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    Juvenile Sex Offenders

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    4/20/11 Crime & Delinquency Dr. Shirley I. Williams Term Paper Juvenile Sexual Offender As we all know‚ throughout the years‚ we’ve heard of many sad stories of juvenile sex offenders ad offenses. So what is a juvenile sex offender? “A juvenile sex offender is defined as a youth‚ from puberty to the legal age of majority‚ who commits any sexual act with a person of any age‚ against the victims will‚ without consent

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    Habitual Offender Laws

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    habitual offender laws targeting the right people for incarceration? Well first I am going to speak a little about the habitual offender laws. State legislators angered with the situation drafted new laws designed to prevent early release‚ especially for certain crimes. These new laws are called enhancement statutes. Examples of such statues would be the Habitual Felons Act‚ RICO‚ the Career Criminal act‚ mandatory minimum sentence for trafficking in narcotics‚ perpetuating crimes in a violent manner

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    Violent Movies

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    September 2012 To my friend: I read in a news article the other day that the legislature is considering to pass a law to where we wouldn’t be able to watch any violent movies from the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. What is the legislature really thinking‚ that is all day‚ 5 am to 10 pm. Okay the legislature decides to take all violent movies away from us. I can gurantee you that somehow someway‚ someone somewhere will find a way to watch them no matter what. We have the right to speak up if we

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    violent crime

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    Cause of violent crime Nowadays‚ the number of crimes did by young generation become increasing seriously in cities over the world. There is large amount of violent in films and on television. Although our country become more advanced than the past‚ but still have a lot of case that related to violent crime happen in our country. Political and social field are the common factor that affect the case of violent crime happen. There have a lot of perspectives have been prove that social

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    Crime - young offenders

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    Unit of Study: Crime Task: Assess the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in dealing with young offenders Eliza Ross Introduction It is widely acknowledged in Australia and around the world that young people under the age of 18 should be subject to a system of criminal justice that is separate from the adult system. This is because young people often have lower levels of maturity‚ as well as knowledge when it comes to the law. Although morals and ethics form an important part of

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    Violent Games

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    Peterson 3/4/13 Per. 3 AP English Felton Video Game Essay In the process of media reform and editing‚ is it appropriate to limit video games? Nonthreatening things like games should not be banned by our fears‚ but we should look at the facts. Violent video games should not be banned for their content because no means of art or communication should be banned. Our first amendment is our sacred rite of passage that should be upheld with all of our power. We can benefit from these works of art like

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    Violent Media

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    Vincent Chen Ms. Brantely ENGL 1105 27 November 2012 Violence as a Tool With increasing violent crime rates in America people wonder who and what cause this. The blame tends to fall upon violent media. Media wants to spread information on the events of the world. We live in a violent world and the news on television shows that. The news tells use about shootings and people getting raped and murdered. The blame cannot fall on media for doing their job and providing news that people would like

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    Offender profiling also known as criminal profiling is based on the principle that the characteristics of an offender can be worked out by examining the characteristics of their offences. As Ainsworth (2001) puts it‚ “profiling generally refers to the process of using all the available information about a crime‚ a crime scene‚ and a victim in order to compose a profile of the (as yet) unknown perpetrator.” Eye witness testimony refers to an account given by people of an event they have witnessed

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    Youth Offenders Essay

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    I chose this study because it provided a balanced look at the reality that youth offenders no matter their race can stop offending as adults. This study involved 25 males who had a history of juvenile delinquency (Ruhland‚ Witham‚ Daily & Johnson‚ 2006). There were Black‚ White‚ Asian‚ Native American and Other male participants. The participants were chosen because they had no serious crimes since becoming adults (Ruhland et al.‚ 2006). In addition‚ it investigated the perspectives of the male participants

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    VIOLENT PRIDE

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    בשיעור (לאחר שהממ"נים נבדקו) על שאלות חשובות. VIOLENT PRIDE Question 1 is based on the eye-catching features. 1. Read the title‚ the subtitle and the information about the author. a. From what academic field of study is this text? The academic field of the study is Social psychology. √ b. What are the two sides of the debate which will be discussed in the text? (i) People turn violent because of self hate. √ (ii) People turn violent because of self love. √ (3 points) IMPORTANT VOCABULARY

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