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    Offender based approaches to white collar crime is define with emphasis as an essential characteristic of crime dealing with high social status‚ power‚ and respectability of the actor. A strength to this type of approach allows the social stigmatism of the “criminal” offender to be destabilized in the public view. Drawing attention to the ideation that people within high society or social standing can and will commit crime. This approach while breaking the social norms of antisocial behavior lends

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    MULTICULTURAL REPRESENTATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT: RECRUITMENT‚ RETENTION‚ AND PROMOTION INTRODUCTION Multicultural is related to several cultures in society‚ and educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than a mainstream culture. The Impact of Cultural Diversity in law enforcement is hard to uphold‚ currently in law enforcement it’s hard to keep officers because of the lack of interest that goes on‚ pay grade‚ and taking too long to rank up within the

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    Raheel Hanif Allan Skrocki Juvenile Justice‚ CJ 221 Juvenile Corrections: Probation‚ Community Treatment‚ and Institutionalization Until the early 1800s‚juvenile offenders‚as well as neglected and dependent children‚ were confined in adult prisons.The inhumane conditions in these institutions were among the factors that led social reformers to create a separate children’s court system in 1899. Early juvenile institutions were industrial schools modeled after adult prisons but designed

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    usefulness of Marxist approaches to an understanding of crime and deviance (21 marks) Karl Marx‚ would not have considered himself a Marxist but nevertheless‚ here’s what you get: Karl Marx believed that criminals are as much made as born. He theorized that Societies determine what they view as crime but that the "minority in control" determines the scope and distribution of punishments as well as the levels of punishments. Of capitalism Marx wrote about the concept of how crimes such as unfairly

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    Week 6 Assignment: Corrections and Treatment John Cho University of Phoenix Corrections and treatment within the Juvenile Justice System have a variety of helpful rehabilitative and crime deterrent programs. These programs can help young juvenile offenders correct behavioral patterns‚ therapeutically rehabilitate their mental state‚ and prevent long term criminal activity. The treatment options are separated into two smaller categories: community-based treatment and institutionalization. The

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    Cyber Crimes Business Law 420 10/18/2013 Cybercrime is defined as a crime in which a computer is the object of a crime or is used as a tool to carry out a crime. Cybercriminals may use computer technology to access personal information‚ business trade secrets‚ or use the Internet for exploitive or malicious purposes. Offenders who perform these unlawful actions are often referred to as hackers (Janssen‚ 2010). There are several different types of cybercrimes‚ however four of the most

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    There are many forms of crime prevention and crime reduction. Explore two such strategies and illustrate with practical examples. Background Crime prevention has been in existence since the nineteenth century. It is linked with the period marking the emergence of the modern state. During this period the community handles it own crime preventative measure but it was hard to sustain it. However‚ they perceived a belief that the criminal justice system could prevent crime alone and propaganda to

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    of functionalist approaches in explaining crime Functionalist approach towards crime & deviance is seen as a top down approach as it looks at society as a whole‚ stating that criminal behaviour is caused by society itself except from being caused through an individual’s biology & psychology. Durkheim sees deviance as inevitable also being necessary for our society‚ however other perspectives such as Marxist & Feminist may state otherwise. Functionalist such as Merton explain crime through “strain

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    Future of Corrections Annali Zieroth CJA/394 November 2‚ 2012 Troy Hokanson Future correctional problems that will need to be addressed by prison administrators are the lack of inmate education. Studies show that imprisoned individual is disproportionately and increasingly undereducated. Inmates who are released from confinement have a very difficult time obtaining employment due to the lack of education. If the confinement center would push harder for the inmates to learn basic reading‚

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    requirement: To avoid illegal searching or seizing of someone’s property‚ the law enforcement provides search warrants. For getting a search warrant ‚ the first and foremost thing to law enforcement is to have a specific cause and it has to support oath and they should describe where they are going to search and what all the items they will seize. After all these things then judge will examine the cause that is proposed by law enforcement and can give a permission i.e search warrant. There are three different

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