Ever had your car broken into? This is probably something a small time criminal did, and would be something along the lines of property crime. Which is typically when a criminal would steal/destroy belongings on/from your property. Your property can range from a store, home, or piece of land.
Now, have you ever lost billions of dollars in the stock market? That on the other hand might be the work of a professional, efficient burglar, and would be an example of commercial/proficient thief. Below are the traits of said burglars...
-Technical Competence
-Personal Integrity
-Avoid prison sentences
-Financial success
-Specialization in BURGLARY
Typically when a good burglar begins their novice career in crime, they must learn four key requirements, these are often learned from more experienced burglars and thieves:
-Skills to commit lucrative break and enters
-Form a criminal gang/team
-Inside information for the job
-Cultivate fences/buyers for stolen wares
Professional burglars do not always take different jobs, however, in most cases they might work one job for a month if there is enough profit to be made, or until they feel like it's getting too risky.
Monday 20 January 2014
Monday 13 January 2014
Auto-Theft in Canada
Overview/Stats: In Canada, over 400 auto-motive vehicles are stolen per day, this results in a $1.2 billion dollar loss annually; Canada also has a higher auto-motive theft rate than the United States of America. The majority of these vehicles are usually stolen in British Columbia, or in Eastern Canada, that also typically being Winnipeg/Manitoba/Quebec.
This is most likely due to the higher population density, since most of the crime happens near large cities.
This is most likely due to the higher population density, since most of the crime happens near large cities.
And most of the cars stolen are never recovered, this is mainly due to the fact that the vehicles are sometimes disassembled for their parts, then sold to a fence of some sort.
The most commonly stolen cars are usually mid-class sedans, or luxury SUV's, anywhere from Toyota Venza's, Honda Civic's, Cadilac's, or Range Rovers.
Along with that, these vehicles have a tendency to be silver, as that's usually very common color to see on vehicles.
But there are ways to prevent auto-theft; getting car alarms, tracking devices in GPS systems, (Known as Boomerang System), locking your doors and rolling up your windows, and taking your keys with you are simple ways to make your chance of having your vehicle robbed reduced.
If you take a look on http://www.ibc.ca/en/car_insurance/buying_a_new_car/hcmu.asp, the site offers a great overview on motor theft stats in Canada through a bar graph.
Why do people steal cars though? After all it's done by a wide range of thieves, from amateur, to professional.
Auto-motive parts are generally sold for a fair bit of money, and with vehicles being literally on every corner, it's easy to take one for the picking, especially if a thief takes one that is common. Most will just change the plates before they sell the parts to someone.
Expensive devices in vehicles also catch the eye, so petty criminals often break windows or hack through car locks to get inside and take the valuables.
Sources:
But there are ways to prevent auto-theft; getting car alarms, tracking devices in GPS systems, (Known as Boomerang System), locking your doors and rolling up your windows, and taking your keys with you are simple ways to make your chance of having your vehicle robbed reduced.
If you take a look on http://www.ibc.ca/en/car_insurance/buying_a_new_car/hcmu.asp, the site offers a great overview on motor theft stats in Canada through a bar graph.
Why do people steal cars though? After all it's done by a wide range of thieves, from amateur, to professional.
Auto-motive parts are generally sold for a fair bit of money, and with vehicles being literally on every corner, it's easy to take one for the picking, especially if a thief takes one that is common. Most will just change the plates before they sell the parts to someone.
Expensive devices in vehicles also catch the eye, so petty criminals often break windows or hack through car locks to get inside and take the valuables.
Sources:
Monday 16 December 2013
Does hyper masculinity lead to sexual assault? [Final]
-Hyper masculinity: Very bold, stereotypical male characteristics, e.g. strength, aggression, loud.
We cannot only push this topic on women. Men too are sexually assaulted, and while the statistic for male sexual assault is lower than a woman's, they often do not want to tell others, as society does not really choose to accept that males can be sexually assaulted as well.
