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__**WK 1 JOURNAL**__ For the first week I had pondered on my topic and found four plausable topics such as, archeology, the criminal mind, politics and another topic I could not remeber at this moment. I chose the criminal mind; the question is "What promotes an individual to commit a crime and why?" I watched "Lie to me", a crime thriller show that helps identify sub-concsious ticks that show lies like a great spotlight. It is a start but will not help in the long run, I will make more progress through the next week and find statistics on crime rates where ever possible.

﻿Nice topic.. it may be too broad depending on how you tackle it, so if you are struggling you could look at specific crimes.. theft? vandalism? murder????!?!?

Remember, there could be serious OH&S issues coming from interviewing a murderer or criminal so you will need to think about where your primary sources are coming from.. maybe an expert in psychology or something. Great topic, just make sure you really plan out what you're doing.

﻿ __**WK 2 JOURNAL**__ I have thought of reaosnable questions for the topic overnight, can an act of crime be linked to medical and/or mental contions and how, is it possible to reduce the rate of crime in SA and how, do criminals have different chemical balances in their brains compared to other law-abiding citizens and the last question is on its way. I have looked into crime statistics for murder in SA, it shows promising information.

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The statistics show that all crimes go through a system of of crime and justice, depending on the severity of the crime each individual goes to either Magistrate, Supreme or District court. This will tell me the statistics from each court stage and give an accurate depiction of the rate of murder going through each court house, that way I can get the right information more effectively. Although the stats for murder is not clear in the stats as I thought it still shows good enough information on the target I am after.

__**WK 3 JOURNAL**__ I have focussed my questions on the crime rate of murder in Australia and how it affects us. The questions have been redefined. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using the DLSOPE process I will answer the questions above to determine my conclusive opinion and answer based on the facts statistics that I find. I will focus on statistics on murder and courthouse outcomes. After watching an underworld episode last night which was the 15/02/2011 I found reasons why AL Capone a Mafia boss killed many people for profits and control of his territory and the local authority; In had also discovered that the Mafia used extortion, balckmail, pornography and corruption to gain their riches and by 1963 they had rounded up roughly a billion dollars.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">What influences an individual to commit murder and why?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Is crime such as murder connected to medical and/or mental conditions and how?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Can murder crime rates be reduced and how?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">How does poverty affect crime in any society what are the effects?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nice work! In the double lesson we'll have a chat about possible ethical issues relating to this, but I think you're doing a great job in refining your area of interest down to specific, manageable questions. Keep working like this and you will do well.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The final question putting all the other four questions aside is "Is capital punishment an effective method top reduce major crime rates?" This question will complete my research and my overall opinion on justice. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** My research proposal below: ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">**__ Research Project: Topic proposal __** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">For my research assignment I chose the criminal mind because I have an interest on how people think and why people think certain things, my interest had begun when I first heard that my father's Dad was a criminal therapist. He dealt with murderers, rapists and other convicted felons that were caught. I beleive that all people who can buy their way out of their crimes should be punished by death, you do not want an individual which can kill a person pay the court the next day and do the process over again. I would have chosen conspiracy theories but the idea seemed too far-fetched, for example I could not see anyone who knew detailed information about the execution of Rasputin talking to me about it because I am a nobody in a huge corporate world where money talks and cow dung walks and that is the polite version. Instead I have chosen a topic that the information is not impossible to find and easy to decipher, the statistics is easy to locate and it reveals all the information you need plus more. There are ethical issues to consider not to mention safety considerations as well, the people I will wish to interview will not be convicted criminals but police officers, psychologists and psychiatrists tht have an expert opinion on the matter. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">**__ Presentation __** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">For my presentation I will present as a written outcome of fifteen hundred words or less, with previous experience I will not have trouble with information but putting in all the information possible. I have always had a lot of information on any given or chosen topic and I have always had a little difficulty sorting all the information into the essay being that I may have over done myself on searching. I think it does in so many ways but I need to prove it with facts, results and references. There is a great possibility that the result of my search will go against my beliefs on capitol punishment, never the less I will be able to accept the conclusion whatever it is and define what it takes to deal with the growing problem of rising crime rates. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Seaton King

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**WK 4 JOURNAL**__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I had recovered a book describing over a dozen cannibal killers throughout history, like the Monster of Lothian, the real Hannibal Lecter and Ethne the Dread. The monster of Lothian was an Attacotti, a reknown cannibal scottish tribesman that ran away from his family and started a family of forty-seven savage cannibal children in a cave at the base of a cliff called Bennane Head, on the Ayrshire Coast. He was not found for one and a half centuries until he and his family was hung and burnt to the stake. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">A breif description of their first unsuccesssful attack shows their demise and the demise of their copycat British relatives through time," A rider, with his wife behind on the same horse, was coming home one evening from a fair when they were fell upon by these merciless wretches in a furious manner. The man, to save himself as well as he could, fought very bravely against the cannibals with a sword and pistol, riding some of them down with the force of his horse. During the conflict,the poor woman fell behind her husband and was instantly butchered before his face. The female cannibals cut her throat and fell to sucking her blood with as great a gusto as if it had been wine. This done they ripped up her belly and pulled out her entrails."

