When the word gang is said, the average person usually thinks of bad people that have become outcasts of society. ... A definition of gang in terms of gang violence is a group of persons working together for unlawful or antisocial purposes. Gang violence can be related to evolution by looking at why people join gangs in the first place. ... Instead of just one person having to fend for themselves they have the comfort of never having to face something alone. ... The person that started the gang could have formed it to ensure that he or she would have the best chance of passing on thei...

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I have seen first hand how one arrest can ruin someone entire future. ... For example if a person gets a dui whiled there parked that person should just get community service or join AA meeting, but placing a person in jail or suspending his business license is cruel and is only going to make a person become violent. ...

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The welfare approach is a care based approach and concentrates on factors, which lead a young person to commit crime. ... The first was in Borstal, Kent and it brought about the "Borstal Philosophy," which involved giving discipline and work training. In 1933, the Children and Young persons Act made provisions for education and training of young offenders and also extended the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to 17 year olds. ...

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Hammurabi may not have developed the first code of laws, but he was the first person to record a code of laws. ... This was the first time in history that any laws had been categorized into various sections. ... A person was expected to provide evidence and could subpoena witnesses to support his case. ... By creating the world's first set of organized laws, Hammurabi constituted a model set of moral codes for other civilizations to duplicate. ... Some of his laws would now be considered cruel, but his code was still the first to ever be recorded. ...

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Most times the harsher sentence will include more time, which means there will be one more person in the prisons for longer. ... When a person grows up in an area where crime is how they have learned to live, they learn to model these criminal behaviors in their own time of need. ... Just because a person is poor does not mean they will commit a crime, but poverty can lead to things like malnutrition, resentment, or lower education and these factors are all considered to be predictors in crime. ... Making it mandatory that a first–time drug offender goes through a treatment program befo...

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A person who violates or breaks the law is classified as law breakers, criminal offenders, perpetrator, convict, jailbird and etc. ... First of all, law breakers have to face their consequences for their offence in the prison. ... As per our government law, punishment for a drug addict is under "Akta Penagih Dadah (Rawatan & Pemulihan) 1983 " which is two years of jail for first time addicted, and with that much of punishment he or she will not tend to do it again ("unit antidadah sempadan padang besar" 11 9, 2010 ). As a prove, Park Jae Sang also known as ganggam style was a drug addict (smo...

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First of all, when someone is sentenced to jail, they feed off the economy with out giving back. ... These people are not a so-called 'endangerment to others', they are just the person next door. ... Instead of being sentenced, the normal, fallible, person should go through a program to determine a better occupation for their needs. Like the tests high highschoolers take to see what occupations they should follow, faulty persons should reevaluate their careers. ... If a job change and a slap on the wrist won't correct a person, I don't know what will....

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Fair treatment should be based on treating each person accordingly. ... It was only the first time, so the punishment will be less severe. ... If it was a first time offender, their punishment is usually lighter than that of a repeat offender. That is fair because if its only the first time, people should be given a chance to redeem and correct their mistakes, but if they repeatedly commit crimes, then their punishments is not severe enough to make them change. ...

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First of all if we give the criminal the death penalty, so he would not be able go out and commit the same crime and so this would guarantee no repeat of the crime that was commited by the same criminal. ... I feel that if a person kills another than the same should happen to them. ... I feel that the death penalty is not cruel or unusual punishment because it is not cruel that the person should die because he deserves it and it is not unusual because we are not cutting his hand off or anything. ...

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They have caused him to become a person that he does not even recognize. ... I do agree that holding a person only worsens the situation. ... Regardless of what you have done, you still have feelings and deserve some kind of respect as a person. ... Prison should not be the answer to getting the crime rates down in the first place. ... The way a person looks or the color of their skin should not be the way to determine if one is a criminal or not. ...

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Primarily the theory focuses on external factors and how they influence a person's life. ... The first is the idea of attachment to other individuals. ... This also ties into family involvement in the person's life. ...

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Over the last semester we have taken numerous tests and evaluations to try and figure out who we are as a person and student. ... I think that a person's can either be controlled by their character or they can control it. ... I want to be an honest and trustworthy man, a person of honor and loyalty, courage and respect. ... There are only a few things I can think of that can be perceived barriers, the first is my confidence in my physical presence and also in my scholastic abilities. I also have a hard time meeting people for the first time and finding things to talk about. ...