In the documentary titled 'Sext Up Kids', created by the CBC Doczone, the forty-five minute long presentation does a great job of showing its audience just how the media plays an out of control roll in sexual assault.
The documentary shows us how the media is now using children as models for sex. Toddlers - little girls and boys dressing up in sexual outfits designed for adults.
But it's not just the toddlers being brainwashed. It's the teens as well; on modern television most viewers have access to soft core porn - right on the commercials.
Now we have kids at an early age growing up dressing sexually, acting sexually, and visually embracing a sexual upbringing entirely. And our teenage audience basically watching sex themselves on television, and via pornography.
Another theory would suggest we still have our pre-historic instincts, meaning we take what we want, just like an animal would. Because of doing so, we managed to maintain a population in order to survive.
In conclusion, if you take the social/sexual media and how/what children watch on television and add our prehistoric instincts, it might equal a higher percentage of sexual assault in the near future - unless we can better educate our children on healthy sex, and proper right from wrong.
Now knowing the description, we can now also ask the questions, does hyper masculinity lead to sexual assault? Is the stereo type even true?
Many agree that both of these questions are true. For reasons such as this; in sports, males specifically are able to release a large majority of their testosterone, aggressive emotion, and other violent traits. This can lead to hyper masculinity. Actions such as these can bring out the raw male stereo type, which in turn also can lead to homophobia in sports as well.
What about outside of sports/work environments? Not all people who are considered to be hyper masculine are large sports players - they can range in any size.
Statistics from 2009 show that 1 in 5 women have the chance to be sexually assaulted in some form before they graduate post secondary. Most of these women are sedated from alcohol, ketamine, or some other drug; most of the time this would happen in a partying area, such as a college or high school party.
What causes the majority of males to do this, though? The media most likely has a very well played roll in this question.
If we take a look at various movies for produced by Disney, for example, it gives us an excellent look at how the male hero character in the movie always rises above and gets some sort of prize - most likely a gorgeous princess. Young boys grow up watching this, letting it subconsciously sink into their heads.
Therefor, when they grow older and produce the hyper masculinity trait, they too feel as if they deserve the princess.
Certain thoughts can obviously lead to aggressive actions and sexual assault. This of course could be changed, or at least lower the risk of sexual assault by quite a chunk if we educated our children on sexual assault at an early age, instead of letting television teach them right and wrong.
We cannot only push this topic on women. Men too are sexually assaulted, and while the statistic for male sexual assault is lower than a woman's, they often do not want to tell others, as society does not really choose to accept that males can be sexually assaulted as well.
In the documentary titled 'Sext Up Kids', created by the CBC Doczone, the forty-five minute long presentation does a great job of showing its audience just how the media plays an out of control roll in sexual assault.
The documentary shows us how the media is now using children as models for sex. Toddlers - little girls and boys dressing up in sexual outfits designed for adults.
But it's not just the toddlers being brainwashed. It's the teens as well; on modern television most viewers have access to soft core porn - right on the commercials.
Now we have kids at an early age growing up dressing sexually, acting sexually, and visually embracing a sexual upbringing entirely. And our teenage audience basically watching sex themselves on television, and via pornography.
Another theory would suggest we still have our pre-historic instincts, meaning we take what we want, just like an animal would. Because of doing so, we managed to maintain a population in order to survive.
In conclusion, if you take the social/sexual media and how/what children watch on television and add our prehistoric instincts, it might equal a higher percentage of sexual assault in the near future - unless we can better educate our children on healthy sex, and proper right from wrong.
Sources
Thursday 12 December 2013
Criminology 12: Dec.11-12, Questions 1-4
1.) Despite Canada's reputation of being a happy go-lucky nation, even we Canadians have our fair share of hate crimes. While they may not be brutal murders on the streets, or terrorizing an entire community for the sake of it, we instead suffer from a different style.
For example, our young students today have a very high awareness of anti-bullying and homosexual awareness, yet crimes continue to happen. But they are not savage, like others. These crimes could possible be,
-Slandering against homosexual peoples.
