Corporation crime

Q: Can Corporations Commit Murder.
Q: If a corporation is considered as a person in law (as it is in the US) who can be held liable (responsible) if a corporation kills people.

A: Yes! In the states a corporation is considered to be a person, so they have all the same rights and responsibilities and can be held responsible if someone at their work dies. If someone was to die because of poor working conditions, people would immediately look to the CEO, but it can any ones actions that led to the death of that worker. The employer has a responsibility towards the worker, for example if a supervisor ignores poor working conditions and a worker dies, the supervisor will be at fault but also the person that hired them would be in more trouble. So it’s not really the corporation that kills the person it’s the people who work within the corporation. A corporation has laws stating safety measures which are to be met in order to ensure the safety of employees. And if a corporation deliberately disobeys those laws and rules. The public may hold them accountable for their actions and can charge them with murder.
For example in New York, Warner Lambert Company and several of its officials were indicted for second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after a 1976 explosion in the company's gum-making plant killed six workers. The prosecution alleged that the blast could be traced to the failure of officials to install an adequate exhaust system. So this was the corporations fault since they did not keep up their safety measures. Even though it probably wouldn’t hold up in court, because corporations have a sneaky way of wiggling out of things they are to blame. There’s always the way of arguing the ‘you are your own person thing” and how no one can make you do anything and how entering a dangerous mine is your fault because your putting yourself at that risk. However its also the corporations fault for not stopping you from going into a dangerous mine.

Auto Theft !!

Auto Theft

  Motor vehicle theft is one of the least likely crimes to be solved by police. Of all vehicle thefts in 2007, only 11% resulted in an accused person being identified by police. In 2007, police reported approximately 146,000 motor vehicle thefts an average of about 400 stolen vehicles per day. More than half (54%) were cars; another 35% were trucks, vans or SUVs; 4% were motorcycles and the remaining 8% were other types of vehicles. Auto theft has been decreasing since about the 1990's but for howlong?!

Auto theft it a global problem, however the rate of cars stolen in Canada is among the highest in the world. The top 10 highest auto theft rates per 100,000 population in Canada 2007 came from

1. Winnipeg, MB     1,714
2. Abbotsford, BC    1,001
3. Edmonton, AB     832
4. Regina, SK          734
5. Calgary, AB          638
6. Vancouver, BC      630
7. Saskatoon, SK     615
8. Montreal, QC        600
9. London, ON          489
10. Hamilton, ON        480

If you drive a broken down car or a luxury car you can still be a target. When people steal cars they are either looking for a thrill or a way to make money by selling your car for parts. So of course if they plan on selling your car parts for money they will mostly likly be wanting a car in good condition. However if the theif is young they may be looking for a thrill or a way of transportation. So it really doesnt matter what your car looks like. ICB's annual list of top 10 most stolen vehicles in canada is

1. 2000 Honda Civic SiR 2-door
2. 1999 Honda Civic SiR 2-door
3. 2002 Cadillac Escalade 4-door 4WD
4. 2004 Cadillac Escalade 4-door 4WD
5. 2005 Acura RSX Type S 2-door
6. 1997 Acura Integra 2-door
7. 2000 Audi S4 Quattro 4-door AWD
8. 2003 Hummer H2 4-door AWD
9. 2006 Acura RSX Type S 2-door
10. 2004 Hummer H2 4-door AWD 

To prevent your car from being stolen make sure you always roll up your windows and lock your car doors when your not in the car. Keep your vehicle registration and proof of insurance on you, in a wallet or purse at all times. Never leave these documents in the glove box. To prevent a theif from towing your car, when you park turn your wheels on a sharp angle and apply your emergeny brake.
Do not leave valuable items such as laptops, sports equipment or packages in clear view. Keep them in your trunk or out of sight so people wont be more tempted to break into your car. Also park in a well lit busy area.

Comdom Sabotage!

Comdom Sabotage in Nova Scotia

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/09/28/18752086.html?&pic=0

     This news story is about a 41 year old man who pokes holes into this girlfriends condoms to try and safe their relationship with pregnancy. He was charged with sexual assault for putting his girlfriends life in danger since she got pregnant and she wasn't ready for it and got an abortion.

