The Law

Once again the subject will be psychology (it’s really competing for the position of the most interesting class.) Today’s subject was still around criminal behavior defining criminally insane (by the way my teacher thought was stupid.) He told us how the law defines a crime and who is criminally insane it is mostly based on the concept of free will where we choose to do good or bad under the law and you can only be convicted if they can prove that you had an evil will. It was a normal class where I usually agreed until we came across the concept of who is the victim of crime in criminal court the victim is not you or the dead person’s family (surprise) it is actually the government. This is based on the idea of Old English law where every crime is against the King. He stated examples of cases where the criminal would get off on a light sentence and the family would be upset and it would be on the news (of course) and he said it made him upset because he felt the family was stupid because they weren’t the victim’s (very cold and emotionless). He pointed his solution would be that you could take the offender to civil court and sue them I just felt that there was no justice being served yeah you could sue them and get money but it’s the principle of the fact that you can’t kill someone and be able to serve little to no punishment (O.J. Simpson). I guess he feels this way because he is a very logical person and I can see that he wouldn’t let emotion effect his judgement.