-Victimizing a specific ethnic persons.
-Being crude/assaulting an ethnic group.
-Disturbing/Dismantling religious objects.
2.) After the terrorist act on friendly soil, 9/11, the Canadian and American governments were immediately ready to respond. After the devastating attack, all new security systems were to be implemented within all airports. New sensors, cameras, security equipment, etc. But not just the local airports were being upgraded - people themselves took arms and began buying rifles, pistols, and other firearms.
The military generally focused on all aspects of arsenal upgrade - vehicles, weaponry, new explosive proof vests, etc.
3.) While cash is starting to run short due to the new advances in debit/visa machines all over stores, this will not entirely stop criminals - at least not the determined ones.
Identity theft is a very well known crime today, through this crime, the theft of your personal identity cards/information can access various accounts, such as banking, email, or any other online account you may have over time. This can be ultimately more devastating than just stealing twenty-five dollars.
If society is advancing, so will the crime with it.
4.) Most people today are well educated of what a certain thug can look like. Then again, that certain thug might also know what his victim looks like; someone who is generally a young adult. If they don't have cash on them, they thief may take something else of value, such as a cell phone, or piece of jewelry.
For example, our young students today have a very high awareness of anti-bullying and homosexual awareness, yet crimes continue to happen. But they are not savage, like others. These crimes could possible be,
-Slandering against homosexual peoples.
-Victimizing a specific ethnic persons.
-Being crude/assaulting an ethnic group.
-Disturbing/Dismantling religious objects.
2.) After the terrorist act on friendly soil, 9/11, the Canadian and American governments were immediately ready to respond. After the devastating attack, all new security systems were to be implemented within all airports. New sensors, cameras, security equipment, etc. But not just the local airports were being upgraded - people themselves took arms and began buying rifles, pistols, and other firearms.
The military generally focused on all aspects of arsenal upgrade - vehicles, weaponry, new explosive proof vests, etc.
3.) While cash is starting to run short due to the new advances in debit/visa machines all over stores, this will not entirely stop criminals - at least not the determined ones.
Identity theft is a very well known crime today, through this crime, the theft of your personal identity cards/information can access various accounts, such as banking, email, or any other online account you may have over time. This can be ultimately more devastating than just stealing twenty-five dollars.
If society is advancing, so will the crime with it.
4.) Most people today are well educated of what a certain thug can look like. Then again, that certain thug might also know what his victim looks like; someone who is generally a young adult. If they don't have cash on them, they thief may take something else of value, such as a cell phone, or piece of jewelry.
Marc Lépine: Why and How?
History:
Marc Lépine was born on October 26th, 1964, Montreal, Canada. He died on December 6th of 1989. This man even now, has been considered the deadly criminal ever in Canada, in regards to his sinister crime known today as the 'Montreal Massacre'.
The horrendous event began on December 6th, 1989. The same date as his death, one could probably predict his final outcome.
The Crime: How?
During a school day at École Polytechnique, the University of Montreal, an educational institution at the time with over 6,000+ enrolled students - the school itself was focused on engineering, clearly a place for the brightest. But that was about to be interrupted by Marc, as he entered the building wielding a large hunting knife and armed with a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic carbine. He killed fourteen women, all of which separated from the males of the school before he cried out,
"I hate women." and then later shot himself, leaving a suicide note as well.
Conclusion: Why?
Marc was described as a very shy, quiet man who was usually in an foul mood when around women, even commanding of them. Reports describe the killers father as a brutally abusive man; he was not known to have any sort of real love life.
Many do not know the entire reasoning for his heinous crime, however, it was clear the attack was targeted towards women.
Sources:
http://www.biography.com/people/marc-lepine-235980
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/marc_lepine/index.html
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/crime-justice/the-montreal-massacre/expert-describes-weapon-lepine-used.html
http://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lepine-marc.htm
Marc Lépine was born on October 26th, 1964, Montreal, Canada. He died on December 6th of 1989. This man even now, has been considered the deadly criminal ever in Canada, in regards to his sinister crime known today as the 'Montreal Massacre'.
