The Criminal Code of Canada has made a lot of adjustments. ... (Justice Education, 2013) In the 1800's the Aboriginal children were forced to be in 'Residential schools' for 10 months out of the year, away from their families, due to the fact that Canada felt that it would be better to educate them, at a young age about the Canadian language, the country, and religion. ... Canada was so quick to invade the land, while one simple change for Aboriginal offenders are made to value from, and mainstream Canadian citizens are so quick to judge that the Aboriginals are getting it &quo...

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Specifically, in 2000, 44 percent of the marijuana cultivation incidents reported by police agencies to Statistics Canada occurred in the province of British Columbia (Statistic Canada, 2004). Furthermore, in 2001, major Canadian law enforcement agencies seized close to 1.4 million marijuana plants, a six-fold increase since 1993 (Statistic Canada, 2004). ... In 2001, the police departments around Canada seized almost 1.4 million plants and 29,000 kilograms of marijuana (RCMP). ... On the other hand, since societies around the world vary in organization and values, what is considered crimin...

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Therefore the question must be asked, "Has the behaviour trait of criminality been unfairly and unjustly thrust onto Indigenous Australians since colonialism due to the racist and blatant disregard of them as a culture and race?... These tools used by the British were technology, the introduction of diseases and culture with a specific emphasis on language (Kennedy, 2014). ... The 1905 Aborigines Act were particularly detrimental to Indigenous Australians as this resulted in the genocide of Indigenous families through the acts of taking children away from their families to be assimilated ...

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The Prohibition was the law of the land during January 16, 1920- February 17, 1933 and with this the manufacturing, importation, transportation, export, and sale of alcohol beverages was no longer legal in the United States and other countries like Canada. ... This is what the gang culture of that time had become and caused, it not only destroyed the lives of thousands of people through its illegal ventures but increased the crime rate and influenced people to disrespect the law and what it stood for, breaking the law, even flaunting it, also became exciting and popular among people, and this...

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Introduction John Lott holds a PhD in Economics and teaches criminal deterrence, law and economics at the University of Chicago. Lott is a well-respected author, having published over seventy articles in academic journals. In his first book More Guns, Less Crime, Lott discusses the relationship b...

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Large scale immigration also contributed to the growth of cities and brought in large numbers of people from cultures where underground and illegal economies flourished. ... Greenberg had been transporting scotch from Canada across the Detroit River when he decided he needed to "expand his operations and needed a loan of $175,000... ...

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Similar to the socialization theory (Oetting and Donnermeyer, 1998), which describes the process of an individual incorporating him/herself into new norms and culture, Triadization is regarded as a process where youth gang members adapting to the values and culture of triad societies (Lo, 2012). ...

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New Zealand, like Canada, faces difficult challenges in her criminal justice system. ... Both countries have comparable cultures and similar colonial beginnings. ... There are striking similarities between Canadian and New Zealand criminal systems. ... The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines a crime as, "an offence punishable by law illegal acts as a whole...

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