... boundaries (such as police beats). Criminals do not limit their activities to such demarcation areas, and there have even been reported occasions where criminals have made deliberate use of county boundaries by crossing from one side to another to commit their crimes, in an attempt to confuse police detection techniques (Mitchell, 1993). The difficulty with generating hotspots is that ... done so with considerable success. The Illinois State Police began to use GIS on their web site in November 1999, allowing visitors to perform geographical searches at the city, county or ZIP code level...

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... are two classifications to pedophilias one is a situational child molester who has sex with children for complex reasons. The other is a preferential child molester that will often have a large library of child pornography pictures and videos (Miethe and McCorkle, 2001). The members of the "W0nderland Club" would most readily fit into the second category. The psychological school of criminology believes ... filtering and blocking programs like CYBERPATROL, NETNANNY and SURFWATCH that you can install on your computer. This software will automatically scan Web sites for objectionable conte...

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... interested in protecting and helping the child. Hearings would be closed to the public. Proceedings would be informal. If convicted, children would be separated from adult criminals. In 1899, Cook County, Illinois, set up the country's first juvenile court. Today, every state has a separate court system for juveniles. These courts generally handle two different groups of juveniles: the delinquent ... interested in protecting and helping the child. Hearings would be closed to the public. Proceedings would be informal. If convicted, children would be separated from adult criminals. In 1899...

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... try capital cases is a major reason for Harris', and consequently Texas', staggering number of executions, and his rigid pro-death penalty stance represents the mainstream opinions of Harris County as well because they continue to vote him into office term after term. A misinformed public also contributes to the high support for capital punishment, and public opinion is often ... actually discourages lawyers from representing death row clients. Jim Mattox, former Texas attorney general, acknowledges the widespread problem of inadequate funding: "I think you'd find our state government and...

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... school, recreation, and family activities, and beliefs in values and morals will lead to less juvenile delinquency (Petrosino, 2000,p.636). III. Method To get my data, I used books and the library; I picked up many articles from the Expanded Academic Research Engine on the library computers. They gave me great academic journals. There are still a few journals that I haven't gotten in from inter ... library loans, but it is too late now. I encountered great difficulties in getting information on demographics. I went back to the library and tried to search for more journals or books on or...

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... one apartment to another without notifying authorities, it would have been a misdemeanor, and the maximum sentence would have been a year in a county jail. But, 1995 was the year began a crackdown on sex offenders and made it a felony to fail to notify authorities of a change of address. The ... than and get than out of sight. Another example is that of Jesus A. Martinez, a petty thief with a long criminal history was arrested at a San Diego County Home Base store with a wrench, some pliers and a pair of grips tucked in his waistband. "The value of the items allegedly stole $42.52. But ....

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... the monster that soon developed Willie Bosket. Butterfield states that he traced the Bosket family back to a county in South Carolina called Edgefield. This county is well known for being the most violent county in the country from the perspective of historians. Butterfields argument was interesting due to the fact that studying ... same time that violence was at an all-time high as well as slavery. So the book starts off in South Carolina in the Edgefield County where the American Revolution just ended. Whites and blacks are not getting along due to slavery. The constant fighting in E...

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... intensive client supervision with frequent court monitoring and hearings involving substantial interaction between clients and the judge. By contrast, the intensity of court supervision in Prop 36 varies by county and how the particular judge implements the court program, (Burns 77). She states that although there was evidence showing the original courts, along with the Prop 36 courts ... 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 Coun...

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... penalty showed that the murder rate increased by seven percent from the five-year pre-abolition period to the five-year post-abolition period ("Justice For All" 5). Since 1990, Harris County, a single county in Texas has had more executions than any other state in the United States. During the period between 1990 and 1995, Harris ... County has had a forty-eight percent drop in crime, the greatest decrease in the United States. In Harris County, the highest homicide rate was in 1981, one year before the death penalty was reinstated in Texas ("Justice For All" 6). All of ... ...

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... penalty showed that the murder rate increased by seven percent from the five-year pre-abolition period to the five-year post-abolition period ("Justice For All" 5). Since 1990, Harris County, a single county in Texas has had more executions than any other state in the United States. During the period between 1990 and 1995, Harris ... County has had a forty-eight percent drop in crime, the greatest decrease in the United States. In Harris County, the highest homicide rate was in 1981, one year before the death penalty was reinstated in Texas ("Justice For All" 6). All of ... ...

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... reformers, did exist, although the social reformers had a hand in changing some of the more deplorable conditions of the time, including the treatment and confinement of young criminals. The Warwick County Asylum was instituted in 1818, was the result of the united endeavors and generous contributions of concerned, benevolent citizens. This asylum was available to criminal boys whom were placed where ... to save juveniles from crime through a regimented life style, education and training (Ibid, p. 307 -309). Juvenile Delinquency Statistics for Morgan County (1992), states, as of January...

