I will provide a definition of crime and deviance. ... This apparently records the statistics of crime. ... When a prisoner has a list of offences they are most often reduced to one however this can also work on the other hand if the prisoner agrees to have other unsolved crimes added to his list, they are called T.I.Cs (taken into consideration), they do not count when the prisoner receives punishment thereby at the same time cleaning up the police figures, therefore the validity of the official statistics can become cloudy and less reliable. ... P. 1970) I live in an inner city area that...

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How much crime is inflicted by drug and alcohol, and what can we do about it? ... More people getting into more crime. ... Society I believe that if the law for crime changed,society would also. ... If punishment for criminal offences involving drug and alchcol intake got stricter the society would feel more insecure, because people would try and think of new ways to help there addictions, and this could involve offences in the community not necessarily criminal ones. But if they made the punishments and charges less in society, There would be influence from youths wanting t...

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A psychologist by the name of Karl Menninger says that criminals should be psychologically evaluated because they are "sick not bad" and treated for their crimes instead of punished because nothing good ever comes from punishment. ... Hetter and Graeme Newman who are for the punishment of criminals and believe that the state of the legal system of today is diminishing, that if laws were stricter, the crime rate would or could very well decrease as stated by Newman. ... With punishment the legal system dares the criminal to commit another act of crime and if they commit a crime the punis...

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The nature of this topic is schizophrenia and crime and how the mental illness is associated with crime. ... • To what extent is crime caused by schizophrenia? What is acceptable punishment for criminals with schizophrenia? My hypothesis on the questions asked is that a large amount of crime is schizophrenia related and that acceptable punishment will differ in most cases, but will involve mental treatment as well as physically removing the offender from the society. ... I needed to collect information on the amount of crime that is schizophrenia related and I also ne...

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The debate on wheather or not people with mental illnesses should receive the same treatement or punishment as normal people is one of the most heated conflicts in modern society. ... They feel any person should have the same punishment no matter what the circumstances. People also say that if people with mental illnesses are pardoned from punishment two things will happen. People with mental illness will commite more crimes beucase they know they can get away with it and people that do get in trouble for their crimes will start saying they have mental illness so they can be excused from charg...

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It is the way that we punish people for crimes they have been convicted of or have confessed. ... The belief that the more "hardcore" cases should be put to the maximum punishment by the system which has been elected. They have done the crime and now they must pay for what they have done. ... People consider this justice, while others consider it cruel and unusual punishment....

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Hammurabi's code was written circa 1772 BCE, and it has approximately 282 codes which range from laws regarding property, agriculture, marriage, women's rights, and punishments for each individual crime. ... In later codes it is specified that if it was a slave's eye then the punishment was to pay a fine. ... Modern civilizations no longer have such harsh punishments but justice is more equal. The possible reason why the punishments were so harsh was to deter the population from doing them. On the other hand, maybe the amount of crimes was overwhelming that King Hammurabi neede...

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A criminal records is person's history of been convicted of a crime. ... Personally I will say that it depends in the type of crime or extend to which the crime might have been committed. ... These types of crimes should be noted and taken into long term consideration even after conviction or punishment. ... The main purpose of sending people to jail is part of positive re-enforcement which can still be defined as punishment, so I don't see any need why the criminal record should be a hindrance to the person in concern. ... A deviance crime is a crime that people view as very wro...

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After his two friends left, he was caught with drugs and the only way for him to escape the hanging for the punishment of the crime was to have Sheriff and Tony agree to come back to Malaysia and serve a three year sentence in a Malaysian prison. ... Malaysia had authority over the American men because they committed a crime in their country. ... Malaysia I believe would have an authoritarian government based on the way they felt about drug use and the harsh punishments. Crime- an act prohibited by law. Their crime caused a lot of trouble two years after the fact for Tony an...

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Social Deviance Deviance and Organizations Corporate deviance is a wide variety of mostly "white collar crimes" such as embezzlement, fraud, computer fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and stock market fraud. ... White color crimes tend to be treated with a less severe punishment by our government. ... Most of the time it is the upper class more educated people who commit these types of crimes and therefore can afford the expensive lawyers to defend them. ... I feel "white collar crimes" need to be looked at more seriously even though nobody becomes physically hurt they still affect the hard wor...

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Prison has never been an effective measure of crime control. According to the Oxford dictionary, prison is defined as "A building to which people are legally committed as a punishment for a crime or while awaiting trial.... North American societies are more focused on justice and punishment, rather than rehabilitation. ... The best way to fix crime is to fix society itself. ... Overall, society should shift its attention from punishment towards rehabilitation. ...

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The reason that members of our society obey the law, on the most part, is to avoid punishment. We are deterred from breaching society's expectations by the punishments that misconduct holds. We are placed in positions which could humiliate us by committing a crime. ... However, the punishment that really works the best is jail time. ...

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First of all if we give the criminal the death penalty, so he would not be able go out and commit the same crime and so this would guarantee no repeat of the crime that was commited by the same criminal. ... Criminals are supposed to be punished for a crime that they committed not be treated as if they are kings. ... I feel that's why the United States has problems controlling crime because its criminals are not SCARED. ... I feel that the death penalty is not cruel or unusual punishment because it is not cruel that the person should die because he deserves it and it is not unusual becau...

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Their crimes include, among others, brutal sexual assault and murder. ... Their crimes also include child molestation or pedophilia. ... Their crimes vary from shoplifting to driving while intoxicated. ... Sentencing reform groups such as Sentencing Project and the Project for Older Prisoners say neither punishment nor recidivism justify prolonged incarceration of the elderly (Anderson, 1994). ... "Violent crime is a young man's game. ...

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There was still the cut and dry truth but the attitude toward punishment had shifted from and eye for and eye or being locked away and forgotten to reform. Capitol punishment was frowned upon. ... Her crime and its punishment were well defined by the letter of the law but upon appeal to the Parliament of Paris her sentence was reduce to banishment and the surrendering of her property to the state. ... We see a direct denial of the overall responsibility of the courts to prosecute this woman because of the laxed attitude toward punishment and the idea was possible reform. ...

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However, by equality, it does not mean equal punishment for people who perform equal crimes. ... When asked what the purpose of the prison system is, many people will probably tell you: to lock up criminals, protect law-abiding citizens from dangerous ones, to deter crime, or some other variation. ...

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The Egyptian law system did not discriminate against the social classes in their punishments, which resulted in few complaints of favoritism. ... In one's opinion, if this law were applied to society today, crime would be drastically reduced and each social class would respect the other. ... There was no "eye for an eye" in Egypt and punishment was fairer. ...

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In the film from 1980, "The Gods Must Be Crazy," written and directed by Jamie Uys, one of the members of a tribe in the Kalahari Desert named Xi embarks in an adventure through unknown civilizations that coexists in the Kalahari Desert due to an empty coke bottle. In my opinion, this film is a well...

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People see this as an awesome crime fighting tool, and do not doubt its ability one bit. ... If he truly believed in the program he would have complied with the rules, but he wanted to avoid punishment for something he knew he did not do. ...

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