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    Sophia Su 9/15/14 English Kelso Vicarious Thrills Ever since I started learning to read‚ it has been one of my favorite hobbies. I love to submerge myself into a book and get the chance to go on adventures I never can in the real world. Usually‚ when I get hooked on a good book‚ I can’t put it down. I’m not myself anymore. My reality becomes eclipsed by something as simple‚ yet complex‚ as words on paper. I begin to eat‚ sleep‚ and experience through the character in the tale. I am the character

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    Crime and Victimization Week 4 Assignment One Karen Bridges Professor Richard Foy CRJ-100 – Introduction to Criminal Justice February 3‚ 2014 The scenario that I chose from Dr. Carla’s O’Donnell’s discussion was the following: The police are called to the corner of Pine St and 32nd Avenue‚ where Malcolm LaBelle is clearly in a drug-induced delirium. He has stripped down to his underwear‚ claiming that he has a fever. Two employees of a café nearby attempt to restrain him

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    December 11‚ 2012 The Vicarious Experience of Realism and Romanticism The two concepts of realism and romanticism are essentially complete opposites. Realism looks at the facts and gives the reader a vicarious experience through its story‚ making them feel the pain‚ sorrow‚ or happiness. Romanticism sugar coats everything and makes something that in real life is tragic and painful into something beautiful. Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry

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    certain way‚ and then decide to imitate them‚ it is known as vicarious learning. There are 3 different types of vicarious learning: Vicarious Reinforcement‚ Vicarious Punishment‚ and Vicarious Extinction. Vicarious reinforcement is when you observe someone being rewarded for such behaviour‚ so you act in the same way. Vicarious punishment is when you observe someone being punished for a particular behaviour‚ so you don’t behave that way. Vicarious extinction

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    There are several consequences of victimization that are discussed in Daigle’s book. These are consequences that the victim did not ask for‚ but will have to live with the rest of the life anyways. Someone else decided that it did matter what happened to this fellow human being. Instead‚ all that mattered was the gratification of taking something from another‚ whether that be their innocence‚ property‚ their life‚ etc. Below‚ I will discuss each consequence provided by Daigle in Chapter 3. The first

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    Adolescent Victimization and Associated Suicidal and Violent Behaviors. Summary In this study the relationship between victimization and both suicidal and violent behaviors was studied in high school students across New York State with the exception of the city of New York. It was also sought to be seen if there are differences between male and females in this area. Females were shown to have a higher prevalence of suicidal tendencies only. In general it is thought that victimization can end up

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    The feminist’s pathways perspectives focus on how victimization of women for a long period of time nourishes the criminal thoughts in their minds. So‚ prolonged victimization increases the risk triple fold that the victim will become offender at some point in her life. According to pathways theories‚ there is not much difference between victimization and offending. Both are two sides of the same coin and cannot be separated from each other. This idea was first launched by the feminists but now in

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    Crime and Victimization Jarvis Harrell CRJ100 Introduction to Criminal Justice Dr. Richard Foy February 2‚ 2014 1. Summarize one (1) theory of victimization that Dr. Carla O’Donnell discussed within the related scenario. Support the chosen theory with one (1) real-world example. According to Dr. Carla O’Donnell‚ one example of theories of victimization is social process theory. This is described as the social conditioning of a certain crime. It focuses on the aspects of criminality as one of the

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    valuable evidence and clues as to not only what the offender did‚ but why the offender did it and what exactly happened‚ either in the form of physical or biological evidence on the victim’s body‚ or in the form of an eyewitness account. Crime and Victimization are measured in a few different days‚ but there are three official ways that crime is measured.

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    National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Their type of crime data has been ongoing since 1973 and their latest data available id from 2015. Collection is conducted by the U.S Census Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). They collect data by multi-stage cluster sampling; compile a stratified group‚ sample‚ and sub sample the set. Data is obtained from a nationally representative sample‚ approximately 90‚000 households and nearly 160‚000 persons participate voluntarily. Those who agree to participate

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