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    Within the entertainment media there is now an acceptance of homosexuality First of all I think this issue is highly vary by culture I guess in the Ortodox Arabic world the entertainment media is not even allowed to speak about homosexuality while in other part of the world it is an everyday topic I would say so. The Mediterranean countries like Portugal or Brazil is another maybe more complicated case. But to be clear I would like to debate this question in the terms of the general “western culture”

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    Media and Prostitution

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    MEDIA and Prostitution Thinking about prostitutions When we think about prostitutes first thing comes in our mind and that is women selling their bodies for sex. We don’t even consider it a both sex issue. The fact of the matter is that thirty 30 % of men are prostitutes also Movies and Prostitution When we were kids‚ we used to dress up in adult clothes and pretend we were movie stars. But know we grow up and we can observe all the things. Through movies media shows us like if we see movie

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    Media Deadly

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    Is the Media a Deadly Weapon? In today’s society‚ it is almost impossible to avoid any type of advertising or media display. Children have become targets by the advertisement industry and some people believe that it has a negative affect. The APA’s view is that violence in the media causes violence in children‚ which is stated in the article‚ “APA Congressional Testimony on Media Violence and Children: Testimony of Jeff J. McIntyre on Behalf of the American Psychological Association.” The American

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    Youth in Crime

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    seem to believe it does. Appearance‚ location‚ and race all deal with how people as well as police authority characterize individuals without truly knowing how that person is. Race is one of the biggest factors when it comes to criminalization because of what people see on the media and from what they are told. It usually is the younger generation that are viewed as criminals not only because of where they live and who they associate themselves with‚ or with what is seen on the media but also because

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    Street Crimes

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    STREET CRIME MORE HARMFUL THAN WHITE COLLAR CRIME? Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? By general definition‚ a crime is a wronging‚ proclaimed by law against society. All acts of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings which gave us concepts of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. From our being submerged in a culture‚ our concept of crime is usually

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    Cause of Crime

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    Causes of Crime In this modern era‚ many crimes keep happening around the world.  A crime is the breaking of rules or law for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction. Crimes that we usually find in newspaper are the disappearance of children‚ threats‚ kidnappings and many more. The causes of crime include poor parenting‚ failure education‚ media violence and poverty. One of the causes of crime is poor parenting. According to Currie and Tekin (April 2006)‚ maltreatment

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    Crime and Deviance

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    Introduction to Criminology Understanding Crime and Deviance In my assignment I am going to be defining crime and deviance‚ formal and informal deviance‚ societal and situational deviance and the sources that can affect crime and deviance. I am also going to be discussing how we measure crime and deviance. Crime is an act that breaks the law or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public’s welfare or morals to the interest of the state and that is legally prohibited. Some

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    Clarification Of Crime

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    of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question‚ then there is no offense” (Fidel Castro). Criminal law follows a strict set of guidelines and procedures that allow prosecutors to convict suspects and police forces to make arrests. Criminal law varies for each state including the punishment that follows for the crime committed. Many individuals are unclear as to what criminal law is‚ how it affects

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    and its relation to the wider society. Today‚ the prevalent use of social media platforms has awakened narcissism in our society. Individual self-esteem is highly dependent on the number of likes‚ followers and personal moments on social media platforms. Many are consequently

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    Teenage crimes

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    Contents Executive Summary Teenage crimes as we all know are those crimes which are performed by people aging between 13-19 years old. These crimes are performed all over the world but unfortunately these crimes have been on the rise in Pakistan for the last 5 years. Our objective was to find out who are responsible for the increase in teenage crimes. For this purpose we Conducted a survey from our fellow students also we interviewed a Deputy Supretendant of Police to get

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