Theories of crime
Crimes, especially around the malls, have increased and this is a case that must be looked into with the urgency. Considering the crime triangle as a way of solving the ever emerging cases of crime, this can help reduce the cases. The desire of a person to commit a crime cannot be manipulated or stopped by a person since the criminal has already made up the mind to commit the crime. The ability to commit the crime is not unstoppable by normal means since there are many ways a crime can be done and this reduces the chances of sabotaging the crime. It is only through offering an alternative to a crime that a criminal might stop committing the crime. Educating the society on the essence of being able to look for other ways to survive other than crime is important.
Criminals can be given an opportunity to stop the crimes through offering jobs and other ways of making a living (Wortley & Townsley, 2016). Prevention measures such as acknowledging the facts that crimes do not pay or earn a person better living are very important. The offenders need to be educated on other ways of living other than crime. It is wrong to rob or kills a person for money hard earned. The targeted areas such as the malls need to apply some level of security such as having a security body take charge of the parking lots to prevent robbery. The society also needs to be aware of the areas that are prone to crime. In such areas, everyone should try and avoid such hidden and often dark places which offer perfect opportunities for ambush.
According to the neutralization theory, the act of breaking the rules is regarded as a way of life to some cultures. The juvenile who identify the actions is in most cases never willing to report them as they seem normal activities. The interesting thing is that the crimes are never executed in their community as it is against the culture. This indicates that the offenders are well aware of what they do therefore possess the ability to know what is wrong or right. Denial of injury indicates that the offenders never caused any harm through their actions even though the actions were wrong and against the law (Strutton et al., 2015). Denial of being responsible is another technique where the offender uses substances at the time of committing the crime and therefore denies the idea of being involved in the crime. Denial of being a victim is used to justify an action and term it as not a wrong thing otherwise the offended party would not be there. In such a case, the offenders bring evidence of the action terming it as a two-sided kind of activity. The individuals condemning the activities of the juvenile are condemned in the sense that every action has its course and consequence. Getting loyalty is never easy and some of the offenders justify their actions as an order to gain respect to the targets.
Loughner was a man who committed many counts of murder which could be related to the idea of him being a drug addict and a drug abuser. Based on this case, traditional criminology and the psychological state have an influence on the victim. He was responsible for several accounts in the community college of committing certain activities which led to his expulsion from the school (Boser et al., 2014). Such actions indicate that he was capable and had motives to commit a crime. The judge should not force Loughner for medication since he pleaded guilty to the actions he committed. Loughner was never insane since he claimed responsible for his actions. The mental checkups placed him fit to stand the trials and by this, the judgment done is according to the sentence he should serve in prison.
References
Boser, B. L., & Lake, R. A. (2014). " Enduring" Incivility: Sarah Palin and the Tucson Tragedy. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 17(4), 619-651.
Strutton, D., Vitell, S. J., Pelton, L. E., & Grove, S. J. (2015). The Efficacy of the ‘Techniques of Neutralization’as a Means to Explain Unethical Sales Behavior: A Preliminary Investigation. In Proceedings of the 1993 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference (pp. 301-307). Springer, Cham.
Wortley, R. K., & Townsley, M. (Eds.). (2016). Environmental criminology and crime analysis (Vol. 18). Taylor & Francis.
