Final Blog

1. a. I believe child abuse is purposely harming the well-being of an innocent child. Rather it’s physical abuse, emotional abuse, or mental abuse.

b. I don’t think spanking a child is considered to be abuse. It all depends on your reasoning for spanking the child. Rather it’s to teach them a valuable lesson or just for them to know there are punishments for bad behavior. I’m not saying parents should just spank their kids for any little thing. Just so they will know there are punishments and consequences for intolerable behavior. Yes, I think spanking should be allowed. Only to form a sense of structure in a child’s life. I believe in necessary spanking not just any old spanking.

c. Personally, I don’t believe parents should spank their kids in public because not everyone agree with spanking. I’m not saying people should be ashamed because they spank their kids, it’s just certain things you leave in your household. I believe a certain acceptable form of public punishment is just giving your child that scary but serious look. I think spanking in any form is unacceptable in public.

2. a. Anyone who knowingly possesses child pornographic material is guilty of a felony and a jail sentence of up to 4 years, or a fine of up to $10,000 dollars. If the accused knows or has reason to know the material depicts someone under the age of 18, both the jail time and fine are applicable.

Any person who distributes, promotes, or finances the distribution or promotion of child sexually abusive material, receives material intended for distribution, or conspires or attempts any of the previous listed actions is guilty of a felony and a prison sentence of up to 7 years or a fine of up to $50,000. If the accused knows or reasonably could know the person was under 18, or didn't take reasonable precautions to verify the child’s age, the accused is subject to both a fine of $50,000 and a jail term of up to 7 years.

Any person who persuades, coerces, or knowingly allows a child (a person less than 18 years of age) to engage in sexually abusive activity with the intention of making any pornographic material, or any person who produces, makes, or finances child sexually abusive activity is guilty of a felony and subject to prison time of up to 20 years or a fine of $100,000. If the accused has reason to know that the child is indeed under 18 or that the materials appear to include a person under 18, or has not taken reasonable precautions to verify the age of the person, a fine of $100,000 and a jail term of up to 20 years both apply.

http://www.grabellaw.com/child-pornography-possession-and-distribution-charges.html

b. Sexting is the sending of sexually explicit messages or photos, usually done on I-phones, Droids, and other smart phones. Sexting is a felony that carries up to a 20 year prison sentence or a fine of up to $100,000, or both. Michigan state legislation about sexting is if one is convicted of sexting the offender could end up in the Michigan Sex Offender Registry. I really don't have an opinion about sexting because if someone send nude pictures of themselves knowlying, I believe that's their business and who am I to judge.

3. Two former University of Michigan resident students were accused of possessing child pornography. Stephen Jenson was charged with four counts of possessing child pornography, and Howard Weinblatts plea of no contest to watching young girls change through the window.

After reading this, my outlook on child victimization haven't changed because any form of child victimization is just wrong because no matter if the child was harmed or not, it's still just as bad. Also, it can affect a child in countless ways.

4. a. A social caseworker name Denise Moore took a young 4 year old boy name Anthony Bars from his foster mother and placed him in a home with a couple that starved and beat him. Denise didn't do a background check or anything on the couple before she placed the toddler with them.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108160,00.html

b. In 2002, two young girls from a well rounded family came up missing and the media went crazy looking for them, and getting the public involved. Back in 1996, two young boys from a lower class family went missing. The media didn't really get involved because of the boys social class. That is a form of child victimization.

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/stout/greer_news_media%20-%20vic_crime_soc.pdf

Blog #5

1. I think the difference between murder and homicide is that murder is committed with evidence of premeditation, while homicide is committed without the intent to kill or without planning to. Some of the categories of murder is first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and manslaughter. Some of the categories of homicide is manslaughter, non-criminal homicide, and accidental homicide.

