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    Nature and Extent of Violent Crime There’s nothing we can do to stop crimes from happening; crimes are inevitable. However‚ it is important to know how crimes originate‚ when they occur‚ where crimes are more likely to occur and who can commit such acts of violence. This knowledge gives law enforcement a better understanding on how to deal with these situations and to help make society a safer place. The imperfections of society contribute to the nature of violent crimes. Criminologists imply

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    multiple dynamics of prison violence that makes it such a dangerous place to live. Violence occurs in prison because there are good inmates and bad inmates while there are good officers and bad officers. This is one of the ironies of imprisonment‚ how prison is supposed to stop violence but in many cases it increases it. According to Marx‚ escalation is the clearest illustration of self defeating measures of social control in which intervention contributes to rule breaking violence. Escalation produces

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    National Human Rights Commission‚ New Delhi‚ India Project Report On “ Torture and Custodial Violence in Prisons “ Submitted By- Yashwardhan Pratap Singh 1st year‚ B.A.LLB Course‚ Jindal Global Law School‚ O.P. Jindal Global University‚ Sonipat‚ Haryana. Report on - The Custodial Violence and Torture In Prisons: Can it be justified even if done for a greater good? Where to draw the line between the autonomy of the police and the rights of the prisoners ? Basic Structure

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    Prison violence (Inmate Rape) We all know that our prisons are the final point for the socially rejected criminals and violent transgressors. We know that our prisons are so overcrowded that the Supreme Court of California issued a court order to reduce the number of inmates. We know that since there are more inmates in prison the chance of getting rehabilitated are very slim to none. And we also know that the ratio of supervision of guard to inmate is extremely high. But do we know what goes

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    Violence Is Part of Our Nature I want to believe what we can stop violence. I want to believe in that because I am a human‚ not a wild animal. In our life we are always have a choice when we grow up. We can choose whatever we want ‚ also we can choose our profession‚ food‚ favorite colors. And then we can choose the path to achieve our goals. Unfortunately some of us choose the wrong way‚ the way with violence . Why people do this? Why violence it is part of our life? Because people have a lot

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    Prison Abuse Americans all know that our prisons are the final frontier for the socially rejected criminals and violent offenders. Once they are convicted‚ prison is their new home. For which it can be five years or the rest of their lives until death. When the door closes behind them the rest of the world doesn’t matter. It is inside the prison that matters. Those of us who are outside the prison are unaware of what goes on in there‚ such as prisoner’s abuse. Violence within America’s correctional

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    stands out a as day in history with abounding accounts of violence including Stono’s Rebellion‚ the Attica Prison Riot‚ and the murders of eight Syrian soldiers during the Arab Spring. On September

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    The Violence of Man and Nature In Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat and The Blue Hotel‚ violence is presented to the reader as one of several themes. The theme of violence stands out because it is prominent throughout these two works. The main focus of the nature of the violence seen in The Open Boat deals with the threat nature poses to humankind. Sprinkled among the episodes of natural violence‚ the reader is exposed to brief periods when the crew itself breaks out into violence. In The Blue

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    Violence and Human Nature in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson shows us in her short story “The Lottery” that violence is a part of human nature‚ and that it can be disguised in many ways. She conveys this using many different elements . Some of the ways she demonstrates the violence in human nature are particular events in the plot‚ ironic twists‚ foreshadowing‚ character development (or lack of it)‚ and symbolism. Many events in the plot of the short story convey the theme of

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    Zinn’s “Violence and Human Nature” In Howard Zinn’s article “Violence and Human Nature” Zinn investigates the belief that violence is an innate trait of human beings. In the end he comes to a conclusion that not all humans are born with a drive to be violent‚ but instead mainly influenced by that person’s natural surroundings and environments. In section one of Zinn’s article‚ he explains three events in which he has experienced which have ultimately shaped his perception of human violence. Two

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