Also, white- collar crime affects more people than conventional street crime. In a certain instance, a white- collar crime could affect millions of people at a time. ... White- Collar crime is more serious that street crime because it effects a greater number of people throughout the world. ... Monk, pg. 73) An example of white- collar crime affecting more people would be if someone gets shot on the street, the only people affected are the victim, the shooter and those in close relation with them. ... People cover it up and therefore less people know about it including the media. ...

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Is street crime more harmful than white collar crime? ... Street crime is far more dangerous than white collar crime. ... People must put bars on their windows and alarms in their houses and cars. ... We don't discredit the fact that white collar crime isn't dangerous. ... Therefore there's a good chance that some of the people are criminals, white collar criminals. ...

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Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? ... nesses close early and people avoid being on the streets. ... Where white-collar crime does not directly effect society, street crime does. ... People live in constant fear of being a victim of crime. ...

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The Race, Age, and Social Status of Death Row People who oppose the Death Penalty have long argued that the system of putting criminals on death row is unfair, favoring the white and the wealthy. ... This paper is going to tell about the people who have been executed and the people who are currently on death row. ... According to www.coadp.org, an African American is four times more likely to be sentenced to die than a white man. There have been one hundred and seventy four black people killed when they had a white victim and only twelve white people killed when they had a black victi...

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White Collar Crime First, police brutality is not only a simple crime; it is in fact a white collar crime. ... Also, studies have shown that white collar crimes are not only committed by individuals of "high social status", but also by people of different backgrounds (Strader, 2002, p.1). ... There are three main key elements for a crime to be called a white collar crime. ... So, by police beating up, torturing, and abusing people excessively (for no reason), police are considered as white collar criminals. ... Thus, Mehsele was arrested for his white collar crime. ...

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A black man who kills a white man is 63 times more likely to be executed than a white man who murders a black man (McCollum p 12). ... The death penalty is more often sought for black defendants, especially in cases where the victims are white. ... In the United States, the largest death row stands in Texas with 324 people: 144 whites, 120 African Americans, 52 Hispanics, 4 Native Americans, and 4 Asian Americans. The smallest states are Connecticut with 2 whites, New Mexico with 1 Native American and 1 white, and Wyoming 2 whites, (Mumia). ... It costs more to execute people than keep them in...

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People should be treated equally no matter what race they are. ... Blacks and Hispanics tend to get more prison time than white males. ... Also, people might think that white criminals do the same crime as the black criminal, but because of the way they were raised they think that the minority should get a harsher punishment. Unfair policies and time of sentences between minority and white still exist today. ... Today, people of color make up 60 percent of inmates while comprising only thirty percent of U.S. ...

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White gangs almost always originate in prison and are a minority. ... They feel that they are part of an oppressed group of people "unwillfully" governed in the United States. ... They are predominantly Hispanic with some White and Black members. ... Inmates had to classify themselves as either a White or a Black. ... Black gangs preferred to have as many members as possible to protect their turf and generate more interest but White gangs preferred to have a select few people to stretch their resources. ...

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Based upon the same evidence, a black defendant and a white defendant would receive different sentences. ... In addition, if the victim was white instead of black, the black defendant had six times a greater chance to receive a death sentence (144-9). ... At a White House conference, he expressed his concern about the death penalty. ... Innocent lives have been taken, and hundreds of innocent people have been convicted. ... "Death Penalty: The 23 Innocent People Who Died." ...

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There are people out there who see this as unconstitutional and yet there is no supreme law directly stating that Racial Profiling is unconstitutional. ... Debate after debate people begin to lose track of what Racial Profiling really means. ... While from an FBI Crime Statistics, it shows that police officers will scrutinize people of specific racial ethnic background more than others because they believe that they are more likely the kind of people to commit these kinds of crimes. ... But Cascadia, our neighborhood, was the part of the community that was mostly white and had people with uppe...

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In the novel, "A Time to Kill" by John Grisham many questions are answered such as, do people have the right to take justice into their own hands? ... The mainly white town reacts with shock and horror at this inhumane crime. ... Form these one hundred, ten white and two black citizens are chosen. ... A white girl being raped by two black men, who are later shot and killed by the father. They are asked to vote as if Carl Lee was the father of that little white girl. ...

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Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished In 2002, seventy-one people were executed in the thirteen different states. ... They feel more people should be put to death because it will deter people from committing acts of murder. ... The people that are against the death penalty feel that the death penalty violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. ... They claim that it is overused upon those people whose victims were white and minorities are unfairly targeted by a racist juror or jury. ... Of the seventy-one executions in 2002, fifty-three of them were white. ...

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Derek is the leader of a white supremist nazi gang called the DOC. ... Crips (white vs. ... This is where his motivation and hatred of black people was derived. ... They hate anyone who is not white protestant. ... Derek decides to be own his own and not be a part of the white gang. ...