The horrendous event began on December 6th, 1989. The same date as his death, one could probably predict his final outcome.
The Crime: How?
During a school day at École Polytechnique, the University of Montreal, an educational institution at the time with over 6,000+ enrolled students - the school itself was focused on engineering, clearly a place for the brightest. But that was about to be interrupted by Marc, as he entered the building wielding a large hunting knife and armed with a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic carbine. He killed fourteen women, all of which separated from the males of the school before he cried out,
"I hate women." and then later shot himself, leaving a suicide note as well.
Conclusion: Why?
Marc was described as a very shy, quiet man who was usually in an foul mood when around women, even commanding of them. Reports describe the killers father as a brutally abusive man; he was not known to have any sort of real love life.
Many do not know the entire reasoning for his heinous crime, however, it was clear the attack was targeted towards women.
Sources:
http://www.biography.com/people/marc-lepine-235980
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/marc_lepine/index.html
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/crime-justice/the-montreal-massacre/expert-describes-weapon-lepine-used.html
http://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lepine-marc.htm
Monday 9 December 2013
Clifford Olson: Why and how?
History:
Clifford Robert Olson Junior was born during the second world war on January 1st, 1940, new years day. An incredibly rare date of birth, one that St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver, B.C. had to be cursed with.
This being said because the birth of Clifford Olson was not one of a hero, but of a serial killer.
People who may have known him at the time would have perhaps described him as relatively daft, or child-like. During his younger years, a ten year old Clifford was already a recognizable name around Vancouver's crime list. By the age of seventeen, Olson would have been in and out of prison along with court sentences on a regular basis - and for twenty more years, he would continue to be a criminal offender.
However much changed during his arrest in the 1971-1981 time frame. While in prison, Clifford Olson had a bad reputation with not only the inmates, but the guards as well. He was a master of manipulating the prison system, using it to write complaints off to the government, often times speaking of how bad the conditions in prison were and how annoying the other inmates were.
Of course, the other inmates caught word of this, making Clifford Olson a marked target. Over his sentence, he was stabbed seven times; and as prison protocol would have it, Olson was moved to Prince Albert's in 1976. This is where he would discover and befriend Gary Marcoux.
During his time spent with Marcoux, Clifford would learn of his horrible crimes in raping, molesting, and murdering a young girl. This is also where Olson would find a new love for child pornography. He died in September of 2011.
Overview of murders: How?
Clifford Olson was found guilty of eleven murders, while he boasted over thirty, police could only find evidence of around eleven.These murders consisted of eight young girls and three young boys, mostly in the pre-teen/teenager time frame. He mainly went about killing these young children by manipulating them somehow to come with him to a secluded location before he had his way with them, and killed them in some way.
Conclusion of Olson: Why?
Over his time spent in prison, he was tested on various psychological reports and tests. He was a sociopath, pedophile, anti-social behavior, as well as a pathological liar. Something most serial killers have in common.
He had no reports of feeling remorse, guilt or stress, but did however love making an image for himself through the evil crimes he committed.
Sources
http://home.cogeco.ca/~mrcarle/OLSON.HTM
http://www.allserialkillers.com/clifford_olson.htm
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/09/30/18764721.html
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/21/timeline-for-killer-clifford-olson
Clifford Robert Olson Junior was born during the second world war on January 1st, 1940, new years day. An incredibly rare date of birth, one that St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver, B.C. had to be cursed with.
This being said because the birth of Clifford Olson was not one of a hero, but of a serial killer.
People who may have known him at the time would have perhaps described him as relatively daft, or child-like. During his younger years, a ten year old Clifford was already a recognizable name around Vancouver's crime list. By the age of seventeen, Olson would have been in and out of prison along with court sentences on a regular basis - and for twenty more years, he would continue to be a criminal offender.
