Myth and Reality of Crime

Myth and Reality of Crime

Stephen L. Cayson

Ashford University

If I were to ask 100 random people to describe a criminal, I would definitely get a variety of answers. I think it depends on the person who I’m asking. If I were to ask a person of Mexican descent who lives in predominantly Mexican neighborhood, they would probably describe a person who they have the most interaction with which would be another Mexican. Same for an African American, the people you see and deal with you automatically think that they are the ones committing crimes. But if I were to ask a white person they would more than likely describe a person outside of their race, not because of racism but that is what the media perpetuates. When you turn on the news you don’t see crime stories about criminals in the suburbs you only hear inner city crime. I think that it would be a small percentage of people who would even think about the topics discussed in the video, because of the level of crimes being committed are done by people in high levels of a company. These stories are rarely talked about in the media because of advertising or the money the corporation spend with the media outlets. Crime has additionally been characterized in social or non-lawful terms. The social meaning of wrongdoing is that it is conduct or a movement that irritates the social code of a specific group. Trimmer (1959) has characterized it as "a hostile to social act". Caldwell (1956: 114) has clarified it as "a demonstration or an inability to act that is thought to be so hindering to the prosperity of a general public, as judged by its overall guidelines, that activity against it can't be endowed to private activity or to indiscriminate systems however must be taken by a sorted out society as per tried methods." Thorsten Sellin (1970: 6) has portrayed wrongdoing as "infringement of behavior standards of the regularizing gatherings". Marshall Clinard (1957: 22) has, on the other hand, kept up that all deviations from social standards are not violations. He discusses three sorts of deviation: (i) endured deviation, (ii) deviation which is gently disliked, and (iii) deviation which is unequivocally opposed. He sees the third sort of deviation as crime.

Society decides how crime is defined as a conduct that disregards criminal law. It can be characterized through laws, through authority police reports of wrongdoing, or through exploitation overviews of persons who have been included in wrongdoing however maybe not included with the police division.

O.J. Simpsons left his blood at the crime scene yet that couldn't be brought into the trial on the grounds that the goof ball who inspired him to give a blood test then took that little triumph to his supervisor who as at the crime scene. "Contaminated" crime scene.

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