2. In 1968, the Robison family was brutally murder while vacationing at their cottage in northern Michigan. The murder included Mr. and Mrs. Robison plus their four children. The bodies was found months later and the man brought in for questioning for the murders committed suicide in 1973. The murder landed on the front page of newspapers everywhere but the murders are still unsloved. It left everyone filled with inquiries and rampant speculation for four decades, leaving locals weary and the rest of us wondering.

http://www.laurajames.com/clews/2008/06/the-robison-family-murders-finally-in-print.html

3. One big media murder was the murder of Elizabeth Short also known as the Black Dahlia. Her murder was consider the most gruesome murder of the 1940s. She moved to LA to seek a career in acting but unfortuanately she never made it to the big screen. She was found with her body cut in half in a vacant lot and the killer has yet to be found to this very day.

http://crime.about.com/od/murder/a/blackdahlia.htm

Another huge media murder took place when a mother of five drowned her kids in the bath tub. After drowning them she nicely covered them up and placed them in her bed together. Andrea sufferred from a metal illness that cause her to swirl out of control. She is now serving a life sentence in prison and will not be eligible for parole until year 2041.

http://crime.about.com/od/current/p/andreayates.htm

Blog #4

1. Mob violence is a form of civil disorder characterized often by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden and intense rash of violence. Two examples of mob violence are riots and killing parades. To be honest I really don't know why groups like this exist. Living in this society nothing really surprises me anymore. I'm actually having trouble understanding the reasoning for mob violence because it seems as if they are being violent for no reason. There's no valuable reasoning behind the killings that comes from mob violence. 

2. In Michigan, on a Saturday morning 3,000 to 5,000 people was waiting patiently for the doors to open for Section 8 vouchers that were being offered. Unfortunately only 1,000 vouchers were being offered at the time. Once the doors open people was going crazy, stepping and falling all over children and disabled people. There was a lady in a wheelchair who people pushed over just to get a hand of her and pushing children out the way as well. The riot became somewhat out of hand to the point the police had to turn off the lights in the building. Just to try to obtain the crowd but it back fired and everything ended up worse. I believe the children and the disable woman was the victims and the offenders was the adults jockeying for position to be the first ones inside the building.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/12/fighting-and-throwing-chairs-riot-explodes-as-thousands-seek-housing-vouchers-in-mi-town/

3. One big media documentation on a riot was when Martin Luther King was killed in Memphis April 4, 1968. In the United States, African American protest on the streets of DC, Baltimore, and Chicago. It ended with the result of 11 people killed, 48 people injured, and a damage cost over $10,000,000.

Another media riot that took place in Kenya December 1992, which injured thousands and killed between 800-1,500. The riot happens because of the re-election of Kibaki. Everyone felt that the election was rigged and that made people go insane. There was over 600,000 people displaced from their home and over billions in damages. 

http://matadornetwork.com/change/11-of-historys-biggest-riots-and-why-they-happened/

1. The population in Michigan is around 8,027,009. The total number of rape in a area that is actually reported is 3,221 and the estimated total is 3,259.

2. Michigan Laws for Time limitations; indictments for murder and related offenses, criminal sexual conduct, terrorism related offenses, etc.

• No limit for criminal sexual conduct in the first degree 
• For the following offenses, within 10 years after commission of the offense, or by the alleged victim’s twenty-first birthday, whichever occurs later:

>Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree 
>Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree 
>Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree 
>Assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct 

• For any other offense, within 6 years after commission of the offense

3. Rape is the commission of unlawful sexual intercourse or unlawful sexual intrusion. Michigan's state law in regarding rape is If convicted of subsequent 1st, 2nd, or 3rd degree criminal sexual conduct, mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years. Criminal sexual conduct for 1st degree with a victim under 13 years old is a felony and you could be sentenced up to life in prison. Criminal sexual conduct for 2nd and 3rd degree with a victim between 13 and 16 is also a felony and sentenced is not to exceed 15 years in prison. Criminal sexual conduct for 4th degree is a misdemeanor and you could serve the maximum of 2 years in prison or a maximum fine of $500, or both. The assault  to commit conduct involving penetration is also a felony. Therefore, 1st degree equals to the sentence not to exceed 10 years and 2nd degree equals up to 5 years.

http://www.arte-sana.com/articles/rape_statutes.pdf

4. A Michigan man name Steven Deuman was convicted of orally raping and killing his 15 week old daughter name  Evelynne Deuman. The infant was found dead with a condom in her month on August 12, 2011. The murder and rape took place at Deuman's home on Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indian Reservation in northern Michigan. Deuman was convicted on first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault. Also, he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/steven-deuman-oral-rape-murder-baby-daughter_n_1903283.html

5. 

