Sunday 1 December 2013

Why has BC consistently high rates of criminal drug offences

I think there are many reasons why there is such a consistent high crime rate in British Columbia and there are many theories about it. I personally think the main reasons are that getting drugs in and out is way to easy, that is also making the inland drug traffic bigger. There should be more controls because people can get it fairly easy from america to canada or the other way. The next reason is that growing the plants for the drugs (like marijuana) is way to easy, there is a lot of space in BC where people can grow their drugs without any problems. Next big reason is the high gang activity, right now BC has about 133 organized crime groups, 800 members in those as well as at least 30 street gangs. Those gangs are very organized, parasitic, highly mobile and in may there have been 18.000 marijuana plants in about 20 greenhouses all owned by street gangs.

BC Crime link : http://www.vancouversun.com/news/police+bust+international+drug+ring/9063055/story.html

The police has broken up a crime ring that smuggled cocaine and methamphetamine worth more than 35$ million dollar. You can explain that crime pretty good with the rational choice theory, those guys weight the risk of getting caught with the money they will earn and they thought it would be more rewarding to commit crime, the strain theory, those guys maybe failed the society's expectations so that they took the way of crime and the social disorganization theory, because some of the criminals maybe grew up in a difficult behavior. 

Monday 25 November 2013

Crime theory

My own crime theory is a mixture of different theories that have been made throughout the last years/centuries. I think crime happens basically, because criminals think different than other people, they grow up in a different behaviour than people who are not committing crime, they saw things others haven`t seen and their brain works different, that means that criminals sometimes need the crime, because they are addicted to it. The last point is that sometimes criminals (especially serial killers) have a low self-esteem and they like recognition and that`s one reason for them to commit crime.

My example for my theory is the serial killer John Eric Armstrong he had 5-18 victims and his way to torture and kill those people was to rape and strangulate them. His goal was to kill every prostitute he ever slept with. The reasons are not known but it could be because he had a tough childhood.
John Eric Armstrong was obviously thinking different, when he was a kid his father abused him and his brother died and that was really hard for him. He started murdering with 19 years and after that his low self-esteem wanted more recognition and he kept on raping and killing prostitues.