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    Being Organized

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    ing Natacha Petit-frere Professor Donigan December 1‚ 2011 Being Organized Many of us are incompatible of being organized. Organization is a skill that must be learned and practice by an individual. It’s a rare person among us who doesn’t feel the need to get more organized. I consider myself fairly organized I show my organization skills by coordinating my clothes by style‚ color coding sections for my college courses‚ having a sheet of paper‚ a calendar and a white board. A lot of us

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    Crimes are happening all day every day in the United States. Crime is a behavior that violates official law and is punishable through formal sanctions (OpenStax 2013:150). Upper-level crimes are now of great interest because of its growth in corporate America today (Roche‚ Schwartz‚ Steffensmeier 2013: 449). It is harmful to everyone and comes with extensive consequences (Roche et al. 2013: 449). White collar crimes are illegal activities committed by high status people in their course of occupation

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    White collar crimes are a full range of fraud crimes and is mostly used for financial gain (Find Law 2017). The most common types of white collar crimes that is common is fraud‚ embezzlement‚ tax evasion‚ and laundering (Find Law 2017). Political crime is crimes that injure the state‚ state government‚ and the political system (The Lectric Library 2017). Some of example of political crimes are treason‚ and terrorism (The Lectric Library 2017). Organized crime is crimes in distinct categories that

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    In “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” Charles Tilly argues that there is an analogy to be drawn between state‚ or war making and organized crime. He argues that the powers in control of both state and war making are “self-seeking entrepreneurs”. Tilly believes that the people who hold the control of both war and state creation are just as guilty of creating violence for their own personal advantages and gains as those “self- seeking entrepreneurs” he compares them to. Tilly argues

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    The issue of whether decision making by criminals is a rational process is a heated topic of discussion when one asserts that crime is the role of choice. Before the classical school of criminology‚ crime was thought to be the product of the paranormal occurrence of demons‚ witches‚ ghouls‚ and other creatures. The time prior to the classical school of criminology‚ called the preclassical era‚ is divided in two parts. Before the time of state intervention into private matters‚ each individual dealt

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    There are many theories in the study of criminal behavior that try and answer the question “What causes people to commit criminal offenses?”; however‚ control theories ask the question “What causes people to conform to rules and criminal laws?” These theories‚ instead of bringing about deviant motivations‚ bring about compliance motivations. Control theories state that crime occurs when controls are not formed‚ are fragmented‚ or are undermined (Paternoster‚ R.‚ & Bachman‚ R. Eds. 2001). The control

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    The Decline of Organized Religion in Today’s Society -Organized Religion in the West/ Iraq In recent years organized religion in the western civilizations have begun a rather interesting trend‚ one of decline. This occurrence is not only isolated to a certain region/country but branched out‚ and setting this trend is the “Millennials” or Generation Y. Many factors come into play towards the decline of organized religion in modern day society. A country such as Canada with its huge immigration

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    There are numerous theories throughout time attempting to explain the phenomenon of crime‚ consequently‚ there is not a perfect explanation for all crimes (Bohm & Vogel‚ 2011). The various crimes coupled with the various minds of individuals make it nearly impossible to predict‚ prevent‚ as well as apprehend all offenders. The situational crime prevention‚ as well as routine activity theories created as derivatives of the Chicago School‚ explain causal factors of crime in the most practical sense

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    in the world of organized crime and Al Capone’s was at the top. Al Capone was the most infamous gangster in the 1920’s. Being a highly know and revered gangster was a big business. Money was made fast and very easily. Bootlegging alcohol was by far the most profitable in the 1920’s; this was because of the prohibition of alcohol. Gambling was another business that paid off; stations sanctioned for gambling were set up all over cities. Prostitution and murders were also crimes that made gangsters

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    information about the topic of hate crimes. When viewing the lecture‚ hate crimes is like a reminder of the Micro level theory of Resource theory. Resource theory‚ the same as hate crimes brings to mind of power. Power‚ where a person displays their control over another person‚ by commanding them to do what is said and done. What also caught my attention were the charts that were in the written lectures. When viewing them‚ I was wondering why was there a high number of Hate Crime Incidents‚ and a high number

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