... meetings have lowered the amount of sport being done in there barrios". This same important idea about gang crimes is brought out in my first library article. This article, entitled "FEDS JOIN WAR ON GANGS" from the "Daily News of Los Angeles" on December17,2002 and written by ... and a education program. So far she has attracted seven different gangs, and has also accomplished having seven gang members receive their GED. My third library "Groups Working Harder To Prevent Violence In Oxnard," from October 20, 2003 article shows how local church groups and youth groups work hard to preven...

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... are more likely violent and those crimes that are felonies. The media definitely has some prejudices as to whom, and what they choose to cover. Why is it that the Ramsey case got so much publicity, yet there are children who are killed every day who we do not hear about? Or why is the OJ Simpson case noted as the ... ratings reach their highest when crime stories cover people with lots of money, for example celebrities or those of high status, and or young children and woman. So when the Ramsey case came up, they, the media, received not only the people with lots of money, but they also...

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... are two classifications to pedophilias one is a situational child molester who has sex with children for complex reasons. The other is a preferential child molester that will often have a large library of child pornography pictures and videos (Miethe and McCorkle, 2001). The members of the "W0nderland Club" would most readily fit into the second category. The psychological school of criminology believes ... filtering and blocking programs like CYBERPATROL, NETNANNY and SURFWATCH that you can install on your computer. This software will automatically scan Web sites for objectionable conte...

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... of wood on his back and it was attached to a post placed in upright in the ground (Doney 17). "The victim's wrists were tied or sometimes nailed to the cross-beam before it was hoisted up and fixed to the upright," (Doney 17). The victim's feet were either tied together and left dangling or nailed to the upright ... beam (Doney 17). Jesus is remembered as the only founder of a world religion to have been executed as if he were a common criminal (Clarke 72). "Although you have to decide for ... ...

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... interested in protecting and helping the child. Hearings would be closed to the public. Proceedings would be informal. If convicted, children would be separated from adult criminals. In 1899, Cook County, Illinois, set up the country's first juvenile court. Today, every state has a separate court system for juveniles. These courts generally handle two different groups of juveniles: the delinquent ... interested in protecting and helping the child. Hearings would be closed to the public. Proceedings would be informal. If convicted, children would be separated from adult criminals. In 1899...

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... school, recreation, and family activities, and beliefs in values and morals will lead to less juvenile delinquency (Petrosino, 2000,p.636). III. Method To get my data, I used books and the library; I picked up many articles from the Expanded Academic Research Engine on the library computers. They gave me great academic journals. There are still a few journals that I haven't gotten in from inter ... library loans, but it is too late now. I encountered great difficulties in getting information on demographics. I went back to the library and tried to search for more journals or books on or...

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... the monster that soon developed Willie Bosket. Butterfield states that he traced the Bosket family back to a county in South Carolina called Edgefield. This county is well known for being the most violent county in the country from the perspective of historians. Butterfields argument was interesting due to the fact that studying ... same time that violence was at an all-time high as well as slavery. So the book starts off in South Carolina in the Edgefield County where the American Revolution just ended. Whites and blacks are not getting along due to slavery. The constant fighting in E...

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... not a crime was committed and if it was either a misdemeanor or a felony. We handle no civil cases whatsoever. What services do you provide to this county? We have two different offices, one for adult felonies and misdemeanors, and one for all juvenile cases. All of our deputy attorneys along with our court staff prepare ... if we don't, then the defense can say that we thought it would not even go through and the will use that against us. How long has this county had its District Attorney office? Since 1859, all of Oregon's counties have had one since the state was created. How long is...

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... penalty showed that the murder rate increased by seven percent from the five-year pre-abolition period to the five-year post-abolition period ("Justice For All" 5). Since 1990, Harris County, a single county in Texas has had more executions than any other state in the United States. During the period between 1990 and 1995, Harris ... County has had a forty-eight percent drop in crime, the greatest decrease in the United States. In Harris County, the highest homicide rate was in 1981, one year before the death penalty was reinstated in Texas ("Justice For All" 6). All of ... ...

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... about how imperative and beneficial after schools programs can be to our youth. The focal point is a particular After- School program that was started in Braintree, Massachusetts by the Norfolk County Sheriff office called "Significantly raises youth." It started in November 2003, the program was designed to give children structure, create and positive environment during the hours when most ... Kerr Country juvenile probation officers and their pursuit to use golf to help prevent crime amongst juveniles. The program has only been available to kids being supervised by the Kerr County Pro...

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... reformers, did exist, although the social reformers had a hand in changing some of the more deplorable conditions of the time, including the treatment and confinement of young criminals. The Warwick County Asylum was instituted in 1818, was the result of the united endeavors and generous contributions of concerned, benevolent citizens. This asylum was available to criminal boys whom were placed where ... to save juveniles from crime through a regimented life style, education and training (Ibid, p. 307 -309). Juvenile Delinquency Statistics for Morgan County (1992), states, as of January...

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... that Capone had attended race tracks in Miami, and that he made a plane trip to Bimini and a cruise to Nassau. He had been interviewed at the office of the Dade County Solicitor and that he appeared in good health. Capone appeared before the Federal Grand Jury on March 20, 1929, and finished his testimony on March 27. After that he was ... to one year each, but Capone was released in nine months, on March 17, 1930, for good behavior. On February 28, 1936, Capone was sentenced to six months in Cook County Jail on a Contempt of Court charge. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Department found e...

