... that is relevant to their job and simulates conditions under which they will be performing the safety skills that are taught (Grossi, 1992). This may be interpreted to mean that if a probation officer is expected to go into the community and make field contacts ... Depending on how this issue is addressed with the legislative bodies, obtaining proper legal authority may be a long and difficult task. In 1992 the State of Florida was faced with a similar dilemma. Although the existing state law seemed to permit the agency the discretion to ... at least half of all probation officers will b...

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... that were deviant. The racial layers of American society contained the principles of white superiority and black inferiority. Blacks were defined as deviant and the police were in charge of social control over the black population. Measures had already been taken to institutionalize slavery which was a 100 year period between 1660 and 1760. Slave codes were made to regulate the growing black ... South between the Reconstruction and the beginning of the twentieth century, the blacks made up 70 to 95 percent of prison population. Even though in the 1960's Civil Rights banned segregation a...

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... Mfume have also been stopped by police, allegedly for no other reason than the color of their skin. Robert L. Wilkins, a Harvard-educated Washington attorney, was traveling along U.S. Interstate 68 in 1992, returning from his grandfather's funeral, when a Maryland state trooper pulled the families rented Cadillac over for speeding. When the trooper asked to search the car and its contents, Wilkins refused ... United State. This is a sociological fact, not a figment of a racist media (or police) imagination. In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of vio...

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... about the case. I felt this was better, for the fact that I wouldn't go into the writing with a bias opinion. The verdict was not guilty in the trial, which sent shock waves through the country. It went on for nine months. The 133 days of televised courtroom testimony turned countless viewers into Simpson ... of the attacks are Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Simpson and Brown began living together when she was 19. The two were wed February 2, 1985 and were divorced in 1992. According to her sister, Denise Brown, Nicole broke up with Simpson a week and a half before she died. Goldman was a...

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... juries who understand that police face risky and protective work, are unlikely to convict a police officer without hard evidence. For instance the beating of Rodney King, which occurred March 2, 1992, in Pacoima, California was filmed by George Holiday, a 33 year old rugby player and general manager of Rescue Rooter a national plumbing company went to bed early and was awaken at 12 ... with surrounding neighbors (Skolnick 22-3). Between 1987 & 1990, 4,400 misconduct complaints were filed by African Americans, who made up 13% of the Los Angeles population. In 1989 Los Angeles paid out 9 mi...

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... indicator of a computer criminal, while others claim that potential computer criminals are bright, eager, highly motivated subjects willing to accept a technological challenge, characteristics that are also highly desirable in an employee in the data-processing field. According to a number of studies, however, employees represent the largest threat, and indeed computer crime has often been referred to as an insider crime. ... of losses and the actual number of criminal offences. At its Colloquium on Computer Crimes and Other Crimes against Information Technology, held at Wurzburg, German...

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