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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Female Offenders in Corrections | Jarrod Birch | | Criminology 252 | Karin Kaercher | | Introduction Female offenders that enter into the correctional system in Canada do so with an entirely different set of risk factors than their male counterparts. Through comparisons and contrasting of facts‚ this paper will set out to identify the issues correctional services in Canada face when dealing with female offenders entering into the system. For example‚ female offenders that end
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Over the past half century the United States have gone through all sorts of changes. Supposedly segregation has ended between Whites and minorities. Changes that have happened‚ is the election of this country’s first African American President. We have an African American Chief Justice just to mention a couple. Although several departments within the criminal justice department believe it is still okay to judge individuals on their color of skin. The hypothesis here is racial prejudice in our criminal
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Racial Diversity ETH/125 03/13/2014 Sylvia Franceschini-Kern Historical Report on Race Native Americans went from being the original Americans to now being put into a small part of land that is called a Reservation; they stand really low on the social and income standings. They have some of the highest levels of poverty over the other races‚ in 1999 the white population only had a 9.1% that were below poverty level but the Native American population had 25.7% that were under poverty level
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What Is Cyber Law? A group of petitioners in Philippines‚ consisting of lawmakers‚ bloggers and students‚ have sought a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the country’s implementation of its Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012--making it the sixth filed against the controversial legislation. According to GMA News Online on Monday‚ the petition centered on the definition of online libel stated in the law‚ specifically sections 4‚ 5 and 6‚ which the petitioners say are "unconstitutional due to
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Racial and ethnic groups ETH 125 Racial and ethnic groups Habeeb Akande (2013) said “Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself‚ the other God chose for you”. When a person is born into a group‚ like Hispanic‚ they make no choice. When a person joins a religion‚ like Jehovah’s Witnesses‚ it is by choice. Some people are brought to a religion by family‚ but at some point they make a choice to stay‚ or not to stay‚ involved. Whether it is religious
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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 to understand what they identified as having
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Persons convicted of crimes committed below the age of 18 enter adult jails and prisons while still children or as the youngest of adults. The US supreme court has recognized that a youth offender serves a higher percentage of his life in prison than an adult offender. About 200‚000 people ages 24 and younger leave juvenile facilities or prisons every year. Characteristics & challenges Research has found that youth offenders are among the inmates most open to physical and sexual assault during
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I am writing this essay on the Young Offenders Act for a few reasons. One being that I am a special agent sent from the future keep the fate of this Grade 11 English credit comfortably in Justin Faviere’s upcoming report card. Secondly‚ I am trying to educate people who may not be aware of the benefits of the Act‚ or simply disagree with my opinion that the Young Offenders Act is a crucial part of our judicial system‚ regardless of it’s imperfections. And last but not least‚ so I can educate myself
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Robby Burns! ! Outline! ! I have chosen to answer the prescribed question‚ “How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?”. The text that will be analyzed is The Great Gatsby and the part of the course that will be dealt with is literature and critical study. The task will focus on a few main themes of the book‚ mainly‚ the hollowness of the upper class. The social group that will be analyzed is the upper class but more specifically‚ the newly rich. The newly rich have a weird
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