... the ground and the same group also raided a brothel while in uniform and terrorized and raped the women there." Furthermore, civil claims filed against New York City for police misconduct have been rising steadily for some years. A report prepared by the City Comptroller in February 1992 stated that the number of ... in any given year is somewhat lower but still substantial. More than 3,000 State and Federal civil lawsuits were brought against the City of New York alleging police misconduct for the years 1992 through 1995. The number of cases actually disposed of in any given year is muc...

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... are shown the Irish and Italian immigrants who organize gangs for control of the streets. The two main groups in the movie Gangs of New York are the Dead Rabbits and the Native Americans. Throughout the course of the movie the Civil War is taking place and there are various political ... Native Americans and locked up for fifteen years to be "educated". After this time Amsterdam, the son, returns to New York motivated to kill Bill in revenge. When first arriving in New York Amsterdam meets Johnny, who tried to save him from being taken away by the Natives. Amsterdam and Johnny become fri...

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... area and if they do, it will have a major impact on many lives. I think we should discourage new industries from coming to our area and force them away. We are concerned that new industries will have negative effect on our living environment like pollution, more congestion on street and highways, and there ... would be more crime rates. If we bring new industries to our area it will make the pollution rates increase and the air maybe more polluted. Some industries, like those in Texas City ... industries, you would have to build more roads going to the industry. That would make the str...

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... call for sex offenders to register with the police in the town they move to and report there whereabouts every thirty days. The New York Times wrote, "Dealing with Sex Offenders" an article saying, that once a criminal has been rehabilitated he will not commit the crime again. They also say that community notification will " ... that rehabilitation does not work, and the only way to prevent this from happening again is to keep these criminals in prison. The writer of The New York Times article starts out unemotional. He does so by using the phases "It was a genuine tragedy" and "Small w...

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... of crime control. Quite to the contrary, capital punishment does not reduce crime. According to a September 22, 2000 article in the Houston Chronicle, abolitionists" assertions that criminals are not deterred by the threat of the death penalty are valid. The article reports that a recent New York Times survey shows that the dozen states that have chosen not to enact the death penalty since the ... last two decades, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 to 101 percent higher than states without the death penalty. Moreover, the study by the New York Times also dis...

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... and innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of gang violence. Other cities where gangs haven't been a big issue such as Philadelphia, New York, and Miami, have been experiencing either no change at all or a decline in the rate of homicides. The article concludes that the reason for this rise in some areas is the fact that some police departments stopped paying close attention ... not been a rise in the number of gangs or a significant rise in the number of members. My next source of information is titled "New Venue for Gang Violence: Cybercafes-, by Daniel Wood. This article discuss...

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... effectively, individuals must have every tool government can afford them, including the death penalty," says George E. Pataki (2003), Republican governor of New York. After only two months in office, governor Pataki "signed the death penalty into law for the most heinous and ruthless killers"(Pataki, 2003, para. 2) in ... are based on the fact that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. But, what about the victims families? Peter Bronson's article, A cruel penalty for victims, argues, "Death penalty opponents who twist the truth to protect killers are also torturing victim's f...

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... fine. It will save the state tons of money because of how much it costs to process and incarcerate someone for 30 days versus in New York where a 100 dollar fine is the equivalent. Another big question that arises when talking about this problem is why states decriminalize instead of legalize ... 25 and a lot of them get incarcerated for drug charges and have it stamped on their permanent legal record (Gettman, 2009). A comparison between a New York and Virginia young adult really makes a good case for this decriminalization case. Say a 21-year-old male is caught with 24 grams of cannabis...

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... 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 Mariel Garza brings out ... Rodriguez had lived in. Pg5 Another Important idea that was brought out in my second article is how an operator of a Hamilton gang intervention program from Albany, New York has received some aid from The United Way. This article entitled "Gang Intervention Gets Aid" on May 23, 2002 from the Ti...

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... why do they do what they do? Where does this anger or stupidity come from? In the 1998 article, Annette Fuentes, co-author of Women in the Global Factory and assistant director of New York Newsday, argues that if these questions are not asked and answered and all the public does is place ... statistics or data presented are relevant to your case or not. She uses these in paragraphs 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and throughout the rest of this article. She uses data form the National Center for Juvenile Justice to show that "between 1987 and 1996, the number of juvenile arrests increased 35 percent....

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... forensic psychology my first step was to find the most precise definition. I read the definition in the first article I chose, but when I went to another article to clarify a point I noticed that the definition was similar, yet more detailed. When Michael Decaire wrote his first article "Forensic Psychology: The Misunderstood Beast" he felt he needed to explain why he wanted to write about this ... is being dealt with, as was proven in the case involving Dr. James A. Brussel. During the l950s several bombings occurred in New York City. Despite intense investigative efforts, law enforcem...

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... 6,000-year-old spirit invaded his neighbor's Labrador and commanded him to do the evil deeds. He sent numerous letters to Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News and the NYPD exulting his exploits. While in prison Dave was assaulted and had his throat slit. He survived, but now has a fifty ... serial killer is a person who attacks and kills victims one by one in a series of incidents. David Berkowitz was one of the most feared killers in New York City in the 1970's. His crimes caused the death of six people, and the injuries to seven others. He is currently serving a 365-year sentence ...

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... that of any other state in the nation" ("Facts" 3). That says that even though Texas has the highest executions, their crime rate has not gone down but up. In Lenhoff's article "Debating the Death Penalty" says, "Opponents of capital punishment point to studies that indicate that the murder rate does not fall when the death penalty is used heavily" (Lenhoff 6). That ... means exactly what its says. Another quote from that article says how some crimes are made in the heat of passion. "the death penalty has no deterrent effect on most murders because people commit murders largely in the h...

