... possessing a truly distinctive style when compared to most large metropolitan areas. However, behind all the glitz and glamour, there is one thing that is not unique about Miami-Dade County: gangs. Miami-Dade County has approximately 3,501-10,001 gang members with over 100 gangs residing within its communities (National Gang Threat Assessment, 2009). These gangs fit into both national (well established ... suggests to any outsiders looking in that the community has no control over itself and has in fact lost its informal social control. These effects have negative impacts on the county ...

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... meetings have lowered the amount of sport being done in there barrios". This same important idea about gang crimes is brought out in my first library article. This article, entitled "FEDS JOIN WAR ON GANGS" from the "Daily News of Los Angeles" on December17,2002 and written by ... and a education program. So far she has attracted seven different gangs, and has also accomplished having seven gang members receive their GED. My third library "Groups Working Harder To Prevent Violence In Oxnard," from October 20, 2003 article shows how local church groups and youth groups work hard to preven...

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... of Probation. Chief Probation Officer Joseph Wells provided the researcher with a list of 4,000 adult offenders convicted of misdemeanor larceny crimes within the past four years in Waterford County. They were sentenced to a period of supervised probation. For the purpose of this research study, employee theft, also known as internal theft is defined as, the unauthorized taking ... and employee theft. d. There is a relationship between opportunity and employee theft Sample The researcher obtained a list of 4,000 adult offenders convicted of misdemeanor larceny and sentenced to the Waterf...

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... of Probation. Chief Probation Officer Joseph Wells provided the researcher with a list of 4,000 adult offenders convicted of misdemeanor larceny crimes within the past four years in Waterford County. They were sentenced to a period of supervised probation. For the purpose of this research study, employee theft, also known as internal theft is defined as, the unauthorized taking ... and employee theft. d. There is a relationship between opportunity and employee theft Sample The researcher obtained a list of 4,000 adult offenders convicted of misdemeanor larceny and sentenced to the Waterf...

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... # 2 Teen Court: An Examination of Processes and Outcomes This article deals with teen court. This study examines the teen court of Dona Ana County, New Mexico, including its processes and recidivism rates. The participants were randomly selected from the program and traced through the local Juvenile Probation An Parole ... juvenile lived with and the severity of the jury sentence. The study was able to identify some of the successes and the shortcomings of this county's teen court. Summary of Article # 3 Juvenile Boot Camps: A Descriptive Analysis of Program Diversity and Effectiveness T...

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... Cops in Schools" Susan Ferriss writes on the effects that police officers in schools have on Chief Juvenile Court Judge Steven Teske, of Clayton County, Georgia writing "Chief Juvenile Court Judge Steven Teske, of Clayton County, Georgia, is not against police in schools, but firmly believes that a school-to-prison pipeline exists. When Teske took the bench in 1999 in ... , and a connection started to grow. My experience correlates to the article that I read upon "The School to Prison Pipeline: Time to Shut it Down". In 2014 , the Montgomery County Education Association and superintenden...

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... about how imperative and beneficial after schools programs can be to our youth. The focal point is a particular After- School program that was started in Braintree, Massachusetts by the Norfolk County Sheriff office called "Significantly raises youth." It started in November 2003, the program was designed to give children structure, create and positive environment during the hours when most ... Kerr Country juvenile probation officers and their pursuit to use golf to help prevent crime amongst juveniles. The program has only been available to kids being supervised by the Kerr County Pro...

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... peers (www.street gangs.com). The most famous gangs now are the Bloods, Crips and 18th street. These are the main gangs and they all are part on Los Angeles County Some of these gangs run outside of L.A. several suburban peripheral places in LAC have gang activity. The Blood gang has 88 incorporated cities. They have 274 black gangs in 17 ... Blood gangs in LAC. The bloods feud with other black gangs (streetgangs.com). The Blood gangs wears red to represent the Blood gang. The largest gang in the Los Angeles County is 18th street. There are 20,000 members of the 18th street gang. Most o...

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Plea bargaining is a benefit to our criminal justice system. Plea Bargaining Have you ever thought about where all your taxes go? A lot of your taxes go to the state, county, and city government to help with convicting and housing criminals. If it wasn't for plea bargaining, you would be paying a great deal more of your taxes than you are now. ... payer's money being spent. It takes a large amount of money to keep defendants locked up behind the bars of the jail. In a special board meeting that was held in Yavapai County, Arizona, concerning the process of running the jail. (Chairman Davis)...

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... same rock and rap music. Guns were just as available to both groups. Six out of seven youths arrested in LA County are black or Hispanic. By some strange coincidence, six out of seven black or Hispanic youths in the county live below the poverty line. (Sadler, 1997) Poverty in a society of affluence, in which your self-esteem is tied to failure ... to achieve that affluence.' is a more accurate explanation of the county's violence level according to Gilbert Geiss, formerly with the University of California. (Sadler, 1997) Two different studies, done over a ten-year period, examined the ...

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... % of Florida death sentences are overturned due to constitutional errors, the authors spell out why they think such high error rates occur. In the study, Florida's Pinellas County (St. Petersburg), Hillsborough County (Tampa), and Polk County are named among the ten worst in the country, due to that fact that "These counties had an average capital error rate of 71% at the first ... ...

