... and Corrections Technology Center, Southeast Region, in Charleston, S.C. of the 18,769 local law enforcement agencies in the United States, 80 percent are using computers, according to Ninety-five percent of the nation's police officers work in or around departments where computer use is routine. "It's uncommon today to find local law enforcement without at least some automation,"" ... 60-institution state prison system has nearly doubled in four years, from 40,000 in 1996 to 71,000 today. The Florida Department of Corrections counts itself as among the five largest state prison systems...

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... legal rights or what is occurring...The fundamental right to a lawyer that America assumes applies to everyone accused of criminal conduct effectively does not exist in practice for countless people across the US." Accordingly, a study released recently by the Equal Justice Initiative (June 2010) claims that African Americans are frequently illegally excluded from criminal jury service. For example in Houston ... this justice system defendants would rather do a short term sentence for a crime they did not commit rather than take a risk resulting in a long term prison sentence of upwards...

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... execute prisoners on death row. In Florida, it costs three million two-hundred thousand dollars on each death row inmate, compared to about five-hundred thirty-five thousand for an average of forty years for each prisoner sentenced to life. This is a huge amount of tax payers money, but ... , "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." On June 29, 1972, a split five to four vote by the Supreme Court reached the landmark decision in case of Furman versus Georgia. The decision rendered that the death penalty violates .....

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... extreme danger biker gangs bring to Canadian society, more government resources need to be dedicated to eliminate their power. Biker gangs are spreading rapidly across the ten provinces of Canada. Their cross-country expansion has been swift and little has been done to prevent their domination. "It will ... per gang member. There are currently 12 motorcycle gangs in Ontario alone, totaling over 500 members. The rapid development has gone virtually unnoticed across the Country and many are unaware of their controlling presence. "Canadians in the rest of the country are virtually unaware o...

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... One of the major problems and worries for these gang members" mothers are that the dropout rate in highschool for these kids are as high as thirty five percent. Also another problem for Teresa Rodriguez was when her youngest son who is thirteen who is part of Sur 13 was shot when he came ... across rival gang members. To her luck he did not die from the bullet and ever since then he changed his ways and dropped his engagement to the ... are at risk of gang members. Another Mother who suffered from gang crimes was Gayle Kary. Jamee, her son was fifteen years old and was involved in the ...

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... decent came over due to famine and lack of opportunity in their native countries. The most popularly known gang to develop at this time was "the Five Points Gang" .Named its name because its home base, was located at the "Five Points Bowery" a section in lower Manhattan. The most significant street gang to form in the United States before this point, "The ... named Paolo Antonini Vaccarelli, or maybe better known as Paul Kelly with his cocommander Johnny Torrio. With Paul Kelly as leader Johnny Torrio would recruit street hoodlums from all places across New York City to their gang . " T...

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... annually by abolishing the death penalty(61). Between 1977 and 1996, California spent more than $1 billion on its death penalty but managed to execute only five men, and one of them asked to be killed(61). It is possible to imagine a hypothetical case where an execution might cost less than imprisonment ... avoid that behavior. Common sense would tell us that capital punishment deters. Common sense also tells us that the earth stands still and the sun moves across the sky. Only after looking at the evidence do we become convinced that we walk on a spinning planet that slowly circles the s...

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... -old Kip Kintel opened fire in the cafeteria of Thurston High School. Two were killed, twenty-five wounded. 14-year-old Michael Carnean, in 1997, pulled out a pistol and began firing on a student prayer group. Three were killed, five wounded. (Chiou H. 2002) 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazil shoots and kills a teacher. 12 ... 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 ten wounded. Who can give us the answers to why such horrendous crimes are done by such young kids? Do we ins...

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... and are more likely than ever to live in a family headed by a divorced or never-married parent (Barrons et al, 1997). Young people across the United States face serious problems whether they live in a rural or an urban area. Consistent research has been conducted analyzing the problems that youth ... level suggests that students worry about education, family issues, violence, the environment, sexual concerns, war and drug abuse. In the same study, the top five concerns of rural students included education, family issues, war, violence and the environment (Barrons et al, 1997). Some of ...

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... all firearms using the name "assault weapon", parallels designating a 2002 Lamborghini Diablo sports car to a "death car" because of its capability to reach over 100 miles per hour. When cities across the country are accused of violence in their communities; it is the responsible gun owners and gun producers who again are wrongfully criticized. If gun makers are being held responsible ... old is the nations oldest civil rights group. The NRA is the nations leader in gun safety and promotes marksmanship among law enforcement agencies. The association has over 4 million members across Ame...

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... there are certain crimes that are so brutal and so vile that they call for society to impose the ultimate punishment, however, reasonable questions have been raised in Maryland and across the country about the application of the death penalty." These events, along with what was going on in Illinois at the time sent a shockwave ... across the nation, questioning whether capital punishment was really the right thing for the United States. An important factor in the abolition movement was played out on June 24th, 2002 when ... would determine whether local prosecutors can seek the death ...

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... campaign that aims to reach these victims and to empower them to speak out and end the abuse. New York City's JFK airport has been named one of the top five airports in the country to where sex victims from other countries arrive. Obviously, this is because NYC is perhaps the biggest hub in general for foreigners and multicultural Americans on ... be punished through physical violence, rape, and verbal abuse. He went as far as tattooing his name on her body to symbolize his ownership of her as personal property. After five years of being silent for fear for her and her family, the 17-ye...

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... maybe even both, and their learnings stem from their parents. They would lecture, about the rights and wrongs. So when a child grows up, maybe steals a pack of gum at age five, something petty, they get away with it, get a thrill because they were never caught. That small, minor theft turns into something a little larger over time, each time as they grow ... killing while in prison? Nothing, a man with nothing to lose, is terrifying. Professor of Mass Communication, Paul Van Slambrouck, reporter at Christian Science Monitor; agrees stating, "Assaults in prisons across the U.S., both aga...

