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    Crimes of the Powerful

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    Throughout crime statisticscrimes of the powerful‚ for example white collar‚ corporate and state crimes seem to be almost non-existent. Over the last few decades crimes of the powerful are beginning to gain some sort of emphasis with regards its recognition. Crimes of the powerful have been gaining awareness since approximately the mid 1980’s. For example legislations towards corporations have been changed‚ gradually establishing criminal categories. Relatively recently it has been recognised that

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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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    Cyber Crime

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    with Cyber Crime By Rahul Tyagi About Author Rahul Tyagi is one of the top computer security experts available in India‚ Brand Ambassador of TCIL-IT Chandigarh‚ Vice- President of Cyber Security and Anti-Hacking Org‚ India‚ and Technical Head of News Paper Association of India. Website:- www.rahultyagi.net Mail:- officialrahultyagi@gmail.com My Self Rahul Tyagi and like others‚ I love the internet and yes it’s true‚ think about everything it brought to us‚ think about all the applications

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    Urban Crime

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    | UNIT THREE CRIMINOLOGY PROJECT | URBAN & RURAL CRIME | | | | Elaine Lawrence | 23/4/2012 | | RURAL CRIME INTRODUCTION This project is going to look at urban crime and rural crime and how it differs. It will look at statistics for crime in urban and rural areas and see whether there is any difference. There is research put forward by criminologists to suggest that crime is higher in urban to that of rural areas. The project will be using secondary research as

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    Youth crime

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    being the root cause of youth crime and this essay will examine evidence to support this claim and evidence to dispute it. Although it is quite subjective as to whether a bad childhood is the cause of youth crime‚ the fact remains that a quarter of all reported crime is committed by young offenders between the ages of ten to seventeen. Home Office statistics show more than a half of all recorded robberies (51%)‚ a third of burglaries (32%) and a third of vehicle crimes (31%) were the result of young

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    crime and deviance

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    SCLY4 Crime and Deviance with Theories & Methods Past Papers Use the following past papers to practise your exam writing techniques and aid your revision. Make sure you look at the mark scheme for each question to assess your answer. Also check the ‘model answers’ from students to see where good AO1 and AO2 marks were scored. Crime and Deviance Different theories of crime‚ deviance‚ social order and social control. The social distribution of crime and deviance by age‚ ethnicity

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    Media and Crime

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    Media and Crime What is crime? A normative definition views crime as deviant behavior that violates prevailing norms  – cultural standards prescribing how humans ought to behave normally. This approach considers the complex realities surrounding the concept of crime and seeks to understand how changing social‚ political‚ psychological‚ and economic conditions may affect changing definitions of crime and the form of the legal‚ law-enforcement‚ and penal responses made by society. These structural

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    Crime and Unemployment

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    Crime and Unemployment A Study of Social and Economic Factors that Influence the rise and fall of Criminal Behavior in the United States. By: Elizabeth Bruce Natasha Espinosa Derrick Phillips Contents Introduction 3 Hypotheses 5 Methodology 5 Data & Data Collection 6 Analysis 8 Summary & Conclusion 9   Introduction Crime and its causes‚ have been studied the world over. In particular‚ there have been noted studies on the cost and benefit of crime‚ state

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    Crime Motivation

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    Universal Crime Report (UCR)‚ burglaries in the South Region of the United States declined from 2011 – 2012‚ but in cities of less than 10‚000 residents there was an increase. Attalla‚ Alabama lies within the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area and has a population of just over 6‚000 placing it within the aforementioned statistical area for populations of less than 10‚000. The UCR reports that nationwide burglary rates had a very small increase for the reporting period in 2012. (Universal Crime Report

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    Crime Data

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    Crime Data Comparison Comparing similar crimes‚ in metropolitan area such as Phoenix and Dallas. The FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data shows in 2009 Phoenix had 76 reported murders‚ and Dallas with 86. Dallas with a lower population number of 1‚290‚266 had higher murder rate‚ Phoenix with population of 1‚597‚397 reported in 2009. Reported murder rates dropped in both areas in 2010‚ Dallas with 73‚ and Phoenix with a reported 50. “National reports a decrease of 6.2 percent of violent crimes during

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