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This is an example of the most savage cannibal family in the British Isles, I am still going through the book but I am sure by the information I have recieved but the fact that the cannibal families like the Gregg family and Sawney Beane family got confident in their tactics and they were hunted by blood hounds and over fifty men armed to kill. I now know why cannibals kill; to either have the pleasure of taking a life because they deemed it acceptable becasue they were raised to believe it was acceptable or they chose it out a chosen lifestyle. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__WK 5 JOURNAL__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Looking through articles over the SBS website I had recovered cases of genocide in Africa dating back to the last major case in 2009; the African government is attempting to 'kill' the ideology of genocide in their war-torn country but that is a work in progress. This proves that the cuase for vigilance is never been greater than in Africa, the Philipino countries and in the Middle East. The nations of Africa have been overthrown by the hearts and minds of the people as viewed and stated in the discussion between his delegance Rwandan persident Juvenal Habyarimana and Gillard about antipersonnel mines on the frontline," The main danger is actually that the hearts and minds of the Rwandan people are mined". Many rogue groups of extremists are spreading all over the country and others are still surfacing from its violent revolutions. Although it is not surprising that this problem is also happening in Lybia, the Middle East which coincidentally are all third world countries with corrupt governments where the man with the highest authority is the richest.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This has given me an insight on why people commit genocide, some do it to create their ideal country and any way possible. The extremists choose to use guns, manipultaion and intimidation to get what they want and others choose their side and hope for the best. And others do it to attempt to rid their country of injustice with direct, practical justice which can and does include coladeral damage.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__WK 6 JOURNAL__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">On december 30th a man named William Rex-Fowler wa accused of the murder of his former business partner Thomas Ciancio three times in the head with a 9mm Glock Hnadgun when Ciancio came Fowler Software in unincorporated in 2009. Fowler was described as an operating Thetan VI, one of the highest grades in scientology. His arrest which was on Dec 30th of 2009 created a lot of attention over the internet and uprising groups of scientologists. The scientology group stated that Fowler funneled up over $250,000 to his local church and has not been a threat to any human being scientologist or not. Whether Fowler's devotion to the church of scientology is linked to the murder of his ex-partner or not the charges still count as second degree murder.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This information has given insight to the reasons why people commit murder for religious reasons, regardless there is a great chance that the case is not relevant it still shows evidence that Fowler killed Thomas Ciancio for religious reasons or worse. It explains the massacres in the past and the great conflicts before the twentieth century. Being that, I can honestly say that Scientology is a dodgy religion and in opinion only an obviously different method to gain money from blind followers to a new religion.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__WK 7 JOURNAL__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">For this weeks research I had a look into the time when Theodore Robert Bundy, he was born in 1946, November 24th in Vermont, USA. He lived with his grandparent's house in Vermont preying on the local girls and women in his neighbourhood in his teen years. Professional psychologists and detectyives say that this may have started when Anne Marie Burr disappeared, police suspected that Ted Bundy killed her as his first kill, her body was never found. After his graduation he began developing on relationships with women in "The University of Washington School of Law". In 1974-78 he raped and murdered young women in Oregan Washington, Colorado, Utah and Florida. He had only confessed to twenty-eight murders but he may be responsible for hundreds of other murders. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Joni Lenz, severely beaten in her bed on January 4, 1974. She survived. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lynda Ann Healy, 21, disappeared from her basement bedroom in the University District on February 1, 1974. Healy worked at a radio station broadcasting ski reports. The names below except for Joni Lenz, were Buny's victims:
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Joni Lenz, severely beaten in her bed on January 4, 1974. She survived.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Donna Gail Manson, 19, disappeared from the campus of Evergreen State College on March 12, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Susan Elaine Rancourt, 18, disappeared from the campus of Central Washington State University in Ellensburg on April 17, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Roberta Kathleen Parks, 22, disappeared from the campus of Oregon State University on May 6, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Brenda Carol Ball, 22, last seen in a tavern in Burien on June 1, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Georgann Hawkins, 18, disappeared from behind her sorority near the University of Washington on June 11, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Janice Ott, 23, and Denise Naslund, 19, both disappeared from Lake Samammish State Park on July 14, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Carol Valenzuela, 20, disappeared near Vancouver, Washington, on August 2, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Laura Aime, 17, disappeared from Lehi, Utah, on October 30, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Nancy Wilcox, 16, a cheerleader, disappeared from Utah in October 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Melissa Smith, 17, disappeared from Midvale, Utah, on October 18, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Carol LaRonch, 18, escaped as Bundy tried to kidnap her in Salt Lake City on November 8, 1974.