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  • Crime Insanity

    Crime Insanity

    Today in our criminal justice system, when someone commits a crime they may use insanity as a defense. The insanity defense is when a defendant may be excused from criminal responsibility if at the time of the commission of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from a disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and the quality of the act he was doing, or

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Janna
  • Capital Punishment - How Morally Correct Is It?

    Capital Punishment - How Morally Correct Is It?

    When someone that is close to you is hurt, it not only hurts them but it also affects you. We sympathize with the ones that we love and knowing that someone you love is suffering will make us suffer just as much. If another being hurts or kills someone that we care for it can make us go to certain extremes that can distress us mentally and sometimes even physically. As humans we all

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Top
  • Members of Ethnic Minorities Are No More Prone to Commit Criminal Acts Than Other Sections of the Population, but Are over Represented in Crime Statistics

    Members of Ethnic Minorities Are No More Prone to Commit Criminal Acts Than Other Sections of the Population, but Are over Represented in Crime Statistics

    Different ethnic groups have different representations according to crime statistics, only certain groups of ethnic minorities are over represented in statistics. Some ethnic minority groups such as Afro-Caribbean males appear proportionately higher in crime statistics whereas the Chinese in comparison are under represented. Afro-Caribbean males are the main ethnic minority group to be over represented in crime statistics. When looking at any official statistics we must remember that they may not be totally accurate. Crime

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    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Yan
  • Theories of Crime

    Theories of Crime

    A) I would like you to take your book's presentation of Karl Marx and discuss his basic ideas and what the people who interpret Marx had to say about him, especially as it pertains to the topic of crime. Karl Marx was a radical philosopher who believed a capitalist society is structured to allow the rich to flourish while the majority of people are left solely to survive and struggle to make a living. How

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    Submitted: April 24, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Computer Crime: Prevention & Innovation

    Computer Crime: Prevention & Innovation

    In "Boys and girls: The development of gender roles," Beale gives us revealing overview of Freud''s personality theory. Beale point out both strengths and weaknesses of his answer to the questions of "Why" and "How" in gender development, but still leaves a chance for a reader to make up her/his own mind about whether or not to accept Freud''s theory. It is relatively easy, however, to find oneself torn between openheartedly going along with Freud''s

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    Submitted: April 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • A Crime of Compassion

    A Crime of Compassion

    Who has the right to take one's life from them? The Supreme Court says that no man shall take the life of another man without punishment. The Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill" (Exodus 20:13), yet humans are still the only species that kills their own kind. Murder is wrong. Murder is unlawful. But when does taking the pain and suffering away from a dying victim become murder? Barbara Huttmann believes that there is a

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Vika
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    Capital punishment is very controversial and there are many reasons why people oppose it including that it is very expense. I also believe that capital punishment, although costly, is absolutely necessary in protecting the citizens of this country and should not be put aside simply because of monetary reasons. It is true that capital punishment is expensive, from trials to appeals to years behind bars; it takes a lot of money. Housing a person for

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Monika
  • Americans Love Capital Punishment

    Americans Love Capital Punishment

    Americans Love Capital Punishment There is one question that has always brought about controversy. Should capital punishment be used as a way of disciplining criminals? Over the past twenty years, there has been an enormous increase in violent crimes. It seems logical that a person is less likely to commit a given act if by doing so he will suffer swift and certain punishment of a horrible kind. As most Americans agree, death is the

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Max
  • Solving Juvenile Crime

    Solving Juvenile Crime

    The problem of how to deal with juvenile offenders constitutes one of our countries biggest challenges. There were 13.9 million reported offenses in 1995 according to the FBI’s uniform crime report. That same year over three million juveniles were arrested, 800,000 of those arrests were index crimes, which are crimes of a serious nature. In 1995 there were 69million juveniles. It is predicted that by the year 2010 the juvenile population will reach 74

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Edward
  • Some of the Causes and Effects of Hate Crimes

    Some of the Causes and Effects of Hate Crimes

    Some of the Causes and Effects of Hate Crimes Blacks were introduced to the North America during the 17th and 18th centuries through the triangular trade route, and were welcomed by chains, ropes, and all the horrors of slavery. Slavery was legalized by the US government and continued for a few hundred years, taking a civil war and sixteen presidents before it was forbidden. Even today, there is still much hatred between blacks and whites

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Uniform Crime Data Report

    Uniform Crime Data Report

    The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics (Federal Bureau of Investigations, 2007). Today, the FBI produces a Uniform Crime Report (UCR) annually for all fifty (50) states and the cities within those states from statistic

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Increasing Bank Frauds and Cyber Crimes

    Increasing Bank Frauds and Cyber Crimes

    INTRODUCTION According to Edwin Sutherland's definition, white-collar crime refers to a relatively uniform behaviour involving actions undertaken by individuals to contribute to the financial success of the organization. They violate the law for the firm. Yet the definition is loose. An offence would be called a white-collar crime insofar as it represents violation of a legal rule constructed to govern business affairs or occupational practice and insofar as the law violation took place as part

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Artur
  • Education; Not Punishment

