It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." ... These gangs would run speakeasy's (secret bars), brothels, casinos and other ventures that made them more than enough money to do anything they wanted. ... Also the increase of crime due to prohibition cost the government lots of money. ... The prohibition made it easier for gangsters and criminals to make more money than people who were actually following the law, the government was losing money, people were losing jobs and their livelihood due to the Prohibition. ... It also...

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Many countries drive to legalized casino gambling with the desire to increase their state tax revenue which would be a plus to their economy. ... For example if residents used to spend their money in local restaurants now spend their money in casinos hence no net economic benefit would be surfaced from the casino. ... Furthermore, they spend most of their time and money in casinos hence their family finances suffer. ... In respect to the benefits that a casino may bring to our small isle, would we let Grenada fall victims as the other countries in respect to increased economic activities from ...

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Therefore, the death penalty increases overall happiness because it prevents murders from happening. ... The primary benefit for society is that it leads to less crime and ensures that everyone in the society feels safe, increasing overall happiness. ... There is so much poverty in this world that the costs of housing a criminal can lead to long-term happiness for society due to the money saved. Technically, no matter what society uses the money on, it will increase overall pleasure and be used to boost utilitarianism's acceptance of the death penalty. Utilitarianism would agree that ev...

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The society acted against the prohibition of alcohol, and desired what was prohibited and the demand for alcohol increased and in response, the supply of alcohol increased as the underground economy of alcohol formed. ... Through the taxation of marijuana, our country's revenue will increase and the government can regulate the supply and demand of marijuana. If legalized, the government can control how much marijuana is consumed by increasing or decreasing the taxes on the product. ... According to a PBS interview with Eric Schlosser, 1 in 6 Americans in prison are there on marijuana-rel...

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As more students take those classes, the ratio of dropping out increases. ... Majority of times, something meaningful cannot be done without money. Although there are few students who are education driven and goal orientated, proper resources such as money are scarce. Every semester college students spend a lot of money on tuition and books, these expenses can sometimes become overwhelming for them and often lead them to drop out. ... The rate of employment in the society increases daily and one of the major causes is attrition. ...

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Deterrence can be achieved from increased police patrols, good relationships with the community, and through tough penalties for convicted criminals. ... States applying truth in sentencing reforms generally increased the expected length of time to be served, but these increases were rarely the main contributor to increases in prison populations. Prison admissions and anticipated populations increased in most states studies. ... Some claim the increase in inmate population is costing too much money to support. ... Approximately 1,000 inmates would be ready for early release, and make more elig...

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In the world, one of the most common topics to discuss and what governments have to take some action on is poverty; poverty is the state of not having enough money to meet basic needs. ... They do not care about increasing family and population; they think that one more baby will go to work and bring some money to home. ... Due to this there are lots of germs and viral Bactria found in the air and people getting disease, not only children get ill but as well as adult also getting ill, for that reason the majority of death ratio is high in slum area and do not go to hospital they are not financ...

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As stated in Item B, globalisation is widely regarded as a growing interconnectedness of the world whereby which the world is gradually becoming metaphorically smaller through the increasing use of technology, the internet and the media and better improved and more accessible transportation methods such as budget airline flights. ... He reports that transnational corporations are now able to avoid being fairly taxed by moving money from country to country. ... Furthermore they have increased their use of subcontracting, a practice within which illegal employees are paid below minimum wage. He ...

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The Office of national Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) summarizes the drug to crime relationship in three ways: [d]rug defined offenses, [which are] violations of laws prohibiting or regulating the possession, use, distribution or manufacture of illegal drugs, [d]rug related offenses, to which a drug's pharmacologic effects contribute; offenses motivated by the user's need for money to support continued use; and offenses connected to drug distribution itself [and the] [d]rug using lifestyle, a lifestyle in which the likelihood and frequency of involvement in illegal activity are increas...

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Prison sentences have increased drastically with the new MMS laws, and therefore the cost that has to be paid to incarcerate offenders increases. ... This accounts for the rise in cost for court security, longer hearings, jurors, increasing defense costs, larger jail population that leads to overcrowding in Canadian prisons, etc. ... Mandatory minimum sentences have been found to increase recidivism rates, much to the dismay of its overall purpose: to reduce reoffending. Crutcher (2001) found that when comparing the offending rates specifically to alcohol related accidents, after the MMS'...

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And "Clean Graft" where money is paid to police for services, or where courtesy discounts is given to the police. ... (Beals 18) For cops as for anyone else, money invites corruption. ... In the 1980s Philadelphia saw more than 30 officers convicted of taking part in a scheme to extort money from dealers. ... "The deputies were pursuing the money more aggressively than they were pursuing drugs," says Assistant U.S. ... Police agencies, in an attempt to eliminate corruption have tried everything from increasing salaries, requiring more training and education, and developing polices which are in...