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Debby Kent, 17, disappeared from an ice skating ring in Bountiful, Utah, on November 8, 1975.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Denise Oliverson, 25, a homemaker, disappeared from Grand Junction, Colorado, on April 6, 1975.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Melanie Cooley, 18, disappeared from Nederland, Colorado, on April 15, 1975.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Shelly Robertson, 24, disappeared from Golden, Colorado, on July 1, 1975.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Nancy Baird, 23, disappeared from the gas station where she worked in Layton, Utah, in July 1975.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Julie Cunningham, 26, a sporting goods employee, disappeared from Vail, Colorado, on March 15, 1975.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Caryn Campbell, 23, a nurse, disappeared from the parking lot of her hotel in Utah on January 12, 1975.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Margaret Bowman, 21, and Lisa Levy, 20, sorority sisters at Florida State University, clubbed and strangled on January 14, 1978.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Karen Chandler, 21, Kathy Kleiner, 20, and Cheryl Thomas were also severely attacked that same night, but they survived.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Kimberly Diane Leach, 12, disappeared from her junior high school in Lake City, Florida, on February 9, 1978.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__WK 8 JOURNAL__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">During last week I had discovered that in my discussion that my research is bias and a little one sided completely going against people convicted of crimes of murder. So I had set out to find the flaws of capital punishment, I had found that capital punishment has become a problem in third world countries used as a means of scaring its people into doing as the leader requests. It is in play in the Middle-east, some parts of Asia specifically the Philipines and parts of Vietnam and now is publically showing itself in Africa where the UN building for the western world has been targeted by extremist groups developing all over Africa. For some examples, yes it is a requirment but it also holds corruption in its air tight terms of agreements. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Some people in third world countries have been punished for standing up for the right thing and executed for speaking out publically, clearly the use of capital punishment is being abused by corrupt governments and extremist groups that have an ideology of their perfect world which to them can only be achieved through the slaughter of innocent people. I now realise that not only that the use of capital punishment is only in use in third world countries used for the purpose of greed and power but it is being abused as well as its name being slandered by mislead leaders overcome by grief and anger from their past. Some people should not lead any form of group for this exact reason.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__WK 9 JOURNAL__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This week I had found the pros and cons of capital punishment; there was a study done in the U.S. the U.K. where crime rates rose and fell over the duration of the nineteen hundreds to the twenty-first century. The abolition of captal punishment in britain created an alarming rise of crime which today people have gotten fed up with but are not willing to restore capital punishment because they have lived in a time where capital punishment didn't exist and was disdaned for the purpose of keeping away from barbarism and primitive retribution, although it has not passed the house of commons in Britain there has been a percentage of voters that voted "yes" to reinstating capital punishment. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">All in all I believe that the politics of this century are too weak and squemish about doing what needs to be done and probably will not stand up and say that there are some people that do not deserve to even live in a high security cell in alkatraz. The only reason that capital punishment is still in place in texas and some southern states in America is because a majority of the families in those states have not recieved the right amount of education to make a decision out of their own opinion, they have relied on their peers opinions to make a personality to accept. This is a common occurance in ill educated states and countries due to government corruption and coerced influences.