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    Marxism and Crime

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    Perspectives on Crime Marxist Perspective on Crime/3/4/2000/P.Covington/2000 Deviance Disc The history of criminal legislation in England and in many countries shows that an excessive prominence was given by law to the protection of property. Herbert Manheim Property crime is better understood as a normal and conscious attempt to amass property than as the product of faulty socialisation or inaccurate and spurious labelling. Both working class and upper class crime…. Are real features

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    Media and Crime

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    | *Excluding reference list and questions Nowadays most people follow criminal cases covered by the news media closely‚ and feel confident enough to make judgements about guilt and innocence (Hough‚ 2005‚ p. 7). Television schedules are crammed with programmes about the police‚ criminals‚ prisoners and the courts and are syndicated around the world. Why are people – the audience – so fascinated by crime and deviance? And if the media can so successfully engage the public’s fascination

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    Why do criminals commit another offence after being punished? Our world is full of different kinds of criminal people. The main question what stand before the present community is: Why so often laws are broken by citizens? Every person who behave so‚ has his/her own purposes and causes. It is rational to hope that after punishing person will never commit the crime. That he understood all his mistakes which were made in the past. However‚ frequently it is not so. Why do criminals prefer to go

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    Sociological Theories of Crime Walden University Similarities and Differences in Sociological Theories of Crime Sociological theories of crime contain a great deal of useful information in the understanding of criminal behavior. Sociological theories are very useful in the study of criminal behavior because unlike psychological and biological theories they are mostly macro level theories which attempt to explain rates of crime for a group or an area rather than explaining why an individual committed

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    Hate Crimes

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    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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    Whether the Internet negatively effect on teenagers Eric‚ my 12-year-old nephew‚ turns on the internet on his computer as soon as he comes back home every day. He checks his homework by computer‚ clicks on Facbook to connect with his classmates‚ watches TV on You Tube‚ and reads books on Ipad. Teenagers have grown up with the Internet developing so that they are used to doing almost everything by means of the Internet. They can make friends from different countries‚ such as French‚ Australia‚ on

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    There are numerous theories throughout time attempting to explain the phenomenon of crime‚ consequently‚ there is not a perfect explanation for all crimes (Bohm & Vogel‚ 2011). The various crimes coupled with the various minds of individuals make it nearly impossible to predict‚ prevent‚ as well as apprehend all offenders. The situational crime prevention‚ as well as routine activity theories created as derivatives of the Chicago School‚ explain causal factors of crime in the most practical sense

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    Computer Crime Computer crimes need to be prevented and halted thought increased computer network security measures as well as tougher laws and enforcement of those laws in cyberspace: Computer crime is generally defined as any crime accomplished through special knowledge of computer technology. All that is required is a personal computer‚ a modem‚ and a phone line. Increasing instances of white-collar crime involve computers as more businesses automate and information becomes an important

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    Social Theories and White Collar Crime Criminology 302 Social Theories and White Collar Crime Edward Sutherland believed that without including white-collar criminal offense as its own category it would contribute to errors in how we depicted the crime‚ understood the cause of offense‚ and evaluated crime in the justice system. (Simpson & Weisbud‚ 2009) Sutherland’s idea did not hold up well with scholars‚ due to missing information of the criminal‚ so his idea never took hold. Still

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    in traditional Chinese culture‚ "human" is the social causes of commercial bribery. As everyone knows‚ China is a exquisite "courtesy demands reciprocity" state‚ courtesy demands reciprocity core is advocating "human intercourse"‚ in other words‚ Chinese person standards require that human relations between people.. This traditional culture extends to business‚ evolved into "If you want to profit from the others‚ it is necessary to give people the appropriate return" business philosophy. This way

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