GUIDE Hate Crimes Spring 2013 This study guide is offered as a starting point for your studies. It is not exhaustive. All topics covered in class lectures‚ readings and films may appear on the exam. The Hows and Whys of Hate Crime Laws What is a hate crime? A crime motivated by racial‚ sexual‚ or other prejudice How many hate crimes were recorded by the FBI in its most recent hate crime report? 6‚222 According to the Petrosinos article and our text‚ were there hate crimes before hate
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Computer Crime This type of crime is the illegal exploitation of computer technologies‚ usually involving the Internet‚ to support crimes such as fraud‚ identity theft‚ sharing of information‚ and embezzlement. Exactly what is illegal varies greatly from state to state. Consequently‚ the growth of international data communications and in particular the Internet has made these crimes both more common and more difficult to police. Luckily there are people fighting computer crime and it is taken very
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The effects of stigma on controlling HIV and AIDS This essay aims to explain the social ideologies of prejudice and stigmatisation towards individuals infected with HIV/AIDS. It will discuss the issues surrounding the control of the HIV/AIDS disease and examine differential theories to explain the implementations of social discources on those who fear stigmatisation‚ due to their condition. HIV-related stigma and discrimination refers to prejudice‚ negative attitudes‚ abuse‚ ‘people and objects
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PREDICTING CRIME WITH THE UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING SYSTEM Predicting Crime With the Uniform Crime Reporting System Mitchell Adair Introduction to Criminal Justice: CJA 105-AUO A01 Argosy University 1 The Uniform Crime Reporting System is a statistical effort that is said to be cooperative of more than ten thousand state‚ city‚ and county law enforcement agencies on a basis that is considered
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Space – society – economy WS 2014/2015 Organized crime and its cinematic representation How do they influence each other? Barbora Holevová Matrikelnummer: 65985 WS 2014/2015 barbora.holevova1@gmail.com Katholische Universität Ingolstadt – Eichstätt Fachbereich Geographie Professur für Wirtschaftsgeographie Prof. Hans – Martin Zademach & Cornelia Bading Table of Content 1. Introduction 3 2. Familiarization with an issue of urban crime: the mafia 4 3. Cinematic representation
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Uniform Crime Reports One Uniform Crime Reports Nicole Gent CJA/314 August 8‚ 2011 Ron Alter Uniform Crime Reports Two The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected and organized crime related information from each state compiling the data to theorize
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Computer crime Computer crime‚ or cybercrime‚ refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network‚ where the computers may or may not have played an instrumental part in the commission of a crime.[1] Netcrime refers‚ more precisely‚ to criminal exploitation of the Internet.[2] Issues surrounding this type of crime have become high-profile‚ particularly those surrounding hacking‚ copyright infringement‚ child pornography‚ and child grooming. There are also problems of privacy when confidential
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116TH INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE PARTICIPANTS’ PAPERS CRIME IN INDIA Sanjiv Kumar Upadhyay * I. CRIME IN INDIA A. General There were 61.8 million criminal cases reported in 1998 with a rate of 6366 per million population. 77.8% of cases investigated were chargesheeted in a court of law. There were 5.7 million cases pending in courts of which trail was completed in 15.8% of cases and of these‚ 37.4% cases ended in conviction. There are 41.6 police personnel per sq. kilometers and 1360 per million
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Environmental Crime is considered to be within white-collar crime because the motive behind offenses is always related to economic gain. Environmental Crime is not restricted by borders and has a great affect on a nation’s security and existence. “A significant proportion of both wildlife and pollution crime is carried out by organized criminal networks.” (Interpol Enviromental Crime Programme‚ 2012). What is the case? What happened? Wal-Mart‚ one of the largest retailers has plead guilty to violating
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The transnational crime that I chose to research is human trafficking. Although human sex trafficking often takes place in American amongst different states‚ it can also be a transnational crime‚ in the event that it involves two or more countries. In many cases‚ it involves women and young children‚ but rare cases‚ it includes men as well and is these individuals are forced into labor‚ prostitution‚ or sex trafficking. Transnational crimes occur when offenses‚ acts‚ and impacts involve more than
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