Gun ownership has the capability to positively assist a home occupant during a burglary. A burglar can be convinced to leave the home in the presence of a gun-wielding occupant‚ or a gun-owner can exercise his right to self-defence and harm the intruder‚ effectively ending the home invasion. With this in mind‚ it can appear to be a good idea to own a gun in the event of home invasion. But does this really mean that owning a gun will protect from home invasion? Or that having a gun at the time of
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definite questions are requested in order to gather as much information as possible to decide the patterns among those crime. In other hand‚ the author stated that the UCR measures the violent crimes such as robbery‚ aggravated assault‚ murder and rape. For property crime‚ the UCR measures burglary‚ and motor vehicle theft. Truman and Langton mention that one of the issue that crime is not reported is because a numerous victims don’t contact the police to make an official report. Also‚ victims might
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routine activities and rational choice theories. (1) Unlike other crime theories‚ the GTC considers the criminal offender and the criminal act as separate concepts. According to this theory‚ crime is "rational and predictable." Crimes such as burglaries or robberies‚ usually committed by young males‚ provide easy‚ short-term gratification. The theory suggests that‚ " the propensity to commit crimes remains stable" throughout a crime-prone persons life. Given the right criminal opportunities‚ such as having
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Angus can be charged with constructive murder of Chris under section 3A (1) of the Crimes Act 1958 ‚ but the prosecution must prove all the elements of the offence beyond a reasonable doubt. ACTUS REUS The actus reus requirement for murder is that Angus caused the death of a human being and that his actions were voluntary. Chris‚ a human being‚ was an innocent customer who entered the service station and was struck by a bullet from the gun which Angus was holding; he dies as a result of this strike
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Yossie Lebovic Corporate Security and Loss Prevention Professor Swanzey Final Paper Loss prevention in corporate and retail establishments is crucial to developing and maintaining successful businesses. The FBI reports that retail theft costs businesses $30 billion dollar a year overall‚ making theft prevention a huge concern. There are countless areas to consider when setting up a new business and one must carefully follow certain protocols as to prevent theft. Conducting a site survey‚ developing
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Over $1 billion is funding police-patrol programs each year. In Tennessee‚ a study on saturation patrol reliability was conducted. It was analyzed through the results of patrols during the day and night. A saturation patrol is a method that involves multiple officers placed in specific locations that have high rates of DUI cases. Enforcing more saturation patrols will eventually lessen the possibility of alcohol-impaired driving of a community. Conducting more saturation patrols will result in having
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that is good for everyone. The repeal would lead to lowering the amount of deaths from guns because guns are a substantial amount of deaths in the US. Also‚ it would lower crime rate in general because people who use guns to commit crimes such as robbery‚ would no longer be able to do so. Furthermore‚ the money people would have spent on guns could be spent on
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suspected with numerous amounts of crimes. For example‚ Clyde was suspected to have killed two police officers and kidnapping a man and women in Louisiana. He released them near Waldo‚ Texas. Clyde also murdered a man in Hillsboro‚ Texas‚ committed robberies at Lufkin and Dallas Texas‚ murdered a sheriff and wounded another at Stringtown in Oklahoma‚ and many others. The list could go on and on. After some time‚ they started traveling with a gunman‚ Raymond Hamilton. He left several months later and
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breaking into their house‚ and the perpetrator drops his bag of burglary tools and runs‚ the unexpected return of the homeowners stopped his crime from being completed‚ but the robbers intent was clearly to rob their home‚ and this was apparent from the burglary tools he left behind when he ran. This person can then be arrest and prosecuted for attempted burglary‚ even though he never made it in the house to commit the crime of burglary. One main issue when dealing with inchoate crime is determining
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The criminal justice system originated as far back as the American colonial days. The criminal justice system is defined as the set of agencies and processes established by governments to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate laws (need citation). According to the National Center for Victims of Crime‚ which is the nation’s leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims and those who serve them‚ there are two main systems: state and federal. State criminal justice systems
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