... gangs then there is Bloods in LAC (www.street gangs.com). The Crip's wear blue to represent their gang. The book The Great Gatsby had corruption also. It was based in the 1920's naturally there had to be corruption in the book. The characters where corrupted, Gatsby was having an affair with Daisy. And Daisy's husband Tom was having ... and Gatsby ran over Myrtle and they killed her. At the end George, Myrtle's husband, killed Gatsby (F. Scott FitzGerald). The corruption in the book The Great Gatsby is similar to the corruption now. The gangsters in the 20's use to bootleg (sell alcohol...

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... place. Victor Hugo would still be writing about these three problems today because they still exist in our society. The main idea of the French Revolution was to demand a change in the government systems due to government corruption. The people wanted equality, liberty, and democracy. The King was unfair and taxed them heavily on everything, even basic goods, and used that money for his own ... luxury. Nobles and rich people were granted many special privileges meanwhile the lower class, which couldn't afford to pay taxes, was still forced to. The lower class was eager for change. Today...

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... Horner Homes in Chicago, Illinois, where gang violence, unemployment, and drug use is part of everyday life, it becomes extremely difficult for a young person to overcome the obstacles that they face. In Alex Kotlowitz's book, There Are No Children Here, two young men, Terrence Rivers and Craig Davis are portrayed as youths, who, though they are both ... and frustration through music and deejaying. Craig was one of the few people who held the weak community of Henry Horner together. He was a staple at neighborhood events and occasionally spun records for the neighborhood to dance to. C...

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... problem it has been going for centuries, same problem different day as they would say. Sometimes they would ignore the problem but now a days they build new prisons yearly to try and keep the over population to a minimum . Which if you ask me is a good idea, the little extra taxes wouldn't bother me . I look at it this way pay a little more, be safer, and create ... crimes are a disease and just like a physical disease it spreads not through the body but through the society which we live . it is incurable but can be slowed down like Aids but we will never win we will never totally get o...

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... officer are usually separate crimes that you can be charged with even if you haven't done anything else wrong. Give your name, address, and phone number to the police. Otherwise keep quiet until you have spoken to a lawyer. You may be searched, photographed, and fingerprinted. Notice carefully what is being done but don't resist. If any personal property is taken from you ask ... for a written receipt. After you get to the police station call a trusted friend or relative ASAP. Tell this person where you are, what you've been charged with and what your bail or bond is. When you are ... ...

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... journals. They both show the lack of attention given to the victims of crimes. The message delivered by the writer of Crossing Jordan can leave the viewer believing the victims are of little importance. This can be detrimental for the fight for victim's rights. The media is a powerful factor in affecting the way people view crime and the resulting victims. II. Scholarly ... the wound is no big deal and he shouldn't be bothering him. V. Conclusion Before I examined the data gathered for this study, I believed the media was fair in their treatment of victims. The negative images of the vic...

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... . In Argentina, a lot of people were kidnapped and forced to have babies and sell them on the black market. Many are still considered missing, as they are victims of these kidnapping crimes. Alicia comes to suspect her husband may have bought Gaby on the black market. He denies it at first, but when a woman comes to Alicia with pictures of her daughter and son-in ... -law, Alicia comes to realize that Gaby may be this woman's grandchild. Alicia's husband assaults her and she ... that needed a forceful leader, a good military and police department. Someone should have stepped in and taken...

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... . His father was a police officer, and his mother a home maker, who would knit scarves and sweaters to sell on the street for some extra income. He was the youngest child. He had one sister and one brother. Ramirez's teachers described him as a quiet young man who kept to himself and turned his homework in on time. Classmates described Ramirez as a loner who seldom spoke ... or gave any input. It wasn't until Ramirez was a teenager that he began to get into trouble. When Ramirez was fifteen years old he began to be obsessed with nudity, pornagrapy, and sex, He once said, " there is nothe...

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... record, they were long recognized by their communities as anarchists. Their trial latest roughly six weeks and the jury found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of robbery and murder on July 14,1921. In an attempt to gain a new trial, their defense made many appeals, and petitions to both state and federal courts. This merely delayed these proceedings until 1927. Their lawyer, Moore, ... decided it was not possible to defend Sacco and Vanzetti against the criminal charges of murder and robbery. Instead, he would try to expose the prosecution for judging them solely on being ... anarchists. On Ap...

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... of information and services available. Though some believe it is more harmful than helpful. Surveyors say kids spend too much time on the internet and neglect other more important things. The internet provides a lot of easy access to sites not suitable to younger viewers. Criminals are disguising themselves to talk to young adults and they become victims of crimes. Since there is so much entertainment on ... with more important things. Instead of working on school work in, and out of school, kids are on the internet doing other things instead. They may not be spending time with family o...

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... deters crime more effectively than other punishments, such as life imprisonment. For these reasons and more, I believe that the death penalty is an irrational form of punishment. I do not agree with the death penalty, for one, because in several cases, innocent people were condemned to death, and sometimes executed. Studies have shown that since 1973, approximately 92 people had been falsely accused of ... resulted in 23 innocent deaths. Also, numerous studies have shown that the death penalty is racially biased and costs almost six times more than life without parole. These three reaso...

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... of those punished, instead of temporarily imprisoning them. Although capital punishment is not intended to inflict physical pain, execution is the only corporal punishment still applied to adults. The usual alternative to the death penalty is life-long imprisonment. For the past decades capital punishment has been one of the most controversial political issues in America. This debate is a complicated one. Capital ... investigated and nothing is questionable. I believe in the concept of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth because there are always consequences to the things you do an...

