In the court room for the double murder trial, I felt tension in the room. I saw the victims family and I could not believe they were in the same room with the killer. The court room was organized, and during recess time officers were organizing everything even more. There had to be more than one officer in the room apparently, because there was one in every side of the court room. I enjoyed seeing how the judge, lawyer, witness etc. new what they were doing making everything run smoothly. The whole process of asking the witness questions is very lengthy. Being specific, including every detail, is what made the process long and boring.
This was a criminal case and the criminal committed a felony. Gary, the plaintiff, was charged with double murder. He was a young, Caucasian man, and his victims were his own mother, and a prostitute. This took place in Gary's house in Addison. The strain theory would go with this case because norms were fully absent on Gary's part. Based on the pictures shown in court, what he did I found shocking and disturbing.
   
In the jail i saw lots of Caucasian men and Latin men. I thought it was not too different from our school, which smells bad, majority of the walls are plane, its loud and under supervision. The difference is that at school we are not locked up in cells, or have to get escorted everywhere we go, and we as students get more privacy. Out of the four rationales in jail I only saw retribution and incapacitation. I saw the strain, shaming, control, feminist, and differential theories take place int he jail. I think that jail is helpful. Yes it keeps some bad people away form the communities but many still remain out. Those who come in aren't rehabilitated so they go out and come right back in. Therefore, I think that jails need to be changed in order to see change in people. Providing more humane conditions, and rehabilitation would be the key to success.

I found myself thinking sociologically when I was at my cousin's house. This day we went ding dong ditching around his neighborhood in Chicago.  Although it was really fun I bet those who were a victim of this weren't so happy. We took turns at ringing or knocking at houses, and even all the doorbells for an apartment building. Our parents thought we were outside playing kick ball, which we did for a while but then decided to do this. Kids of several different ages were involved, there were kids with nine years of age to 18 years of age.
If any parents, would have found out what we were doing they would have gotten upset, and tried to use the shaming theory on us by trying to make us feel guilty and never want to do it again. To them it would of been a deviant action, because its rude, and disrupts others. In the other hand, to us its not deviant because its a common way to have fun among our age group. Its not wrong to us also because no one is getting hurt, we are just simply having fun, plus there is not a law saying we can't do it. The differential association theory would be implied because the young ones would learn from us, even though its not to good.