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    Identify the Current Legislation‚ Guidelines‚ Policies and Procedures for Safeguarding the Welfare of Children and Young People‚ Including E-Safety. Safeguarding Children is a multi-stranded identifying approach that reaches beyond basic child protection to incorporate the supplementary aims of preventing the impairment of children’s health and development‚ It also involves promoting children’s safety and welfare in additıon to protecting child abuse and children who was abused. There has been

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    With reference to academic and credible case material/evidence critically discuss miscarriage of justice in the case(s) of Derek Bentley and Barri White It is with great expectation that society as a whole believe that the criminal justice system is a fair and effective system. The system obtains evidence for guilt which is seen to be overwhelming and clearly more convincing than the defendants claim to innocence.(Walker‚1993) However in recent years some court cases have not been subject to this

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    Chapter 10 Causes of Violence Personal traits Ineffective families Evolutionary factors/Human instinct Exposure to violence Substance abuse Firearm availability Cultural values National values Checkpoints There are a number of suspected causes of violence. Some violent criminals have personal traits that make them violence-prone‚ including mental impairments‚ and intellectual dysfunction. Victims of severe child abuse and neglect may become violence-prone

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    Crim notes 10/22/12 -Poverty Outlaw -What problems would social structure theories point to as facilitating crime? --> lack of opportunity‚ (resulted from deindustrialization)‚ social problems (crime is a social problem) culture conflict theory--> -So‚ what kind of solutions does this point to? Practical Application of Social Structure Theories: Chicago Area Project (1930s-current): -->educational & recreational programs for underprivileged youth -Citizen mobilization to clean up neighborhoods

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    25 February 2014 Classical vs. Positivist Perspective Midterm For hundreds of years‚ people have been trying to understand criminals and what causes people to act criminally. Many theories were created and some became more widely accepted than others. In the 1700s‚ a new perspective into criminality rose; the classical perspective. Father of the classical perspective‚ Cesare Beccaria‚ provided theories much different from the previous ideas about why people commit crimes. He and others who believed

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    Classical School of Criminology: Definitions of some terminology Introduction The Classical School of Criminology emerged during the period of Enlightenment and was to become an important role player in the scientific study of Criminology. The Classical School of thought offered the first naturalistic explanation of crime and basic ideas about crime and a criminal justice system were developed. (Bezuidenhoud‚ 2013‚ p. 126) The Classical school and its proponents left a legacy which can be

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    1.-4.  (4 pts. Possible) What is the basic decision rule of rational choice theory?  What are utilities and disutilities?   The basic decision rule of rational choice theory is that to choose the behavior that is expected to maximize (that is‚ produce the most) utility and/or minimize (that is‚ produce the least) pain. Rational choice theory behaviors are driven by thoughts about future consequences. People do whatever they think will produce the most utility or least disutility. Rational choice

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    much extensive research‚ I discovered the career of criminology. Criminology is the scientific study of crime‚ including its causes‚ possible outcomes‚ effects on society‚ and methods of prevention. It is a branch of sociology‚ which is the study of social behavior. There are many fields of study that are used in criminology‚ including‚ statistics‚ psychology‚ biology‚ economics‚ and anthropology and much more that all imperatively rely on criminology. Employment opportunities can be found with federal

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    Emma Greenham What is Criminology? This is a question which many theorists have attempted to answer‚ a question which holds no one single accepted explanation or consensus. Throughout this essay I will provide a brief overview and explore the many answers to this open ended question‚ none of which is more correct than the other but all of which seek to provide an explanation into what is criminology. ‘Criminology‚ in its broadest sense‚ consists of our organized ways of thinking and talking about

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    [NAME] [CLASS‚ SECTION] Wikipedia Project Article Chosen: [ARTICLE TITLE‚ WEB-ADDRESS] [COPY/PASTE TEXT OF ARTICLE HERE] Article Citations: [COPY/PASTE WIKIPEDIA CITATIONS HERE] Assessment of Five Wikipedia Citations: [EXAMPLE: 1. ^ Wolf‚ Eric (1994) Perilous Ideas: Race‚ Culture‚ People. Current Anthropology 35: 1-7. p.227 In this article‚ Wikipedia states that Anthropology “has origins in the humanities‚ the natural sciences‚ and the social sciences‚” citing Eric Wolf

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