Thus week I was pretty familiar with the topics being discussed involving white collar crimes, organized crime, corporate crime etc. The information that I reviewed this week will be useful to me in my career as I am heading off to law school and I want to focus my studies on corporate law. I think that ethically speaking it will be easy for me to not be sucked in the world of financial greed as I feel those people were involving the Enron case. I feel that there were other people in the know who could have put a stop to this crime but were swayed to turn a blind eye due to a prosperous lifestyle.
I found it interesting to know that many of the rich and famous were also swindled out of millions of dollars. They wanted to believe so badly that their investments were being handled by an honest person who knew what it was to have that kind of money. We see everyday headlines involving movie stars etc who have been cleaned out financially from those they trust due to greed. I do hope that those who were affected by this scam do get some of their money recouped. The questions that I have about this weeks topics were about why the government was not watching these big companies under more scrutiny. It seems that corporations who deal with millions and billions of dollars of others peoples money should get audited more and the money trail needs to be looked at more closely. It would be interesting to find out which politicians benefited financially by these schemes.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Non-violent crimes and society
Annmarie Griffin
This week I was pretty familiar with the topics of non-violent crimes. I remember when I took white collar crime as a course and was shocked to find that many international crime syndicates are focused on internet crimes. I learned that accounts were being compromised and account numbers sold to make up some of the most notorious identity theft crimes of our time. I feel that it is the job of these banks and companies to ensure that our privacy is maintained at all costs. Security of its customers should be the their number one priority over making a profit. If they lose their customers then their ability to make money dwindles with each hit they take. I feel that as society deals with more and more financial stresses due to a sluggish economy that more and more non-violent criminal acts will take place. I think that society needs to encourage our law makers to change the sentencing guidelines in this nation. I was a little shocked to see the statistics on the prison building enterprise that is going on in California. It almost seems like they enacted that three strike law just to make sure that prison building remains profitable in that state. I feel that if they send less people to prison the national debt ceiling would lower and the economy would get a huge boost. This would probably create new jobs and people would look to working rather than committing crimes just to put food on the table. Desperation to survive would cease.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Violence in America
Annmarie Griffin
This week I was pretty surprised to find that America was a leader of industrialized nations that had the most violent crimes. I think that it pretty much has to do with the fact that we actually report these types of crimes to a national agency to record. I also believe that because America has such a diverse population with different backgrounds that it can create a cultural divide among it citizens.
If I think back to the days of the Wild West I would concur with the text in the book that states that people have been solving personal problems through violence for centuries. I also found that it said that homicide rates usually increase after a period of wartime. I think that it may be because countries at war may face a downturn in the economy causing economic strain for its citizens. I think that people under this kind of stress will not think before they react to negative attention given to them. I think this goes along with the statistics that say that crime is more prevalent among the lower class.
I think that power and economics play a huge part in why someone would commit violent offenses. The book touched on many different aspects of interpersonal violence such as rape, child abuse, elder abuse and murder. It described almost the same reasons for why violence occurs within each group. It seemed to all come back to a person wanting control of situations or others and financial stresses in the family or group dynamic.
The one thing that I found interesting was that smoking is a form of child abuse. I do agree that people should not be smoking in confined spaces where children. I am unsure if I would relate this to a form of child abuse. I think that America needs to re-evaluate it self defense laws. I have seen TV programs that document women in prison who killed their spouses due to both physical and emotional abuse. I feel that these women may have felt that if they did not defend themselves that they would end up dead. I think that these women should not face criminal sanctions when they can prove that their spouse had repeatedly put their life in danger. The book said that more attention is now being given to domestic abuse and I think that it has to do with the growing number of murder suicides in this nation. I also feel that many of these situation also happen due to financial stresses or the desire to have total control over another.
This week I was pretty surprised to find that America was a leader of industrialized nations that had the most violent crimes. I think that it pretty much has to do with the fact that we actually report these types of crimes to a national agency to record. I also believe that because America has such a diverse population with different backgrounds that it can create a cultural divide among it citizens.
If I think back to the days of the Wild West I would concur with the text in the book that states that people have been solving personal problems through violence for centuries. I also found that it said that homicide rates usually increase after a period of wartime. I think that it may be because countries at war may face a downturn in the economy causing economic strain for its citizens. I think that people under this kind of stress will not think before they react to negative attention given to them. I think this goes along with the statistics that say that crime is more prevalent among the lower class.
I think that power and economics play a huge part in why someone would commit violent offenses. The book touched on many different aspects of interpersonal violence such as rape, child abuse, elder abuse and murder. It described almost the same reasons for why violence occurs within each group. It seemed to all come back to a person wanting control of situations or others and financial stresses in the family or group dynamic.
The one thing that I found interesting was that smoking is a form of child abuse. I do agree that people should not be smoking in confined spaces where children. I am unsure if I would relate this to a form of child abuse. I think that America needs to re-evaluate it self defense laws. I have seen TV programs that document women in prison who killed their spouses due to both physical and emotional abuse. I feel that these women may have felt that if they did not defend themselves that they would end up dead. I think that these women should not face criminal sanctions when they can prove that their spouse had repeatedly put their life in danger. The book said that more attention is now being given to domestic abuse and I think that it has to do with the growing number of murder suicides in this nation. I also feel that many of these situation also happen due to financial stresses or the desire to have total control over another.
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