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    Environmental crime in Australia. Available: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/rpp/100-120/rpp109/05.aspx. Last accessed 20th march 2012.) Question 6 (www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au‚ 2012) Question 7 (Australian institute of criminology. (2012). The J.V Barry library. Available: http://www.aic.gov.au/library.aspx. Last accessed 20th) Question 8 (AUSTlii. (1995). About AUSTLii. Available: http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/. Last accessed 20th march 2012.) Question 9 (AUSTLii

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    The juvenile justice system has a unique past of historical development‚ from the discovery of childhood to positivist criminology. The juvenile justice system was created with a simple idea in mind- to treat children who have committed crimes differently than adults. The goal of reformers was to create the ideal that juveniles should be treated‚ not punished. Since the 1960’s‚ however‚ the status quo of juvenile delinquency has shifted into a punitive model. Reformers are once again trying to institute

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    Crime control and prevention have become more of an imperative subject in criminology and crime control policies. While many people today consider crime control as an adaptation of crimes depicted through television and social media‚ the individuals who comprehend the more extensive perspective of controlling criminal activities see a considerably bigger issue. With this‚ it leads to there being a great amount of false impressions about which crimes are contributing to the complication of society

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    Throughout the decades‚ African Americans have been mistreated by the criminal justice system for its teaching to its actual doings. From the lecture halls of universities teaching of criminology has revolved on a bad image of African Americans. That led to those who studied criminology to obtain a job in the field that allowed them to demonstrate what they have been taught. Historians and researchers have come up with a set amount of information that allows us to understand this and how it has influenced

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    individuals commit crime due to the economic restrictions that face they communities (CITATION) and that crime results from the frustration that stems from this economic disparity between with the American dream (CITAITON). When using the biological positivist approach‚ an individual who commits an armed burglary should simply be locked up‚ or killed. On the other hand‚ when using the strain theory approach‚ a solution to armed robbery might be to improve the social and economic opportunities within the

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    Compare 2 Key Thinkers and Their Competing Ideologies. Criminology is a study of crime‚ criminals and criminal justice. Ideas about criminal justice and crime arose in the 18th century during the enlightenment‚ but criminology as we know it today developed in the late 19th century. Criminology has been shaped by many different academic disciplines and has many different approaches. It explores the implications of criminal laws; how they emerge and work‚ then how they are violated and what happens

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    Sociology of Crimes Review Questions Name:__________________________ Date:_______________ 1. An old woman approached PO3 Gomez asking the police officer to run after an unidentified young man who allegedly snatched her mobile phone. PO3 Gomez declined claiming that the man was already a block away from them and besides the police officer alleged that he is rushing home for an urgent matter. The officer’s refusal to help the old woman is an example of          A.    nonfeasance          B.   

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    toolkit. CPA Journal‚ 76(10)‚ 66-70. Solow‚ B. (2010). Your good name: protecting yourself from physician identity theft. Physician Executive‚ 36(3)‚ 30-33. Swanson‚ C. R.‚ Chamelin‚ N. C.‚ Territo‚ L.‚ & Taylor‚ R. W. (2009). Schmalleger‚ Frank‚ Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction (5th Edition) (Feb 4‚ 2008) Saddle River‚ NJ: Pearson Education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft‎ http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/websites/idtheft.html

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    questions as to why individuals commit crime still remain unanswered. This essay will focus on psychological and sociological theories in relation to criminological matters. Criminology the study of crime in society arose from sociology and psychology in the late 1800’s. It has three main schools of thought; classical‚ positivist and Chicago. The Italian criminologist and economist Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) the father of classical criminal theory said human beings are free willed individuals who commit

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    delinquency. Classical criminology regarded crime as the product of a free moral decision; the proper response was viewed as a schedule of punishments carefully adjusted to the seriousness of each criminal act‚ designed to serve as a deterrent and curb the capricious exercise of judicial power (Ryerson‚ 1978; 17). The classical school eventually gave way to the positivist school‚ which blamed crime on the offender’s personal traits and his environment. Positivist criminology contributed to the development

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