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A few days later Willie would go on to take another man's life on another subway as well as attempting to rob two other people. ... The constant fighting in Edgefield left people feeling numb toward violence from the 1760s to the 1780s. ... White gangs soon evolved out of this and violence begin to overrun the county of Edgefield. ... Will Herrin was lynched for killing his white land lord over not receiving pay. ... In fact people were afraid of James on account of all the things his father was known for doing. ...

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By the 1930s, as many as 150 people were executed each year. ... More than 2,000 people are on "death row" today. ... With this statement from Genesis, some people could almost feel as if they are doing something religious. ... In the 20th century, when the death penalty was used for rape, no white men were executed for raping non-white women whereas most black offenders who raped white women were executed. ... And the store and life of the six people that were presented In The Exonerated expressed this well. ...

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They were often paid one quarter to one half the wages of their white counterparts working on the railroad. ... For example, In 1907 in Vancouver's Chinatown, a huge white mob ignited and engaged in a riot harming and destroying much of the people and property of that community (Henry,78). Also during these times, visible minorites were not able to enter various professions such as education, law, and pharmacy due simply to the fact that they were minorites and a threat to the white community. ... Despite all these occurences and the attitudes held the white communi...

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Many people terms graffiti as criminal while others view it as a method of passing positive message (Torres, 2014). ... Graffiti is an art and is about expressions that can either be good or bad (White, 2014). White argues that, even some art may look beautiful or distorted. ... It should not be discarded due to its simplicity and creativity (White, 2012, p. 8). ... Graffiti can be regarded as an art if people break the boundaries that it is practiced by illegal groups. ...

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American History X is about a man named Derek who was a co-leader of a white supremacy group called the D.O.C. Derek started having a problem with minorities ever since his father was killed putting out a fire in a black neighborhood because he was white. ... Derek is let out of prison after three years for killing two black people because they were breaking in his truck. ... I think it resembles the gang he is in, or white power. ... I think a theme in the movie is that people can change. ...

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Black and white people are the victims of violent crime, 82 % of people executed since 1977 have been convicted of killing white victims. ... More than 3,000 people were executed since 1930, nearly half were people of color. Eighty-five percent of those executed since 1977 were punished for killing white victims. ... Of this number, only one white mad was executed for killing a black man. ... People have to die sooner or later. ...

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The percentage of victims to the death penalty according to race are mostly white at 76%. Even though the percentage of victims charged with the death penalty are mostly white, it is said that jurors in Washington state are 3 times more likely to recommend a death penalty sentence to a black defendant than for a white defendant in a similar case (Beckett). In Louisiana, the odds of a death penalty sentence were 97% higher for those whose victims were white than those whose victims were black (Pierce & Radelet). ... The death penalty gives most people a sense of security in many states. ... He ...

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Black and white people are the victims of violent crime, 82 % of people executed since 1977 have been convicted of killing white victims. ... People question if it even does this anymore. ... More than 3,000 people were executed since 1930; nearly half were people of color. Eighty-five percent of those executed since 1977 were punished for killing white victims. ... People have to die sooner or later. ...

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So what makes it okay for people to preach for the innocence of their children but then encourage the act of capital punishment? ... If the only means of justification for capital punishment are because it brings good to society or makes people happy, then that means innocent people may be killed too, if it would benefit people. ... Often, people of color have been viewed as violent by nature and it makes it difficult for a jury to be one-hundred percent unbiased to skin color. ... In contrast, killers of minorities were under-presented, especially if the killer was White. ... " (Brock, ...

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While no one knows for sure who is guilty of the crime, but the one thing that is for certain is that Carter and Artis were victims of racial bias from many people who would see them in jail. ... At this point he has been taken in to be interrogated by Officer Della Pesca, who is a white officer who turns out to be racist. ... In the first trial Rubin was presented before an all-white jury that had no evidence but convicted them two of murder. During this time period everything was predominantly white and race was a major issue. Race led many people to believe that Rubin was not a free man ...

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A disproportionate number are people of color. ... (Death Penalty Information Center Website) People justify the death penalty in saying that in the Bible God says that murder should be punished with death. ... Statistical evidence conducted on cases of similar crimes found that African American defendants are over four times as likely to be executed as their White counterparts. A similar study noted that White defendants face almost no chance of execution when their victim is African-American. ... And with over 3,500 people on death, it does not seem sparingly either. ...

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White, collar crime illustrates the wider political and ideological dimensions of definitions of crime, few would describe fraud as a law and order problem or see corporations as `dangerous` criminals who need locking up. ... Thus the definition and control of white collar crime and by comparison that of conventional crime are implicitly political issues. ... Most typical are working class crimes as they are the result of people fighting back against oppression and exploitation. White collar crime is the worst kind which are often ignored by the state or covered up. ... Above all the people ...

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