Due to this being such a recent and relevant event with medical marijuana only being in legal practice for roughly a decade and the use of recreational marijuana happening in just 2012, the data and amount of surveys is very sparse or on a larger scale than the scope of this project. ... For a better qualitative analysis of the perceptions that marijuana dispensaries produce on the local residents surrounding them it would be best to perform a two part cross-sectional survey. ... To complete our research analysis I believe it would be wise to allocate some resources to using and producing info...

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Official crime statistics are the total number of crimes recorded by the police. These form the backbone of Functionalist theory on crime and it is also used to form much social policy. Official crime statistics should not be accepted as closer analysis finds that they can be unreliable. Giddens des...

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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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Healing the Pain of Crime The American justice system has viewed criminal behavior as a crime against "the state," leaving crime victims with no input into the legal process of the administration of justice in today's courts. ... The potential for additional qualitative analysis of the data is enormous. ...

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Healing the Pain of Crime The American justice system has viewed criminal behavior as a crime against "the state," leaving crime victims with no input into the legal process of the administration of justice in today's courts. ... The potential for additional qualitative analysis of the data is enormous. ...

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Research on adult differential association theory is limited when one searches for studies that includes in the analysis measures of both theoretical perspectives. ... The nine propositions are: 1) Criminal behavior is learned: not inborn or predetermined. 2) Through interactions with others, in a process of communication: including gestures and verbal interactions. 3) Learning occurs within intimate personal groups: work environment, peer networks with media playing a very little role. 4) Learning includes: techniques, motives, drives, rationalizations and ...

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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HOW MEDIA COVERAGE OF CRIME EFFECTS CITIZNES VIEWS ON, AND FEARS OF CRIME Car-jackings and home invasions show that crime is out of control; that the crime rate is up; and violent crime is on the increase; these are all contemporary ways of expressing what is becoming an everyday fear about crime. ... The more stories citizens read about crime especially of events they cannot control, the more likely they are to think crime is out of control, which will produce more stories and generate interest in legal reform, a condition promoting the production of crime news in t...

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Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist born in Venice, Italy on November 18, 1836 to parents of Jewish decent. He wrote several books which were published including a book on antisemitism. Blaming Jewish people for their conditions and proposed assimilation as the answer for problem of prejudice. Also in his career he published other books that were highly derogatory works on women. Lombroso studied at several universities including the following but not limited to the University of Padua, Vienna University and the University of Paris. ...

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