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... intend wrong-doing, that she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants to cleanse herself of sin, she must cease to accept the role of wife. At first she tries to deal with this by begging her "husband" to leave her, but when he refuses, saying that it would confirm her in what he claims is her madness ... , she believes she is left with no other option than to accuse him of being an impostor. When Bertrande sees that the result of her actions is a death sentence for the man she once loved, she is appalled. It is not what she intended or anticipated. She thoug...

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... on minor smoking of marijuana, our officers should be putting more attention into greater dangers, such as traffic safety, abuse, and other more serious crimes. The FBI reported that by 1996, arrests had increased to 9.9% of all combined arrests. Drug offenders, primarily marijuana, now constitute for about 23% of all prison populations in 1995 (Faley, Jonathan. (1997). Fact ... Sheet: Drug Data Summary. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. 1-4. Retrieved from http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov). Due to this, the nation's prison population has risen 5.2% (Gilliard, Darre...

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... does not need such a punishment to function. In truth it is probably harming the U.S foreign policy. (Last year, while on a visit to Spain, President Bush struggled for an answer when faced with abolitionist protesters.) Most nations in the world view capital punishment as cruel and barbaric. And the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment". How the leader of the free world can get away with ... such cruelty is hypocritical. Granted, crime in the United States is more prevalent than in the European Union. But it is not so uniquely different that ... ...

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... . And finally, they say that executions only further degrade our society. I believe that capital punishment should be continued because it is rightful retribution, it lowers taxes, and gives closure to victims families. The death penalty is rightful retribution for criminals such as murders and serial rapists. Any person who kills another with no regrets or rapes innocent victims continuously, does not deserve ... penalty was enforced for serve crimes, it would eliminate a fair amount of tax money going to the judiciary system. If prisons were to maintain deadly criminals sentenced for l...

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... uniforms as an experiment. It is believed that if students were made to wear uniforms the crime and discipline in public schools would decrease. The truth is there are no hard facts to confirm those allegations. For that reason, uniforms should not be mandatory in the public school systems. Some arguments against the enforcement of school uniforms are that uniforms are just an extreme measure ... stabbing, bombings, shootings, and even cold blooded murders. These crimes were committed by students with problems a lot larger than what they were going to wear to school. Uniforms could not ha...

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... American public attention. Today it is more controversial than ever before and divides the American public into two factions; one group being supportive of capital punishment, the other group opposing the death penalty. Supporters of the death penalty often quote from the bible to justify their conviction. Nobody will deny that it says in the bible "A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, a ... state, people are often unable to consider the consequences of their actions. Thus, only in the fewest cases death penalty serves as a deterrent. Surprisingly, statistics show that the states that...

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... modern-day solutions to modern-day problems. In the past, there was no such system set up to handle such problems, which brings us to the introduction of the philosophes. The philosophes were a group of intellectual individuals who hung out in taverns, or salons, to discuss the world's issues, diets, sciences, religions, and politics. They believed in a deist view of god as the creator of this great machine, but ... not of god in a personal nature. In a time when the locals were ... more interested in just being intoxicated and playing games of chance, these "philosophes" took on the ta...

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... , and it's frightening crime rate. Wherever I went in Mexico City there were always people begging me for money. Often there would be children or families sleeping on the street. I felt bad when I had no money to give them because they looked so poor and destitute. Fifty percent of Mexico City's population is very poor and I found this very disturbing. When I got off ... away. It was like being hit with a wave of exhaust fumes. At first I thought it was only the smell at the airport but after leaving I found that the smell was Mexico City's air. After being in Mexico for awhile I became ...

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... ever read or heard. What is the most shocking about the letter are the conditions Dr. King was under when he wrote the letter. He wrote portions of the letter in the margins of a newspaper and on scraps of paper until his attorney was allowed to supply him with paper. I assume that King did not have the luxury of referring to any books because King was not even ... counter of someone else's argument I have ever experienced. I was a little uncertain how good the letter would be prior to reading it. The main reason would be I am always a bit skeptical when something is considered a master...

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... that seems right when someone has horrible and disgusting crimes against innocent people. In these cases, the reason is for revenge. If the reason why there is the death penalty is revenge, then the people who support this are as bad as the offenders themselves. They kill or have the intention to kill when nothing can be gained from it. In many countries, it is supported because ... people. It is used to solve over-crowding in prisons and to get rid of large groups of people who question the way the country is being run. Instead of death penalty, there are many other replacements for it...

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... drug selling and even stealing anything valuable that could be resold. Fixing all those vacant homes in Chicago alone will take the city thousands even millions of dollars to repair, But if we start of with one neighborhood at a time those vacant homes could be rebuilt and be occupied by ... families who need homes and may even reduce crime in chicago. In Englewood there are 3,500 empty properties, the highest number of vacant homes of Chicago neighborhoods. Many residents left due to lack of maintance of buildings, which makes that neighborhood look poor or unpleasant. Many people who a...

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... a better place. Well in fact, it does make the world a safe and better place to live in. And I wouldn't give a second glance to those murderers especially when they mess with my family. I mean, who wouldn't want justice to their family members if they were harmed or worse, killed. Of course we would want the same thing to happen to the person who did it. We would want vengeance ... because I believe that all humans has a vengeful side, who wouldn't have? Albus Dumbledore once said that "Death is but the next greatest adventure." A simple quote that I truly believe. Yes, I believe in thi...

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... " city because its crime rate was extremely high. From bootlegging, prostitution, gambling, to murder, Al Capone was the center of all criminal activity in the underworld of Chicago. During the depression, many people were homeless and starving. With the looted money that Capone had, he opened up a soup kitchen where the less fortunate could come and eat. His kitchens employed thousands of people. This made ... . He was well respected because of that. While Capone's ego was at an all time high, everything changed when the St. Valentines Day massacre happened that caught the medias attenti...

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