Name of Course: The Explanation of Crime Code of Course: CMY3701 Semester Code: 02 - Second Semester Assignment Number: 01 - Compulsory Student Name: Riëtte du Bruyn Student Number: 4238-255-6 Unique Number: 363036 Assignment Closing Date: 22 August 2013 Rational Choice Theory Table of Contents Section A: 15 marks 3 1. Introduction 3 2. Definition of Rational Choice 3 3. The Six propositions of Rational Choice (Joubert 2009:19-20) 3 3.1 First: Crimes are deliberate acts‚ committed with
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What is crime? Crime is the conduct that is in violation of the criminal laws of state‚ federal government‚ and local jurisdiction. In normal terms‚ breaking anything that the people who make laws finds to be wrong and immoral. Crime nowadays can be pretty much anything. There are so many different items and actions that society and lawmakers are making illegal. The criminal justice system has been established to control these crimes and to protect those of us that are victims and to punish those
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Ecology Of Crime There are many patterns in the crime rate that seem to be linked to temporal and ecological factors. Crimes usually happen more often‚ and‚ or more less according to the day‚ season‚ climate‚ temperature‚ population density‚ and region. For example‚ a person is more likely to be assaulted at midnight when the temperature exceeds 90 degrees than when to temperature is 10 degrees below zero. Therefore‚ a criminal is more likely to commit a crime when the time of day‚ season‚ and
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Defining Environmental Crimes Environmental crime is a serious and growing concern at national as well as international level‚ and one which takes many different forms. Environmental crime in broad terms means an act which is committed with the intention of damaging or causing damage to the ecological and biological systems to ensure business or personal benefit. The types of acts commonly recognised as environmental crime are: pollution or other contamination of air‚ land and water; illegal discharge
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offenses such as creating and distributing viruses on other computers and posting confidential business information on the internet. Basically cyber crime can be divided into three major categories such as cyber crime against person‚ cyber crime against property and cyber crime against government. Cyber crime against person includes various crimes like transmission of child pornography‚ indecent exposure‚ harassment of any one with the use of email or websites where the asked to enter password
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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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D a a e m R e llege t s i S Co Crime and Technology • Science has excelled in all forms of life‚ and helped the human kinds in many ways. • With the advancement of technology punished the criminals in different ways‚ criminals had found various ways to conduct a crime and human brain is a complex system of strategies‚ making the criminal more dangerous‚ but at the same time human had found more ways through which criminals could be caught and punished. Crime and Technology • One such way is called
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times were it’ll gradually pickup‚ then suddenly begin to fall down. The crime rate throughout the world varies throughout the city and states of our country. Population and cities are all sorts of sizes‚ some with a higher crime rate than others. Our crime rate in the next decade could possibly lower‚ rise‚ or stay the same as now. It’s all based on an individual and how their actions take place. When our economy is bad our crime intends to rise. We have so many people that are unemployed‚ can’t find
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members of the clergy. They would become involved in political schemes and therefore the nobility could become involved in crime which were not shared by other people. The most common crimes were: -high treason -blasphemy -sedition -spying -rebellion -murder -witchcraft Just being accused of a crime‚ with no proof‚ could result in torture or death. Depending on the crime. Those that are accused of heresy‚ (religious opinions that conflict with the church’s religion) treason‚ or murder‚ received
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Compare and contrast the Roman Empire from The Han Dynasty of China In history‚ there existed strong empires that were very powerful and lasted for many centuries. These empires were able to conquer‚ defeat and rule over many other empires. They had strong and organized armies that could not be taken down which ensured their long survival in such an era in the world where only the strongest survived. Their stability on the other hand brought about advanced in discoveries and many areas such as education
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