...Javonte Moore, Percy Jones and Shastri Gill robbed a store. Moore and Jones commented the robbery while the defendant, Gill, was the getaway driver. Prior to the event, all three men met up at an apartment 20 minutes before to rehearsal the robbery. Soon after, Gill entered the store 10 minutes before the robbery to scoop out the targeted store. Thereafter, Moore and Jones walked into the store waving guns demanding money and merchandise. During the event, Moore placed his gun to the back of one of the clerks. Jones placed his gun to the back of the other clerks head. There was no physical harm reported. After the crime was committed, Moore and Jones fled the scene with the help of the getaway driver, Gill. All three men returned back to...
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...have committed. The purpose of sentencing is to make the punishment harsh enough so the criminals will want to steer away from ever repeating the crime they committed (University of Phoenix, 2012). Sometime this can be hard because the criminals have rights to as well as needing rehabilitation. The following paragraphs will contain a discussion on a certain bill that is trying to be passed, something that occurs on a regular basis in the United States. If the legislature were to pass a bill that allows the maximum prison term to be doubled for armed robbery they would be making a mistake. Yes, armed robbery is a serious crime and would also be an attempt to hurt or murder someone, however doubling the maximum prison term would not be worth the other problems it would cause. There are already overcrowding issues in most of the states in the US especially states like California. There are criminals out there committing more serious crimes that should be punished more harshly. I see nothing wrong with increasing the prison term but not doubling it. I understand the bill is to double the maximum term but if the term were to double the maximum term, this could be 30 years in some states like California ("Maximum Prison Term for Armed Robbery", 2013). Criminals do need to be punished for the crime they have committed but the punishment needs to be based on the criteria. Obviously, if a criminal injures or murders someone during an armed robbery this deserves more punishment...
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... CJA/314 September 27, 2014 Armed Robbery, a serious offense, something that no one would ever want to happen to them or anyone else. It would be consider a terrible experience, something that would stick to someone for a long time; it’s nothing someone gets over in a day or so. It can traumatize anyone. They would be scared and, or even paranoid thinking that it might happen again. While the robber, doesn’t care who it affect, what damage it can cause. To me is a selfish act, these victims that they attack, who worked hard for what they have just and just for you to come and take it at gunpoint or other weapons, is complete inexcusable act. In order to reduce the numbers of armed robberies, it is important to research ways or different methods to lower the rates of this happening to anyone else. The objective of this bill is to double the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of an armed robbery. The goal to have a harsher punishment for offenders that are convicted of armed robbery. I would have to disapprove this bill on the ground that just making a harsher sentence would deter people from committing the crime of an armed robbery. I do believe that move prevention, education and changing the society view that allow this behavior to seem ok. As the criminologist advisor I would not recommend, that doubling the maximum prison term for anyone convicted of armed robbery. “Studies have been show that a longer sentencing does not really reduce the number of crimes...
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...thousand armed robberies that are registered each day in the files of agencies around the United States. This is a major concern to law enforcement and the citizens of the United States. The government is taking drastic measures to reduce the opportunity, capability, and intent of having armed robbers victimizes citizens for their own wrongful way of happiness. The government is implementing a bill, that when caught doing an armed robbery it will double the time of incarceration. As the right hand man of the state legislature I am a criminologist advisor, I oversee the concern, pain, and panic of the citizens when it comes to armed robberies. Therefore, the legislature is creating a bill for congress to pass. When it passes, it will double the years of prison time for a convicted armed robbery felon. The minimum sentence for a convicted armed robber is two to nine years depending the severity of the crime, and the maximum sentencing for an armed robbery is twenty-five years to life in prison also depending on the severity of the crime. The government is proposing for whoever commits an armed robbery of any type of severity of crime; the minimum sentencing is going to be twenty years behind state bars, and the maximum sentencing for an armed robbery will be life in prison with or without the possibility of parole depending on the severity of the crime. This is a positive drastic measure on which the government is taking to reduce the abundance of armed robberies in this country...
