Can Corporations Commit Murder?

Yes, corporations can commit murder, but in saying that there jail time may not be as bad as others or they will dig there way out of the crime. But in 2007 there was an act called The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, it is the first time companies and organisations can be found guilty of corporate manslaughter.This Act came into force on April 6th 2008

Auto theft

Auto theft is when someone steals someone elses car.
People steal cars for 2 reasons, there are stolen for transportation, meaning to help the person get someone else. Others are stolen for there parts.

Top 5 cars being stolen in Canada- Honda Civic, Cadillac Escalade, Acura RSX, Acura Integra, Audi S4 Quattro.(these are from 2009)

Top 10 places in Canada for car theft- Winnipeg(MB), Abbotsford(BC), Edmonton(AB), Regina(SK), Calgary(AB), Vancouver(BC), Saskatoon(SK), Montreal(QC), London(ON), Hamilton(ON), Cars are mostly stolen in Winnipeg(MB).( these are from(2007)

How to prevent your car from being targeted(stolen)- Always roll up windows and lock car when leaving it, Put keys in pocket or purse as soon as you lock it up, (20%) of cars being stolen have the keys in the car, Do not leave valuable items such as laptops, sports equipment or packages in clear view, If you park in your own private garage, make sure you lock both the garage and your car, install an electronic immobilizer in your car.

Approximately 146,000 motor vehicle thefts, an average of about 400 stolen vehicles per day.

a global problem

profitable for criminals

expensive for law-abiding citizens

dangerous and a threat to our safety

Hypermasculine and sexual assault

I believe males who comit sexual assault are hypermasculine beacuse hypermasculine men typically have a callous sexual sttiude and believe that violence is manly. Also they are more likly to loss control. Men learn hypermasculine behaviour when they are at a young age. When men are young they are taught to be aggressive, forceful, tough, and domination. Also they are led to believe that women want to be dominated. Older criminals may for motives of power and control, theres ones are more likely to harm their victims. Younger offenders may be seeking sexual gratification and are less likely to harm their victims.

News story: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/10/05/18782371.html

Clifford Olson and Marc Lepine

Clifford Robert Olson Jr.-January 1st, 1940 at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.
Killed 11 people before he got caught, was in jail a lot before he started to kill people. Got married may 1981, at that point in time he has committed three murders. Four days after the wedding Olson abducted and murdered a 16 year old. All under the age of 18 but varied in age and sexes. Got caught when he and arrested for attempting to abduct two girls. Told the police where the bodies were as long as his new wife got $10 000 for each murder he admitted too. the wife got a total of $100 000. He was eligible for parole in July 2006 and every two years after that so far everyone has be denied. I believe he did it because he got a thrill from it.

Marc Lapine- Born on October 26, 1964, in Montreal, Canada.
In 1989, he walked into Ecole Polytechnique and went on a 10-minute shooting rampage. He killed 14 woman and injured 13 others before he killed himself. They latter found a suicide note saying that feminists had ruined his life. In 1982 he changed his name to Marc Lapine. He was abused as a little boy, and he was blaming the woman for all his problems. He walked into a class room and told all the men to leave and said "I want the women. You are all feminists." I believe the type of killer he is, is a  terrorist killer he was trying to send a message. 


We can stop it but it will be very hard and take a lot of planing and  everything to stop it but we can do it if we really want too. There will also be crime.

What are the short and long term impacts on victims of Crime?

In the Law & Order episode we watched on Friday, Harper who is a girl and was a victims of crime. She was sexual assaulted by a man who is around her age. He was married and had kids as well. Harper was traumatized, she called the cops and they put her through hours of questions about the assault, and what happened to her. That made her relive the experience again she is physical and mental hurt from this. She thought if she saw the guy she could identify him if she saw him but should couldn't. After that day she would sleep with runners on because she thought if she had runners on that night she would have been able to run away from him. She was so terrified that she had to move away quit her job and get a new one, break up with her boyfriend, at her new house she had a lot of locks on her door so no one could break in.

If you are a victim of crime you will have short and long term impacts on your life. You could possibly have economic loss, which could be loss of the ability to go to school, have long term stress. You could have fear for the rest of you life thinking it might happen to you again and so you don't go out into public. You isolate yourself from everyone and everything.  They will never live the same life again. 

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/09/26/18739876.html

There is a girl in there suing a man for $7 million dollars, for her damages for pain and mental and emotional distress. The 7 million wont fix anything but will help pay for her to go get help like therapy and everything she need to help her get better.


I think we should give more help to those who have been victims of crime.

Why crime happens

I think crime happens because of what they have been through in there past. Or because they were peer presured into doing it, and the enviroment around them."The world is a dangerous place- not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it."(Albert Einstein)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/09/20/18716316.html, my theroy explains that crime because the people in the gangs probaly got in them by the enviroment that they grew up in so they think it is right. And no one will something about it cuz they gang members will just end up hurtting that one person or the several people.