Whenever there is a media story in the news about a violent crime committed, we automatically assume that a male is a perpetrator. This is due to males being over-represented by the media, which will be discussed later on in this piece of work. ... As the offending period is between these two ages, it also coincides with the fact that this is also the start of the age where boys will go through puberty, experience changes to their body, and male testosterone is at its peak. ... First of all, Edwin Sutherland's ideas were one of the first starting points for this body of work. ... It was ...

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Roe (2003) classifies a crime as "a wrong against a state, either by commission or omission, regarded by that body as a criminal and one to which a punishment has been attached". ... This work was continued by Sheldon and Stevens (1942) and Sheldon et al (1949) who identified three basic body types; endomorphs, who are fat and soft; ectomorphs, who are thin and fragile and mesomorphs, who are muscular and hard. ... Sheldon examined 200 students and 200 criminal delinquents and categorised each of them according to body type. ...

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The Positive Schools primary focus was on the prevention of crime and the reformation of offenders, the demand for facts and scientific proof and that there are mind and body differences between people and that the punishment should fit the individual criminal, not the individual crime. ... Hooten studied all, adult-male groups of over 13,000 criminals from ten different states and compared them to a control sample of over 3,000 non-criminals from three of the ten states (Hooten 1939c: 35). ... Criminals have thinner beards and body hair, more straight hair than curly hair, more red-brown and...

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Sex is dependant on your anatomy and hormones in the body whereas gender is the role in which society has created which describes the characteristics that society believe we should have. ... Between the dates of 2007/2008 to 2008/2009 in the United Kingdom, there was a small decrease of 2% in the number of female arrests from 251,910 to 247,127, compared to the number of male arrests which decreased by 1%, from 1,223,356 to 1,215,012. ... This is because of the role in which females have been given and carry out in society can determine the leniency of male officers. ... There is a pronounced ...

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This is not surprising that young males commit most of the serious crime. ... Similarly they claim that males with chromosome abnormalities have a bizarre appearance and they behave in ways that others find odd. ... The big difference between biological and psychological theory is that psychological theories differ in that they see the deviant's sickness and abnormality as lying in the mind rather than the body. ... Cohen agrees with Merton that sticking to society's dominant values caused problems for working class male youths in inner city areas, for as they experience fai...

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The US Bureau of Justice Statistics concludes that the chance of a black male born in 2001 of going to jail is 32% or 1 in 3. Latino males have a 17% chance and white males have a 6% chance. ... The US rate of incarceration is five to eight times higher than other highly developed countries and black males are the largest percentage of inmates. ...

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The Illinois Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for Kokoraleis, who has been on Death Row since 1982 for the murder of Lorraine Borowski, a 21-year-old woman whose body was found beaten, stabbed and mutilated in a DuPage County cemetery. ... He said Southern Baptists did not wish to remain silent in the midst of the current debate, in which a number of other religious bodies have called for moratoriums and studies on capital punishment. ... In murder cases, at least 2 "trustworthy" male Muslim witnesses to the crime are needed for a sentence of death. ...

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This paper will examine the extent of alcohol-related violence and some of the ways in which the Government and local bodies are addressing the issue. ... The BCS (2000) identified males' aged 16-29, visiting licensed premises regularly and with high levels of alcohol consumption as most likely to be victim of a violent assault. ... This sharing of information has only been possible since the implementation of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which allows public bodies to share information if aimed at reducing crime and disorder. ...

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The majority of cases of juvenile sexual aggression appear to involve adolescent male perpetrators; however, a number of clinical studies have pointed to the presence of females and prepubescent youths who have engaged in sexually abusive behaviors. ~ Looking at social process theories one might conceive that youths who perpetrate these crimes against other children are lacking elements of social bonds; Commitment (family, success, future goals), Belief (honesty, morality, fairness, responsibility), Attachment (family, friends, community), and Involvement (school activities, sports, communi...

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The below excerpt is taken from The Body of Liberties of 1641 and can add to the understanding of why and how such punishments discussed were carried out. ... In 1672 Alice Thomas was found guilty of entertaining males in her home. ... On their first appearance in Massachusetts (July, 1656), where two male and six female Quakers arrived from Rhode Island and Barbados, they found that the reproach entailed on their sect by the insane extravagance of some of its members in England had preceded their arrival, and that they were regarded with the utmost terror and dislike by the great bulk of th...

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Statistics show that more than one-fourth of all black males and 16% of Latinos can expect to spend time in prison during their lifetime, while only 4% of white males will ever go to prison. ... In addition, a third of all African American males aged 20-29 are right now either locked up, on probation, or on parole. ... Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's body absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit the ground. ...

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(Question 1) Juvenile delinquency is a complex social problem that significantly impacts all members and processes of a social structure. Delinquency refers to a set of behaviors that are not in line with the collective practices and/or ethics of the dominant social group. Essentially, these behaviors deviate from societal norms and more specifically they violate established criminal codes and laws. Juvenile delinquency incorporates not only general criminal activity but conduct that is only unlawful for youths such as running away from home and skipping school. Current research into th...

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