or perhaps worse, murder. The insurance auditors would have reported their findings to the police which would have most likely resulted in Mudgett’s early arrest. If these innovations had been around in the 1800’s, they would have inhibited Mudget from committing the majority of his crimes and probably saved many
Ethics is “a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of questions of right and wrong and how we ought to live” (Banks, 2013). Also it involves making moral judgments about what is right and or wrong, good or bad. In the process of everyday life, moral rules are desirable, not because they express absolute truth, but because they are generally reliable guides for normal circumstances. Ethics or moral conduct, are of major importance in the criminal justice field today. If the police force condoned unethical behavior, there would be very little, if any, justice being served. A system of rules and principles helps to guide in making difficult decisions when moral issues arise. Ethics has been shown to be a central component in decisions involving ethical dilemmas. It is “concerned with standards of conduct and with “how I ought to act”, and standards of conduct may vary among different societies” (Banks, 2013). An ethical dilemma arises only when a decision must be made that involves a conflict at the personal, interpersonal, institutional, or societal level or raises issues of moral character. Richard Hare argues that we initially use an intuitive level of moral thinking when we consider ethical dilemma. There are “six steps in analyzing an ethical dilemma and they would be as follow” (NASW, 2014):
The beautiful and luxurious Hotel Vendome was constructed in the Back Bay area of Boston, Massachusetts in 1871. It was constructed on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street. This elite hotel was accommodated by presidents and ambassadors and was unique to its time. During 1881 the hotel became even more luxurious and elite when it was expanded and remodeled. Thomas Edison even visited and electric lights were installed and inspected, making Hotel Vendome the most modernized hotel in the country. It was constructed of “brick arches, steel beams, and masonry walls with slate covering the mansard roofs to prevent flying firebrands from spreading fire from one building to another” (Mochen 2012). This solid outstanding building endured a very rough period between 1968 and 1971. This structure endured 6 fires during these 3 years, causing the Public Safety Department and licensing division of Massachusetts to pull the occupancy permits due to life safety risks. At the end of the year in 1971, however, a new owner was issued a permit to begin to transform Hotel Vendome into 124 residential apartments and a shopping mall. Later that same afternoon, the new owner opened the basement area to serve as a café while the rest of the structure began the new renovation.
A strong example of this would be the recent exploits at the Woodstock 99 music festival.
Crime Scenario: This case is about a missing 9 year old boy who lives with his mother, younger sister, and his mother 's boyfriend. The child has been missing for over 24 hours and the boyfriend seems very protective of the mother and answers most of the questions about the disappearance. The scene is overwrought with the media, neighbors, and volunteers offering to help with the search for the missing boy.
Reward power in Detective Doe’s case is very complicated because of the harm extrinsic rewards can have on a person’s intrinsic motivations (Vansteenkiste et al. 2006). Intrinsic motivation is key in Detective Doe’s line of work because many of the people who join the NYPD do so out of a sense of wanting to give back and help communities. By adding more extrinsic rewards or forms of compensation this will take away from the fulfillment of a task and the interest of it as well (Deci 1972). By keeping a focus on the intrinsic rewards and overall satisfaction of police work Detective Doe is able to properly influence and motivate his followers.
Weather and Crime: Relationship Between Hot Weather and Violent Crime Rates in the Rio Grande Valley
Canadians may be forced to consider their stance on euthanasia and assisted suicide this year as Quebec pushes forward with a bill that would implement this right. The article "The coming Euthanasia Debate", from the National Post, brings to light just how close parts of Canada are to changing its laws. The article also highlights some of the problems and concerns other states and countries have faced after legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide.
66. Americans rank crime among the nations greatest problems. Crime can touch people of all lifestyles, race, and ethnicity. Public polls further illustrate that people in America remain fearful of crime without realizing that serious crime has declined since the record-setting years of the early 1980’s. However, many people still believe that crime rates are rising in United States. The news media and politicians help to keep the public’s attention focused on crime. This attention also keeps people fearful of crime in America. FBI data further supports that there is no national crime wave to fear. Most people will not experience crime directly but instead learn about it indirectly. Researchers believe that conversations with friends may help to magnify the amount of local violence. Fear of crime forces many Americans to “stay of the streets” and away from dangerous areas.
Previously home to about 2 million middle-class residents, Detroit now has 700,000 residents. As the world’s automotive capital in early 20th century, new workers, namely immigrants and African-Americans, were attracted to the industrial city and led to the formation of ethnic and racial enclaves, which also spurred racial, urban, and spatial segregation. The stock market crash in 1929 heavily affected manufacturing sectors in Detroit, followed by deindustrialization, suburbanization, and the gradual decline of the auto industry. State investment has only been developing the downtown inner core for the wealthy white elite since then, leaving about 1/3 of the city vacant.
Parole (early release from prison) is often referred to as the back door to the US corrections system. The concept of parole dates back to the establishment of the Elmira Reformatory. The goal of the Elmira Reformatory was to rehabilitate and reform the criminal instead of following the traditional method of silence, obedience, and labor. Parole was originally set up to encourage prisoners to do well, keep their noses clean, and become model prisoners. Once a prisoner had shown rehabilitation and reform they were released prior to the execution of their full sentence.
The Uniform Crime Report, which was developed in the 1930s, is commonly used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a record of crimes committed all across the United States. These crimes, which fall under two categories, Part I and Part II offenses, are reported by local police to the Federal Bureau of Investigation each year. Part I offenses are considered to be the more serious of crimes recognized by society. Such examples of this are homicide, forcible rape, robbery, arson, motor vehicle theft, etc. Part II offenses are those that are considered less serious, such as fraud, simple assault, drug abuse, gambling, stolen property, embezzlement, etc. Part I crimes can also be subdivided into what are known as violent crimes and property crimes. (Barkan, 2012). However, there are both some positive and negative aspects of this type of crime measurement. The following paper will explore the small amount of pros and numerous cons associated with the Uniform Crime Report.
Gabriel Tarde believed that crime was a causation from how criminals learned. Criminal behavior and activities were learned through a society that would teach crime. As a young child growing up in a crime ridden society, they would learn to survive around their surroundings. Being associated to crime and or being sought out for are ways that criminals would learn negative behavior. We typically see these learning tendencies with gangs or groups of individuals that are actively engaged in criminal behavior. People who want to be associated with gangs are taught that lifestyle. Either through criminal activities such as robbery, drugs, and murder. Tarde theorized that people learn these types of activities over time and that this type of behavior
McLaughlin and Muncie (2012) in their work indicate that “crime is not a self-evident and unitary concept. Its constitution is diverse, historically relative and continually contested.” With this statement, the authors are describing crime as something which is not unique but, on the contrary, it is a fairly normal and widespread event. Moreover, they are stating that crime depends on time and culture and it is shaped by morality and social attitudes. Crime can be linked to different areas such as economics, social status and geography. In this essay, different themes will be discussed: for instance, the main ones are the history of crime, the different types of crime, how to measure crime and the various ideas of crime in different parts of the world.
Crime and Punishment and Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky's stories are stories of a sort of rebirth. He weaves a tale of severe human suffering and how each character attempts to escape from this misery. In the novel Crime and Punishment, he tells the story of Raskolnikov, a former student who murders an old pawnbroker as an attempt to prove a theory. In Notes from the Underground, we are given a chance to explore Dostoyevsky's opinion of human beings.
These problems in the quality of the equipment in the room could affect the business performance of the hotel as it will create bad reputation and this will make the customer spread the bad word or mouth of the hotel. This can be extremely harmful to the company as people would believe more of what their peers say than what companies advertise.