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... -year-old boy named Gerald Gault and a friend made a series of crank phone calls to a neighbor woman in Gila County, Arizona, asking "Are your cherries ripe today?'' and "Do you have big bombers?'' Perhaps lacking more serious crimes to investigate, the county sheriff hauled young Gerald to jail and charged him as a juvenile delinquent without allowing the boy to make a phone call ... mental problems, dependency, delinquency, or alcohol or drug dependency and whose needs require the services of two or more state agencies. These children are referred by the court to the county children's ...

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... went to his mother, Julie Baumeister. It appeared there was a human skeleton in the wooded grounds of their Tudor home in the Fox Hollow Farms section near Westfield in Hamilton County. Mrs. Baumeister alerted her husband, but, thankfully, he had a practical explanation. Herb Baumeister's father was an anesthesiologist. Herb had stored one of his dad's medical skeletons in the garage. Cleaning ... very interested, but the gay community was alarmed. Authorities didn't pay much attention to one man's story of how a man he met in a gay bar had taken him to a Hamilton County home with an in...

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... takes place in that region. Unfortunately, while it sounds reasonable on the surface, gun registration is actually a malicious program that can be used to track or confiscate firearms. Take Rockland County, New York for example. Journal News, a local newspaper, accessed public records to obtain the name and address of every handgun owner in the ... county. They then proceeded to post this information on their website for the entire world to see (Kopel 1). Ordinary law abiding citizens may have no interest in or need for this ... ...

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... court referrals from schools. The author argues that this harsh response, to what he asserts to be normative adolescent behavior, is misinformed and counterproductive. This case study evaluates the Clayton County Juvenile Court's alternative program that was created in response to mental health and psychological research suggesting the ineffective nature of punitive approaches to juvenile delinquency. The program aims to mitigate ... context and individual circumstances, this program focuses on those factors entirely. Each person is treated as an individual and is referred to specific p...

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... set a precedent not only in North Carolina but all over the United States of America. The passing of this legislation into law made North Carolina the first state in the county to provide death row inmates an opportunity to have their death sentence changed if they could prove that they were significantly discriminated against by prosecutors based on race. With this ... reasonable arguments to show why this act was either the greatest piece of legislation or the biggest mistake that North Carolina legislatures had ever made. The district attorney of Wake County, Colon Willoughby, argued...

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... structure, it is a lot easier to make and approve laws in comparison with the United States Congress structure. Part III: Thesis Statement After researching all the data collected from the library and the use of course-related materials, I have formulated my own theory on the social impact of gun control and violence in North America. Going back to the introduction, I have ... ...

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... dependency was suspect." Upon further evaluation, they concluded that Ted had a "fear of being humiliated in his relationships with women." On June 7th, during one of his trips to the library at the courthouse, Bundy managed to jump from an open window, injuring his ankle in the process, and escaped to freedom. He was not wearing any leg irons or handcuffs ... ...

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... . An officer is often discouraged or will not bring personal issues amongst fellow friends at work although, job stress is brought home. Police have been given the option in Lane county and other counties to speak with a counselor that the department pays for. Many pressures are incorporated with the working environment of an officer such as dealing with constant death, abuse ... ...

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... have been compared with others receiving more traditional correctional options. In regard to saving money, the juvenile boot camps did have lower total costs per offender than traditional state or county juvenile correctional institutions. But, this was because offenders spend much shorter periods of time in them. Offenders spend approximately 90 days in one compared to more than 220 days for ... ...

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... ), those laws deter violent crime by significant amounts (and produce only an extremely small increase in accidental deaths from handguns). Specifically, "When state concealed handgun laws went into effect in a county, murders fell by 7.65 percent and rapes and aggravated assaults fell by 5 and 7 percent, respectively- (Lott and Mustard 1996, 1). Although the question lies slightly outside the scope of this article ... ...

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... rate in America (Dale, 95). Although there are many different types of programs for juvenile offenders, most successful boot camps are operated like Florida's Juvenile Offender Training Center in Martin County. The focus of the boot camp is to prepare juvenile offenders to be re-integrated into their communities with new sets of skills and values (Dale, 91). Reshaping attitudes, behaviors ... ...

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... also our society. While as a society we cry out for justice when one of us has been wronged, I'm not sure if revenge by death is an acceptable solution. We as a county make it illegal to kill someone but yet we reserve the right to impose death if we feel the crime is vicious? I feel the death penalty is morally wrong in ... ...

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... and U.S. Military prisons are African-American. And, 90% of the people U.S. Government prosecutors seek to execute are Black or Latino. During my research through the Internet, I came across, The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney: The Death penalty (www.clarkprosecutor.org). This website has information on executions from 1977. According to this site 35.8% of the people executed were black males, and, that ... ...

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... because one of the corporations that has brought him to power is Southwire Co. of Carrollton, Georgia. Southwire has close ties to Gingrich, it dominates the political economy of Carroll County, where Gingrich's political career was launched, and it is a corporation with a criminal record. Individuals affiliated with Southwire Co., including its chief executive officer, Roy Richards, and its president, James Richards ... ...

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