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">It had came to me to ask if Australia had considered the death penalty due to the threats of terror upon the country by extremist groups in the Middle-East, I had later found that Mr Howard had attempted to change the role of human rights laws to suit the death penalty under certain circumstances. This propersition took place during 1996 and was said to continue to struggle to make its way into Australian laws until 2007, Mr Howard was confident that it was gauranteed to fit in within the laws against terrorism and crimes against Australia; it did not. It had the threat of jeaperdising the international obligations that Australia agreed on, after the Bali bombings in October 2002 the Howard government collected evidence of terrorism not able to be cured through diplomacy and reasoning. Unfortunately this fell through the floor as the idea came upon great scrutiny by other political peers, the idea was to see that the aid of the death penalty in other countries would not impead the obligatory agreements that Australia signed on. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">There were flaws in the Howard government's logic legally and politically, for the example they stated that the obligations against capital punishment did not extend into the borders of other countries and as it proved that it was Australia's very same obligations that restricted any Australian individual to put any individual under the risk of the death penalty. During 2003 on a sunday morning show the PM stated that the Bali Bombings should be dealt with via Indonesian laws and Australia has no legal right to interfeare with foreign administrative business. The comment below clearly suggests that Australia is not ready for the death penalty because they were raised with democracy and diplomacy under their noses forcing them to bargain with everything that they live for. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Foreign Minister Alexander Downer sadi Australia would not intervene if Bin Ladin was to be executed. 'I personally have never supported the death penalty but in this case of Osama Bin Ladin, I don't think that too many tears would be shed if he was executed, bearing in mind all the people he's responsible for killing". <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">With this information all piled up up from week 4, I have come to a rough conclusion that capital punishment is contraversal and evidently was a factor that got Howard kicked out of the prime minister's position and it should be appraoched with major caution.
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Over the past ten weeks of information searching I have received a lot of insight backing both sides of the situation, there are a number of third world countries and other parts of the world that are affected by the recession and other issues that still use capital punishment as a means to control the mass and there also is places in the world where capital punishment was abolished and crime has sky-rocketed evident in Britain's high rate of crime including theft, assault, drug use, rape and murder that the British police have to tackle and still keep a sane mind for the next day. All who have read this now know how much of an extent crime can grow when a tough punishment disappears and how tender a government can be with capital punishment in place, it truly is a delicate situation and can only be described as a fight for control using either brute force that can only lead to diplomatic hypocritical oaths that only lead to equity and a corrupt political system. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I have witnessed the change in history through this information like the Sawney Beane family that killed and ate passing travellers for the sake of survival and they got away with this constant act for nearly two centuries until they were burnt to the stake and decapitated for their "crimes against humanity" and disgraced in front of thousands of passing people, it was this act that promoted violence to change and primitive lifestyles. Yes there were copycat families to which were killed in the same manner as the Sawney Beane family but it was apparent after the Sawney Beane's family massacre that the local people of Great Britain were accustom to primitive murderers to which became common until the number of cannibal families dropped from the public eye, this was the signs of adaption and growing to the times. For example Hannibal Lector was a cannibal killer as well but he was more adept to the times and how the society he lived in worked, he was responsible for the disappearances of hundreds of people and soon after his capture was sent to a high security mental asylum. In the movie 'Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lector who was played by Anthony Hopkins escaped to South Africa and was never seen again until the second movie. This is a good but inaccurate example of how the system can be manipulated by moving into a third world country where its private life is full of surprises, there have been cases of cannibalism in South Africa but could never be traced due to lack of evidence and influenced environment. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Drawing a conclusion to this arguement I can now see that everytime an individual put's themself in the firing line of this issue there is a lot of room for scrutiny and judgement and it is well designed issue that most indefinitely make any person with this issue look bad whatever their trying to say, whether they are supporting it or not. I for one am supporting it because just because it was simpler back in the seventeen and sixteen hundreds and there was only the earliest documentation from that time it may still instill fear and respect to our country and how people will see us as a whole nation, but there will always be another person going against your ideology and that alone can fualter every chance of future progress. I now see why capital punishemnt will never be used in Australia or any other western civilzation because we were raised around the world of diplomacy, republicans and democratics that talk out of their bank accounts blinding those in need of financial support as blackmail.