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Juvenile Delinquency: A Destructive Problem for American Youth Research shows that juvenile delinquency has been dramatically dropping, self-esteem, and anti-social behaviors are still a problem for youth across America. Though it occasionally seems that more teenagers are in trouble, the fact is teens have become less active in gangs, drug use, and dropping out of school ("Juvenile Delinquency" ... , affects the outlook on life. Over 90% of the juveniles arrested said they lived in an unhappy neighborhood, which usually are slums (Frost). Industrialization has tremendously increased througho...

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... the more than two-million inmates locked-up in state and federal prisons, and local jails, seventy percent are illiterate, more than fifty percent are black, nineteen percent are hispanic, five percent are listed as other, and the rest are white. The racial disparities are obvious while eighty-four percent of the incarceration increase since 1980 involves non-violent offenses. Relative ... respect for all concerned, but this approach fails in many areas of human rights and the defense of the rights of the individual. The scope of those violations are varied across the width and breadth ...

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... loss. He is allowed to eat, sleep, and have conversations with other people, and have some other simple freedoms. Is this crime not severe enough to be sentenced to death? Five accounts of murder one for each of the family members that he killed. He should be put to death for his actions because he took the freedoms of his own ... life in prison, we would save money in the long run buy paying less for them. Since the average life expectancy for males in the United States is about seventy-five and for females eighty, it would be much more inexpensive in the long run to just put them to d...

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While most citizens are not conscious of the fact, it has been a proven defense in court cases across the country that the police are to act only as a general deterrent to benefit the community as a whole. The police are not responsible for the protection of any single person ... of the state, must have a record free of any felony and drug/alcohol history, no previous cases of mental illness, must not have been convicted of a misdemeanor in the last five years (though they are prevented from obtaining a permit if they were convicted of a violent misdemeanor), they must have fingerprints regi...

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... no turning back on account of mistakes. The death penalty is costly, unfair; inhumane so therefore should be abolished yet for the past twenty- five years life after life has been taken away in death chambers across America. When it comes down to it the death penalty does not single out the worst offenders, but instead it selects an arbitrary group based ... time and the money that pays for all this? It comes out of the taxpayers" pockets. In Maryland, a comparison of capitol trial costs with and without the death penalty over a five-year span concluded that a capitol trial costs approx...

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... these games. Dylan and Eric are not the only kids in town playing these games. Michael Carneal of Kentucky is also a schoolboy killer. In nine shots he hit eight people five of whom were hit in the head or neck. The fact that most violent video games give bonus points for headshots could have affected his aim. Soldiers are trained to ... ! members of the victims filed a lawsuit against Time Warner and Oliver Stone, maintaining the result of violence from the film being shown was obvious. Sarah Edmondson's was sentenced to thirty-five years and Ben Darras received life. "Money Train," "Ch...

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... , whether its by lethal injection or lethal gases, electrocution, or by any other way, it's a cruel and unusual way of punishment which violates the eighth amendment. In the U.S. there are five different methods of executions. The first one is Lethal injection, when this method is used, the condemned person is usually bound to a gurney and a member of the execution team positions ... struggle. The inmate does not lose consciousness immediately. The fourth method is by Firing squad, for execution by this method, the inmate is typically bound to a chair with leather straps across his waist...

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... is defined as "the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle,". Auto theft is also considered one of the eight most serious crimes (Index crimes). Thieves steal cars mainly for five reasons: one is for juvenile joyriding. This mostly consists of teenage boys, who seek the status, thrill, and challenges of "borrowing" a car. These delinquents usually seek on careless drivers and ... 1,000 households). As for only completed theft in 1993 1,300,000 cars were stolen in The United States. In that year nearly 180 million cars and trucks were in operation across the country,". Over the last ...

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... and Vancouver, British Columbia are only 140 miles apart, but they both have different views on how to control the way guns are used in their city. Seattle requires only a five day waiting period to purchase a handgun, while Vancouver requires a permit and a VALID excuse to own a handgun. Due to the difference in laws, 41 percent of all Seattle's population own handguns ... , while only 12 percent of Vancouver's population own handguns. It is easy to see that it would be harder to stumble across a handgun more often in Vancouver than in Seattle. Bogus then goes on to explain a new law ta...

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... to compare the Scared Straight program with South Carolina's Operation behind bars, South Carolina's Project Right Turn, Think twice, Horry County Diversion program and the National Guard's Youth Challenge. All five programs have some really successful aspects to them that I would like to implement to the Scared Straight program to make it successful and possibly gain the monetary help from the ... through South Carolina Department of Corrections' Operation Behind Bars because of a mandatory lower level criminal justice class. It started in 1992, but since then it has spread to fifteen ...

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... think that it is against humanity and its retribution. Ralph Dellapiana, in his article "Should We Put Death Penalty on the Chopping Block" states that "the top five countries in executions in 2008 were China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and United States. On the other hand, 135 civilized countries in the world have abolished the death penalty" ... century to the Civil War, the rate of execution for nonlethal crimes varied considerably by race, with many more blacks being executed for non-lethal and unknown offenses than whites across all regions of the country (248). Adding more ...

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... that created the most stir and outrage was of course, the verdict. With half of the United States watching, five hours into deliberation, the jury had reached a decision. O.J Simpson was declared not guilty and in turn released to be a free man. Viewers across the nation were stunned, confronted with mixed emotions. I was able to find an interesting article with a poll on the ... ...

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