Criminal behavior has highly propagated in most recent years in the media and frequently hit movies and shows on television. Burglary crime involves the act of unlawful entry into a house, store, vehicle, or other enclosure with the intent to steal or commit a crime without the consent of the resident or owner. This crime involves two individuals aged 20 and 25 years, respectively, sentenced for the same burglary crime. One of them has never been in trouble before, but they participated in the crime just because they were friends with the other individual. Definitely, the other person who lured the friend to crime has a juvenile delinquency history.
Store burglary; the complainant of the crime involving the two individuals narrates how he witnessed the breaking of his electronic store. He starts by describing how the two were well armed with blunt metals that broke the door hinges of his electronic store around 12:30 am-midnight of 4th November 2021. He vividly describes one of them as well-built, of medium height, with a dark complexion, while the other was tall with muscles. They both wore tight black trousers that matched the black saloon vehicle they had parked outside the electronic store. He testifies how he woke up his wife when the thugs broke into the electronic store to come and witness who the thugs were since the security lights were on. A few minutes later, after he woke up his wife, the thugs were seen taking the electronic devices such as woofers, televisions, and laptops to their parked saloon black vehicle. Later, they decided to dial 911 for help before the thugs could vacate the premises (Baskin & Sommers, 2011). The police responded to their call for help within a few minutes and found the thugs in their haste to pack the electronic gadgets in their black saloon car at around 1 am. Lastly, they were hand-capped by the police and taken to their custody with their stolen electronic devices for evidence.
According to Hirsch’s theory of crime, the relevant values and concepts are associated with bonds of attachment that include involvement, commitment, affection, and belief. The approach supports predicting the typical delinquent in being young, unemployed, and single, among others. Deviance of some individuals from the acceptable standards of normal social behaviors implies a negative breakage of social norms (Hockey & Honey, 2013). Moreover, some of the ideologies set by different people via their cultural beliefs, attitudes, and values justify and underlie either their movement or status quo to change it. Each culture of every social system has its ideology that serves to justify and describe its existence as a way of life. Furthermore, broken window theory states that in high-level areas of social disorders, there is a high increase in crimes that are characterized by things such as high levels of litter, broken windows, and graffiti, which portrays that people in that region do not care. This results in more increases in crimes and social disorders in such areas.
One can make possible choices towards this dilemma: since one of the individuals has never complicated any crime before compared to the other individual who has been in juvenile earlier, they are not entitled to the same adjudication even though they both committed burglary crime. The individual with juvenile history seems to have more experience in crime commitment since, from the records, He has been jailed for more than seven years imprisonment, committing various burglary crimes at the age of ten years (Hockey & Honey, 2013). The best possible choice is to adjudicate the ruling of two years imprisonment for the individual with no criminal records before, for allowing to be lured by a friend. Meanwhile, the other individual should be entitled to seven years imprisonment to rehabilitate and correct his habits.
Teleology and Ethics is a better ethical system to be selected for this dilemma solution. The two individuals involved in this burglary crime should face the consequences of their choices rather than laws of nature to describe an occurrence. Everyone is under regulations, which must be obeyed and adhered to, regarding their social status in life. The constructional laws stipulate that everyone who has committed any burglary crimes in their first and second degree shall be guilty of a felony (Hockey & Honey, 2013). They are entitled to an imprisonment punishment of not less than nor more than twenty-five years.
Burglary crime analysis has been employed to determine and evaluate the trend and pattern of incidences associated with this kind of crime through the spatial and statistical analysis method to mitigate its spread and occurrences (Hockey & Honey, 2013). By using teleology and ethnic system, following the directives stipulated in our constructional doctrines, against anyone who is found guilty of committing any burglary crimes within our nation is entitled to not less nor more than twenty-five years of imprisonment punishment for rehabilitation and correction of habits. Nevertheless, having heard the case from both sides of the accused and the case’s complaint, I hereby declared an imprisonment punishment of 15 years for the individual who had not committed any offense before and 20 years imprisonment punishment for the individual with juvenile history records.
From an individual level perspective, the impact and consequences of my decision are to eliminate the offenders who commit such crimes from society and provide a better living environment for the community members to live in peace without any security disorders. While from a broader perspective, my decisions were to act as a moral lesson for other upcoming offenders to deviate from such burglary habits and transform them not to be subjected to such a king of punishment.
In conclusion, mass education should be conducted in various nations on the impacts and consequences of burglary crimes. The federal government should develop policies and opportunities that will create job opportunities for most youths among developed and developing nations to mitigate such crimes. Moreover, there should be an additional advancement of policing investigation inclination strategy.
References
Baskin, D., & Sommers, I. (2011). Solving residential burglaries in the United States: the impact of forensic evidence on case outcomes. International Journal of Police Science & Management, 13(1), 70-86.
Hockey, D., & Honey, R. C. (2013). Evaluating script-like knowledge in offenders and a small group of non-apprehended offenders. Psychology, crime & law, 19(2), 161-178.
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