A 1997 report from CNN attributes the migration of gangs to family relocation. ... Adolescents join gangs for many reasons, including individual needs for identity, recognition, protection, love and understanding, and opportunity. In the book, Gangs: An International Approach, Wade lists others such as status, power, structure, shelter, food, clothing, nurturing, discipline, unconditional love, activities, economic support and respect. ... Family structure is something that is pretty hard to influence. ... The family is the source of love, guidance and protection. ...

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Another reason that is often overlooked is the misery the innocent family and friends of criminals must also go through in the time leading up to and during the execution and which will often cause them serious distress for years afterwards. It is often very difficult for people to come to terms with the fact that their loved one could be guilty of a serious crime and no doubt even more difficult to come to terms with their death in this form. ...

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Another cause for juvenile delinquency is family problems. ... The gang would make the child feel loved. ... There is a higher chance of poor family youths dropping out of school then a youth thats family has money. This is because poor family youths may have to contribute to the family and start working. Dropping out for these poor families may be a necessity not an option. ...

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The kids in these gangs are hurting themselves, each other, their families, and the communities they belong to. ... There are many different reasons for this but some of the main attributes are: Family substition, friendship, economic benefit, power status, security, love, thrill and excitement. ... They may offer to give them money, clothes, jewelry or love that they feel that aren't getting elsewhere. ... The teens are told that their parents don't care about them but the "club" will be their new family and love them unconditionally. ... Gangs have been known to use threat...

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Wade discusses the procedure and the reality that takes place in notifying the victims family. ... An Employee Assistance Unit is brought in when notifying the family and an officer that knows the family and knew the victim is assigned to provide support if they choose to. ... Police work is dangerous and family's are aware of the danger however, when their loved one is a victim of a criminal it leaves feelings of anger for the perpetrator and prolonged grief. ... The support system that the officers" spoke of sounded close to Wade's description of how the whole police family is affe...

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In the first group are factors comparable to parental neglect, example large family size, poor parental supervision, and inadequate parent-child interaction. ... The final group is family disruption, for example constant relationship conflict or marriage break-up. ... Factors connected to deviant parental attitudes and values and family conflict are of middle strength. Finally, factors connected with family disturbance are the weakest predictors (Loeber, and Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986). Therefore the children of families with a large number of risk factors, whether from the same or differ...

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For the families of victims, the death penalty symbolizes justice by serving retribution on the murderers of loved ones. ... (Love) Additionally, the article points out that "geography also plays a roles in who is chosen to be executed on the federal level" and "noted that blacks were much more likely to face the death penalty for killing whites than were white defendants who killed minorities." ... (Love) Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (once a supporter of executions) commented on the unfair application of capital punishment in the United States in 1994 saying, "I feel morally and int...

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So I set out in the world of finding a career that would satisfy my financial and family needs, and personal goals. ... So I set out in this world of work, I thought maybe I would put the love of my woodworking to use and perhaps become a carpenter. ... My job was now to be demoted back to a hobby building what I loved to build Tables, clocks, and all kinds of furniture. ... I found many jobs, most I enjoyed very much but none that would or could support the life I wanted for myself and a family I would have some day. ... An opportunity came along after a couple of months to become an el...

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Not having a mother around means the loss of family. Losing his family at a very young and tender age may have resulted in Tsotsi finding three other individuals, Die App, Boston and Butcher, who would have helped fulfill that emotional need. They became his new family, a family of crime but a family nonetheless. ...

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Capital Punishment: A System of Error Since 1976, when capital punishment was reinstated, eighty-seven men and women have been taken off death row and freed because they were proven innocent. Since the turn of the century, 343 people have been wrongly convicted. Of these, 137 were sentenced to death, twenty-five were actually executed, sixty-one served more than ten years in jail, and seven died while in prison (Rein et al. 77). These figures raise the question: how many innocent people are on death row right now? Recent studies and new evidence suggest that some death row inmates awaiti...

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Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). ... However, an offender was more likely to be a member of the victim's own family than a stranger. ...

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Most of all, this form of punishment is an act of retribution against the criminal and removes them from society permanently, with a great sense of closure for the victim's loved ones. ... Not only are the parents concerned for their children, others are concerned for the privacy of inmates and victims family and friends. ... Now, executions are largely shrouded in secrecy, although they are increasing open to the victim's family and appear with some frequency as the subject of fictional movies. ...

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According to Hoffman, in colonial American life, family was the most important part of the social institution. The criminal laws extended from family problems and circumstances because that affected the social side of the community.23 An example of laws that typically remained inside families" homes would be from Connecticut law of 1650. ...

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Deterrence Leslie Cantu: Fear of death deters people from committing crimes, proponents say. They also believe that if attached to certain crimes, the penalty of death exerts a positive moral influence by placing a stigma on certain crimes like manslaughter, resulting in attitudes of disgust and horror to such acts. Furthermore, retentionists insist that the deterrent influence of the death penalty reaches across state lines into jurisdictions that have abolished it, and so all benefit by its continued use. Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Ac...

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1 "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."" It is one of the most known verses in the Christian Bible. For many, it is interpreted simply as revenge. If someone deliberately takes a person's life, then that person's life should be taken to create justice. But is this reall...

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Capital Punishment Capital punishment is not a new concept. It is older then the Roman Empire, and has changed much since it's first use. Death through drowning, crucifixion, or hanging, or throwing form a high rock, or being thrown into a fiery furnace, or firing squad, or electric chair or th...

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