However much changed during his arrest in the 1971-1981 time frame. While in prison, Clifford Olson had a bad reputation with not only the inmates, but the guards as well. He was a master of manipulating the prison system, using it to write complaints off to the government, often times speaking of how bad the conditions in prison were and how annoying the other inmates were.
Of course, the other inmates caught word of this, making Clifford Olson a marked target. Over his sentence, he was stabbed seven times; and as prison protocol would have it, Olson was moved to Prince Albert's in 1976. This is where he would discover and befriend Gary Marcoux.
During his time spent with Marcoux, Clifford would learn of his horrible crimes in raping, molesting, and murdering a young girl. This is also where Olson would find a new love for child pornography. He died in September of 2011.
Overview of murders: How?
Clifford Olson was found guilty of eleven murders, while he boasted over thirty, police could only find evidence of around eleven.These murders consisted of eight young girls and three young boys, mostly in the pre-teen/teenager time frame. He mainly went about killing these young children by manipulating them somehow to come with him to a secluded location before he had his way with them, and killed them in some way.
Conclusion of Olson: Why?
Over his time spent in prison, he was tested on various psychological reports and tests. He was a sociopath, pedophile, anti-social behavior, as well as a pathological liar. Something most serial killers have in common.
He had no reports of feeling remorse, guilt or stress, but did however love making an image for himself through the evil crimes he committed.
Sources
http://home.cogeco.ca/~mrcarle/OLSON.HTM
http://www.allserialkillers.com/clifford_olson.htm
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/09/30/18764721.html
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/21/timeline-for-killer-clifford-olson
Thursday 5 December 2013
Victimization.
Question 2: Dec2
-Victim Household's can often tell us whether or not the residence has a higher chance of being part of victimization, however homes with an annual salary of over $60,000 have a higher chance of property theft - apartments remain at the low for crime. Most likely due to the multiple witnesses living inside one building.
-Social Status within Canada can also determine your chance of being victimized. Statistics show that where the wealthy are often targets of property theft, the less fortunate are often times victims of sexual assualt.
-Repeat Victimization often begs the question of whether or not prior victimization increase, or decrease the chance of being a victim in the future - or a criminal. Often times households with experience in victimization will encounter it again most likely.
-Race/Martial status can often times attract certain discomfort. For example, compared to most places in Europe, when most ethnicity enter Canada, they may find themselves being discriminated as part of a hate crime. This can even happen with trans-gender marriages.
Question 3:
"Is school the most dangerous place for youth today?"
To some degree, I will have to agree. While not all schools are terrible, some actually very respectable, the amount of public schools with issues related to bullying, drug use, along with other troubles, school is without a doubt one of, if not the most dangerous place for youth today.
Mind you, that does not mean it will forever be a dangerous place. People just have to not be jocks and prostitots.
-Victim Household's can often tell us whether or not the residence has a higher chance of being part of victimization, however homes with an annual salary of over $60,000 have a higher chance of property theft - apartments remain at the low for crime. Most likely due to the multiple witnesses living inside one building.
-Social Status within Canada can also determine your chance of being victimized. Statistics show that where the wealthy are often targets of property theft, the less fortunate are often times victims of sexual assualt.
-Repeat Victimization often begs the question of whether or not prior victimization increase, or decrease the chance of being a victim in the future - or a criminal. Often times households with experience in victimization will encounter it again most likely.
-Race/Martial status can often times attract certain discomfort. For example, compared to most places in Europe, when most ethnicity enter Canada, they may find themselves being discriminated as part of a hate crime. This can even happen with trans-gender marriages.
Question 3:
"Is school the most dangerous place for youth today?"
To some degree, I will have to agree. While not all schools are terrible, some actually very respectable, the amount of public schools with issues related to bullying, drug use, along with other troubles, school is without a doubt one of, if not the most dangerous place for youth today.
Mind you, that does not mean it will forever be a dangerous place. People just have to not be jocks and prostitots.
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