All around the world people are becoming victims of hate crimes. Hate crimes are crimes that are attached to strong feelings of hate of someone’s ethnicity‚ religion‚ sexual orientation or disability. These crimes usually suffer more extreme penalties because of this. Everyone can be affected by hate crimes but some groups are hit harder then others. Racially African Americans are the most affected. They have over 3‚400 victims a year. Religiously Jewish people are the worst affected because they
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Hate Crime The simplest definition of what a hate crime is‚ is a crime committed against a victim due to his or her perceived role in a social group. Social groups can be defined by many factors such as sexual orientation‚ race‚ disability‚ religion‚ age‚ gender and many other factors. Within this essay I aim to evaluate the causes of hate crime and also to assess the impact of crime on victims and the strategies used for responding to hate crime. The types of hate crime I am going to be focusing
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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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United States is faced with in the present day is juvenile crime. Juvenile crime does not only affect the individuals who commit the crime‚ it also affects the victim of the crime. This also affects the juvenile in their adult lives as the crime can be on their record as long as they live. Experts still have not found the main reason why juveniles commit crimes. However‚ they have come up with a number of reasons of why juvenile’s commit crimes‚ which I will be discussing in this paper.. The largest
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friendship? A true friendship is defined by its characteristics of truthfulness‚ reliability‚ and endurance. Firstly‚ a true friendship is truthful. A friendship that involves lying‚ whether by only one person or by both people‚ is not a real friendship. For example‚ in the book series "Legend"‚ by Marie Lu‚ June tells the leader of the Republic about an assassination plot targeting him developed by the Rebellion she works for. This is an example of truthfulness because by revealing the plan‚ one that she
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Victimless Crimes “A victimless crime is an offense that is consensual and lacks a complaining participant‚”(Schur‚ 1965; Meier and Geis‚ 1997). Victimless crimes are crimes lacking grievances since it is believed that there are no victims. The crimes typically implicate eager accomplices that break the law‚ and since nobody makes any complaints to the authorities regarding these crimes it makes it difficult for authorities to make an arrest and prosecute the offenders. The approximated financial
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| UNIT THREE CRIMINOLOGY PROJECT | URBAN & RURAL CRIME | | | | Elaine Lawrence | 23/4/2012 | | RURAL CRIME INTRODUCTION This project is going to look at urban crime and rural crime and how it differs. It will look at statistics for crime in urban and rural areas and see whether there is any difference. There is research put forward by criminologists to suggest that crime is higher in urban to that of rural areas. The project will be using secondary research as
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Youth Crime After carefully researching data of past and recent trends‚ I am alarmed at the rate youth crime is increasing and is not only imminent danger to my country‚ my state‚ my county‚ my city but also to my very own neighborhood. I wanted to understand how this phenomenon has occurred‚ when did it occur‚ why it is occurring‚ and what can be done to combat it. I understand there are many unexplainable factors contributing to this epidemic. I want to find real answers to put an
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SS 10: Advantages and Disadvantages of Confederation (revised Cullen 2010) The Confederation Debate raged for many years in Canada. Some people called pro- Confederationists were convinced that a union of all the British North American colonies into one nation was the only sensible long-term plan. Anti-confederationists felt that remaining a British colony was a better approach‚ while a small group of annexationists wanted to become part of the United States. There were many pros and cons to
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"The Uniform Crime Report statistics state that blacks are more frequently arrested than whites. While this may mean that blacks actually commit more crime‚ what are some other factors that may be driving the statistics?" "If black neighborhoods are under more police surveillance than white neighborhoods‚ what does this mean for crime statistics?" "Can you give examples of how blacks receive differential treatment in the criminal justice system?" What are your thoughts? Remember to back your comments
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