Crime and Law
Have real world problems ever been confusing or hard to understand? Well one thing that has been hard to understand, is campus violence sending children off to college may seem like the safest thing to do but not always. Same thing with serial killers, not everyone is safe all of the time. The last thing is three strike law when the law gives “Three Strikes, You’re Out”. Crime and law is a popular career choice due to the crime going on in the world today involving campus violence, serial killers, and three strike law.
First, one part of crime and law that is a major thing going on right now is campus violence. For instance, “Many people believe violence on college and university campuses is rare and view campuses as a ‘safe haven’” (Violence Prevention). When that is said it means a lot of students say they have been assured in many ways numerous times.“A significant minority of students reports experiencing some form of violence” (Violence Prevention). At the moment a big thing is something called drink drugging, this occurs when a guy or girl puts a dissolvable drug in someone else’s drink, then use them for sexual activity without consent. Also bringing rape into the picture with campus crime. “Violence on campus takes many forms, including hate and bias crimes, hazing, rape, other sexual assault, stalking, sucked, and vandalism” (Violence Prevention). Like what was said drugging leads to rape and sexual assault. Most female victims don’t know what to do once this occurs, so they don’t tell anyone and depression takes over leading to suicide. Statistics say that, “17% of college students report experiencing some form of violence or harassment during the previous year” (Violence Prevention).
Next comes serial killers, a lot of criminals are out in the world. Some do it out of revenge, hate crime, their home life, childhood memories, or just to do it. Some symptoms for a serial killer now from when they were a child may include “Alcohol and substance abuse, child abuse, sexually stressful events, bed wetting, growing up lonely, fantasies, auto-erotic, voyeurism and fetishism in adulthood, acting out fantasies on animals or harming them, or creating physical injuries” (Gerber). Serial killers come in many forms, being one is a Medical killer. A medical killer is usually a doctor who kills one of the patients they care for but make it look like a natural cause. For instance, “They are usually highly intelligent and know how to carefully and cleverly conceal their murders. As long as it appears that a victim has died a natural death, there will be no reason for anyone to suspect foul play and search for the guilty party” (Types of Serial Killers). Most doctors who are medical killers have been doing it for a while. “Dr. Harold Shipman was the greatest serial murderer the world has ever known. Most of his 459 victims were elderly women, killed by lethal injection of morphine” (Dach). The next type of serial killer is an organized killer, one who plans out the whole murder and leaves no trace of evidence behind. Most of the time the killer will stalk their victims for days or weeks at a time, then they plan the attack. Once they reel the victim(s) in he/she will take them to a secluded area and kill them. Making sure that no evidence is left behind and making sure the body is never found. Usually these types of killers have an extreme case of OCD. The last kind of serial killer out there is a disorganized killer. They’re the complete opposite of an organized killer, they plan nothing and hide nothing. “Disorganized killers usually have low IQ’s and are extremely antisocial. They rarely have close friends or family” (Dach). Meaning that when they murder people the victim is usually just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The next point of discussion is the three strike law. Which relies on the “Three strikes and you’re out” that was probably heard a lot as a kid or in sports. It is known in the three strike law as “the so-called ‘Three Strikes, You're Out’ provision, to help deal with violent repeat offenders” (Sentencing Enhancement). This just gives the explanation that a repeat offender is getting three strikes. The reason for giving them three strikes is to keep them out of jail. But getting more than three strikes means they will end up in jail. Once they’re in jail the three strike rule no longer applies to that person. “Under the statute, a ‘serious violent felony’ includes murder, manslaughter, sex offenses, kidnapping, robbery, and any offense punishable by 10 years or more which includes as an element the use of force or that, by its nature, involves a significant risk of force” (Sentencing Enhancement). So how this works, how is goes into effect, and why it was created . “ ‘Three Strikes’ provides a vehicle to take the most dangerous offenders out of the community and keep them out. This is particularly important in states where prison overcrowding results in early release even for violent criminals” (Sentencing Enhancement). So basically it was already said but here is a scenario; say one person abducts a child and gets caught, that can be one strike, but then they do it again and don’t get caught right away so they have time to preform and engage sexual activity, that is another strike and due to the rape charges to could be the second and the third. If it the third doesn’t count and this time they abduct, rape, and murder. That’s three strikes and jail time. Also it is possible that they will be sentenced to life in prison due to murder.
Crime and law is a good career to get into because of the criminals causing trouble all over the world involving campus violence, serial killers, and three strike law. One thing about crime and law is that campus violence is a major problem. Tying in with drugging to rape which leads to girls committing suicide because of the trauma. Also some more problems with crime today dealing with serial killers. This is a problem because people are dying for ones pleasure, because of this more and more people are going to jail. The last thing that needs to be brought up a thought about is three strike law. Always remember “three strikes and you’re out”, and keep in mind that anyone can be affected by the acts of a criminal.
Works Cited
“1032. Sentencing Enhancement-‘Three Strikes’ Law.” The United States Department of Justice, www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1032-sentencing-enhancement-three-strikes-law. 15 February 2018.
Dach , Jeffrey. “Serial Killers in the Medical Profession.” Jeffreydachmd.com, 2018, jeffreydachmd.com/serial-killers-in-the-medical-profession/. 23 February 2018.
Gerber, Hestie Barnard. “10 Most Common Traits of Potential Serial Killers.” List Verse, 2013, listverse.com/2013/01/02/10-most-common-traits-of-potential-serial-killers/. 23 February 2018.
“Types Of Serial Killers.” Crime Museum, 2017, www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/types-of-serial-killers/. 16 February 2018.
“Violence Prevention.” Campus Health and Safety, Education Development Center, 2005, http://www.campushealthandsafety.org/violence/. 15 February 2018.