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... peers (www.street gangs.com). The most famous gangs now are the Bloods, Crips and 18th street. These are the main gangs and they all are part on Los Angeles County Some of these gangs run outside of L.A. several suburban peripheral places in LAC have gang activity. The Blood gang has 88 incorporated cities. They have 274 black gangs in 17 ... Blood gangs in LAC. The bloods feud with other black gangs (streetgangs.com). The Blood gangs wears red to represent the Blood gang. The largest gang in the Los Angeles County is 18th street. There are 20,000 members of the 18th street gang. Most o...

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... went to his mother, Julie Baumeister. It appeared there was a human skeleton in the wooded grounds of their Tudor home in the Fox Hollow Farms section near Westfield in Hamilton County. Mrs. Baumeister alerted her husband, but, thankfully, he had a practical explanation. Herb Baumeister's father was an anesthesiologist. Herb had stored one of his dad's medical skeletons in the garage. Cleaning ... very interested, but the gay community was alarmed. Authorities didn't pay much attention to one man's story of how a man he met in a gay bar had taken him to a Hamilton County home with an in...

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... fifteen percent decrease. In 1982, the state of Texas reinstated the death penalty. In 1981 the city of Houston (Harris county) there was a record 701 murders. Since reinstating the death penalty that county has executed more murders than any other city, county, or state in the union. They have also have seen the greatest reduction in murder at 261 murders in 1996 down ... ...

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... control crime? Another thing is that making a Federal law controlling firearms would be very hard to make considering the variety of state, city, and county regulations. Every city is different when you go from state, county to county. Some cities and counties are in rural areas and others in suburban. Why should someone living in middle of nowhere have to abide by the ... ...

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Plea bargaining is a benefit to our criminal justice system. Plea Bargaining Have you ever thought about where all your taxes go? A lot of your taxes go to the state, county, and city government to help with convicting and housing criminals. If it wasn't for plea bargaining, you would be paying a great deal more of your taxes than you are now. ... payer's money being spent. It takes a large amount of money to keep defendants locked up behind the bars of the jail. In a special board meeting that was held in Yavapai County, Arizona, concerning the process of running the jail. (Chairman Davis)...

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... % of Florida death sentences are overturned due to constitutional errors, the authors spell out why they think such high error rates occur. In the study, Florida's Pinellas County (St. Petersburg), Hillsborough County (Tampa), and Polk County are named among the ten worst in the country, due to that fact that "These counties had an average capital error rate of 71% at the first ... ...

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... goodnight. Police: Let me haunt you with these words: I'll be back. I'll be back. To be interpreted as - bang, bang, bang, bang - ugh. Yours in murder, Mr. Monster." (Crime library) This letter was found at the scene of one of his crimes. He eventually confessed to the murders of 28 women. However, many believe the number of deaths to be ... much higher (Crime Library). Serial murderers can be either organized," carrying out planned, premeditated attacks on strangers, or disorganized, committing unplanned killings and behaving haphazardly. Other clues-or lack of them-identify organized ...

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... takes place in that region. Unfortunately, while it sounds reasonable on the surface, gun registration is actually a malicious program that can be used to track or confiscate firearms. Take Rockland County, New York for example. Journal News, a local newspaper, accessed public records to obtain the name and address of every handgun owner in the ... county. They then proceeded to post this information on their website for the entire world to see (Kopel 1). Ordinary law abiding citizens may have no interest in or need for this ... ...

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... Community or Police Departments. If I just pull up San Antonio alone on the Uniform Crime Report, the actual number is 8,434 that San Antonio reported vs. the report from Bexar County. This number is more in line with the Dallas figures. In a two-year span from 2011 through 2012, The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics show that the violent crime rates ... inaccurately reported, makes it harder to get an idea of what is actually happening there. This causes discretion in results across the board, looking at two pages such as Bexar County and just San Antonio reporting to try to get a...

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... set a precedent not only in North Carolina but all over the United States of America. The passing of this legislation into law made North Carolina the first state in the county to provide death row inmates an opportunity to have their death sentence changed if they could prove that they were significantly discriminated against by prosecutors based on race. With this ... reasonable arguments to show why this act was either the greatest piece of legislation or the biggest mistake that North Carolina legislatures had ever made. The district attorney of Wake County, Colon Willoughby, argued...

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... body with large tattoos of the Virgin Mary. But not much else is known about this rapidly growing prison gang. I interviewed Jake Alonso from Monmouth County Jail in Freehold, New Jersey. He states that inmates in Monmouth County Jail do not call these groups" gangs. Members call their groups "organizations." When I asked him why he joined he said because "I don't want a *censored ... ...

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... body with large tattoos of the Virgin Mary. But not much else is known about this rapidly growing prison gang. I interviewed Jake Alonso from Monmouth County Jail in Freehold, New Jersey. He states that inmates in Monmouth County Jail do not call these groups" gangs. Members call their groups "organizations." When I asked him why he joined he said because "I don't want a *censored ... ...

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... murder. 6. The suspect is presumed innocent, 7. The prosecution must prove to the judge that the evidence upon which the prosecution will rely is admissible, 8. The defendant is assigned two attorneys, county funds are provided to defense counsel for investigation and trial, 9. It takes 3-12 weeks to select a jury, 10. Trial is conducted, 11. The burden of proof is on the state ... . When the death sentence is imposed the perpetrator receive and automatic appeal 21&22. The death row inmate is provided and attorney, or attorneys to handle the direct appeal, at county expense, through both...

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