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**__ WK 12 JOURNAL __** <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">During the holidays I had been given the opportunity to interview a police officer from the Park’s Police Station, the officer’s generous time had given me valuable information to which I believe will help me see capital punishment in a new perspective. Regardless the information helped me finish my draft essay and will hopefully aid in future assignments not regarding this topic, I still believe that I still have further information to find to receive a better understanding about the topic but for now this is the only way to not only pass this year but to help focus on other subjects. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Once my draft has been marked I will prepare the folio required and hopefully receive the ATAR scores I deserve for all the commitment I put into this topic, if all goes well I may only have to edit my work twice and the research should speak for itself.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. The highlight of my research that I enjoyed the most was the review on the cannibalism cases to which had many examples, unfortunately I could only use two and picking was difficult. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. There were challenges within the stages of my research; the references I had put aside to complete my journals and put paragraphs to my conclusionary essay, I handed up my draft and now I have the time to add all the references I need and extra information. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. There were many aspects of my research that I found interesting, for example I found that regardless there are many cultural practises that are considered insulting and yet none have reached up to the level where cannibals were hunted down for their way of life. Also that cannibalism has been associated with criminals and people with phsychopathic minds. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> When I started this topic it was one of many other edgy topics that had controversy behind them, eventually I had chosen capital punishment because I had a relative that worked as a criminal psychologist and he was successful in his field. Other accelerants to this interest is that I myself am curious why people will go to such lengths to commit murder with the intent believing that their reasons were just, this was a great opportunity for me to explore something I did not understand. I originally had planned on interviewing an experienced individual in this area like a police officer or psychologist but time got the better of me which in some retrospect is not an acceptable excuse but over time I had collected a lot of much helpful information and thanks to the discussion with my research project teacher I had collected information on both sides of the event of capital punishment. I had found the legal definition to ‘capital punishment’ which is the death sentence awarded for capital offences like crimes involving planned murder, multiple murders, repeated crimes, rape and murder etc where in the criminal provisions consider such persons as a gross danger to the existence of the society and provide death punishment. This can assist in the identification of reasons to administer capital punishment and to whom, deserves such a legal rebuttal. Capital punishment has been and still is a popular method of restoring law and order in a society especially in third world countries such as regions of Africa, Cuba, Philippines and Indonesia. In Africa in two thousand and nine there were cases of genocide committed by extremist groups according to reports from united nations buildings under bombardment in that same year emerging all over the country, this among a number of cases like cannibalism in South Africa had been hidden from the world under suspicion and fear from locals to keep the image of a civilised country intact. Coincidentally cannibalism has been a successful method to dispatch evidence of crime for centuries by not just wild animals but humans too, it has been a practice that has been hidden from our world and still in some tribes of South America is a common occurrence. It was most certainly practiced in the British Isles in the past by many figures Welsh, Irish, British and Scottish. For example there once was a family known as the Sawney Beane family which was reputable for its cannibalistic acts against humans and nature, their family grew over one and a half centuries to forty-seven grandchildren in a prehistoric cave called Benanne Head which was unfound until the family was caught after so long in an ambush. A scribe which recorded this gruesome information wrote this, ," A rider, with his wife behind on the same horse, was coming home one evening from a fair when they were fell upon by these merciless wretches in a furious manner. The man, to save himself as well as he could, fought very bravely against the cannibals with a sword and pistol, riding some of them down with the force of his horse. During the conflict, the poor woman fell behind her husband and was instantly butchered before his face. The female cannibals cut her throat and fell to sucking her blood with as great a gusto as if it had been wine. This done