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... I G H T F I L L E Y careful studies of the operation of the laws often show the opposite effect: the be- havior they are supposed to inhibit actually increases. It is beyond the scope of this article to determine exactly why that seemingly strange reaction sometimes occurs. But even a little imagination suffices to suggest some possible reasons. Some people simply enjoy doing what is forbidden, for the ... may actually be correct. Writing in the Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, Edgar A. Suter (1994) states: "Crime and homicide rates are highest in jurisdictions, such as Wash...

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... which procedure is more expensive; life time imprisonment or capital punishment. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. ( Article 3 Universal Declaration of Human Rights). No system is perfect but when someone is found innocent through an appeal it shows us that the system ... It was actually Britain who was the main influence towards America instituting the use of the death penalty. The first recorded execution in the new colonies was Captain George Kendall in Virginia in 1608 for the crime of stealing (http://teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/). Laws about the d...

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... penalty is not morally sound nor anything short of an act of vengeance. The supporters of the "effectiveness" of the death penalty such as; George E. Pataki, Governor of New York State in 1997, claim that it is the best method to punish criminals and prevents further crimes, because when one knows that capital punishment waits for him, he will not ... also statistics provided by the U.S. Census. The most gut-wrenching fact of the death penalty is the fact that it is irreversible. In "Kill the Death Penalty" an article written by Dan Brook wit the reasons as to why the death penalty shou...

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Does Three Strikes and Other Tough Approaches Work? The article, "Does Three Strikes and Other Tough Approaches Work?" found in Taking Sides: Controversial Issues in Crime and Criminology, has to do with the controversial concept of using the "three strikes ... be placed in higher security institutions or not released as early. Methvin noted that placing police in high crime areas will definitely deter crime. As shown in the article, what happened to the New York City subway system was a perfect example of reducing crime. Crimes were being committed so frequently that the number of train com...

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... solution to the problem. Uniforms continue to be an upcoming issue in the minds of school officials, parents, and even the President. In the article titled, "Uniforms, Expulsions Not Just for Private Schools" it states that; President Bill Clinton promoted uniforms in public schools in his State of ... what they wear. The problem of money arises for many parents who have trouble putting food on the table let alone paying for brand new uniforms. Since uniforms are now being implemented in many city schools, not every family is going to be able to afford them. Uniforms ... would probably co...

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... the "impact of restricting the availability of firearms is more likely to impact on those violent incidents that would not have happened had a weapon been at hand"(152). In an article by Gary A. Mauser of the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, he places special emphasis on the attitudes towards firearms displayed by both Canadians and Americans. According to Mauser, large ... news programming) and, Canadians and Americans read many of the same books and magazines. As a result of this, the Canadian public has adopted "much of the American culture" . In an article by Catherine F...

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... , a combined total of five juvenile offenders were executed. That is the most since 1954 when 6 were killed. Three of the executions were in Texas and the other two in Virginia (New York Times). Texas, which has more than 20 juvenile offenders on death row, has a set minimum age of 17 for capital punishment along with four other states. Virginia has a minimum age ... in the context of an attempt by society to change that person that we would sentence to death? I don't think 16 or 17 seems like a very reasonable answer to that. (New York Times 2) The adolescent age of 16 or 17 is an age w...

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... Capital punishment is justified for society's hardest criminals. The way in which this is still argued you would think this was a new idea. Yet there was no challenging capital punishment in the beginning. You can not debate God. In the Old Testament, God ... that hundreds of more people died because those convicted of murder were released only to murder once more. The following are some examples. In a Washington Post article, on the morning of July 5, 1978 Michael Baker, left home with John Mayecki, also 16, one of his closest friends, drove to a fast food ... a nine year old girl. He ...

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... in" 1). Many cases in America have been concluded in which a white man gets less prison time than a black man for the same crime. For example, there was a case in New York State where an African-American homeless man, Roy Brown, robbed a bank and only took one hundred dollars. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison (Co-Cane, "Justice For ... who break the law on occasion, then they should just go around to black neighbor hoods because they think that the stereotype is to break the law. According to an article entitled, Racial Profiling Generates Controversy, the author made a point...

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... have no duty to protect the citizens of this country. A prime example is the Warren vs. District of Columbia case. (1975) or an article called justices rule police do not have a constitutional duty to protect someone published by New York times writer Linda Greenhouse(2005). It is the job of police officers to investigate crimes and arrest criminals. The police's main purpose is ... ...

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... B. Purpose of boot camps C. Goals of boot camps I. Juvenile boot camps A. Florida's model B. North Carolina's model III. Women's boot camp A. Overview B. New York's model I. Male boot camp A. Louisiana's model B. New York's model V. Conclusion Boot camp is a short institutional sentence designed to improve offender's self esteem and discipline. Since there inception, boot camps have been used as an ... counseling to victims of sexual abuse or domestic violence must be implemented in addition to discipline, exercise, and drills (Mackenzie). One example of such a program is New York's Sho...

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... , five wounded. (Chiou H. 2002) 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazil shoots and kills a teacher. 12-year-old Lionel Tate beats to death a 6-year-old playmate. (Little Adult Criminals May 2002 editorial. New York Times N.Y.) 11-year-old Andrew Golden and 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson pulled the fire alarm, and shot at student coming out of the school building. Five were dead, and ... be done about it. "The damage caused by a young criminal is equal to that caused by an adult and should result in the same punishment," states Hanna Chiou in her article. Murder cases ages between 14 and 17 have incre...

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