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    Colorado Technical University Online CJUS285-1302A-01 Juvenile Delinquency Phase 1- Individual Project Professor Grace Mickles Obaid Rahman April 15‚ 2013 There are many advantages of the taxpayer and the juveniles to split the juvenile courts into two sections because it will benefit taxpayer and juveniles by splitting into sections. By doing that status offenders will get more help and treat as a minor crime offender‚ which they don’t in a joint section. Status offenders are treated unfairly

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    Crime Influences on a Rapid Growing Crime Rate Crime at the present is at an all time high‚ it seems that each evening that you turn on the news there is headlining story of someone being murdered‚ robbed‚ assaulted‚ or harassed. Right now‚ countless numbers of violent acts are being committed and rapidly increasing the overall crime rate. This may sound bizarre‚ but many people believe that just by avoiding urban communities they can decrease their chances of

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    What causes High Crime Rate? Westwood College (Criminology) Week 2 Assignment What causes High Crime Rate? Crime rate is where the Federal Burro of Investigations use the number of crimes reported to the burro to measure the crime rate of certain locations as well as the type of crimes. When researching two cities there are two different ways to research the crime there is qualitative and quantitative; these two sound similar but there are some differences. Qualitative has details with descriptions

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    in trouble with the law. Juvenile crime does not only affect the person who commit the crime‚ but it also affects the victim of the crime. This also affects the juvenile in their adulthood as the crime can be on their record for ever. Experts still have not found the main reason why they commit crimes. However‚ they come up with a number of reasons why they commit the crime. But what are the real reasons they commit crimes and what causes them to do a crime as a juvenile. The most helpful sources

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    Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crimes Not long ago‚ juveniles were expected to behave and act as any adult would. This extended to obeying laws where juveniles were viewed as adults and were subject to the same rules and regulations as adults. There was no separation of juvenile crime and adult crime and the law made no distinction based on the age of the offender. Whoever committed a crime‚ regardless of age‚ were given a certain consequence for their actions. It wasn’t until the 1900’s when the

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    Jessica Vickers Dr. Jonne Akens Engl 1302 25 February 2013 Gun Control vs. Crime Rate According to the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America‚ “A well regulated Militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free state‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.” In this very amendment lies the main issue of gun control. “To many‚ the language of the amendment appears to grant to the people the absolute right to bear arms. However‚ the

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    Crime is a major part of our society in many different ways. It allows us to lower the human population and put away the people who decide to be deviant. Although in the long run these can be good things crime also allows people to label each other in ways that wouldn’t have happened if crime was non-existent. It seems today that in our society people are getting labeled more often from people who do not really know the person personally. This is a bad habit that America is getting involved in.

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    Factors affecting the increasing crime rate in the Bahamas When most tourists think of the Bahamas the picture of clean green pristine care free island paradise comes to mind as advertised and promoted around the world. Many of the tourists do not see the other side of the picture as shown on the brochure. The people of the Bahamas who live in the country everyday have to endure the other side of the brochure which is the increasing crime rate in the Bahamas. The people of the these islands are

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    Why is crime and violence high in America? Crime and violence is high in America because there are people in America as it is all over the world that cannot follow rules. There are thieves‚ rapist‚ and murders in every place in America. My expectations were not met. The crime rate is not high in every place in America. I found out that crime is high in communities with high poverty rate more so than any other community. This information causes my perspective to change greatly. I look at crime in a

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    Do natural disasters have an impact on crime rate? It is obvious that this type of event is not taken lightly. Some are not prepared‚ when everything is lost and they don’t have so much as a dollar to their name it can get tough. Many experience gruesome hardships‚ such as hunger‚ sickness‚ and even death. The death toll varies in different disaster situations but the number is still high. Many are left homeless whole families‚ with young children and nothing to fall back on nowhere to go. Not everyone

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