Question 1:
Gregory, Ann and Fancy plan to rob a Bank. Ann who is also the branch manager directs the security guard to give access to Gregory and Fancy on the agreed date. Unknown to Ann, her deputy manager at the bank overhears her instructions to the guard. The following day the three recruited John to drive the get-away Car. John drove Gregory and Fancy to the Bank and while Gregory and Fancy were in the process of robbing the Bank, John was overwhelmed by fear and he drove off leaving Gregory and Fancy behind. During the execution of the robbery, the tellers who were attending customers witnessed the whole ordeal while hiding under their desks. After the successful loot Gregory discovers that John had left and he calls his brother Sam who picks them up. While on the way Gregory briefs Sam of the robbery and the fact that they had managed to run away with Ksh. 1,000,000. Sam drives to his home for hide out. Jane, Sam's wife welcomes them home and prepares them a meal.
Police investigations later leads to the arrest of Gregory, Ann, her deputy bank manager, the bank security guards, Fancy, all the tellers on duty on that day, the customers that were in the banking hall, Sam and Jane.
Identify the various parties to the offence.
Question 2:
A 28 year old male Ph.D. student in criminology has been charged with breaking into a house and stabbing to death four undergraduate students (three females and one male) while they were asleep. The student has been studying the criminal mindset of serial killers and has been fascinated with how easily some of them get away with crimes. He himself has never committed a crime before. He did not steal anything from the house. Assume that the PhD student is in fact and in law guilty.
In another scenario, A brutally kills his lover and recruits others to help him dispose the body in a distant forested area.
In both scenarios, answer the questions below:
a) What criminological theory(ies) can you advance to explain why they committed the crimes?
b) What punishment would you recommend for the perpetrators, and why based on your understanding of the philosophy of punishment?
c) What policy initiatives would you advance based on the criminological theory (ies) you discuss above, to prevent a similar crime from occurring?