Another is the Strain theory, which states that crime is a result of the difficulty between people's goals and how they choose to reach those goals. People who defend that theory believe that the ability to reach goals depends on social class, since citizens of a low class are able to achieve their goals through ordinary means. Lower class citizens can decide to achieve success through theft or any other crime that self-satisfies them. ...

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Deterrence can be achieved from increased police patrols, good relationships with the community, and through tough penalties for convicted criminals. ... Determinate sentences do not involve parole and are based on incapacitation and specific deterrence goals (Ditton, 1999). ... The Sentencing Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities. ... The goal of truth in sentencing it to hold offenders accountable. ...

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What is Probation? Conditions of Probation and Responsibilities of a Probation Officer Introduction to Criminal Justice Judges have turned more and more to probation instead of incarceration in recent years, and will continue to do so in the future. An important reason for this trend ...

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Agnew (1992) identifies three major sources of strain, being, the prevention or blockage of achieving positively-valued goals, the removal of positively-valued stimuli, and the threat or presentation of negatively-valued stimuli. ...

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Merton's theory basically states that in societies that are structured by social class where a gap arises between the upper class and the lower class, the lower class will resort to illegitimate means to obtain the societies acceptable goals. ... The strain is intensified whenever the frustrated lower class (Bonnie and Clyde) do not have enough legitimate means to obtain the ever rising goals of society and must retain illegitimate means such as murder, robbery, and theft, to overcome satisfying goals (Adler, Mueller, and Laufer, 2004). ... The goals of society might be to live happy, ...

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This issue arises when organizations in the criminal justice system have the same goals but disagree on how the goal will be achieved (Stojkovic, 2011). ... All police officers have the goal or purpose to protect citizens and to get the bad guys off of the streets. ...

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However, Pressman &ump; Flockton (2014) point of view about the terms, it is more likely acceptable that while extremism does not require violent actions, terrorism always requires violence to achieve some political goals. ... Community policing depends upon organizational decentralization and a reorientation of patrol keeping in mind the end goal to encourage two communication between police and the general population. ...

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Western industrial societies have undergone a number of transformations in their quest to achieve such control. Disenchantment with the penal system and its inability to achieve rehabilitation within its confines has meant that in recent years, and especially since the 1960's, a central element in the social control practises of advanced capitalist societies has been a state-sponsored attempt to deinstitutionalise deviant populations. ... Prisons were seen as brutal (Vinson 1982, p.14), inhumane, and instead of achieving their rehabilitative goals, studies have shown that the further in...

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The Court is a cause for celebration not so much because of what it will achieve in the future, but because of what it signifies about the past. ... While the unprecedented participation of civil society helped democratize this lawmaking process, the goal of expeditiously adopting the Statute-while there was a window of opportunity-resulted in the process being dominated by a few influential, though largely well-intentioned, delegations. ...

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He defines social organization as "The extent to which the residents of a neighborhood are able to maintain effective social control and realize their common goals"(358). ... Kuypers states, "That men, over the course of history, have refined and defended the use of pain-giving to achieve things such as power, profit, and pleasure"(p40). ...

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The Salvation Army is dedicated to varied types of help throughout our nation, including here in Arizona. It runs programs around the world and helps people regardless of their faith. The Army expects all employees and church members to abstain from using alcohol, tobacco, and illegal substances. Th...

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There was a study conducted by Scott Bernstein in May, 2013 that states that several recent changes to the Safe Streets and Community Act (Bill C-10) "including mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug offenses, are unlikely to achieve their stated goals of deterrence and disruption of organized crime" (Bernstein & Bennett, 2013). ...

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It argues that those at the bottom of the class system have fewer opportunities to achieve success in monetary terms and are less likely to attain high educational qualifications or to have contacts in high status occupational groups. ... Cohen agrees with Merton that sticking to society's dominant values caused problems for working class male youths in inner city areas, for as they experience failure in school they begin to recognise that they can't make it by legitimate means and so becoming delinquent allows them to hit back at the system in which they can't achieve and to a...

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This needs to be examined, as it is essential to understand what effect one is expecting from the punishment and thus whether prisons are the best form for these aims to be achieved. ... The remaining three all look forward to the consequences of punishment and thereby hope to achieve a reduction in crime. ...

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Out in West Virginia, there are wild things. Things that could make you question the sanity of people. This documentary entails following one of the craziest and most outrageous outlaw families of West Virginia. A look into this dysfunctional family's mentality and operations might evoke an instinct...

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Ricardo Aldape Guerra, who returned to Mexico after 15 years on Texas's death row because of a prosecution that a federal judge called outrageous and designed to simply achieve another notch on the prosecutor's guns. ... In addition the death penalty, even if it remains legal in the U.S., it would not obtain its goal, which is for example, the deterrent of crimes. ...

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At this time, there are not any names for these programs, but the government goal is to create a non-institutionalized program that will challenge the youth and enable them to become better citizens. ... However, the study did present evidence that when given the positive social attention and academic successes is achievable by all students....

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Individuals who are unable to achieve the goal of economic achievement will feel a substantive sense of frustration and find other ways to satisfy their needs, including criminal activity (Holt 2013, pg.167). ...

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As the governments strategic plan for criminal Justice shows, it is important to continue being close to the police attaining a number of clearly identified objectives and goals. ... It is very clear nowadays that local police authorities cannot achieve the political role that has been traditionally ascribed to them. ...

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Nelson Mandela said, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." In other words, education plays a vital role in societies and people development. The purpose of education should be to prepare students for life, nourishing the potential in every student so that eac...

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Transnational crime has been rising steadily as the world transitions more and more towards globalization. The term "transnational" refers to crimes that are not only international (crimes that cross borders between countries), but crimes that by their nature encompass cross-border transference as a crucial part of the criminal activity. As a result of globalization, there has been an increased amount of organized crime moving across international borders, and no longer is it simply a national concern, but a global one, as it affects people all over the world, and not those of a single state. ...

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Canadian society is plagued by organizations that dedicate themselves to illegal activity. Many of these organizations are spotted and dealt with, but many are not. Organized crime hides itself under the radar in society and its severity is not recognized. Most organizations keep a low profile and ...

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As there is no chance of eliminating crime out of society, punishment is an essential tool to create a fair society for it having 4 main goals: deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation and incapacitation. ... Ever since the Congress of the United States passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the United States has achieved a significant progress on the subject of establishing equal treatment for all citizens under the law.3 Many laws and theories aim for fair and equal rights among people despite their race, gender or age and discrimination has been seemingly disappeared from society. ...

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Durkheim originally used the term to describe suicide, but later sociologists used the term to label the dissociation of the individual from the collective conscience or the criminality resulting from a lack of opportunity to achieve aspirations or by the learning of criminal values and behaviors. ... Torn apart by theorists to make it seem precise to them it is basically when ones failure to obtain a goal results into a total down spin of emotions and the lack of ability to deal with stress anymore. ...

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Plea bargaining is a process in which a person who is accused of a crime is allowed to say the he or she is guilty of a less serious crime in order to be given a less severe punishment. [Mer15] It is the process of negotiating a reduced charge for a defendant with the prosecutor if the defendant ple...

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