... Wolf , he states "Under Mayor David N. Dinkins's police program, known as "Safe Streets, Safe City," the department's average daily patrol strength -- officers in radio cars and on foot patrol during a 24-hour period -- has increased from 6,640 in August 1990 to 7,813 for the current fiscal year, ending in June 1993 "(Wolf,1993,p.1). Adding more police to a community had become a benefit in ... that "In conjunction with aggressive law enforcement and economic development efforts, the Court has had an impact on neighborhood crime: prostitution arrests dropped 56 percent and illegal vendi...

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... with problems such as juvenile delinquency, drug abuse and anger management. Before the JPO advised us our son would need to get counseled we went to Somos Familia for an assessment. The Somos Familia-Family Institute, Inc. mission statement shows their goal to provide a comprehensive array of culturally competent behavioral health care services, through a strength-based model. Their goal is to ... , and Families, The: "Re-Conceptualizing Adolescent Risk and Vulnerability" The National Academies. 26 June 2003 Clay, Platte, Ray Mental Health Board: "Coping with the Stress of Parenting." P...

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... last four months and focuses on different areas of rehabilitation. Phase one begins four months of shock incarceration. During this period, an extensive training program begins based upon a thorough needs assessment profile (Dale, 94). The profile includes evaluations by mental health counselors, including a review of educational records, specific needs, legal obligations, family relationships, physical health, and religious affiliation ... (Dale, 94). They work with each juvenile to formulate 15 goals they will need to accomplish in order to advance to phase two. Goals are based upon th...

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... situation, drug or alcohol problems, family background and any other relevant information that may help to explain why the offender committed the offence or that may show mitigating circumstances. v A risk assessment section. This details how likely the offender may be to re-offend, the possible danger they may pose to the public or themselves. In the past the probation service had ... gained a reputation for being anti-custody. Therefore the government has introduced a tool to clinically construct a risk assessment. This is known as an offender assessment system [OASYs] and every proba...

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... when he died; he was known to police and had a criminal background. He was found shot to death outside on the road by the mall. The other victim was only 24 years old and he was found outside another of the mall entrances but he was transferred to the hospital where he recovered from his injuries. There have been other shootings ... to be runners for drug rings. Many people will jump at this opportunity because you do not need any experience and it usually pays $100 a day or more for an 8 hour shift. A person is supplied with everything they need to complete this job and is given cash a...

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... held in Albertville. They were responsible for the 100,000 spectators present and another 50,000 athletes, officials and journalists. There were also considerable traffic including some 500 buses an hour from the railway to the Olympic venue. The GIS allowed the police an overview of the entire venue for the games, giving the operations commander the ability to open seamless ... in November 1999, allowing visitors to perform geographical searches at the city, county or ZIP code level on sex offender data. This appeared to answer a need as throughout the first 24 hours the site received ...

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... ). The Supreme Court in the ruling of the Thompson case struggled with two key terms to try and justify capital punishment for teenagers, retribution and deterrence. The result of their assessment of these two ideas in relationship to juveniles seemed to show that capital punishment was not a very effective punishment. From the retributive standpoint, the justices concluded that it could not ... age would be more deterred than another based on the assumption that teenagers do not really engage in a cost-benefit analysis before they commit their crimes (1988). Finally, the overall assessm...

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... ) describes these developments as an "elaborate political technology" that surveys, monitors, controls and maintains a "cartography of power." Herbert also says that a spatial or geographic view is essential to permit a useful assessment of the aspects of violence. During the nineteenth century, government officials and researchers used crime maps to effectively study violence. These manually produced maps showed the reality that patterns of ... (Maran). As with minority groups, female citizens can also be vulnerable to police misconduct, but unfortunately the USDOJ data does not offer a...

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... was brought into the case to "profile" the personality of this unknown offender. Brussel studied the facts surrounding this series of bombings, and from his review developed an assessment of the offender's personality. His assessment was remarkably accurate. "You're looking for a heavy man, middle aged. Foreign born, Roman Catholic. He has a paranoid personality. He is single and lives with a brother or ... ...

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... rates, for some reason, there has also been a stable increase in the demographics of those incarcerated. Those who are most likely to be arrested are young males in the 15-24 age group. In 1995, they accounted for 38 percent of arrests nationally. The average age of an inmate in a state prison as of 1996, was 30. The offense rate for ... center to help there addictions? Even if they are sent to prison, why are they still not treated for their illness? In 1997, and estimated 340,047 (24.4% of total) State prisoners and 24,729 (24.5% of total) Federal prisoners said that they had particip...

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... (the year of . . . peak production), the number of cases of this type dropped from 220 to 87- (179). Page 9 V OLUME III, N UMBER 3, W INTER 1999 F O R B I D D E N F R U I T ✦ 449 The 55-Mile-per-Hour Speed Limit A more prosaic example of the reaction to laws that reduce the freedom of all in order to correct the harmful behavior of a few is the imposition of a 55 ... limit on the interstate highway system. In 1973, in response to the oil shock, the federal government reduced the speed limit to 55 miles per hour; in 1987 it allowed the states to raise it again. Because some states did ...

