... the most misunderstood and complicated crime to discover, or to investigate. The crime of embezzlement accounts for the majority of all financial institution crimes investigated by the FBI (Geis, 1982). It is often a function of an employee's circumstances and/or attitude combined with employer inexperience and carelessness and with the decreasing threat of prosecution and other ... actually a series or combination of crimes, rather than a single crime. The majority of embezzlements begin as a simple misuse of the company's funds for a short-term personal purpose (Geis, 1968). These oc...

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... Venkatesh, 2001; Venkatesh, 1999). Nevertheless, other studies have shown that if youth gangs were socially rewarded, the effect of gang-related victimization against them would be neutralized (Melde, Taylor and Esbensen, 2009). They are more willing to accept the negative effects of being a gang member if they could gain valued reputation for displaying "nerve" at a time of adversity. A local ... ...

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... sure, rates of violent juvenile behavior increased in some cities in the 1980s and early 1990s, including Pittsburgh (Loeber, Farrington, Stouthamer-Loeber et al., 2008) and Denver (Huizinga, Weiher, Espiritu, & Esbensen, 2003). However, analyses of national self-report and victimization data showed that the claimed increase in juvenile violence was exaggerated (Howell, 2003b; Snyder & Sickmund, 2000). Even at the height of ... ...

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... of the child. The media's portrayal of gangs and youth violence has become an addition to the actual problem of the youth gangs and violence in the schools. Finn-Aage Esbensen and D. Wayne Osgood both believe that the media has given considerable attention to youth gangs over the past decade; however, prevention and intervention programs seem more and more scarce (1999 ... ...

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