• A book that tells a story about rape is, The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The novel is about a young African American girl name Celie that was raped by her father.She was forced in a marriage with a older man that physically abused her.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11486.The_Color_Purple

• A movie that also tells a story about rape is Monster, starring Charlize Theron. Charlize played a role of a hooker that was rape by a guy who picked her up on the side of the road. She somehow was able to untie herself and kill her rapist.

http://mubi.com/films/monster

• In my opinion, the book and the movie represented rape correctly because the movie and the book expressed the emotional affect rape has on an individual.

Blog #2

1. In Michigan, the population that is covered is 9, 569,653 and the total number of incidents that is reported is 346.

2. Michigan covers bias-motivated violence and intimidation, civil action, race, religion, ethnicity, gender,institutional vandalism, and collection. Michigan does cover sexual orientation, disability and training for Law Enforcement Personnel.

3. As a result in Michigan, if a person is guilty of ethnic intimidation 
if that person maliciously, and with specific intent to intimidate or harass another person because of that person’s race, color, religion, gender, or national origin, does any of the following:

• Causes physical contact with another person. 
• Damages, destroys, or defaces any real or personal property of another person. 
• Threatens, by word or act.

Ethnic intimidation is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or by a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or both.Regardless of the existence or outcome of any criminal prosecution, a person who suffers injury to his or her person or damage to his or her property as a result of ethnic intimidation may bring a civil cause of action against the person who commits the offense to secure an injunction, actual damages, including damages for emotional distress, or other appropriate relief. A plaintiff who prevails in a civil action brought pursuant to this section may recover both of the following:

• Damages in the amount of 3 times the actual damages described in this subsection or $2,000.00, whichever is greater.
• Reasonable attorney fees and costs.

4. One of Michigan's most horrific brutal hate crimes was when a Jewish 19 year old Michigan State University college student name Zachery Tennen had his mouth stapled shut. He was a sophomore attending a party, while at the party some boys were chanting "Heil Hitler" and then one of the boys knocked him out unconscious. That's when they stapled his mouth shut, while 20 other people watched. Zachery took a cab to the local hospital where he had to undergo surgery to have his mouth wired shut. Zachery and his family want to press charges but no one has been charge yet. According to Michigan Incident Crime Reporting data, there were 21 victims of anti-Jewish hate or bias crimes last year, while there were 18 in 2010 and 20 in 2009.

    
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-08-28/detroit-hate-crime-attack/57376766/1

5. "The Psychology of Hate" by Robert J. Sternberg, PhD.

•  The book is pretty much about how hate crimes isn't a random or sudden bursts of irrationality, but rather, carefully planned and orchestrated acts of violence and killing.

http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4318017.aspx


"Loser" by 3 Doors Down

• The song is about a boy that is getting bullied because he is different from others while using drugs in order to deal with the issue of being bullied. Also, thinking about committing suicide due to the bullying and drugs.

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/59803/

Blog #1

For Domestic Violence in Michigan, the authorities offer an Domestic Relationship Personal Protection Order (PPO). What this does is protect you from any form of abuse that you may encounter from the abuser. Such as, violating the PPO, assaulting, menacing, reckless endangerment, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, sexual offenses, trespassing, and stalking. In the state of Michigan there are two types of PPO's. The is a Stalking PPO and a Restraining PPO. Also, in Michigan the PPO can protect you from the same sex partners. If you and child or children is being abuse the PPO can protect you and the child as well.

In Michigan, there are additional assistance for you if you are in a abusive relationship. Such as, they offer the Michigan Crime Victim Notification Network (MCVNN). It is a free confidential 24 hour telephone-computer interface that allows crime victims and other citizens to register to receive instant telephone notice whenever a prisoner's custody status changes. There are many shelters in Michigan itself but there is one called Center For Women In Transition. It's located in Holland, Michigan. For over 30 years, they have been providing assistance to parents and children while they deal with the challenges resulting for domestic violence, sexual assault, and other life-changing situations. 

http://www.womenshelters.org/det/mi-center_for_women_in_transition

http://www.womenslaw.org/laws_state_type.php?id=230&state_code=MI

A song that expresses domestic violence would be the massive hit from the Dixie Chicks called, "Good-Bye Earl". The single brought a little sense of humor and revenge to domestic violence. A movie that expresses domestic violence would be the movies called, "What's Love Got To Do With It". The film was actually inspired by true events about the life of a Pop-Star name Tina Turner.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hits-keep-coming-30-songs-inspired-by-domestic,57741/

http://www.womensaid.org.uk/landing_page.asp?section=00010001001300340001