Behavior is termed criminal by a process of social perception and how it is interpreted of the agents of the law. ... This is a political process. ... This report also has arrest, clearance, and law enforcement data. ... The strength of this system lies in its storage of data. ... The data from the NCVS survey is most useful calculating crime rates and determine changes in crime rate from year o year. ...

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Everyone's Accountable, All of the Time Throughout Giuliani's career, he maintained that accountability- the idea that the people who work for him are answerable to those we work for-is the cornerstone. And this principle started with him. The social contract is a two- street. It was a privilege f...

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The data that are available focus primarily on use of weapons, presence of peers, drug and alcohol use, and other observable or easily defined correlates of offending situations. Such data are limited in that they do not give us the male adolescent offender's perspective on the violent act he committed. These data also do not explain why violent adolescent offenders commit acts of violence in some situations but not others. ... The initiation process is different for each gang. ... If you fall, during this process you will have to start all over again at the beginning of th...

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Presented Problem- Gangs As defined by Sgt. M. Longo's website on "Gang Information" of the Huron Valley Mens, "a gang is a group of people that form an allegiance to the exclusion of others, for a common purpose of engaging in violent, antisocial, or criminal behavior" (www.geocities.com/rainfore...

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