they ripped up her belly and pulled out her entrails." This was rebutted by the man hunt for the entire Beane family which last only a few hours, when the men with blood hounds, swords and guns found the cave they had difficulty seeing through; when they entered they found limbs uncooked hanging off the walls and a great fire in the centre of the cave. The family fought hard but was captured and executed one by one, the men were beheaded and the women were burnt by the stake. Over time the same practice was copied by other families throughout the Isles, but was executed less publically, but in the early years of one thousand BC, a Welsh family raised a girl in Ireland for years only feeding her the cooked remains of children to spread the enthusiasm that they’d regain their land from the English and to spring forth the legend of the Goddess of war Ethne. This girl would soon be recognised as ‘Ethne the Dread’ and her disappearance was also evermore mysterious, some say that she choked on an infant’s bone and others say that she was killed in her second raid on the border of England. Either way this is further proof that cannibalism was popular in a number of parts of the world and had been accepted even in the British Isles, there also have been rumours that Scottish cannibalistic tribes joined the Roman Empire after the invasion of the British Isles during the years of one thousand BC and possibly earlier as mercenaries. Some people had more controversial reasons like Robert Theodore Bundy also known as ‘Ted Bundy’, he had confessed to twenty-three disappearances of rape and murder when detectives that worked on his case has reason to believe that he was responsible for hundreds of other disappearances all over the United States. His first murder was in nineteen seventy-four on the disappearance of Donna Gail Manson aged nineteen from the campus of Evergreen State College on March twelfth, soon after twenty-two other cases of this manner appeared from nineteen seventy-four to eight to which he had confessed to. There are still hundreds of disappearances with his name unofficially on them without confession or solid proof. At this point my research results were rather bias and only pointing towards the people with violent personalities and reason to commit such acts, I now had to focus on the people on the other end of capital punishment like the falsely accused. In the time where tobacco was in need in America slave labour was an abundant and common sight, those people were sent from the countries of Africa to work these fields against their own will. They were abused and discriminated for their differences in lifestyle a well as sentenced to death or imprisoned for acts they did not commit, there also have been evidence that these ‘slaves’ were branded and given new names to forcefully fit into their new homes and environments. Capital punishment was also a common sight with these people falsely accused. I had been given the opportunity to interview a police officer from my local police station; this officer had given an insight into the role of law enforcement and what must be endured in this role. The officer to which volunteered their insight said that although crime rates are at an average it still would be good to see it decrease and if the local communities co-operated better their job would be easier, the officer also said that yes capital punishment would reduce crime rates but would not be the right method in a Democratic nation. I would agree with that statement because this nation will not accept a method formerly used by our sister country Britain, as it was raised form a democratic past and the world’s first successful political system. If Australia does consider capital punishment they need to think beyond what neighbouring countries have done and think about them selves for once, it is the thing that could define us from the other nations. In conclusion ‘capital punishment’ is a tender topic to which anyone approaching this topic incorrectly is deemed too soft or war mongering and too accustom to the past. I believe that capital punishment should apply to only those who have caused enough damage via an action of crime to any given family and/or individual to the extent of genocide and long term effects, this way only the ones that truly are monsters in a society are seen to by the full extent of the law and cannot make bail at any point of their acts. That way those with deep pockets cannot leave the courthouse at the end of the day free as the wind. Of course this society will not accept capital punishment because democracy is the embodiment of fair treatment according to equity and the will of the government and shall not change this image because they have become accustom to this way of life for so long, and I am sure they would not just jump to a harsher system of justice so soon. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said “Australia would not intervene if Bin Ladin was to be executed. I personally have never supported the death penalty but in this case of Osama Bin Ladin, I don't think that too many tears would be shed if he was executed, bearing in mind all the people he's responsible for killing." With this evidence capital punishment is still under the microscope but not an official topic to dwell upon.
