what is a gang because peer groups in general are central to youthful activities people hang out in groups common feature to see adolescent to engage in groups hence‚ a gang comprise primarily young males‚ engage in behaviour from outright criminality to graffiti. Females? Data Sources Difficult to get precise information on gangs official data (police) self identification (surveys of youth population) ethnographic studies (we can’t get information on prevalence and incidence) Police
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Offenders Criminality and Rehab. REHB5068 Public Offenders and rehabilitation Module 1 topic 2 Module Content 1. Classical Criminal Theory 2. Rational Choice or Displacement theory Traditional Classical Theory For an introduction to traditional classical theory see chapter 1 by Piers Beirne in Cornish and Clarke. This approach founded by the Famous 18th/19th century criminologist/scientist Cesare Beccaria is that which underlies our common understanding of criminality and philosophically
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problems. According to a calculation made in July 2012 its’ population is over 10 million people. The life expectancy in Somalia is very low for both women and men‚ for women it is 52.8 years and for men it is 48.86 years‚ this can be due to the criminality in Somalia and the famine in this country. Also the literacy rate in Somalia is very low due to a minimal amount of schools in the country‚ for males it is 36% and for females it is 14%. So in total the literacy rate in Somalia for the entire population
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Southwestern Assemblies of God University School of Distance Education Methadone Treatment Programs are Effective in Stopping Heroin Use A Paper Presented to Professor Loyd Uglow‚ Ph.D In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Course THE 5113 Research Literature and Technology Sharon Pete November 28‚ 2012 THESIS STATEMENT: To investigate Methadone maintenance is found to be more effective in treating heroin addiction than 180 day detoxification. The objective is how methadone
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Born on August 13‚ 1883‚ Edwin H. Sutherland was a sociologist who spent majority of his time teaching in the sociology department at Indiana University. Sutherland is known as one of the most influential criminologist of the 20th century due in part to coining the idea of differential association and defining “white-collar crime”. Shaw and McKay’s social disorganization theory was another theory that concluded that crime was a result of the environment or context in which an individual is embedded
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Historically females were seen as non-criminals as their pathways into criminality was seen to be invisible. Daly and Chesney refer this as the gender ratio problem where gender differences results in female committing less crime than male. Heidensohn states that female offenders tend to serve sentences for nonviolent offenses such as property crimes‚ drug-related crimes and fraud. It was only prostitution in which female were dominated. However‚ the female prison population has increased. The female
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sentencing until such a point as there has been formal scientific acceptance and verification (Price & Whatmore‚ 1967; Jewell‚ 2013). Labelling theory is a sociological theory which starts with an assumption that no act is inherently criminal and that criminality is relative and varies from one location to another as it is defined by those in power; whether through the formation of law or the interpretation of those rules by enforcement bodies such as police and the courts. Under this assumption‚ the deviant
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Social scientists have come up with many theories and reasons about why people commit crimes. The two main explanations lie in biological and environmental factors‚ which relates to the nature and nurture debate. Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are – from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics. Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are‚ including our early childhood experiences‚ how we were raised‚ our
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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA SCHOOL OF LAW COURSE CODE:-LAW 234 COURSE TITLE:-THE LAW OF CONTRACT II LAW 234 THE LAW OF CONTRACT II 8 COURSE GUIDE LAW 234 THE LAW OF CONTRACT II Course Writers/Developers G. I. Oyakhiromen Ph.D‚ BL Ayodeji Ige National Open University of Nigeria Course Editor Professor Justus A. Sokefun National Open University of Nigeria Programme Leader Course Coordinator G. I. Oyakhiromen Ph.D‚ BL National Open University of Nigeria Ayodeji Ige
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I will be explaining what equality‚ diversity and right mean in health social care I will start with the definition and then give an example for each different term. P2- describes discriminatory practice in health and social care. This topic will focus on discrimination and discriminatory practice. When discriminations happen it can have a very negative effect. When people discriminate they treat the individuals they are discriminating against differently from others. People can be discriminated
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