Urbanization Trends The world has experienced two major urban revolutions in the past‚ with the first one starting around 8000 B.C.E. and the second one starting around 1750‚ spawned by the Industrial Revolution (Macionis‚ 2011). The third urban revolution has now begun‚ however the rapid rate of urban growth is concentrated mainly in low-income nations. This trend is thought to be caused by falling death rates and migration of people moving toward inner cities in search of better jobs‚ education
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Many policing agencies around the world deal with crime in various ways‚ some adopting community based policing techniques while others may adopt a militaristic approach. In the case of Japanese policing however some researchers believe that their methods are the most effective or considered to be the best. This paper will document why these methods are considered to be the best in the world with a reference to Japan’s historical origins‚ the use of kobans and why they are seen as effective and
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Public Policing Versus Private Security Michael Lemke 502 October 17‚ 2011 George Gallitano Abstract Several distinct differences exist between public policing and private security. The ability to enforce the law and maintain order in society rests with public policing. The agencies that receive money to perform protective and loss-prevention duties that the police officers do not handle are private securities. Public policing and private security agencies do offer the same services and duties
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Policing Culture Learning Team A CJA/214 Policing Culture Throughout the history of the United States‚ the ranks of police officers have been dominated by white males. As a result‚ the underrepresentation of minorities and women has long been a problem in policing. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act made discriminating against any individual based upon their color‚ sex‚ religion or national origin illegal‚ thus paving the way for more minorities
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Media framing is when the media assigns their own meanings to events by focusing on small parts of the event that correlate with the beliefs they want to portray. A prime example of media framing is the events of the Foxconn suicides detailed within “Worker-Intellectual Unity: Trans border Sociological Intervention in Foxconn”. As one can determine from the study‚ the Chinese government did very little to relieve or bring attention to the events occurring at Foxconn‚ a company that produces Apple
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Trend Article Analysis The following essay will touch on the journal article titled Publication trends in behavioral gerontology in the past 25 years: are the elderly still an understudied population in behavioral research?‚ in which the researchers will attempt to answer the question of gerontology and whether it is an understudied and underreported research topic within the field of behavioral research. The goal of the essay is to determine the research article methodology‚ procedures and
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Renewing America’s Energy Dropping gas prices‚ hills covered in rows of wind turbines‚ panels that flash the dessert with glare from the sun‚ and newly formed boomtowns that have doubled their population in four years. While this may seem like a foreign nation sometime in the future‚ this is the US in the present day. The story behind the success is the result of a basic economics principle: when a producer begins to make a higher profit on his product‚ more producers join this industry. This has
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Policing in the America is a working progress and evolving. There is a constant struggle between protecting the rights of the people as requested by law and really serving and protecting the people. There are three eras of policing‚ the political era (1840-1930)‚ the reform era (1930-1980)‚ the community era(1980-present). The political era was an era that was characterized by political influence‚ corruption and relationship building. It was an era controlled by the local governments in which the
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Paramilitary Policing and its History Rashad Cudjoe Research Paper 1 Police Paramilitary Units (PPUs) were first created in the 1960s because of problems in urban areas. These 10-40 units were supposed to be used for handling civil disturbances‚ dangerous suspects‚ and snipers. The roles of these units have changed drastically in the last 10 years. Paramilitary police teams seem to allow some officers to live out a fantasy of policing being dangerous and exciting. Many officers commented
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Technologies During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo‚ October 17 - 21‚ in Orlando ORLANDO‚ Fla.‚ October 20‚ 2005 - The growing practice of introducing new technologies into consumer markets prior to industrial markets will be the most significant trend affecting information technology (IT) during the next 10 years‚ according to Gartner‚ Inc. As a result‚ the majority of new technologies enterprises adopt for their information systems between 2007 and 2012 will have roots in consumer applications. The
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