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    Crime Collocations

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    crime S2 W2 / kraɪm / noun 1 [ uncountable ] illegal activities in general : We moved here because there was very little crime. Police officers are being given new powers to help combat crime. a police crackdown on car crime a town with a relatively low crime rate 2 [ countable ] an illegal action‚ which can be punished by law : He insisted that he had not committed any crime. men who have been found guilty of violent crimes crime against Crimes against the elderly are becoming

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    Crime in the Bahamas

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    Crime in the Bahamas On the 6th April‚ 2011‚ shock waves were sent throughout the Bahamaland after the report of a brutal massacre of Nellie Brown-Cox. It is alleged that this crime was committed by her common law husband (Bahamas Press‚ 2011). This murder was a result of domestic violence‚ which is a crime that is committed among many residents in the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands. Crime is ubiquitous‚ but can be alleviated if the necessary steps are applied. To further explain‚ certain aspects

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    effect of various factors on the crime rate in the US. The model is estimated using the OLS procedure and a cross-sectional data set across the fifty states in 2000. The four variables that are found to have significant coefficients are police expenditures per crime in 1999‚ unemployment rate‚ per capita income‚ and the percentage of people living in poverty. Specifically‚ for every dollar increase per crime in 1999‚ the crime rate is found to decline by 260 crimes per 100‚000 population. When the

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    Juvenile Crime

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    Juvenile Crime One of the biggest problems which the United States is faced with is juvenile crime. The reason experts feel juvenile’s commit crimes is because of risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile’s commit crimes. Some risk factors associated with juvenile crime are poverty‚ repeated exposure to violence‚ drugs‚ easy access to firearms‚ unstable family life and family violence‚ delinquent peer groups‚ and media violence. Especially

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    Crime and Poverty

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    paper on crime and poverty Crime and Poverty Many factors can be viewed as reasons for crime. The amount of morality needed in order to rise against the temptation to commit crime can be difficult. It is even harder when you are coming from a place where crime is considered to be a normal part of society and looked at as a way of daily living that is supposed to be incorporated into daily lifestyles. The question can be posed. What is the main cause of crime in areas

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    Crime and Deviance

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    for the functions and causes of crime and deviance within contemporary British society‚ yet it fails to account for white collar crime. Evaluate this statement. Every society is guided by laws and regulations‚ therefore‚ breaking of the law is known as crime or deviance. Crime and deviance will be defined with examples and how what is crime and deviance depend on culture and society will be analysed. Thus‚ a criminal act in one place is a norm in another place. Crime and Deviance changes as the society

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    Crime and Punishment

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    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ASSIGNMENT ORAL PRESENTATION Theories of Punishment Question - ‘What form of punishment should lawmakers seek to develop in Australia?” Introduction Good morning class‚ today I will be talking to you about the 3 main forms of punishment and the form of punishment that lawmakers should seek to develop in Australia. The three justifications for punishment currently used in our society today are retribution‚ deterrence and rehabilitation. Our society today uses these three

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    A Poor Family In 1891

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    In 1891 there was a poor family in Finland that had lived there for many generations. The family consisted of a mother‚ father and two sons. They had always wanted to go to America so they could make money on the cranberry bogs. Neighbors and friends had gone to America to work on the bogs and wrote letters to the family saying how nice it was. They wanted to go there so badly that they decided to start praying for enough money to go. The following day after they first prayed‚ when they woke

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    Ecology of Crime

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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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    Inchoate Crimes

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    The crime of solicitation is the intent to offer‚ persuade‚ or encourage someone to do something in exchange for money or something of value. The crime of solicitation is most commonly thought of as mainly prostitution. There are other ways that solicitation can be referred to as a crime‚ such as murder and drugs. The criminal solicitation does not have to be accepted for it to be a crime. The crime of solicitation is called an inchoate crime. “Inchoate crimes‚ also called incomplete

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