 * //__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">﻿ Below is my draft copy of the conclusionry essay: __//**

WEEK(s) 12-13 I had recived my conclusionary draft earlier to which was tor apart by the suspervising teacher. Regardless I believe that with the six weeks to complete this essay I can find new ways to execute my final copy, still it is the only thing I must worry about in this subject and/or topic so to Mr. T engdhal thank you for the marking and there aren't much teachers like you in this school. In all this shifting of emotions and logical thinking I have come to a slight conclusion that can be added to my essay; for example the genocide cases in Africa in 2009 and its relativity to Australia. Australia was created out of the scum of britain's primitve underworld to which created the colonies of Australia, henseforth Australia was created from an already democratic society and in all retrospect it is almost statistically and logically proven that Australia is viable to change from the democractic judicial system to a more primitive and easily corrupted method of justice. The governing system is most likely going to say that whay would they change to a less diplomatic solution to a choice that is more likley to make Australia a country to be avoided based on our current image, it would most indefinitely have an impact on our tourism income annually and our overall image. It would not be a worhtwhile choice. When I mentioned that there were certain personalities that were more likely to commit an act of crime, I meant that there were certain people that committed acts of crime and had a personality to match their criminal acts. For example Ted Bundy was one of America's biggest criminals that forced a 'wake up' call to the government to up their justice system, he raped and murdered over twenty women all over the United states and only confessed to a majority of them when he was suspected of many more. It was those people who most likely had a childhood that not only impacted on their future but now made people all of a sudden interested in how the human mind works, in the case of Martin Bryant, he committed murder in Tasmania and was sent to a psychiatric ward for further psychiatric study. Not only did the government hide this man form hid own mother but abused the judicial system to attempt an insight into the criminal mind of Martin Bryant. And what I meant from focussing on the people who suffered from the corruption of the government is an example of how corrupt and to what extent did any government in any given area take advantage of the people with no say or opinion on how the given area was to be run, the slavery of the African people was a good example becasue they suffered the full extent of unnecessary punishment proven through my research and references. All up I beleive that I had not fully explained why I chose these examples and if it is clear then I can get to the main question that put the essay together "Can Capital punishment reduce Australia's crime rates annually" when the big question that arises in this is "would Australia choose capital punishment over the current system of justice and why?"

Over the time of weeks unwritten I had madea few priorities covering the research project subject, one thing was that I required a bigger number of references to my 'outcome' essay, I required more editing after the teacher had marked my 1st draft and although there was a good amount of references there were only three and that was not acceptable in any circumstance. Work not computer based was that the research I had came up with over the simester, was an example of commitment but I was told that the moderators are not interested in large amounts of reseach without any form of understanding. All up I had my time already sold, but I am looking productive in my research and the 'outcome' is on its way; here's the final draft.
 * WK 14-17**

__**Outcome final draft**__ Capital punishment has been and still is a popular method of restoring law and order in a society, in some cultures, specifying most cultures crime is a no-tolerance system that defines any judicial system from the results of the afterwards affects. [1] The legal definition to ‘capital punishment’ which is the death sentence awarded for capital offences like crimes involving planned murder, multiple murders, repeated crimes, rape and murder and the list goes on, where in the criminal provisions consider such persons as a gross danger to the existence of the society and provide death punishment. [2] This can assist in the identification of reasons to administer capital punishment and to whom, deserves such a punishment to which can be used and executed by dominant governments whom support such a method. In third world countries such as regions of [3] Africa, [4] Cuba, [5] Philippines and [6] Indonesia, capital punishment has been a tool of use that has made an impact on the frailty of their societies to gain control of their regions. [3] In Africa in 2009 there were cases of genocide committed by extremist groups according to reports from united nations buildings under bombardment in that same year emerging all over the country, this among a number of [8] cases like cannibalism in South Africa had been hidden from the world under suspicion and fear from locals to keep the image of a civilised country intact, [12] regardless there have been somewhat opposing opinions. Coincidentally, cannibalism has been a tradition that was deemed a crime against nature. [7] It was most certainly practiced in theBritish Islesin the past by many figures Welsh, Irish, British and Scottish. [9] During the early years of 1000 BC, a family from the tribe of Atticotti treated this ‘crime against nature’ as a way of life and lived this way for one and half centuries. The authorities of the area had the entire family of forty-seven executed in public via beheading for the males and burnt on a stake for the females; putting this aside it is clear that the authority of the location didn’t tolerate this choice of lifestyle and dealt with it in such a manner that any signs of cannibalism was almost hid itself and adapted into its surroundings. [9] But there has been proof where this alleged “act of crime” has been practised for so long it has become a way of life evident in the authorised franchise of human flesh in Brazil; the home of Cannibalism. This response disregarding the difference in opinion it is clear thatAustraliawould not be willing to change their judicial system regardless of the severity of the crime. At this point my research results were rather bias and only pointing towards the people with violent personalities and reason to commit such acts [14], I now had to focus on the [10] people who suffered from the corruption of the superior government. During the time of the black American slaves justice was profit based and rather bias, [11] rich people had the opportunity to commit acts of crime such as rape, murder and homosexuality which at the time was deemed a crime at religious and political levels. [13] Many slaves were punished for much simpler acts like talking when they were not told to and not following the instructions given, this was quite a common sight seeing black slaves in wealthy homes to which all freedom as human beings were taken away and were given lifelong occupations only able to break free from it by their employees. I have a strong belief that at this point in American history corruption in a political system had blossomed in a profit based enterprise, wealthy men bought slaves and the poor people got no benefit from this spark of thought. Although political corruption was already in full swing even before slavery was a business in America, it had found a mask to hide that great monster called ‘greed without remorse’.

