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    Crime in Society

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    authority. Why is there so much crime in society? There is so much because there are so many people that never consider the other person that they are stealing from or causing harm to. All of these people are self-centered and never think who they could be hurting but what they are going to gain from the crime whether it be happiness or self-respect they don’t think of the consequence or how the person on the other side of the crime feels. The reason why this is‚ is

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    Crime Trends

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    Crime trend Part 2 According to my crime trend: Career Criminals My crime trend does not seem to exist in Virginia. According to US legal “Parole has been abolished” (Us Legal‚ 2010). With parole being abolished this does not give felons a chance to become career criminals. By abolishing parole Virginia has cut down crime in their state significantly. According to the Lexington prosecutor the number of repeat offenders has risen from 1996 to 1999 about two percent each year. They are recommending

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    cyber crime

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    A RESEARCH MONOGRAPH ON CYBER CRIME AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOCIAL SITES TO CYBERCRIMES Abstract Facebook has become a force to reckon with in the field of social networking. It has been ranked as the number one social networking site with a membership of over five hundred million. It has earned trust from many people who have in turn exposed their information without thinking twice into which hands it might fall. Despite the positive contribution and impact that Facebook has provided‚ it

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    Computer Crimes

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    Computer Crimes Computer crimes are on the rise 1 in 10 Americans experience some form of a malicious attack on their computer system. If you pay attention to the rest of this speech you will understand how a Hackers mind works and how to defend yourself from them. In this speech I will tell you why and how people break into computers‚ what sorts of trouble they cause‚ and what kind of punishment lie ahead for them if caught. Hackers and Crackers break into computer systems for any of

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    Measuring Crime

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    Criminology Crime is usually committed by the criminals with no problem‚ but it’s what comes after the crime that the victim is faced with that is the hard part. Crimes are supposed to be reported but unfortunately‚ sometimes victims fail to report them. People often forget how important reporting crime is. Without these crime reports it becomes very difficult to collect crime data. However‚ for all the unreported crimes‚ there are reported crimes‚ as well. When crimes are reported‚ it becomes

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    Crime Analysis

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    HOW TECHNOLOGY IS USED IN CRIME ANALYSIS CJ 216 Highfill‚ Lucrissa 9/7/2010 Leave this page blank The first step in the crime analysis process is the collection of data; this step is closely connected to data storage. As noted above‚ this step occurs outside the direct control of the crime analysis function. In most police agencies‚ officers and/or civilian employees enter crime reports and other data into a computer system. Officers may write reports in longhand that are then entered

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    Cyber Crime

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    1: What is a cybercrime in your own words? Cybercrime‚ also called computer crime because the use of a computer is used as tool to help people meet their illegal ends. Some cybercrime examples are committing fraud‚ trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property‚ stealing other peoples identity‚ or violating privacy of others. 2: What is the extent of cybercrime in the United States? Cyber crimes here in the United States are becoming very dangerous and serious‚ this could include

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    Recorded Crime

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    Why might the figures for recorded crime underestimate the actual amount of crime that takes place? Brief definition of crime and the process from committed crime to prosecution. An overview of recorded crime numbers between the years 1876-2000. Given statistics of the actual amount of recorded and unrecorded crime. Possible reasons and examples for crimes not being recorded based on BCS surveys. To define crime we have to look at it from two different perspectives‚ one is based on the legal

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    Violent Crime

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    not kill human beings. Even if criminals have committed horrible crimes‚ the government does not have the right to execute them. Taking those people into prison is a good solution; because this is a deserved punishment for their crimes and this kind of punishment is much more humane than capital punishment. This type of punishment is strong enough to make scare in criminals’ minds. Furthermore‚ most criminals have committed crimes when they cannot control themselves or they cannot think about the

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    Thomson's Crimes

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    you’re born. But can only do so much as we get older we start to take responsibility for ourselves instead of passing it on to our parents. The age of criminal responsibility is 10 but this does not mean that when a child under that age commits a crime it is the parents fault. Children look up to their parents and learn from them but in the case of James Bulger who was murdered by 2 young boys at the age of 10‚ Jon Venables and Robert Thompson these boy’s obviously didn’t see this behaviour from

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