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    Measuring Crime

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    Criminology Crime is usually committed by the criminals with no problem‚ but it’s what comes after the crime that the victim is faced with that is the hard part. Crimes are supposed to be reported but unfortunately‚ sometimes victims fail to report them. People often forget how important reporting crime is. Without these crime reports it becomes very difficult to collect crime data. However‚ for all the unreported crimes‚ there are reported crimes‚ as well. When crimes are reported‚ it becomes

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    Crime Analysis

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    HOW TECHNOLOGY IS USED IN CRIME ANALYSIS CJ 216 Highfill‚ Lucrissa 9/7/2010 Leave this page blank The first step in the crime analysis process is the collection of data; this step is closely connected to data storage. As noted above‚ this step occurs outside the direct control of the crime analysis function. In most police agencies‚ officers and/or civilian employees enter crime reports and other data into a computer system. Officers may write reports in longhand that are then entered

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    Crime and Violence

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    In Trinidad and Tobago we are presently faced with an alarming number of acts of violence and crime. Whatever the precise cause of the problem‚ the harsh consequences are that as a nation we are losing our young people‚ particularly to a life of crime and violence because most of our crime are being carried out by young peoples particularly males. In the fight against the increase in acts of crime and violence in Trinidad and Tobago we as a nation must take the initiative to address the issues of

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    Cyber Crime

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    1: What is a cybercrime in your own words? Cybercrime‚ also called computer crime because the use of a computer is used as tool to help people meet their illegal ends. Some cybercrime examples are committing fraud‚ trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property‚ stealing other peoples identity‚ or violating privacy of others. 2: What is the extent of cybercrime in the United States? Cyber crimes here in the United States are becoming very dangerous and serious‚ this could include

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    The Concept of Crime

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    What is a Crime? A crime is an offence against the public law. It is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. Crimes violate the law and order of a society and it negatively affects the social structure and the society’s fundamental values‚ morale and belief system.  The concept of Crime can vary from society to Society The crimes are events and actions that are proscribed by the criminal law of a particular

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    Recorded Crime

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    Why might the figures for recorded crime underestimate the actual amount of crime that takes place? Brief definition of crime and the process from committed crime to prosecution. An overview of recorded crime numbers between the years 1876-2000. Given statistics of the actual amount of recorded and unrecorded crime. Possible reasons and examples for crimes not being recorded based on BCS surveys. To define crime we have to look at it from two different perspectives‚ one is based on the legal

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    Violent Crime

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    not kill human beings. Even if criminals have committed horrible crimes‚ the government does not have the right to execute them. Taking those people into prison is a good solution; because this is a deserved punishment for their crimes and this kind of punishment is much more humane than capital punishment. This type of punishment is strong enough to make scare in criminals’ minds. Furthermore‚ most criminals have committed crimes when they cannot control themselves or they cannot think about the

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    Thomson's Crimes

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    you’re born. But can only do so much as we get older we start to take responsibility for ourselves instead of passing it on to our parents. The age of criminal responsibility is 10 but this does not mean that when a child under that age commits a crime it is the parents fault. Children look up to their parents and learn from them but in the case of James Bulger who was murdered by 2 young boys at the age of 10‚ Jon Venables and Robert Thompson these boy’s obviously didn’t see this behaviour from

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    Crime and Deviance

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    for the high proportion of young‚ working class males shown in official statistics on crime.” This essay will start by making a distinction between the concepts of crime and deviance‚ followed by an examination how such concepts have been acquired and accepted by society. Further reference will be made to the current crime statistics‚ and analyse some of the possible explanations for the high proportion of crime that is being committed by young males. Finally‚ consideration will be given to what

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    Major Crime

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    the purpose of major crime-reporting programs? What makes a successful crime-reporting program in the United States? The purpose for major crime-reporting programs is to try to improve the methology and to publish the collective data. So by having major crime-reporting programs the law enforcement agencies are able to get information and also collect data to figure out the crime patterns of the nation instead of just one spot. This is hard though because not all of the crimes that end up happening

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