There is and always has been a real need for people to feel safe in there homes and communities but the current politics of "law and order," in which parties seek electoral advantage by playing on people's fears and generating scapegoats, which would fail to make everyone in society safer and will not deliver criminal justice, and not surprisingly enough the criminal law act has been this way for as long as criminals have had no justice. ... The emphasis on criminal Justice in society is on crime prevention, The Australian law commission focuses on this by thinking of creative,...

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In his book, Dangerous Society, Taylor points out several gang-prevention strategies on which we might focus. ... Alternative intervention strategies to this have been traditional talk therapies which teens see as invasive and persecutory. ...

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This beginning in communal policing eventually led to the development of the Metropolitan Police Act and a British police system that served as the model for most modern police forces. ... They needed a force that could act swiftly to cover those long distances and a police seemed clearly organized to deal with civil matters. ...

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Copycat violence is very common; teens see it on TV and then act it out as they did on TV. ... Parents are coming up with strategies to help their kids become non-violent and to cope with their own problems instead of taking them out on other classmates. ...

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Crime can be defined as " any act or omission regarded by a sizable segment of a given society as warranting formal intervention to control, punish and prevent behaviours."1 However the diminishing crime rate may not hold to be a true depiction of a national trend in all provinces. ... Actus reas is when there is an act apparent that violates some law. Mens rea is that there is evident intent, although, if there is not we can then define the act as negligent. Negligent being an act that violates some law, yet, was unintentional. ... Within the legal system different areas use diff...

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In 1974, Congress passed the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. ... The main theme running through the "Eight Core Strategies" is collaboration between the attorneys, juvenile court, educators, and mental health administrators (Juvenile Detention Initiative 2013). ...

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