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    Women in the Media

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    Changing How Women are Portrayed in the Media ABSTRACT Through this paper‚ the reader will be learning about how different women are portrayed in the media‚ and what people can do to hopefully change this one day. Women are constantly being portrayed as having to be “perfect” in the media. Whether it is on the news‚ in magazines‚ in movies‚ or on television‚ sexism is all over the place. With the proposed research ideas and methods‚ hopefully people will be able to make a change in this

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    Technology and Crime

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    Examples of these crimes include‚ electronic funds transfer crime‚ electronic money laundering‚ [2]counterfeiting‚ and software piracy.[3] Contrary to traditional property offences‚ computers coupled with telecommunications technology enables offenders not to leave any traces of usual biological evidence in interpersonal offences such as finger prints or hair that could lead to the offender through forensic tests. Even if the police traced back the computer that the fund transfer crime was originated

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    Crime and Intelligence

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    Criminologists have debated back and forth the question‚ “Does a person’s IQ level really affects their probability of committing a crime and if lack of intelligence increases criminal behavior throughout a person’s life.” Some believe that IQ is a more important variable than race‚ social or economical class in foretelling criminal behavior. The theory of crime being linked to a person’s intelligence says that if IQ does not affect the probability of crime‚ it can have a chain reaction. Academic incompetence

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    Crime and Punishment

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    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ASSIGNMENT ORAL PRESENTATION Theories of Punishment Question - ‘What form of punishment should lawmakers seek to develop in Australia?” Introduction Good morning class‚ today I will be talking to you about the 3 main forms of punishment and the form of punishment that lawmakers should seek to develop in Australia. The three justifications for punishment currently used in our society today are retribution‚ deterrence and rehabilitation. Our society today uses these three

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    discussing that the “aid of computer retouching and other techniques further increases the gap between media images of women intended to portray beauty ideals and the reality of most women’s appearance.” Engeln-Maddox explored college women’s ideas regarding their physical appearance and opportunities in life. She asked her participants to write a description of this culture’s ideal woman according to the media and then reflect on how different their lives would be if they looked like this woman. I thought

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    Crime in Sports

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    fought pit bulls on his property at his million dollar home in Virginia. These dogs fought until death while gamblers bet high stakes on the survivors. The maximum sentence for this type of crime is five years in a federal penitentiary for an average citizen. Instead‚ Vick made a public apology for his crimes and was only sentenced to 23 months in prison‚ less than half the maximum sentence. Vick’s sentence was later reduced to 12 to 18 months when he agreed to take classes that amplified his wrong-doing

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    Hate Crime

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    Hate Crimes Hate crime is the new rape‚ but unlike rape‚ which is colossal violation of human virtue and sanctity. When in reality a hate crime is a crime that targets the victim’s identity‚ for example instead of the victim’s equality as described under law. Yet according to “Hope-Fulfilling or Effectively Chilling? Reconciling the Hate Crimes Prevention Act with the First Amendment.” By Carter Coker‚ published by the Vanderbilt Law Review in 2011‚ “The powerful sense of violation that hate crime

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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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    Crime & Investigation

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    & Virappan have been passed away. It has been very nicely shown in the movie like Sholy & Bandit queen. The heinous crime like Dacoitey‚ Robbery‚ Murder‚ Rape are still there but even these dacoits‚ robberer have been changed there way of doing crime with the help of modern technology. Information & Technology Act 2000 has been enacted to combat the modern type of crime. Cyber criminal are come up & have been doing a huge damage to society as well as to the Nation. The digital world

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    Stereotyping In The Media

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    statistics may seem to guide citizens to believe minorities commit more violent crimes‚ Mann suggests‚ “what types of crimes are defined‚ how they are defined‚ and who is defining them” are primary flaws in the overrepresentation of crimes committed by African-Americans (1993‚ p. 70). Perhaps the strongest influence contributing to the public perception of crimes committed by minorities is the racial stereotypes depicted by the media. I offer the movie trailer for “Whose Streets” advertising the aftermath

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