      The motivation in this story i think is power and control. Hutchinson wanted control over the relationship so he decided to force his girlfriend to have a baby so they would stay together.

      The roots of this behaviour i think is from past family memories. Maybe Hutchinson cant get girlfriends easy and him being older wanted to settle down with a family. And perhaps his family was a happy family and he just wanted to have one of his own before it was to late. So even though Hutchinson put his girlfriends life in danger by poking holes into her condoms, i think he was only doing it out of love and wanting to be with her. Which could also lead to obsession. Maybe he was obsessed with her?!

Hypermasculinity

Hypermasculinity!

Q: Explain how sexual behaviour could be socialized in males. Do you think that males who commit sexual assault are "hypermasculine"? Why and where do men learn "hypermasculine" behaviour?


 A: Men have been taught that they need to be strong and more powerful over women. And if that means being more dominant over them to get what they want so be it. Sexual behaviour is socialized in men because men have a drive to impregnate as many females as possible, to create as many offspring with his genes as possible. Therefor men have a minimal criteria for sexual desire; basically, they are concerned with the women's anatomy. As long as the women looks young and healthy she is desirable.

Hypermasculinity is the exaggeration of male stereotypical behaviour such as (physical strength, aggression, body hair, body odor also the search for power. I do think males who commit sexual assault are hypermasculine since most of sexual assaults are men who have power or are looking for it. However there are still different cases where power and control are not the answer but drugs, anger, loneliness and alcohol are.

Men will learn at a young age that they need to be stronger and more powerful then women, even though they might learn then that its to protect women it can still lead to sexual assault.
Parents may raise their children to think they need to be Strong and successful to achieve their goals in life, friends and other parental units around them (teachers) may also encourage this. Also, movies and t.v shows show young men how they should act and look.

Mass vs Serial

The 411 on Clifford Robert Olson Jr and Marc Lépine

    Clifford Olson was a sexually deviant and murderous criminal. He was accused for the sexual attack of 17 year old Judy Kozma in 1974. Even though Olson killed many other children all under the age of , around 11 victims the police suspect. Olson could only be accused for one murder since it was the only murder he fully confessed to.

Levin & Fox's typology of serial killers say that the motives of a serial killer are generally placed into four categories. Visionary, Mission-oriented, hedonistic and power control. However other characteristics can overlap with these as well. I think Olson killed all those people for those exact reasons. He wanted power control, pleasure, was involved with the supernatural or drugs. Also maybe he saw himself as someone  attempting to change society, which can often be used to cure the societal ill.

     Then on the other hand there's Marc Lépine who one day decided he wanted to go on a killing spree. 25 year old Lepine entered his school (December 6th 1989) and killed all the females he found with his Strum Rugger Mini-14, .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle. This event took about only 20min and all because Lepine hated feminist and thought all females were feminists. After going through the school killing all the females he could find,  Lepine took his own life. Some psychologists had said to believe that Lepine had catathymia, which is an emotionally charged idea that temporarily overwhelms a person and pushes him off balance. Which doesn’t excuses Lepine's actions but maybe explains how such sudden violence took place in the way that could help us prevent it.

However unlike serial killers there usually isn’t a sexual motive to individualize mass murderers. Most of the time it’s just a cry for attention or a belief they think is right.

    Things we can learn from these two very different individuals is that you shouldn't take you life for granted because you never know when someone will try and take it from you. Also that watching out for other people and telling someone if u think something is wrong. Its hard to prevent murders unless you actually catch the bad guy. However Being wise and calling 911 can help prevent one or more murders. Also being brave and testifying as a witness and putting the bad guy in jail will prevent that person to do future crimes. And lastly how can we forget to always teach your children to care for other people and not hurt other people.

Short and Long term impacts!

Monday, September 26, 2011

Let me tell you about a girl named Sally.