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... goodnight. Police: Let me haunt you with these words: I'll be back. I'll be back. To be interpreted as - bang, bang, bang, bang - ugh. Yours in murder, Mr. Monster." (Crime library) This letter was found at the scene of one of his crimes. He eventually confessed to the murders of 28 women. However, many believe the number of deaths to be ... much higher (Crime Library). Serial murderers can be either organized," carrying out planned, premeditated attacks on strangers, or disorganized, committing unplanned killings and behaving haphazardly. Other clues-or lack of them-identify organized ...

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... at-risk youth in America and through my research I wanted 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 ... deviant choices. It provides both the juvenile and the guardian with a video and workbook to act as secondary study material. I chose to compare the scared straight programs to the Horry Count...

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... after the completion of the documentary and has been in jail since. Taking a look into the routines of the White family, it was observed by DA Peter Hendricks of Boone County that "they are clever. They're not educated necessarily. But, they are very clever [and] crafty in what they do" (Nitzberg, Knoxville, 2009, #1). "And all they got ... that, he demonstrated behavior of Albert Bandura's model of imitation modeling. Since Kirk expressed her disgust and hatred for Dennis, her son also expressed similar behavior. Waging war against Boone County, West Virginia, Brandon caused a turmoil ...

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... stopped and searched by the police were black, while only 17.5% of overall drivers " as well as overall speeders " were black.6 To look at similar case in Volusia County , Florida, in 1992, nearly 70% of those stopped on a particular Interstate highway in central Florida were black or Hispanic, although only 5% of the drivers on that highway were black or ... the basic aims of law. From 1988 to 1994, hundreds of blacks and Hispanics "but no whites" were prosecuted by the United States Attorney's office with jurisdiction over Los Angeles County and six surrounding counties.16 This is not...

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... serious and violent offenders (Lipsey & Wilson, 1998). A recent study (Mulvey, Steinberg, Piquero et al., 2010) of more than one thousand adolescents adjudicated for serious offenses in Philadelphia (Philadelphia County) and in Phoenix (Maricopa County) found that juvenile justice system services and supervision reduced their level of involvement in antisocial activities. Almost 6 out of 10 members of this of this sample evidenced very ... ...

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... body with large tattoos of the Virgin Mary. But not much else is known about this rapidly growing prison gang. I interviewed Jake Alonso from Monmouth County Jail in Freehold, New Jersey. He states that inmates in Monmouth County Jail do not call these groups" gangs. Members call their groups "organizations." When I asked him why he joined he said because "I don't want a *censored ... ...

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... body with large tattoos of the Virgin Mary. But not much else is known about this rapidly growing prison gang. I interviewed Jake Alonso from Monmouth County Jail in Freehold, New Jersey. He states that inmates in Monmouth County Jail do not call these groups" gangs. Members call their groups "organizations." When I asked him why he joined he said because "I don't want a *censored ... ...

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... ). For example, training qualifications for obtaining a permit are so strict in Nevada, that, five years after the conceal law was first passed; only 12,500 permits were issued for Clark County. As Bob Irwin, concealed weapons instructor for the Southern Nevada area stated, "That's not many people." Another major argument for the opposition is that many condemn John Lott for his ... book of statistics saying that he has fabricated or embellished most or all of his numbers in favor of expressing his point. As Robert P. McCulloch, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney, stated, "The problem...

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... more evidence that states the fact that violence rates have been dropping all over California, especially among youths of color. As and example, youth homicide is down 55% in Orange County over the past few years. Homicide rates are also down an average of 65% in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose Counties. It is also very interesting that the ... county that is the least tough on juvenile crime, San Francisco, has decreased in the area of youth homicide by 80%. The politicians in California like to make it seem like ... ...

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... in a much more proactive way crimes that you never could have solved because of insufficient information."" 4 Integrated law enforcement IT also is being applied in southern California. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's office has deployed a variety of applications developed by Oracle Corp. of Redwood Shores, Calif., including the Personnel Performance Index, a system designed to track officer behavior and examine law enforcement ... Los Angeles Regional Criminal Information System is a comprehensive program that includes arrest, crime and incident reporting, and is used as an investigat...

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Wanda McCoy was raped and murdered in the town of Grundy, Buchanan County, Virginia and her brother-in-law, Roger Coleman was charged, convicted and put to death for the crime. "May God Have Mercy" a book about the case of Roger Coleman and ... presentation of the arguments by the prosecution and the lack there of by the defense. It is difficult to believe that any judge would have felt a fair trial in Buchanan County was possible in such a case. The judge could have granted the change in venue based on his own knowledge of the case at this point, especially after Coleman wrote a letter ... ...

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... Peterson. Scott Peterson was put on the death row for murdering his wife and their unborn son, Conner, in 2002. In 2005 he was put on the death row (CNN Library). These people deserve to be put on the death row because of the lives that had been taken. Executing someone is not murder it is punishment in society for a deserving ... ...

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... you are going to be moved anyways? 7) What besides going out and scanning the community does community policing involve? Well we attend community meetings once a month at the Point Richmond Library. We take notes on how we can better serve the community and be better officers. 8)What are your best experiences in being part of this program? Being able to know ... ...

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... be sexually assaulted, 200% more likely to be beaten by staff, and 50% more likely to be attacked with a weapon than juveniles confined in a juvenile facility." (http://archive.aclu.org/library/fctsht.html) Although many people have their own opinions, the law for trying children as adults differs from case to case. Each state has a set law, but it is not ... ...

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