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    prevent and come up with better solutions to alleviate future crimes. We cannot afford to forget past crimes and the lessons it teaches us. Crimes that were committed many years ago should not be forgotten that easily. Some people believe that crimes committed should just be forgotten for everyone to move on with their lives since those crimes are historical events‚ which are meaningless to remember now. They feel that this is particularly true for the younger generation who feel detached from such occurrence

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    A Dream Come True 1

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    A Dream Come True As long as I can remember‚ I have dreamt about going to college‚ one in particular. When I first heard about it‚ I wanted to go there and experience all the wonders it has to offer. Other schools were nothing compared to my dream school. Right in my home state‚ it stands proudly while others crouch in its shadow. They only wish they had the prestige of this giant. They can boast and advertise their greatness‚ but they always fall short. Indian Institute of Technology is not

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    Crime and Deviance

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    Understanding Crime Statistics 1. The level of recorded crime may decrease due to the enormous pressure and expectations put on police departments by society to keep crime down. Increased and improved police resources and harsher custodial sentences is what Police departments claim to be the reason for the reduction in crime. However this being said it has been suggested that Police departments may have altered crime statistic figures‚ in order to meet new Home Office efficiency targets

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    Statistics of Crime

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    Official Statistics on crime are often likened to the ¡§tip of an Iceberg¡¨. Critically assess this assertion in light of the ¡§dark figure¡¨ of crime and any new forms of data that can provide a clearer picture of the true extent of crime. Crime is continuously changing in its definition in people¡¦s perceptions with no complex classification being universally accepted. This forms the basis of the problems faced when attempting to count crime‚ who determines what crime is; the government of

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    Crime in America

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    Pauline Roberson Social Problems 24/Aug/2014 Loyd Ganey Crime in America Crime in America has decrease opposed to the crime rate in the 1990’s. However it still purposes a serious problem here in the United States. Rapes were down 2.5 percent‚ robbery was down 4 percent‚ and murder was down 0.7 percent (Friedan‚ 2012). Reason for this decline is due to the aging population‚ increase in the amount of people in jail and the changing

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    Crime in Society

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    Crime is something that is within our world every day. If you were to ask people just walking down the street how they would describe a criminal‚ most would probably speak of the street criminals. Many people do not pay attention to the white collar crimes or the crimes that are not happening around the area that the live in. Crime to me is something that someone does to break a law. Crime is basically something someone would do if they had lost their job and could not take care of their family

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    ON THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME By Vimal Kumar and Stergios Skaperdas Department of Economics University of California‚ Irvine Irvine‚ CA 92697 Revised: February 13‚ 2008 Prepared for inclusion in: Garoupa‚ Nuno (ed.)‚ Criminal Law and Economics ABSTRACT: The core function of organized crime is the selling of protection. Protection can be real‚ against third-party crime‚ or manufactured by the organized crime groups themselves. Mafias and gangs emerge in areas of weak state control‚ because

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    Crime Rate

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    United States‚ the crime rate is increasing each day. Although many may believe that only adults are executing this criminal activity‚ and that is entirely not true. Juvenile crime has been a problem in the United States for many years and is still a main factor to the growing crime rates in cities across the United States. Many factors of these adolescences lives contribute to their actions. Such as‚ drug use‚ their communities‚ their peers and also their families. Juvenile crime does not always

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    Crime and Terrorism

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    Crime and Terrorism By: Michelle M. Lee November 5th‚ 2012 Juvenile Delinquency In today’s world we have a bunch of crime(s) that we seek to find out what the purposes of the crime people may have been involved with. As humans‚ we all make mistakes and we have our reasons but sometimes making a bad decision or decisions can just lead to jail‚ sentencing‚ and therefore punishment. When we commit a crime‚ I believe humans feel like they need to have some type of control over one another‚ or their

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    Oedipus's Crime

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    What Was Oedipus’s Crime? Oedipus‚ ruler of Thebes‚ murdered his father and married his mother. Such acts are almost always deemed unnatural and criminal; they are not tolerated within traditional society. A person who has committed these illegal acts of murder and incest would be considered a criminal‚ yet Sophocles’s character‚ Oedipus‚ is not guilty of either crime. Prior to the birth of Oedipus‚ a prophecy was spoken over Laius and his wife Jocasta. They were told that their son would one

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