There's someone very close to me, who has been there for me for a very long time. Her name isn't really Sally but for confidentiality reasons it will be in this story. When Sally was little, probably just around the age of 8 or 9. Her parents signed her up for a big brothers program. Sally loved it she went every week and she went to baseball games and zoos with her "big brother". However as the time went on, her "big brother" decided that he wasn't having as much fun as he could. So he forced Sally to give him oral pleasure and to allow him to sexually assault her. He threatened Sally that if she ever told anyone he would kill her. Every week Sally refused to go with her "big brother" but her parents shrugged it off because you see Sally had liked going before so when she tried to tell her parents she didn't want to go each week they thought it was just because she was bored of it or didn't feel like it. Her parents thought it was good for her to go, that it would make her a better child. So every week Sally was getting re victimized.
This crime caused her to become heavy into drugs, sleeping with people at a young age to get high. She could never hold a real job and she became a lesbian because she was scared of men.
Now years later ,after a sudden reminiscent. Sally Finally decided to tell her mom what happened all those years ago. Her mind had repressed it so much that she never thought about what happened to her when she was young until she saw a picture of the guy that had done this to her. He was accused for rape and his picture was on the news. When Sally saw his picture she had a mental break down. She started having Asama attacks and couldn't breath. She would have ran over to the hospital (luckily she lived right beside it) and the next day she called her mom. Her mother hadn't know about any of it for 13 years and when she herd that her daughter had been sexually assaulted by the guy that she was making her daughter go to every week she felt like the worst mother ever. Then she also found out that her husband at the time was also sexually assaulting their daughter and that Sally never told anyone because she was scared, threatened also her mind locked all those bad memories behind bars. Sally is still going through long term impacts on what happened because shes trying to sue the man that did this to her. She is having troubles keeping her relationship and her job. And she sleeps all day and hides away from her family and friends. Its very hard to see her like this especially since I'm very close to her.

Maybe is Sally would of gotten counseling or told someone about what happened she would of dealt with it better instead of having a mental breakdown. But sometimes its not that easy. Harper from the episode "closure" also changed her life because she was a victim of crime. She might of not changed as dramatically as Sally but Sally was also living with it alone. I think to soften the impacts of crime on victims, they should talk to people, have people around them, comfort them, help them with whatever they need, and show them the truth about life and that it can be a wonderful place.

What are the short and long term impacts on victims of Crime?

In the law and order episode we watched on Friday a girl named Harper went through the long and short term impacts of a rape victim. A short term impact she faced was when she had to retell her story to the police multiple times so they could file it under the right case. Also when she went to the hospital to get a rape kit done to find any evidence. This caused her to relive the scenario so it was like she was getting re victimized. After all the stories were told and the evidence was gathered that they could. Harper had a life makeover and changed her way of living. She started wearing running shoes to bed and left her boyfriend because she couldn't be with him intimately anymore. She got her hair cut and changed her wardrobe, she got multiple locks on her door and hid from society. These are affects of long term impacts. Harper was trying to change the person she once was. Maybe hoping that if she changed enough that everything that happened before would just go away. This shows fear and long-term stress. Harper also said that if she ever saw the man that raped her she would be able to spot him in a crowd. however when the time came
(6 months later) to spot the man that raped her. She didn't know who he was. She thought he wasn't in the suspect room even though he was standing right in front of her. So maybe her mind blocked his image from her mind, maybe it was pushed back so far in her mind that she couldn't remember his face. Maybe she was hoping he wasn't in there so her mind led her to believe that he wasn't. Either way when Harper went to go look at the suspects she couldn't pin-point him out.

 

The Truth About Crime!!

Monday, September 19, 2011

So why does crime happen?

Crime happens when u mix opportunity, ability and desire!
There are many reasons and situations for a person to commit a crime. Sometimes crimes can be carefully plotted or just from pure impulse. For example if a person has a mental illness they might not be able to control themselves, but also sometimes a person can know exactly what they are doing but might be doing it out of greed, revenge or anger. 
Even though laws are there to help lower the crime rate by threatening punishment, they can still be broken.