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...convicted of armed robbery. My boss knows the bill is popular, but wonders if it will do much good. I will explain what recommendations I would make, the reasons for my recommendations, and is it a good bill or a bad bill to pass and how effective the bill will be. The demonstration of burglary can happen pretty much anyplace and at whatever time. Burglaries can take put in private or open spots. Burglary is the robbery from an individual by utilization drive and trepidation. The level of power or apprehension does not need to be extensive to advocate the statutory necessities. Criminal acts are carried out every day around the country. Law implementation orgs, criminal equity framework, and people in general are ones that has and will consistently manage wrongdoing in America. The point of sentencing is to serve as a hindrance to the criminal from carrying out a criminal demonstration. The state government is making lawful move, by executing a charge that will twofold the greatest sentencing for somebody indicted arm burglary. As a criminologist guide to the state governing body, I have been tasked with composing a proposition to the bill being referred to. The base discipline for arm theft is three to seven years relying upon the seriousness of the wrongdoing, and the greatest sentencing is twenty-five years to life in jail additionally relying upon the seriousness of the wrongdoing. The legislature is suggesting that the base sentencing is expanded to twenty...
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...and without flaw. However, it must be acknowledged that the vast majority of these policies and legislation have their downsides and adverse effects along with their positive outcomes. Robbery, by definition, is someone taking another's person's property by the use of intimidation or violent force. Armed robbery is defined as robbery at gunpoint or with the use or the intent of a weapon. Currently now in play is the three strikes law; which differs from state to state. In 1990, the three strike law became very popular, causing a massive growth within the prison system. With the popularity of the law, lawyers and law professionals had come to know the three strike law as the habitual offender law. The three strikes law states that a person convicted of a grave crime on three or more separate occasions will receive the maximum sentence possible. The reason for this law is automatic and longer incarceration periods for any person committing three or more felonies. The objective of this bill I would like to propose would be to alter the length of time served for those convicted of armed robbery. If this bill were approved it would extend the length of time, an offender serves. The offenders convicted of armed robbery would serve a sentence double the length of the current sentencing. For this bill to be put into place, there would need to be federal regulations met to comply with the Federal Court decision that the state has to abide by. The goals of this bill are...
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...knew the path that I had taken would soon come to a life altering halt. The first crime that I committed was snatching a gold chain and running. Although it was small in nature, it was the confidence booster that I needed to unleash a flood of similar crimes. A pure adrenaline rush to almost get caught but almost only counts in horse shoes. A purse, a wallet, loose change and even weapons, I wasn’t prejudice in what I took or who I took it from. Just as long as I sharpened my skills and mastered the first level of my new found career. At this point I moved to more physical crimes that brought in more money like, breaking an entering and strong arm robbery. These particular crimes could not be reported just think about it. Have you ever heard of a dope boy calling 911 because he got robbed of his product?... The more robberies I pulled off the better I became at my craft but along with that my name got hot in the neighbor hood and was ringing at the LRPD. Because of that I hit a couple of small businesses that did not bring in much money. With money being the fuel to my fire, I felt forced to move into a unfamiliar area sooner than I had planed. After a few days of research i carefully picked through my friends and family to organize a squad that would help me to achieve the biggest crime of my career, manufacturing counterfeit money. A close friend of mine had 3 ink-jet printers and a couple of computers at his recording studio. I printed a sheet of $10's then $20's,...
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...Prime Financial Credit Union’s Robbery Crisis Management Strategy Submitted by: Stephanie Koenig, Amy Seipp, Michael Hill, John Holmes Jr., & Charles Tate Introduction Crisis management is a complex process that requires competencies of individuals throughout and beyond the organization. When asked about their preparedness in the event of a crisis, banks will often point to plans prepared by operations officers, data processing managers and human resources supervisors. In the case of an uneventfully unplanned bank robbery at your local federal bank, being able to react quickly, efficiently and in an organized manner may result in defusing an unpleasant situation quickly, or at least in mitigating the overall adverse publicity received by your organization. If you are not organized and not cognizant that a crisis will arise at your institution, then your first reaction will be to panic. Banks and thrifts are tested in the marketplace by adverse circumstances. Those institutions with crisis management task forces in place can react in a manner that will mitigate the adverse circumstances facing the organization. Potential Crises Bank robberies are relatively uncommon: only about 2 of every 100 robberies are of a bank. Although violence is rare, employees and customers are at some risk of injury. If nothing else, being victimized can be terrifying. In addition, bank robberies can invoke fear in the community at large, as most are well-covered by the media...
