True Crime: A Criminal Justice Blog

Bullying entails aggressive and unwanted behaviors among school children which involve a perceived or real power imbalance. In many situations, the behavior can be repetitive or has the potential to be repeated for a prolonged period.   The stude nts involved, that is, the bullies and bullied may have severe prolonged problems.   In this case, this post will advance the concept of bullying in schools, particularly the effects it advances to the victims. Potential suicide: it is one of the worst things which the victims can do in response to bullying. It happens in many situations primarily because of depression and despondency . Moreover, the feelings of helplessness make a bullied person view suicide as the only potent option remaining. Suicide can take several days, months or even years and the affected learner decides extreme social ridicule and embarrassment ( Ttofi et al., 201 Physical injury: bullying on both males and females often lead to physical inju...

Police Brutality goes way back to the 1800’s . It was used as a tool to brutalize labor strikes to set an example for others who wanted to go strike. Police brutality is defined as the use of excessive physical assault or verbal assault during police procedures; such as apprehending or interrogating a suspect. Police are only allowed to use reasonable force and excessive force is considered unlawful, yet there are still countless reports excessive force being used.  In recent years there has been an influx of police brutality cases and in a lot of these cases, the officers in question aren’t held accountable. There can be many factors which would cause officers to brutalize a suspect the most common factors would be the area where the officer may be and racial profiling. Racialprofiling assumes someone is guilty or more dangerous based on racial characteristics. Racial profiling is most commonly associated to white officers. When the media gets ahold of police b...

Over the years, the United States justice system has incarcerated millions of people. But most importantly, some of these people have been victims of wrongful conviction because of one reason or the other. Hundreds of people who are wrongfully convicted end up spending many years behind bars for crimes they never committed. Exonerations based on DNA analysis have provided proof that wrongful convictions are real . Wrongful convictions result from systemic flaws in the criminal justice system some of which can be addressed. Wrongful convictions can be blamed on various factors, including. Eyewitness Misidentification.             This is the most significant contributor to wrongful convictions in the country. The human brain can fail to recollect the events as they happened. The eyewitness memory could also be riddled with errors, lapses and misjudgments especially if the event was traumatic. Inaccurate identification of su...

Capital punishment, otherwise called the death penalty or execution, is the sentence of death forced by courts as discipline for a wrongdoing. Individuals who get capital punishment regularly are convicted of murder and comparable capital crimes. Capital punishment or otherwise known as the death penalty, keeps on being an issue of contention and is an issue that will be wrangled in the United States for a long time to come. According to the  Death Penalty Information Center , Britain had a major influence on America's use of the death penalty more than any other country. When European settlers arrived to the what now is the United States of America, they brought the practice of capital punishment. Their first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Capital punishment has been utilized since ancient times for an assortment of offenses. The Bible says that demise ought to be done to any individual who k...

Many things have changed since parents went to high school. Older generations went from passing notes, to now having group chats on IPhones. One thing that hasn’t changed is those mean girls and boys.  Unfortunately, technology now gives them a whole new platform for their actions.  Cyberbullying is  the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. By definition, it usually happens amongst young individuals in middle and high school. Although bullying seems to be more of an issue with youth, adults can be bullied in different forms. Bullying might actually meet the meaning of digital harassment or cyber stalking, a wrongdoing that can have legal results and include prison time. Cyber bullying has become a huge problem for youth in the United States. The new generations of kids, otherwise known as millennials, are being brought up and raised with the web, defining their o...

The Death penalty is defined as the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime.A capital crime is a crime that is punishable by death. Capital crimes are mostly associated with first-degree Murder. There’s no doubt that that the death penalty is a punishment but can also be seen as a deterrent. If Its seen as a deterrent then why are crimes that warrant the penalty still being committed. Deterrents are meant to discourage someone from doing something and if that’s not the case with the death penalty then maybe other methods of punishment need to be explored. The death penalty has always been a relevant topic throughout U.S history . In the nineteenth century abolitionist movements were spreading throughout the states in the northeast and as a result, states reduced the number of capital crimes and built more penitentiaries. Another result was that Pennsylvania moved executions from the public eye and did it in private at correctional ...