... structured and cumulative way. Police Operations Support terminals at the Norwegian Ministry of Defence allow officials to monitor events in close-to-real-time, without unnecessary noise, telephones and faxes, enabling them to make instant decisions about the allocation of additional resources. 4.2 Computer Aided Despatching A closely related area is Computer Aided Dispatching. When an incident occurs, a ... Accessed: 3th February, 2001]. Grescoe, T. (1996) Murder, He Mapped', Canadian Geographic, September, 1996. Grimshaw, D. J. (2000) Bringing Geographic Information Systems Into Busines...

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... incorporation of more officers in a neighborhood, which was initiated by Mayor David Dinkins during his term, police officers were really not involved too much with the community. In The New York Times The article "Dinkins Falters in Effort to Add to Street Patrols " (1993), by Craig Wolf , he states "Under Mayor David N. Dinkins's police program, known as "Safe Streets, Safe City," the ... commercial, and the renovation of theaters in 42nd street. Mayor Koch's leniency in the zoning laws made way for the construction of massive office building in Times Square. In the New York Times art...

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... of crime control. Quite to the contrary, capital punishment does not reduce crime. According to a September 22, 2000 article in the Houston Chronicle, abolitionists" assertions that criminals are not deterred by the threat of the death penalty are valid. The article reports that a recent New York Times survey shows that the dozen states that have chosen not to enact the death penalty since the ... last two decades, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 to 101 percent higher than states without the death penalty. Moreover, the study by the New York Times also dis...

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... of crime control. Quite to the contrary, capital punishment does not reduce crime. According to a September 22, 2000 article in the Houston Chronicle, abolitionists" assertions that criminals are not deterred by the threat of the death penalty are valid. The article reports that a recent New York Times survey shows that the dozen states that have chosen not to enact the death penalty since the ... last two decades, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 to 101 percent higher than states without the death penalty. Moreover, the study by the New York Times also dis...

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... of crime control. Quite to the contrary, capital punishment does not reduce crime. According to a September 22, 2000 article in the Houston Chronicle, abolitionists" assertions that criminals are not deterred by the threat of the death penalty are valid. The article reports that a recent New York Times survey shows that the dozen states that have chosen not to enact the death penalty since the ... last two decades, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 to 101 percent higher than states without the death penalty. Moreover, the study by the New York Times also dis...

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... recidivism rates among drug court participants than comparison groups of otherwise similar nonparticipating defendants (Farole et al. 58). Random assignment studies of the Baltimore City Treatment Court and six New York State drug courts also showed reductions in recidivism rates that extended three years after the initial arrest, although the magnitude of the reduction varied among the different courts (Farole ... for volunteer participants. There were also results that show benefits of drug court participation do not end when a defendant graduates from the program (Berman 132). In the ...

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... forensic psychology my first step was to find the most precise definition. I read the definition in the first article I chose, but when I went to another article to clarify a point I noticed that the definition was similar, yet more detailed. When Michael Decaire wrote his first article "Forensic Psychology: The Misunderstood Beast" he felt he needed to explain why he wanted to write about this ... is being dealt with, as was proven in the case involving Dr. James A. Brussel. During the l950s several bombings occurred in New York City. Despite intense investigative efforts, law enforcem...

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... and subordination that includes any offense involving torture, excessive physical force, verbal and psychological abuse, and violation of civil rights (Lersch and Feagin). The tendency of emphasizing California and New York's police brutality cases, and ignoring the less populated states, characterizes a substantial number of news organizations and crime research groups. Police misconduct is affecting other parts of the nations ... a not-guilty verdict that sparked riots in Los Angeles and then focused on the issue of police brutality (Fyfe). After this event, similar cases of police bru...

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... offenders are, more often than not, minorities. Crimes of theft, murder, drug selling and drug use are most likely to be associated with a black or Hispanic male ("Crime in new york city" 2014). With news outlets consistently focusing on minority offenders, they give the strong narrative that mainly minorities commit crimes (Wolfers 2014). We even hear a lot of talking heads ... will inevitably cause its downfall. Even in newspapers from other parts of the world, youths are negatively referred to as "punks" or some sort of delinquent, giving the article a skew instead of staying objecti...

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... I G H T F I L L E Y careful studies of the operation of the laws often show the opposite effect: the be- havior they are supposed to inhibit actually increases. It is beyond the scope of this article to determine exactly why that seemingly strange reaction sometimes occurs. But even a little imagination suffices to suggest some possible reasons. Some people simply enjoy doing what is forbidden, for the ... may actually be correct. Writing in the Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, Edgar A. Suter (1994) states: "Crime and homicide rates are highest in jurisdictions, such as Wash...

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... keep statistics on male rapes within the U.S. prison system. Additionally, an article in the Prison Journal in 1997 stated that, "Although more than 69,000 New Yorkers currently reside in one of the 69 correctional facilities operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS), little information is kept regarding ... any legal recourse to protect themselves from prison crimes. And, to their credit, it seems to have worked. According to Sarah Vandenbraak in an article in a 1998 edition of Corrections Today, "Since its passage in 1996, PLRA reduced the national month...

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... which procedure is more expensive; life time imprisonment or capital punishment. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. ( Article 3 Universal Declaration of Human Rights). No system is perfect but when someone is found innocent through an appeal it shows us that the system ... It was actually Britain who was the main influence towards America instituting the use of the death penalty. The first recorded execution in the new colonies was Captain George Kendall in Virginia in 1608 for the crime of stealing (http://teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/). Laws about the d...

