... school within the last month. Are people not disgusted with the masses of young people who are getting a hold of guns? To me that's disturbing to think that the kid sitting next to me in Math or Spanish class could have a gun in their backpack. Or the guy that has been trying to pick a fight ... with me. That really makes a person think twice at school before getting into a fight. What if that person does have a gun? I know I do, I ... do not feel safe at school. Can you blame me?. When a survey was taken in America in 2000 by O" Donnel; it was reported that there was an average of one ...

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... "Book "Em", Becker says that the prison system actually solves the problems. He states, " Prisons have actually helped people as well as decreased the crime rate in America" (Becker 1). What is the prison system and what does it do to those that are captured behind its walls? The prisons are overcrowded with ... He believes that the prisons are doing their jobs. But are they really decreasing the crime rate? I disagree with Becker totally. The prisons are not what is keeping the crime rate down. What is keeping the crime rate down is the fear that people have for punishment. One is scar...

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... mental health need, while 20-25% have serious emotional issues. Furthermore, mental health disorders in the juvenile delinquent population has an extraordinary high rate exceeding 50%. This is the problem because mental disorders act as a gateway to further criminal activity. With half of the juvenile delinquent population ... mental disorder. This is a huge number and is something that has been thoroughly researched over the years. If it were up to me the research would be done in three simple steps: survey, monitor and activity and before and after. These three attributes are critica...

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... mental health need, while 20-25% have serious emotional issues. Furthermore, mental health disorders in the juvenile delinquent population has an extraordinary high rate exceeding 50%. This is the problem because mental disorders act as a gateway to further criminal activity. With half of the juvenile delinquent population ... mental disorder. This is a huge number and is something that has been thoroughly researched over the years. If it were up to me the research would be done in three simple steps: survey, monitor and activity and before and after. These three attributes are critica...

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... defiantly through re-offending. Juveniles who are sentenced in adult facilities also have a hard time making it through their term. These juveniles have a very high suicidal rate, have 5 times greater risk of being sexually assaulted, are 2 times more likely to be assaulted with a weapon, and are also 2 times as likely to ... be beaten by staff. There is a much smaller chance in seeing events like the above occur in a juvenile facility. The rising juvenile crime rate is causing the public to be at outrage with the system for letting these crimes be committed without proper sentencing. T...

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... America. Questions such as, what does the media have to do with crimes? Why Americans are more concerned with violence than Canada and why is the crime rate of Americans so much higher? Why do 11,000 people die in America from gun violence each year? These are the questions Moore and his film crew set ... theory of ethnic diversity by showing that Canada, which has very diverse cities of its own, has an amazingly low gun related murder rate. Moore had visited Canada to interview people on why the crime rate is so low there and so high in America. First he asked a group of teenagers who s...

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... things as simple as education does not come easy to some females. One in four females in America do not finish high school, and the dropout rate is even higher for girls of color. Teen pregnancy is also a reason for the increase in dropout rates in females, and it is also a ... crime is more interesting than abiding by the rules that someone as established. Getting involved in crimes means they are creating their own rules. This brings me to my next theory; oversized families. This may strike some as unusual theory because when we think of a huge family, we think of a ... males. Lack of...

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... readily available. Legalizing marijuana would provide numerous benefits to society. Among these benefits are medical advantages compared to other drugs, a reduction in the crime rate, and a boost in the United States economy. Medically marijuana as a controlled substance would be a more reliable drug than those often prescribed. And ... legal drugs. In addition to its medical benefits, ending its prohibition on marijuana would stop trafficking of the herb and would lower the rate of violent crimes. When marijuana becomes readily available on the market it will eliminate the needs for a ...

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... all the crimes that are going on, and for the safety of the people. Compared to other nations the United States has the highest death and crime rate in the world. Miss. Lawera told me that there are approximately two deaths in Toronto for every 200 deaths in America. The people in Toronto do not have the gun control law enforced in ... their country, which goes to show it is much safer than the United States. In China people are not allowed to have guns and yet the death and crime rate in China ... or the peoples fault for all the crimes that are going on in the United States." Than ag...

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... Restoring Justice, an old building where there was a high incidence of crime was renovated to make criminal activities less rewarding and appealing. The changes lead to a decrease in the crime rate within the building. Specifically, more attention needs to be placed on youths living in Vancouver's Eastside than youths in North Vancouver because Eastside youths have a greater exposure to drug related ... and families will be beneficial the financial situation in the long. For example, Diane Sowden, director and cofounder of a program called Get Kids off the Street, stated that "Because [of...

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... describes the characteristics that society believe we should have. While there is universal knowledge about our individual sex, our gender roles can be quite varied depending on culture. This leads me to ask, because of our gender roles within society, does that impact on the way women are treated in the criminal justice system, are women true born criminals and what ... is a staggering difference in comparisons to the volume of women who have committed sexual offences, at only 0.3%. In the United States, since the 1960s females have a much lower serious crime rate, at 15% in connection...

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... (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 ... to demographics. I also want to get some statistics on demographics and crime rates. I found some information on demographics and crime rate but they were for adolescents and my study is about ju...

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... zero tolerance on weapons policy, and if anyone gets caught with a weapon, that usually results in immediate expulsion, and having the police involved," she replied. I also asked her to give me her personal opinion of whether kids should be tried as adults or not. What she said was, "That each situation is different, and it depends on the crime." She also ... become criminals, we have to spend time with our kids and re-establish the credibility of our institutions-our families, churches, businesses, universities and schools." (Allen J. 1998) I understand that crime rate has gone way up ...