There has been obvious proof that corruption is a common sight within a society and government system, for example the case of Martin Bryant which coincidentally occurred after the death of JFK. Martin Bryant was mentally impaired at birth, his father Maurice committed suicide shortly after his birth from depression and the struggle to keep up with this new family requirement; the care of his disabled son. Martin as a disabled child had trouble making friends and all his attempts were seen as a series of jokes, on his fourteenth birthday he was given an airgun and soon after had shot down a parrot from a tree, this underlined by the lack of friends and resentment of those that rejected him introduced him to the power of firearms. What evidence showed was that when Martin lost his one friend Helen Hilza at an age of eighty-seven, he snapped and ended up blaming those who made fun of him. Regardless he was guilty and was sent to Risdon prison for psychiatric help, Carleen was not permitted to speak to Martin let alone write. The Tasman authorities used Martin as a social experiment imprisoning him for life to be left under the constant inspection of psychiatrists and criminal psychologists. Regardless of the clear-cut conviction the government had sentenced him to psychiatric help in a psychiatric hospital for medical supervision, the government in simple terms used Martin Bryant’s conviction and medical condition to attempt to understand his medical condition more than they originally did. Of course the justice system will be placed in a difficult situation and tested for impurities at every point of its active establishment, for example in the United States a man had driven over twenty miles to his in-laws home and killed them. He was unemployed and rather depressed but the shocking thing about this case was that he supposably did all of this in his sleep. He called 911 on himself after seeing the blood on his hands, this case baffled authorities regardless he was convicted of multiple homicide which brings up the question “what if the murder was medically and/or mentally prompted?” This question is difficult to answer because science being that medical science comes under that category is never one hundred percent a reliable source. On other situations there have been cases to which criminals convicted spent their time in prison to which just wanted to pass the time and committed the same crimes they did before they were imprisoned, a diary entry form Joshua Komisarjevsky a renowned burglar in Connecticut I had been given the opportunity to interview a police officer from a nearby local police station; this officer had given an insight into the role of law enforcement and what must be endured on a daily basis. The officer to which volunteered their insight said that although crime rates are at an average it still would be good to see it decrease and if the local communities co-operated better with the authorities, the officer also said that yes capital punishment would reduce crime rates but would not be the right method in a Democratic nation. I would agree with that statement because this nation will not accept a method formerly used by our sister country Britain and our bigger brother nation America, as it was raised form a democratic past by the nation with the world’s first successful political system, Britain. If Australia does consider capital punishment they need to think beyond what neighbouring countries have done and think about themselves for once, it is the thing that could define us from the other nations. In conclusion ‘capital punishment’ is a tender topic to which anyone approaching this topic carelessly could be deemed as too soft, war mongering or too accustom to the past. I believe that capital punishment should apply to only those who have caused enough damage via an action of crime to any given family and/or individual to the extent of genocide and long term effects regardless of wealth, this way only the ones that truly are monsters in society are seen to by the full extent of the law and cannot make bail at any point of their acts. That way those with deep pockets cannot leave the courthouse at the end of the day untouched by appropriate justice. Of course, this society will not accept capital punishment because democracy is the embodiment of fair treatment according to equity. It is clear that the government would never change their born image called democracy because they have become accustom to this way of life for so long, and I am sure they would not just jump to a harsher system of justice so soon. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said “Australia would not intervene if Bin Ladin was to be executed. I personally have never supported the death penalty but in this case of Osama Bin Ladin, I don't think that too many tears would be shed if he was executed, bearing in mind all the people he's responsible for killing." With this evidence capital punishment is still under the microscope but not s topic to take up time.

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