    Education; Not Punishment

    An old proverb states, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” The threat of a prison sentence is no longer an effective deterrent against crime. In 2001 the United States spent 167 billion dollars on its criminal justice system (Justice 5). This includes law enforcement officers, public defenders, judges, and correction facilities. This money could be put to far better use in the hands of our educational system. The United States

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    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Jack
  • Harsher Punishment

    Harsher Punishment

    To prey upon, overpower and sexually assault children and women is an especially heinous crime to me. What is even more distressing is that the punishment for rape, child abuse (both physical and sexual), and other sexually based offenses is not in my opinion harsh enough. Lawrence Singleton whose case is well known, served only eight years after he picked up a 15 year-old hitchhiker drove her to a wooded area were he raped her

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    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: regina
  • David Duchovny Personal Quotes

    David Duchovny Personal Quotes

    "I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook." "I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything." "Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring." "I've always been overly concerned about what people think which has resulted in a lot of

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    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Abolish Capital Punishment

    Abolish Capital Punishment

    Abolish Capital Punishment What is the outcome of capital punishment? Does it bring peace or happiness to a victim's family or does the victim regain his or her life back? Capital punishment, also referred to the death penalty, has been a controversial issue to the society for past decades. It is an ongoing debate that the society argues whether to be abolished or supported. In the United States, the country most characterized by the concept

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    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    The use of capital punishment in the U.S. is a growing concern for most American citizens. According to statistics seventy percent of Americans are in support of the death penalty, while only thirty percent are against it. These statistics show that few people are against capital punishment ("Fact" 1). With the use of the death penalty growing the controversy is becoming more heated. With only twelve states left not enforcing it the resistance is becoming

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    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Compare and Contrast Crime and Terrorism

    Compare and Contrast Crime and Terrorism

    Compare and Contrast Crime and Terrorism 1 Compare and Contrast Crime and Terrorism Deneen M Pratt Axia College of University Of Phoenix ADJ 215 Criminology Deanna Lindsey December 9, 2007 Compare and Contrast Crime and Terrorism 2 The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia were formed in April 1997 as an umbrella paramilitary federation led by Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU) that sought to consolidate many local and regional paramilitary groups in Colombia,

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Jon
  • Juvenile Imprisonment and Punishments

    Juvenile Imprisonment and Punishments

    Juvenile Imprisonment and Punishments Based on public concern and legislative actions about juvenile violence, one would think that it was continually increasing. Juvenile violent crime rates, however, have been declining for at least the past five years. Nevertheless punishment for juvenile crimes tends to become harsher as the years go by. What is the logic behind that? I think that juveniles who commit crime are in line for punishment but it should not go as

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Hate Crimes

    Hate Crimes

    Hate Crimes Critical Analysis Cheyenne Gallant December 6, 2004 Res 110/Introduction to Research and Information Utilization Instructor: Stephan Wertz University of Phoenix During the earlier times, hate crimes were once solely driven by one’s hatred for another race. In today’s society, there are many factors that contribute one’s hate crime towards another. Hate crimes now stem from opposition to a person’s race, religion, gender, disability and sexual orientation. Now, the questions remain, Should a

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Steve
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty. In the United States, capital punishment is legal in thirty-nine of its fifty states (Death). Beginning in 1973, prison populations began to rise at a surprising growth. There were 204,211 inmates in 1973, and by 1977, the number of prisoners had grown to 285,456, which later grew to 315,974 in 1980 (Death). By 1976, it became clear to authority that the death penalty

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Edward
  • Capital Punishment: For or Against?

    Capital Punishment: For or Against?

    Capital Punishment: For or Against? Capital punishment is a very controversial issue, but it is a just penalty for murderers. Murderers forfeit their lives for taking the life of another. Capital punishment deters criminals from committing violet crimes. Incapacitating criminals is also another form of deterrence. The death penalty removes harmful criminals from society. In doing this, people can feel much safer knowing that there is one less criminal on the streets. The death penalty

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Jon
  • Crime Scene Investigation

    Crime Scene Investigation

    Crime Scene Investigation What goes on behind that yellow tape that is always at crime scenes? What are all those guys in the funny outfits doing crawling around on the ground like that? How do those men and women figure out who is to blame for the murder? When a crime has been committed, law enforcement team members use many scientific methods, along with their natural intuition and skill, to discover who is responsible. In

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment Recent revelations about conviction errors in death penalty cases make it clear that the criminal justice system needs substantial reform in the area of capital punishment; the time has come to reconstruct the capital punishment system. As we look at how these mistakes happened and what we can do in the future it is extremely important to remember that it is the states responsible to punish evil doers and to protect the innocent.

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    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Janna
  • Hate Crimes Laws and the Jasper, Texas, Case

    Hate Crimes Laws and the Jasper, Texas, Case

    HATE CRIMES LAWS AND THE JASPER, TEXAS, CASE Crimes committed against any person are unwarranted. When the crimes are backed by racially motivated intentions, the crimes are classified as heinous and violent against the person. Hate crime laws usually have a stiffer punishment than ordinary criminal laws. The Jasper, Texas, case was a prime example of a hate crime as the evidence that was uncovered proved. There are certain things a person needs to know

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    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Vika

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