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    Other than the reasoning of white collar crimes costing billions of dollars annually to our government‚ criminals of this sort usually don’t get caught right away‚ if at all. Without the proper punishment of these criminals they can just rob us of our money day by day. It can happen to any of us that are operating inside of a business. Many of these menaces in their corporation do their work in silence and under unanimous making it very complex to detain said person. While other types of criminals

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    Jaywalking is a crime. What if a person wasn’t crossing the street‚ what if it was a pigeon? Pigeons jaywalk all the time as they know that a car is coming at them 65mph and nonchalantly walk towards the other side. Pigeons don’t care about street rules; (they make their own). Writing became my jaywalk. As a pen stuck to my hand it became a pigeon walking across a street with no fear. Expressing my creative side as I walk my pen against the dialogue of short films I made and poems about my insecurities

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    different circumstances but they both fall under the same crime‚ murder. The types of situations that police officers should be allowed to not enforce the law/ use their own discretion is when it comes to petty crimes such as children writing on walls‚ jaywalking‚ or having a headlight out. You can’t possibly write

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    pants in public. This isn’t illegal‚ just deviant (not to mention a little funny). Then there’s tax evasion‚ which is only criminal and not deviant. Furthermore‚ some criminal behaviors aren’t deviant at all. Crimes such as downloading‚ speeding or jaywalking are crimes but also they are considered norms. Lastly‚ if you are trying to differentiate your own criminal behaviors and deviant ones stop and think: Will I get arrested for

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    The first 10 of 27 Amendments of the Constitution were put in place to satisfy the individuals who were afraid of an overpowering government. These Amendments explained the limitation of power that the government had. The 8th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits government from applying excessive bails‚ excessive fines imposed‚ and cruel and unusual punishments. Cruel and unusual punishment presumes to be the most controversial portion of this amendment. This portion of the amendment means “…punishment

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    Darren Wilson was a white police officer who went out one day patrolling as is daily duty. Through his reports‚ he claimed that he was went to stop Michael Brown for jaywalking‚ but to later discover that he had just robbed a convenience store. Wilson claimed that Brown became very angry because he thought he was being caught for his crime. Brown began to charge at Wilson and was soon at the car window. Brown then tried to grab Wilson’s gun so Wilson began to shoot. So much happened in such a short

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    this argument is the fact that far too many people are made criminals for things which should not be a crime. I once heard of a woman being jailed for overdue library books --- beyond absurd. And‚ at least in one municipality‚ they wanted to make jaywalking a jailable offence --- again way beyond absurd. REAL criminals belong in the jails --- not jaywalkers‚ people who get into fights‚ marijuana smokers‚

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    not be able to have any voting rights. They believe prisoners should be punished harshly because they have jeopardized and have given up their own right to vote. This concept don’t consider prisoners who are put in jail for minor offenses such as jaywalking‚ marijuana charges‚ or traffic violations. We also need to think about the prisoners who have been falsely accused of crimes they did not commit. A study in the Huffington Post revealed that more than 40 percent

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    Social Psychology Experiment Replication (Group Project) An experimental Study of The Door in the Face Technique Date: 28/4/2009 ABSTRACT Door in the face technique is a persuasion method in which a requester first asked an extreme request (which was refused) and then a smaller request. Our experiment was conducted to test the effectiveness of door in the face technique for inducing compliance with different strategies when giving requests. Hong Kong Community College

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    calculation he must also consider the probability of being arrested for jaywalking—an arrest that would defeat his purpose of crossing the street in between the traffic signals. He looks around and does not see a police officer. Nevertheless he has to allocate some degree of probability that a police officer may be standing behind a truck parked on the other side of the street. Thus his probability of successfully jaywalking reduces from 99.99% to‚ say‚ 97%. This probability may or may not lead him

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