Dowry Crimes Culture is the enduring behavior ideas attitudes and tradition shared by a large group of people transmitted from one generation to the next. India is one of those countries that has strong influences on cultures. The custom of Dowry long entrenched in India’s male dominant. Society has attained alarming proportions during the last few decades. There is hardly a day when the cries of Dowry victim echoes throughout the town. Brides are still being harassed physically and
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Throughout crime statistics‚ crimes of the powerful‚ for example white collar‚ corporate and state crimes seem to be almost non-existent. Over the last few decades crimes of the powerful are beginning to gain some sort of emphasis with regards its recognition. Crimes of the powerful have been gaining awareness since approximately the mid 1980’s. For example legislations towards corporations have been changed‚ gradually establishing criminal categories. Relatively recently it has been recognised that
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Computer crimes are criminal activities‚ which involve the use of information technology to gain an illegal or an unauthorized access to a computer system with intent of damaging‚ deleting or altering computer data. Computer crimes also include the activities such as electronic frauds‚ misuse of devices‚ identity theft and data as well as system interference. Computer crimes may not necessarily involve damage to physical property. They rather include the manipulation of confidential data and critical
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Crime and Victimization Chris O’Connor Strayer University CRJ 100 Professor Blais October 31‚ 2014 Dr. Carla O’Donnell discusses Rational Choice Theory as the thought processes encountered when people engage in delinquent‚ (youthful offenders‚) or criminal behavior. They have a sense that crime pays and this is the easiest way to get ahead in life. Such a criminal mindset does not consider the exact consequences of their maladaptive behavior. Criminal offenders use rational choice to commit a
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A Crime of Compassion or Just a Crime? In “A Crime of Compassions” Barbara Huttman (writer) told the audience in the Phil Donahue show and every person that read A Crime of Compassion about Mac and the way Mac suffered from lung cancer. “Mac was a young‚ witty‚ macho cop who walked into the hospital with 32 pounds of attack equipment‚ looking as if he could of single-handedly protect the whole city‚ if not the entire state” (par 4). By the vivid description and effects Barbara Huttman gives her
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Street crimes are commonplace in Pakistan. Almost everyone has a story to tell about having a purse or a wallet stolen; everyday street crimes appear in the news headlines. They usually only occur in the big cities‚ where there are homeless street-people. An analysis of the official data compiled by the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) reveals that‚ on an average‚ 124 mobile phones are snatched/stolen every day. In the preceding year‚ the figure had stood at 76. The growing trend of cellphone
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The causes of crime seem to be indefinite and ever changing. In the 19th century; slum poverty was blamed‚ in the 20th century‚ a childhood without love was blamed (Adams 152). In the era going into the new millennium ‚ most experts and theorists have given up all hope in trying to pinpoint one single aspect that causes crime. Many experts believe some people are natural born criminals who are born with criminal mindsets‚ and this is unchangeable. However‚ criminals are not a product of heredity
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In Trinidad and Tobago we are presently faced with an alarming number of acts of violence and crime. Whatever the precise cause of the problem‚ the harsh consequences are that as a nation we are losing our young people‚ particularly to a life of crime and violence because most of our crime are being carried out by young peoples particularly males. In the fight against the increase in acts of crime and violence in Trinidad and Tobago we as a nation must take the initiative to address the issues of
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poverty leads to homelessness and forced people to commit crime. On my research paper‚ I will talk about crime and its effect to the society. According to dictionary‚ crime can be defined as an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state which is legally prohibited. INTRODUCTION What is the main cause of homelessness and its imperative relationship to poverty and crime? Such a question at first may seem unanswerable because
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February 10‚ 2013 Juvenile violent crime is at its lowest level since 1987‚ and fell 30% between 1994 and 1998. Fewer than half of serious violent crimes by juveniles are reported to law enforcement. This number has not changed significantly in 20 years. The rate at which juveniles committed serious violent crimes changed little between 1973 and 1989‚ peaked in 1993‚ and by 1997 declined to the lowest level since 1986. On average‚ juveniles were involved in one-quarter of all serious violent victimizations
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