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    Poverty and Crime

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    Poverty and crime has been a controversial subject over the years. Scholars argue that poverty does not have a relationship to crime because there are countries where poverty is very high but the crime rate is low. In the US it would be hard to argue that there is not a relationship between crime and poverty. The poor people make up an overwhelming majority of the people behind bars. Sociologist and criminal justice scholars have found a direct connection between poverty and crime. An economic

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    Crime and Society

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    Crime and Society Amanda L The diversity of subject matter is the very thing that makes criminal law enforcement such a perplexing question. No other function attempted by organized society covers a wider variety of scientific knowledge and none is more in need of new scientific exploration. In contrast with the occasional flares of public indignation over criminal outbreaks the smoldering light of knowledge illuminates only feebly the field of human relations. The most difficult

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    Crime and Violence

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    In Trinidad and Tobago we are presently faced with an alarming number of acts of violence and crime. Whatever the precise cause of the problem‚ the harsh consequences are that as a nation we are losing our young people‚ particularly to a life of crime and violence because most of our crime are being carried out by young peoples particularly males. In the fight against the increase in acts of crime and violence in Trinidad and Tobago we as a nation must take the initiative to address the issues of

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    Crime Rate

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    United States‚ the crime rate is increasing each day. Although many may believe that only adults are executing this criminal activity‚ and that is entirely not true. Juvenile crime has been a problem in the United States for many years and is still a main factor to the growing crime rates in cities across the United States. Many factors of these adolescences lives contribute to their actions. Such as‚ drug use‚ their communities‚ their peers and also their families. Juvenile crime does not always

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    Cyber Crime

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    Research Paper “Cyber Crimes: A Socio-Legal Interpretation in the Age of Globalization” Dr. G. L. Sharma   "Shanti Kuteer" 81-Vishvesariya Vistar‚ Triveni Nagar‚ Jaipur-302018   +91 94147-78452 ; +91 77423-21377 Email:drgls@ymail.com Crime is considered as a violation of established enacted legislations‚ laws‚ rules or regulations in any society. Though it is a socio-legal‚ economic and political concept yet it has become a global concerns now a days with the emergence

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    Violent Crimes

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    RUNNING HEADER: VIOLENT CRIMES | VIOLENT CRIMES | Hate crimes and Violence in Schools | | Maggie Gallegos Criminology | 9/1/2011 | Brookline College | Abstract Hate crimes are “any felony or violent crime based on prejudice against a particular group. They are prejudice’s

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    Causes of Crime

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    Causes of crime The causes of crime are usually physical abnormalities‚ psychological disorders‚ social and economic factors‚ broken windows‚ income and education. By the twenty-first century criminologists looked to a wide range of factors to explain why a person would commit crimes. These included biological‚ psychological‚ social‚ and economic factors. Usually a combination of these factors is behind a person who commits a crime. Reasons for committing a crime include greed‚ anger‚ jealously

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    Gender and Crime

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    generates a lot of fear and the feeling that this ‘monster’ called crime continues to rocket out of control. Areas such as Kingston‚ St. Andrew‚ St. Catherine‚ St. James and Clarendon have accounted for a high percentage of the crimes committed. Rural areas have seen an increase in crime as it is no longer concentrated in urban areas. It becomes imperative therefore that an examination into the relationship between gender and crime in urban Jamaica be undertaken. Background It was said once

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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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    Crime and Deviance

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    for the high proportion of young‚ working class males shown in official statistics on crime.” This essay will start by making a distinction between the concepts of crime and deviance‚ followed by an examination how such concepts have been acquired and accepted by society. Further reference will be made to the current crime statistics‚ and analyse some of the possible explanations for the high proportion of crime that is being committed by young males. Finally‚ consideration will be given to what

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