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Another aspect of the colonial era that made the Native Americans vulnerable was the slave trade. As a result of the wars between the European ...
Explanation:
Correct answer: robbery.
Explanation: there are different kind of crimes, felonies and offenses. Robbery is the one that involves taking or the attempt to take somebody´s property by force or by putting the victim in fear. It´s a violent crime, it has a violent nature inherited (different from shop-lifting or burglary).
The characterization of the three types is the following:
- Professional intensive offenders: have robbery as a lifestyle, they commit numerous offenses.
- Amateur intermittent offenders: they choose their victims randomly, mostly vulnerable ones (women, elderlies) with known profit potencials.
- Specific-objective offenders: they commit robbery to support a drug adiction or their gambling habits.
This law is called Double Jeopardy.
Although this may seem beneficial and fair, it also has several disadvantages. The law is beneficial to innocent people, because it prevents them from being tried twice for the same crime, so they can not be acquitted and then later found guilty. However, this is also a disadvantage in some cases. In the past, there have been some court cases in which the defendant was acquitted, but later admitted to the crime. Because of the Double Jeopardy law, these people could not be found guilty and still have not received a punishment.
