This description is similar to the fantasy island described by Sir Thomas Moore in his famous book Utopia. Moore created the book title from two Greek words meaning "not a place." ... Studies report that the largest determinant of hate crimes is racial bias, with African Americans at the greatest risk. ... In fact, reporting hate crimes is an obstacle for the majority of victims. ... Some people do not report them because they fear that law enforcement will not be responsive ("Hate"). ...

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The data for 1997 reveal, " that respondents arrested in the past year for possession or sale of drugs and driving under the influence had the highest percentage of illicit drug use [during] the past year" and that " illicit drug users were also about 16 times more likely than non [drug] users to report being arrested and booked for larceny or theft" and "..[were] more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the influence, drunkenness, or liquor law violations, [along with] more than [nine] times likely to be arrested and booked on assault charge[...

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"The delinquent is a rogue male" stated by Wooden and Blazak in their book on delinquency. ... One national study of youth aged 15-21, for example, noted that only 5% reported involvement in a serious assault, and only 6% reported having participated in a gang fight. ... However, self-reported studies of male and female delinquency do not reflect the dramatic differences in misbehavior found in official statistics. ... This data finds that girls are arrested for status offenses at a higher rate than boys, when contrasted to their self-reported delinquency rates. ... Constantino's nati...

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In this report, I will be using Walklate's book to discuss the role of women in regards to crime and the criminal justice system. ... It depends on whether or not it will be reported, for example if a car was stolen it would be reported due to insurance claims. ... Lastly, there are crimes that have been committed and reported but the offenders have not been caught, so when trying to get information on the sex of offenders this is obviously a barricade in progression and results. ... This is in connection to the sex role theory, which will be later discussed in more detail, further on int...

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In his book Hemp A Short History of the Most Misunderstood Plant and Its Uses and Abuses, by Mark Bourrie, the author goes iincludes a quote from medical marijuana activist Dr. ... There were almost 8 million marijuana-related arrests in the US between 2001 and 2010, according to a 2013 American Civil Liberties Union report. ...

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In his book, Marshall MacLuhan stated that " Everybody experiences far more than he understands. ... Critical attention to how crime is reported in the news is necessary given the way in which the media represent these events heavily influences our understanding of crime in society. ... Many of the other features that are are news worthy are sex combined with violence, together with focus on children; either as victims or offenders or both tend to make a feature more newsworthy and together with the news value 'novelty' will almost guarantee a reported visible crime will make the new...

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Theory links up the research and the problem, which is examined in the research. Theory allows the researchers a streamline of action. It is a set of logical, coherent, interrelated concepts, which attempt to explain some observable phenomena or group of facts. Review of the literature provides awar...

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Travis Hirschi's 1969 book, Causes of Delinquincy, he focuses on the family, the school, and peers as the most influencial factors on a youth. ... In the 1997 annual report provided by the Census Bureau it states that "family resources and the amount of parental attention given to children is strongly influenced by the number of parents in a household." ...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. Some refer to family situations. They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather th...

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It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on ...

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In his book L"Umo Delinquente (1876) he argues that criminals were throwbacks to an earlier and more primitive form of human being and claimed to have identified a number of genetically determined characteristics which were often found in criminals. ... Sullivan also reported that about every one in every twenty seven black men, compared to one in every two hundred and five white men, died violently, also one in one hundred and seventeen black women met an untimely end as compared to white women which only one in four hundred and ninety six were killed due to violent crimes. ...

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He arrived at these tenants through his different experiences with the theory, and the different versions of his book "Principles of Criminology". ... Before authoring his first version of his book Principles of Criminology in 1924 Sutherland had a numerous amount of influences for creating his text (Sutherland, 1924). One of the very first influences came when the Federal Bureau of Investigations began a yearly report on all the crime or reported crime in the nation (Sutherland, 1924). ...

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The National Institute of Justice wrote a report on how family life can have an impact on violence and they found that if a child experiences violence as a young child, this can affect the way their brain develops, which could potentially lead to a violent outburst in later life; 'poor prenatal care, prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol, exposure to high levels of lead in the environment, and early abuse or neglect can lead some children to have more difficulty controlling aggressive impulses' (Steinberg, 2000:34). ...

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