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...The quiet and serenity of a peaceful Sunday morning was broken when two men attempted a daring heist. Father and I was at Golden Jewellery choosing a birthday gift for mother when we heard someone demanding all of the people in the shop to kneel down. When we turn around, we saw two robbers wearing a ski masks, one armed with the Malay long knives, otherwise known as ‘parangs’, barged into the store, threatening its staff and customers to crouch in a corner while they fill their bags up with jewellery. One of them grabbed the store manager by his tie and held him hostage. Dressed totally in black, the duo seemed to know the timings and workings of the shop rather well. Inept security guards could not prevent the two robbers, who were pointing the sharp edge of the knife at their neck, from forcing their way in. Pandemonium broke out when the robbers smashed the glass displays and emptied them of precious gems and jewels by using the emergency hammer. The staff watched the fearsome looking masked bandits in horror as they swept the store clean. Other customer did not dare to utter a single sound, I was also frighten to my wits, I could even hear my heart palpitating. In fleeting minutes, the heist was over and they were going to leave the crime scene in a motorbike. Just as they were about to go, the worker press the alarm button and some of the policeman who are nearby there gave chase. The robbers took off their heels and sprinted towards their motorcycle which they had...
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...On the 21 of May 2013 bob went to a restaurant and sat down and was waiting for the waiter to come serve him any hour went by and still no one had came up to him and asked him what would you like, about a hour and half later the manger comes up to bob and says `hey my name is David and I’m the store manager and I would like u to leave as u won’t be able to afford our food in this restraint’. So bob decide to leave without getting any food, bob felt really powerless with having any money. The next day bob was sitting at the park and trying to get some money so he can eat, as he was looking around he sees David the manager from the restraint yesterday sitting at the tree reading the newspaper and drinking his coffee and then bob thought to himself that he wishes he had a life like that being able to have a job and having money that he could buy food and a nice place to live instead of a cardboard box. Now bob is trying to be successful and get a job but he doesn’t know how to get one, he has started talking to people about giving him a job but they just rejected him because he has no nice cloths and he is very dirty. He has started to try really hard to find some nice clothes so he can find himself a job, so he can get some money and do something with his life. Couple of weeks after bob counted his money that he had got off people to get some new cloths but he only had $10 and that wasn’t enough to get him cloths so he spent that money on food and started thinking of a new way...
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...Thanks to motion pictures and of such fictions as, “Treasure Island”,”Peter Pan” and “Pirates of the Caribbean”, the pirate of imagination is a romantic blend of many details. He is pictured as a swarthy ruffian with a black beard or a fierce mustache. He wears gold earrings and a large hat and he carries a dagger with a pistol on his belt. Often giving orders such as, “Burry the treasure” or “Walk the plank”. He is often depicted as a cavalier in high boots and an elegant over coat. The pirate of imagination and in that of motion pictures is that of a thief but the audience grows to like him though the movie as he is usually very good looking, sly ,stealthy while saving a “damsel in distress” and or there is a love story in the script. In actuality, pirates were more often desperate, drunken men who dressed in tatters, wasted food and money and were dishonest outlaws who rarely got the girl unless she was forced. Pirates often turned to piracy in protest against oppressive conditions at home or on merchant ships. The life of a free unrestrained outlaw is what they sought. While there aren’t very many real pirates left in the world today we do still have a major problem with piracy. Pirates no longer require war ships, daggers or swords just computers and advanced technology. People who rebel against the common laws of our nations and who only care about filling their pockets and about their own well-being. Today’s pirates are pirates of technology, stealing information from...
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...Additional Course Materials – Case Report ANYTOWN SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT FINAL REPORT OF INVESTIGATION CASE NUMBER: 12345 DATE OF INCIDENT: January 11, 2013 LOCATION: 5000 block of main OFFENSE: STRONGARM ROBBERY DEFENDANT: John L. Brown DOB 06-26-60 Greenbrier, TX 77021 VICTIM: James Black DOB 08-01-33 SYNOPSIS: At or about 11:38am on January 11, 2013, John Brown enters the business of Bob’s Fine Wines. He displayed a handgun, and demanded money from the owner. WITNESS LIST * JOE JACKSON 1233 W. Greenfield Ave (713) 600-9876 Investigator Jackson can testify to the entire investigation. * ATHONY KIRK 1511 W. Morgan Lane Investigator Kirk can testify to the entire investigation. * JEROME LANGLEY Riceland Police Department Lt. Langley can testify to the initial investigation at the scene. * SHERMAN JONES Riceland police Department Officer Jones can testify to the initial investigation at the scene. * OPAL LEE Riceland police Department Officer Lee can testify to the initial investigation at the scene. * HELLEN BANKS 1204 Sweet Street Houston, TX (832) 700-2222 Ms. Banks can testify...
