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    Knife Crime

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    Knife crime: Teenagers back custodial sentences By Robin Chrystal BBC News Youngsters back tough sentences for knife crimes Continue reading the main story Related Stories More serious offenders face life Knife crime rises by 8% in London Any 16 or 17-year-olds caught carrying knives will be given custodial sentences under government plans. But what do teenagers at a London event aimed at cutting youth crime make of it? Benjamin Akande knows exactly how it feels to be threatened with

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    Preventing Crimes

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    Crimes that are committed by a person and are avoidable and detectable by outside body characteristics such as driving drunk should have every right to be prevented in this case. On the other hand crimes that cannot be detected or seen in this was should not try and be avoided because doing so one would impose on another’s right to freedom of thought. The Government and scientists have no right to change or even know the way a person thinks‚ but are in every right to prevent a crime that requires

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    Theories of crime

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    One such influential psychological theory of crime is by Bowlby (1969)‚ who emphasized that crime is the product of attachment insecurity with the mother. Bowlby identified that the type of attachment relationship in childhood leads to the development of a cognitive framework known as the internal working model which consists of mental representations for understanding the world‚ self and others. A person’s actions and interactions are guided by this internal working model and influences their contact

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    Cyber Crime

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    modern” while “Crimecan be described as any activity that against the law or any offense performed by individuals with a criminal motive. Hence‚ cyber crime can be defined as crime committed against individuals or a group of individuals with criminal motive by using computer and the internet to steal a person’s identity or a company’s data. Hacking‚ credit card fraud‚ pornography and phishing are the examples of cyber crime. The cases of young generation involved in cyber crime have increased

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    A Crime of Compassion

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    Yunjia Zhao A Crime of Compassion A Crime of Compassion is an essay written by Barbara Huttman. Barbara Huttman is a trained nurse who has two degrees in nursing and she worked as a nurse for over thirty years. Huttman is known for her essays that are mostly about the ethical and moral dilemmas doctors and the medical staff has to go through every day of their working lives. This article was first published in 1983 in Newsweek. The focus of this

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    the murder and even the country’s disorientation over the unfolding Watergate scandal. The tension proves too great when the Eberhardts’ shy bachelor neighbor‚ Mr. Green‚ takes interest in Marsha’s mother. Though murder is the most visible crime in Marsha’s neighborhood‚ it is by no means the only one‚ Marsha’s father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death of Boyd Ellison. Marsha’s father had left before the summer Boyd Ellison was killed. The

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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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    Corporate Crime

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    Corporate crimes are crimes committed by corporate officials that are in the interest of the corporation. They can be hard to detect and can include embezzlement‚ falsifying financial statements and bribery. Three main factors were made to assist in understanding the theory of corporate crime‚ such as the drive for profit. This is important because all companies want to pursue making money in any way possible‚ yet some choose illegal and deceitful actions as others do not. Using the structure of

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    Organized Crime

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    Organized-Crime “Narco is rooted in society‚ so is corruption” - Ismael El Mayo Zambada What happens in Mexico is big; the whole country is living with corruption and organized crime for many years. The government‚ civil society and even the international community are fighting against it‚ but it still seems to be war‚ it still seems to be a mess. As Zambada‚ one of the biggest cartel leaders said in an interview: “The government arrived late to the (drug) fight. Nobody can solve in days problems

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    The Crimes Of Watergate

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    Richard Nixon makes understanding the crimes of Watergate possible. Most sources agree that Nixon was‚ in essence‚ two men. According to John Ehrlichman‚ “There was another side to him‚ like the flat‚ dark side of the moon.” David Frost‚ did research for the television interview series he did with Nixon and said he saw the same dual personality. He wrote‚ “One domestic

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