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... 23(2):10-13 Dec 27, 1998 Death penalty hypocrisy. The Nation, vol. 270, no. 25, p. 3, June 23, 2000. Farrell, Mike. Death penalty politics. The Nation, vol. 271, no. 4, pp. 6-7, July 24/31, 2000 Kuehl, Sheila. Till death penalty do us part. The Advocate, no. 819, p. 72, August 29, 2000. McClary et al. Race and the death penalty. Souls, vol. 2, no. 1, pp ... Internet Reporter, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 93, Spring 1991. Hitchens C. Why Americans like the penalty of death. Index on Censorship, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 98-104, March 1995. Penn M. Leaven of forgiveness: murder victims' families stand ag...

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... been driven approximately 3,000 miles. Mrs. Gray stopped in San Bernardino for gasoline, got back onto the freeway (Interstate 15) and proceeded toward her destination at 60 - 65 miles per hour. As she approached the Route 30 off-ramp where traffic was congested, she moved from the outer fast lane to the middle lane of the freeway. Shortly after this lane ... of a 1962 Ford Galaxie was unable to avoid colliding with the Pinto. The Galaxie had been traveling from 50 to 55 miles per hour but before the impact had been braked to a speed of 28 to 37 miles per hour. At the moment of impact, ...

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... the driver's seat of a motor vehicle the engine of which is running, while the concentration of alcohol in any specimen of breath exhaled by such person is not less than 0,24 milligrams per 1000 millilitres. (9) No person shall refuse that a specimen of blood, or a specimen of breath, be taken of him or her. Section 89 of the National Road Traffic Act ... were reduced after taking certain factors into consideration. S v Zinn In the Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division, the Appellant, Zinn, was charged with 1 count of a contravention of s 135(3)(a) of Act 24 read with s 185 of Act 46 , ...

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... is 'regarded as a barometer to test the health or sickness of a society'. While reviewing collective behaviour in their book Social Construction and Deviance, Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, recall Cohen theory about moral panic, where he says, "moral panics are a form of collective behaviour; as such they are sustained by many collective behaviour processes: rumour, gossip, collective delusion, mass ... ...

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... reasons that individuals might accept a plea bargain including pressure from the prosecutor, indirect and direct pressure, and likelihood of conviction. For example, a study conducted by Bordens and Bassett was a quantitative assessment of circumstances in which people would take a plea bargain[Bor851]. In order to conduct their research they interviewed a total number of 67 males and 62 females who recently had felony ... ...

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... (Donald 2005). " In Michigan they did Studies in two felony courts which showed a savings of almost 1 million for just two courts over 24 months. Since 2001, the number of operational drug courts in Michigan has increased dramatically from 24 to 68 (Corrigan 2007). In Pennsylvania Problem-solving courts have helped reduce prison overcrowding and reduced the rate of recidivism (McCaffrey 2012). Hennepin ... ...

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... juveniles with effective program options, protecting the due process rights of juveniles, and reconsideration of the death penalty for juveniles. 2. Cullen, F. T., Scott, J. E., & Skovron, S. E. (1989). The Death Penalty for Juveniles: An Assessment of Public Support. Crime & Delinquency, 35 (4), 546-561. B. The article provided a research based study designed to focus on the characteristics of those who support the death penalty in comparison to ... ...

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... , Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion" (Falling Crime Rate). "Social scientists have long known that the number of people in the most crime prone group are young men ages 18-24 years old" (Falling Crime Rate). If abortion had not been legalized back in 1973, we would now have a lot more men between the ages of 18 ... -24. Also, if these babies had been born most likely they would have been born to young teenage women or into poverty, resulting in being unwanted and uncared for properly. Perhaps ... ...

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... use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder," (Bastiat 24-26). People will plunder, take advantage of others, and commit crimes as long as it is in their best interest to do so. The purpose our entire criminal justice system ... with all the sentimental tosh and let us get on with the hanging,"(Duff 54). Selected Bibliography Bastiat, Frederic. The Law. New York: The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. 1853. 24-26. "Crime statistics." North Carolina Attorney Gener...

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... only an adolescent episode for some females, for others it is a turning point and a gateway to a life offering very little chance for a socially acceptable career. Researchers are divided in their assessment of gang membership for females, some arguing that it is liberating and some that it causes social injury. Mexican Americans who joined a gang were likely to be from families that ... ...

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... terms has raised the stakes and maybe prompting criminals to kill their victims to ensure they will not be testifying in court."" (Landsburg Al-, A34) Whether this is an accurate assessment, or whether there is more vicious gang fighting (since the majority of crimes were committed in the South Central areas where Hispanics and blacks the preponderance of victims, the fact ... ...

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... , against another person, group, or community, with the behavior likely to cause physical or psychological harm (School Violence, 2009). Youth Violence typically includes persons between the ages of 10 and 24, although pathways to youth violence can begin in early childhood ("School violence," 2009).Violent behavior includes bullying, fighting (e.g., punching, slapping, kicking), weapon use, electronic aggression and gang violence. There is ... ...

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... that curses or smites their parents can receive the death penalty, which is an extremely harsh punishment, but they only were charged if they parents were convicted to do so.24 These types of punishments were carried out to underage pirates who went out against their parental authority of religious discipline.25 This idea backfired however because pirates would use these ... ...

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... ,000 people were victims of homicide in 1998. Of those, only twenty two percent (3,800) were women murdered by men. The most likely victim of homicide is a young male (18-24 years old); three times more likely than a female of the same age bracket (U.S. Department of Justice, 1999). Mental illness or abnormality has been examined as a possible corollary to violent criminal ... ...

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