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... putting YOU and your family at risk, not protecting you. How willing are you to put your life in the hands of the local police and sheriff? When you tell me that gun control saves lives, the truth is, gun control costs lives, as evidenced by cities which enforce near total bans on firearms ownership. That's because criminals don't obey gun ... 't we all be safer if there were fewer guns? The Department of Justice data show those areas of the country where firearms are more readily available have a lower violent crime rate than areas of minimal firearm ownership. The University of Chicago...

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... system can be only so serious. Which intern undermines the school's authority regardless. Students know that the school can only do so much and this may lead to the "catch me if you can " mentality. 2-Another week point of this article is the fact that these children may be too young. The restorative justice idea has been put into play in ... to the fact that predjudice may occur and in turn affect the teen court proceedings from the "get go". 2-Limitations of the study: - Although the recidivism rate for teen court participants can be calculated, this rate has less meaning when it cann...

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... in their beliefs. Both look at the environment that a juvenile resides in. However, Cultural Deviance theory delves deeper into the sub culture. The cliché society made me do it could help to better understand this perspective. Cultural deviance theorists would state that juvenile delinquency is a function of the environment. It is the environment that produces juvenile ... completely changed. A neighborhood might be Italian for a number of years, then change to mainly Irish, and then gradually change until it was almost completely African American, yet the delinquency rate stayed const...

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... way, or just the way another looks. These things are why the world has very little peace with in it. These things are why the United States" crime rate is so high. Hate causes people to do dumb and violent things. Crime in any way, shape, or form is violence to the point that people get hurt ... . Any crime that is committed in turns of a hate crime and one is convicted then that person will see time in jail. Knowing that there are laws out there and me not being able to find exactly what I needed makes this paper incomplete. I know that there are laws that are written better than those ...

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... are really keeping us off the streets to protect us from others. Now I see curfew laws as something to keep me safe and keep me looking forward to something when I become of age. Unfortunately it took a situation like mine to help me realize that my views and opinions of law enforcement can sometimes be wrong. There are many pros and cons to the ... that the true criminal." Others feel that the laws are a great way to keep juvenile crime rates low. This however is not supported in any statistics. In fact the crime rate seemed to decrease during the nighttime curfew hours and increase du...

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... of the gang members reported having family members in gangs and coming from single parent households. The eight gang members I interviewed all told me that their family life was unstable and that they were unsupervised. Karl Hill and Battin Pearson's article on gangs " Childhood Risk Factors for ... consistently seen throughout my research was education. Gang members tend to exhibit very poor academic knowledge or educational successes and a very high drop out rate. According to Gary Harper who's article "Pathways of Risk" appeared in the American Journal of Community Psychology the aver...

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... overseeing the fight against violent crime says that the small cities and towns of 25,000 and less are now experiencing gang activity. Despite the overall drop in the crime rate nationally, the problem of violent street gangs is an unwelcome exception. Gang membership has grown to more that 600,000 nationwide. (CNN, 1997) Evidence that smaller cities have seen a growth ... on negative peer influences and drug and alcohol use. As one of the participants put it, "PSD showed me that the world is full of possibilities. The program also showed me that when a door is closed a window is open. ...

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... England and Spain people are very concerned with murders in communities and even in the schools. The United States is now the world leader in its rate of incarceration. Yet polls show they don't feel safer than ten years ago. Some countries are focused on treating juveniles as adults, despite the ... that is the case of the "katana's murder" in Murcia who killed his parents and sister or the students at Columbine High School. But it seems to me that there are some other reasons, apart from the material and affective, which can turn a child into a violent person, for example: social, psych...

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... is another story, and it leaves a scar on the youth forever. No real solution has worked in decreasing the rate of juvenile offenders. Rehabilitation is another solution that others are thinking would possibly work instead of having an adult sentence. Don't get me wrong, people do have the will to change, but when it's killing another person there is no reason for ... wrote about the lives of 12 convicted school shooters. Among the 12 they fired 135 shots, killing 21 people, and wounding 62. (Clouse, 2003) That is a huge number; it makes me think what would make them fire a bullet at so...

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... her mother was negative and quite destructive to Emily's self esteem. To quote in Emily's words " I was put down a lot with my mom, she used to call me a whore, and she used to call me a lot of things."" The day Emily's first child was born her father died. Emily was 15. Emily's father was an important source of emotional support for Emily ... gym and give her a passing grade for the class. Again, the teacher was someone other than her mother neglecting Emily's emotional side. To put it into her words, "it made me feel very unwanted."" While keeping mind how many time Emily failed acade...

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... the different rankings your salary could vary with the more experience that you get. I feel like the criminology and investigations major is right for me because I am very interested in why people commit crimes, lowering the crime rate, and helping a specific certain community. I also feel like this would be a good opportunity to give back to a community and help raise crime awareness. With ... this major I will be able to get into the job field I want and be successful, if all goes as planned. By starting out as a Police Officer I will learn valuable tools to help me progress into ... ...

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... by being part of weekly gang truce meetings held by the Pomona Police Department. One of the major problems and worries for these gang members" mothers are that the dropout rate in highschool for these kids are as high as thirty five percent. Also another problem for Teresa Rodriguez was when her youngest son who is thirteen who is part of ... not a member of any of them. I really never had a reason to be part of a gang because I already had my friends from my childhood. My mom also raised me well and always managed to keep me from hanging out on the streets with the bad group of kids. ...

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