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Definition three adds conditions to definition two by stating the act must be legally prohibited when it is committed and the person must have criminal intent and acted voluntarily. ... This involves a rule-violator the police or courts, lawyers and lawmakers defining this person's behavior as criminal. ... The power of th person to pin the label to criminal behavior and enforce it. ... The first was between the competing notions of state and community. ... This data is collected twice a year from a national sample of 49,000 households making up 100,000 persons in the survey. ...

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In 1899, Cook County in Illinois established the first juvenile court. ... The first facility was the House of Refuge in New York, established in 1824 (History of Juvenile Justice System 2013). ... " JDAI is part of the foundation's national vision that all young persons who come into the juvenile justice system be given the support necessary to give them the chance to develop into healthy productive adults" (Teitelman & Linhares 2013). ... I do believe that one person making the effort can inspire others to make the effort, and what the JDAI has accomplished will continue ...

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Children in the first stage of life and the first half of the second stage were not punishable for any crime. Delinquent children fro 10 ½ to 14 years of age were punishable only if the prosecution could prove intent, and persons 14 to 25 could receive capital and other punishments as readily as adults (Simonsen, 1991 p. 13). During 1828, the first facility for juvenile delinquents in the United States came into reality. ...

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Girls In Gangs A woman's family life and social environment can lead herself to look for the acceptance and protection of a gang. In this gang, comprised of young, insecure females, criminal activity and gang related symbols are a source of fulfillment in the womens" empty lives. What influence...

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You first see a visual of the school. ... Principal Clark's first order of business was to expell the worst of the chronic delinquents. ... He was a high-energy, often abrasive person who was nevertheless compassionate but not soft. ... Joe's students may have hated him at first, but they learned important lessons. ...

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At first, it was effective and there was a lower number of drugs then before, but it left side effects that are probably worse then the problem. ... For instance two people can commit the same crime yet it is possible for one person to get a more severe sentence then the other because of the differences of their cases. One of them could have been a first time offender with a clean record while the other has committed several crimes before that making him no stranger to the courtrooms therefore getting a longer sentencing. ... The policy should also have more flexibility for example every stu...

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Questions about crime have been around ever since man first committed it. ... This experiment proved that we shape the minds of children and influence them into becoming a bad person thus committing crime. ...

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In the first crime scene, the victim is a female college student whose body was found outside her apartment near Cal State Northridge with no signs of outward trauma. ... Staging The first crime scene provides a perfect example of staging, a behavioral pattern sometimes found at a crime scene, suspected suicide, or an accidental death. ... Psychological The perpetrator can be described as a delusional killer described as those "who are on a mission, either frankly psychotic or more ideologicallydriven, to rid the world of persons they consider undesirable....

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Boot camps mainly help first time offenders. ... The way a person feels about themselves when they are released from boot camps and jails plays a big part of the life they will leave after serving their time. ...

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Boot camps mainly help first time offenders. ... The way a person feels about themselves when they are released from boot camps and jails plays a big part of the life they will leave after serving their time. ...

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I aim to look at crime and deviance from a Marxist perspective & a Right Realist perspective. I will provide a definition of crime and deviance. Throughout my assignment I aim to cover just how extensive crime & deviance is in contemporary Britain, also to consider who are the offenders and more so, why do people commit crimes? I will also be exploring how crime is measured alongside my own opinions on the subject. Crime is usually defined simply as a violation of the criminal law. ...

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Two people who were killed for something they could not control, the type of person they were. ... Any crime that is committed in turns of a hate crime and one is convicted then that person will see time in jail. ... I feel strongly about this topic, because I was threatened by a Ku Klux Klan member my first year in college. ...

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For punishment to become effective on a person they must undergo rehabilitation to learn how to break their habits. Without rehabilitation programs inmates and criminals cannot become a part of our society as a productive and changed person. ... For those who have offended to be able and re-enter their society and to become a positive and productive member they must first have the skills to do so. ... This is so they will understand why these crimes were committed in the first place and to try and prevent it from happening again. ...

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