Essays on Criminal Behavior

I think that parents shouldn’t be criminally liable for their children. There are many reasons to why they shouldn’t be help criminally liable. The one reason that sticks out to me the most is that there are many type of family make up and I…

Cliven Bundy, a long-time rancher became involved in an armed stand-off over the removal of his cattle, which he had deprived himself of after not paying his grazing fees which topped to about $1 million. The fees he owed also included fines that he had…

This hypothesis was advanced by a criminal reseracher named Marvin Wolfgang, in 1958. He recommended that conditions the misfortunes themselves proceed or start encounters to such an extent to the point that the obligated party is actuated racing into a strike on the individual being…

John Strang was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife back in 2015. The case went to Provincial Court in Regina. He was arrested by the RCMP in August 2015 and charged with second degree murder but was later given a life sentence…

Criminological theory is a goal to help one gain an understating of crime and criminal justice. Theories cover the making and the breaking of the law, criminal and deviant behavior, as well as patterns of criminal activity, they can be used to guide policy making,…

As a result of recent gun violence in schools’, the American people are forced to revisit the topic of how we can better protect students. Most of us readily agree that these tragedies are occurring all too frequently. Children should not be scared to enter…

Many individuals believe with certainty that they would never confess to a crime they are not guilty of. No innocent individual would wrongfully confess to a crime they did not commit, as they know they have done nothing wrong and are not guilty of any…

Every gun-related massacre brings out the most predictable and primitive reactions to what is and should be a very nuanced policy discussion. In one outrageously boisterous corner you have the hysterical elements of the left demanding the immediate implementation of gun regulation that would, by…

The Terry-Lynn Mcclintic case is what lead me to this inquiry, Terry-Lynn Mcclintic pleaded guilty to a charge of 1st-degree murder of eight-year-old Victoria Stafford. At the time of the murder, Mcclintic was only 18 years old, which is not much younger than most of…

Cases of conviction are usually not possible when the purported offender does not possess the requisite mens rea but has taken part in the actus rea for a number of reasons. Mens rea and actus rea usually go hand in hand when someone commits a…