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... the "impact of restricting the availability of firearms is more likely to impact on those violent incidents that would not have happened had a weapon been at hand"(152). In an article by Gary A. Mauser of the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, he places special emphasis on the attitudes towards firearms displayed by both Canadians and Americans. According to Mauser, large ... news programming) and, Canadians and Americans read many of the same books and magazines. As a result of this, the Canadian public has adopted "much of the American culture" . In an article by Catherine F...

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... 3. Friedman, D. S. (2001). The Supreme Court's Narrow Majority To Narrow The Death Penalty. Human Rights: Journal of the Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, 28 (3), 1-6. B. Friedman's article is centralized on the United States Supreme Court's appeal to narrow the death penalty. The death penalty was banned until 1976 and specific categories banned execution from crossing certain age ... . 5. Glasser, J. (2001). Death Penalty Reforms. US & News World Report, 130 (5), 1-2. B. Glasser presents a specific analysis of the reform of capital punishment in Illinois. The article focu...

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... B. Purpose of boot camps C. Goals of boot camps I. Juvenile boot camps A. Florida's model B. North Carolina's model III. Women's boot camp A. Overview B. New York's model I. Male boot camp A. Louisiana's model B. New York's model V. Conclusion Boot camp is a short institutional sentence designed to improve offender's self esteem and discipline. Since there inception, boot camps have been used as an ... counseling to victims of sexual abuse or domestic violence must be implemented in addition to discipline, exercise, and drills (Mackenzie). One example of such a program is New York's Sho...

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... . Another example of how my positions have grown past mere personal autonomy and closer to the ideal of moral autonomy is in my capital punishment debate. In the New York Times there was an article of an execution being recommended in a case where a man killed a college student. In my reaction I wrote, "How can you justify taking someone's else's life?" I did not have any ... ...

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... increasingly more challenging for those who opposed it without having a powerful speaker and a united coalition against it. In 1840, this changed as Horace Greeley (founder and editor of the New York Tribune) began to express his views against it. It also led to the forming of the American Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment in 1845. Michigan, though not a state ... measures included: bifurcated trials (trials separated into two phases, the guilt phase and the sentencing phase), mitigating and aggravating circumstances, and automatic appellate review. Since the Gregg decision...

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... followed; murder, sodomy, burglary, rape, arson, and treason. This comes from the ideas found in the Old Testament found in the Bible. New York had their own ideas, but somewhat of the same ideology of the previous states. In 1665, the decided that denial of God, pre meditated murder ... there was no longer a death penalty. Now for the first time, criminals were given jail time instead of being killed. In 1796 in New York, they began building the state's first penitentiary. While doing so, this also abolished whipping and reduced the number of capital crimes to only ... The first electro...

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... 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 average gang member has a ninth grade education and 81% of gang members do not graduate high school. The ... article also states that gang members who do graduate show much lower test scores, more truancies and more suspensions do to violence or drugs. " Education is not a priority to gang members. ......

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... and arrest them it is difficult to find a criminal who doesn't exist. Officer Tebbens also faced this obstacle in his investigation because, witnesses new only the alias of one of the shooters but, the shooter did not have a criminal record and Tebbens had no way to track him. ... The officers also addresses the issue of the media publicizing their father's deaths and how their father's inspired their career as cops. Although, the Wade article spoke about the family's turmoil surrounding the death the officer's gave a personal account that made an impact. Police work is dangerous and fam...

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... majority at 18 reflects the actual capacities of young people rather well" (Fogle 1). Also, the results of a research, shown in the article " Foundation criticizes trend of trying kids in adult court" written by Jonathan D. Salant, said that "Many children younger than 16 had much ... repeating violent crimes. Times change, and juvenile crimes get more violent, so the need for a new law is being considered by the American politicians. As Pete Wilson stated in his article "How is Juvenile Justice Served?" the previous law was efficient, because it "Was designed in 1940 ... , so when they ...

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... the imbalance in a major paper between stories about gun and stopping crimes, one can look through the New York Times to find how much coverage the paper gave to crimes committed with a gun involved during 2001. The New York Times published 104 gun crime news articles (69 New York city stories and 35 from the rest of the country). The stories on gun crimes ranged in ... failure to provide adequate police protection." A federal appeals court declared in 1982, "There is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen." New York mayor Davi...

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... Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. Butler's thesis, published in an article in the Yale Law Journal, is that "for pragmatic and political reasons, the black community is better off when some nonviolent lawbreakers remain in the community rather than go to ... and has worked, and thus abandonment is irrational. He states that some improvements can be made, and the rehabilitation is an achievable goal.24 Ironically, Butler refers to Vitiello's article in his discu...

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... Court holdings. 3. Analysis: Capital punishment has always been a controversial topic, that could be debated until the end of time. However, this new topic has taken center stage in the legal world that has everyone focused on the Supreme Court. The reasoning behind both arguments (for and against ... the use of the death penalty for juveniles. Peter Finn gives a overview of the most prominent arguments to use the death penalty in an article titled, " Cruel and Unusual Punishment", they include: the death penalty is the correct punishment for the most vicious crimes, weather they are comm...

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... Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York. Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971. He ... Willie would go on to plead guilty in a family court and sent to a juvenile prison. Willie Bosket is now in a Maximum prison in central New York State serving up to 82 years. Fox Butterfields research revolves around the Boskets family history and focuses it in a way ...

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