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    Juvenile Crime

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    United States is faced with in the present day is juvenile crime. Juvenile crime does not only affect the individuals who commit the crime‚ it also affects the victim of the crime. This also affects the juvenile in their adult lives as the crime can be on their record as long as they live. Experts still have not found the main reason why juveniles commit crimes. However‚ they have come up with a number of reasons of why juvenile’s commit crimes‚ which I will be discussing in this paper.. The largest

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    Violent Crime

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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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    TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME

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    TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME Cybercrime‚ hacking‚ blackmailing‚ fraud‚ theft and extortion; these are the first few types of crimes come into my mind when we are presented with the words “technology” and “crime”. One of the reasons might be that we all have been prone to the nuisance caused by any of these crimes at least once‚ as almost everyone these days has access to the computer and the internet. Lets us start by considering the fact that Crime has existed as long as humans and will only become extinct

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    Environmental Crimes

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    Defining Environmental Crimes Environmental crime is a serious and growing concern at national as well as international level‚ and one which takes many different forms. Environmental crime in broad terms means an act which is committed with the intention of damaging or causing damage to the ecological and biological systems to ensure business or personal benefit. The types of acts commonly recognised as environmental crime are: pollution or other contamination of air‚ land and water; illegal discharge

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    Crime Statistics

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    dilemmas associated with relying on police statistics as a measure of crime. When the annual crime statistics are reported‚ they can generate many emotions within society. These feelings can be conflicting depending on whether the crime statistics show an increase or decrease in crime fields. When crime rates are down the community feels relieved‚ protected and safe‚ restoring confidence in the legal system‚ however when crime rates are high‚ there is a sense of community fear‚ insecurity and a

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    Street Crimes

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    STREET CRIME MORE HARMFUL THAN WHITE COLLAR CRIME? Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? By general definition‚ a crime is a wronging‚ proclaimed by law against society. All acts of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings which gave us concepts of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. From our being submerged in a culture‚ our concept of crime is usually

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    Race and Crime

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    "The Uniform Crime Report statistics state that blacks are more frequently arrested than whites. While this may mean that blacks actually commit more crime‚ what are some other factors that may be driving the statistics?" "If black neighborhoods are under more police surveillance than white neighborhoods‚ what does this mean for crime statistics?" "Can you give examples of how blacks receive differential treatment in the criminal justice system?" What are your thoughts? Remember to back your comments

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    Youth Crime

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    theories of youth crime This essay will discuss the understanding of the sociological and psychological factors of youth crime. It will be agreeing and disagreeing in the above statement Youth crime is also known as juvenile delinquency‚ juvenile delinquency refers to criminal acts performed by juveniles. Most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with juveniles‚ such as juvenile detention centres. There are a multitude of different theories on the cause of crime‚ most if not all

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    Crime and the Media

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    To what extent is the media’s portrayal of crime balanced and accurate? The essay will consider how accurately the media portrays crime‚ this will entail what types of crime stories they report on‚ whether or not those stories are biased‚ the impact they have on the public’s perception of crime and the actual reality of crime in Australia. When we talk about the media we are not just referring to one specific example of media‚ but many different types. The most common forms of media people talk

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    crime in The Bahamas

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    Lenn King 12R Ethics Project Crime in The Bahamas What is crime? The term crime does not‚ in modern times‚ have any simple and universally accepted definition‚ but one definition is that a crime‚ also called an offence or a criminal offence‚ is an act harmful not only to some individual‚ but also to the community or the state (a public wrong). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. The idea that acts like murder‚ rape and theft are prohibited exists all around the world

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