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...children. He works as a gardener and is taking a degree in English Literature. I started getting into trouble when I was at school – shoplifting, burglary, that kind of thing. At 14 I was sent to a detention centre for three months, after which I went straight back into petty crime. When I left school I had no qualifications and joined a Hell’s Angels motorcycle club. By now I was committing more serious offences, making the lives of my mother and four sisters an absolute misery. But for me it was all just a game of cops and robbers. I was in and out of jail and even committed a serious offence while on the run: that was when I hurled a table into the air in a pub and a young girl had her face badly lacerated. By 22, as a result of armed robbery, I received an eight-year sentence. I felt no remorse and from day one I rebelled against the prison. I was proud of my crimes – they were me and showed people that I was a nasty, evil bastard who was not to be messed with. At one time I ended up doing solitary at Dartmoor for 18 months because by that point I’d become almost rabid and would attack anyone. It was then that a psychiatrist suggested that I go to the therapeutic prison, Grendon Underwood. At Grendon we worked together in small groups. A lot of soul searching went on. I did exceedingly well in therapy and started helping others. I started getting anxious about being released in case I went back into crime. It was then that my probation officer started telling me about restorative...
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...Crime is a major problem in The Bahamas. When reading a newspaper or watching TV, it is impossible not to hear about some murder, robbery or violent act. Crime is increasing and this is affecting our country and influencing our youths. Imagine this beautiful country losing money simple because visitors are afraid to come here because of the dangerous criminal activity going on or simple because crime rate is out of control. Why our Bahamaland should be put at a disadvantage for such careless act. In this essay I will identify some types of crimes in The Bahamas and give solutions that may help to solve crime in The Bahamas. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, crime is defined as: “An illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government”. Research shows the types of crimes committed in The Bahamas are: Crimes against Person (Murder, Attempted Murder, Manslaughter, Rape, Attempted Rape, Unlawful Sexual Intercourse, Armed Robbery, and Robbery Attempted) and Crimes against Property (Burglary, Housebreaking, Shopbreaking, Stealing, Stealing from Vehicle, Stolen Vehicle). According to the Nassau Guardian, ’’The Bahamas like many of the countries surveyed, has had a fluctuating murder count rate over the years… In 2010 there were 94 murders recorded in the country, a record at the time. The next year there were 127 murders, an all-time high and in 2012 there were 111’’. These statistics are becoming a major problem and if it is not dealt...
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...Raven Williams Bloom Research Paper Pearl Hart: The Stagecoach Robber “A stagecoach robber is a large, closed horse-drawn vehicle formerly used to carry passengers and often mail along a regular route between two places.” As a famous stagecoach robber, she created tough controversy in the west. Pearl Hart was one of the most famous outlaws in the west creating a legend that many people today look forward to. If her spectacular contributions to history were not enough, her controversial life helped set up the final dramatic ending to her story. As a robber, she was not really intelligent and sociable; many of the people she stole from hated her. Pearl was born and raised in a middle-class family. According to findagrave.com, her father James Taylor was a “civil engineer who moved to Toledo, Ohio in 1978” Miss Hart mother was not really mentioned, throughout her life , although she had two children , she never was really attached . As stated in (Kathy Weiser quoted in legendofamerica.com) she sent her daughter to live with her parents, who moved to Ohio.” She had a husband named Frederick Hart; her husband had a drinking and a hand problem. Pearl had left Fred, “Inspired by strong woman and the enamored heroes of the west.”(Kathy Weiser quoted in legendofamerica.com) “In 1895 Fred caught up with pearl. Begged pearl to take him back by bribing her, he told her he would get a regular job, so Pearl and Fred reunited.” (Kathy Weiser quoted in legendofamerica.com). This excited...
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