podcast 2-gabriella silva

The episode discusses the evolution of crime and justice from ancient times to the 1950s. It focuses on organized crime in the United States during the 1950s and how the justice system had to adapt to deal with it. The article from the 1950s highlights the public perception and impact of crime, which was a new concept compared to the past where rulers made decisions without public input. The text also mentions the establishment of the Organized Crime Bureau in 1971 to address group crimes. Overall, the evolving nature of crime and justice is highlighted, including changes in punishments, societal morals, law enforcement, and the ongoing efforts to combat crime and uphold justice. I hope you guys were able to listen to the last episode where we talked about the Koma Hammurabi and how crime and justice used to be dictated and how the justice system was back in 1750 BCE. For this episode, we're going to jump through history all the way to the 1950s in the United States. During this time, organized crime like mafia and certain gangs were on all-time high, but laws and the justice system had changed a lot compared to when we were talking about 1750 BCE and Hammurabi's Code. To help us get through today's episode, we're going to use a news article from the 1950s that talked about a murder-assassination of a former police officer and lawyer in Chicago. Although it's difficult to see where this text might help us understand more about the evolution of crime and justice, since it doesn't have anything to do with the actual setup of crime, it can actually tell us a lot based on the topics discussed throughout it. Again, going back to the idea of organized crime, when you think of the 1950s, everyone always thinks big mafia, New York City, and that had a lot to do with this article and the type of crimes that were happening during this time. The justice system was just learning to develop and deal with these type of crimes and group crimes specifically rather than individual crimes. The American system had to develop and adapt, and they had to learn to become more intricate with this work, and this eventually led to the Organized Crime Bureau being established in 1971. So this is just a prime example of how crime has developed, or justice, and how crime has organized and developed throughout history, and how crime itself has actually helped make those changes. Another big topic that was gathered from this news article that you can't see, you would not be able to see in other settings of criminal justice documents, is the idea of public perception and impact. When it comes to producing media, especially on topics such as crime in today's day and age, it's very easy for people's voices to be heard on social media, on news outlets, and this is how they did that in the 1950s through the newspaper. In the past, when leaders of a place were a king or an emperor or just one singular person held power instead of a system, they were the ones that made the sole decision and what they said went, and there was no system to help dictate them, to help figure out the differences between right or wrong, and set up a set of ideas and ethics and morals, and that was another evolution that came throughout history. Along with there being a whole system just developing to take charge of the justice system in modern day, the voices and opinions of the general public also had a great impact on justice. In the past, if anyone were to speak out on a ruler's decision and speak out against it especially, they would probably be punished along with the criminal who committed the crime, and in the document itself, you can see that there is a character named Senator Wiley and also Rudolph Halley, and they're the ones basically talking about the event and the officer and the lawyer who were murdered, and they expressed the underscore of the broader societal impact of crime, and they were suggesting a historical pattern of public concern and demand for action in response to criminal activity, so they also understood how important it was for the public to hear about these cases and to give their voice and opinion to better help the justice system. In the text, they also talk about the involvement of multiple crime committees and how they had required federal protection for the people in this text, but obviously it failed, and this is showing the institutional response to escalating crime rates, and I know that sounds like a lot, but basically what that means is that the system itself sees crime going up, and in order to prevent that from happening, they're reacting to and responding to these crimes happening, and this demonstrates how there was an effort to adapt new frameworks to address the evolving challenges in the criminal world and the justice system in itself, and the modern-day legal system knows what to do and how to properly respond to these crimes because of this idea and this mentality that they had all the way back in the 50s and has reciprocated today into our modern justice system. You can see how the people who decide punishments have changed, the priorities slash morals of society have changed, the way the law reacts to criminals have changed, and so much more within the criminal justice system, and it's continuing to change and evolve as time goes on. Overall, the text provides a snapshot of the evolving nature of crime and justice, highlighting the persistence of criminal activities, challenges faced by law enforcement, regulatory institutions, and the ongoing efforts to combat crime and uphold justice in society. So as time goes on, these developments will continue to develop, obviously, throughout the justice system, and hopefully we'll have a flawless justice system in the near future.