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Rates of Motor Vehicle Theft There were over 14,000 cases of motor vehicle theft in Victoria in 2014-15, representing a 5.6 per cent increase since 2013-14, at a rate of 3.03 vehicles for every 1000 registered vehicles, an increase of 0.11 from 2013-14 (Bath, 2016). ... The majority of offenders are young males looking for adventure and/or personal belongings to take, including money, laptops, radios, wheels, and cell phones (Australian Institute of Criminology, n.d.). ... By improving informal surveillance it increases the effort the offender must put in to successfully perform the theft and ...

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S. spent on the justice system in 1999 3, it would be far better to put the money into methods that get better results. Since the enactment of mandatory minimum sentencing for drug users, the Federal Bureau of Prisons budget increased by more than 1,350%, from $220 million in 1986 to about $3.19 billion in 1997. A large portion of the money spent on long prison sentences is being wasted, instead of being spent on the people who are contributing much more to the spread of drugs. Because drug-related crime is often economically motivated, incarceration has little effect on the flow of money be...

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The increasing number of exonerations, however, and developing awareness that such injustices take place every day in the US court systems, raises deep doubts about the accurateness and justice of the criminal. ... This surge in awareness and potential research has inspired an increasing number of innocence plans, which work together in order to vindicate wrongly convicted prisoners and those on death row, and to also suggest fairness policy reforms intended to decrease the number of wrongful executions or to lessen their effects. ... An individual who has been acquitted does not have involunt...

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As a result of globalization, there has been an increased amount of organized crime moving across international borders, and no longer is it simply a national concern, but a global one, as it affects people all over the world, and not those of a single state. ... Nations now face increased security at all points of entry, which is how the majority of the world's products are shipped, maintaining a large security arm is a huge burden economically for nations across the world. ... They both seek increasing shares of the fortunes generated from drug trafficking and other crimes. ... Investm...

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Thus the social structure pushes those with little money even further into poverty, not allowing them the opportunity to overcome master statuses forced upon them by stratification. ... This problem Moore contends, could be accounted for the increase of sensationalism by the media. While the incidence of violence has in fact gone down, media coverage has increased by 500 percent. ...

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Once this mentality is in a young child's head, there is a more increased chance that it will also manifest itself in the actions of the child, possibly even in a youth gang related situation. ... Children who are raised in cities have increased chances of committing gang related violence because there is no strong unity or community life which makes it hard for parents to keep tabs and possibly know what their child is constantly doing. ... Since it is nearly impossible to throw away every television set in America, or have enough money to provide every family with a $400,000 house, or k...

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Focus on learning skills is clearly influential in increasing population safety, personal health, and participation in political life. ... She says the likelihood of the person's failure in high school is highly increased as they spend further times in jail or commits criminal activities more times (p. 613-630). ... In most cases to get money, they commit criminal activities. ... Political participation of individuals increases due to educational achievements. ... In her article "Service Nation: A Call to Higher Education," Jacoby (2009), a professor at University of Marylan...

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In a recent article against the death penalty, it was said that the current drug being used for lethal injections, pentobarbital, also known as Nembutal, has increased in price to $1,286.86 (Pros and Cons). ... Taxes are used to pay for prisons, but only 5% of the money goes towards that, which is not a lot. Considering how much money has to go around, no specific category is going to end up getting a lot of money anyway. Also, the prisons have to get money somehow to pay for food for the prisoners. Of course the prisoners are surely happy to get free meals, but they are not the best tasting, ...

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In face of steadily escalating crime rates, overcrowded prison systems and an increasing number of the population formally deserving imprisonment, a variety of approaches have been initiated in an attempt to reduce the number of prisoners. ... These changes saw an increasing involvement and intervention of the state with regards to deviancy control, the increasing classification of deviant groups into separate categories and the increased segregation of these groups into closed institutions (Cohen 1985, p13). ... An increasing crime rate and number of those imprisoned led to the demand for a...

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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). ... THE EXTENT OF CRIME In the present, the marijuana industry is linked to organized crime, money laundering, home invasion, extortion, assault, and murder. ... While the size of that industry has shown a slow but steady increase in some provinces, it has reached epidemic proportions in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec (Statistic Canada, 2004). ...

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The reason for most murders or attacks on people in Australia usually happen because of arguments with strangers or conflicts with family, partners or friends, and revenge or because someone owes that person money. ... If we study the law we will have an increase of knowledge of society and human nature, use reasoned arguments instead of force and crime for solving problems, and learn to focus on human problems. ...

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The sharpest increases were hack threats, rising from 95 in 1998 to 343 cases last year while spam cases grew from 146 to 201. ... The easiness of appropriating money, assets or legal rights (do not have to physically remove the object), means that there is no discrimination against sex, race or class. ...

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That is not what is changing though, punishments are now moving towards a more meaningful and constructive solution to a problem which can and will be fixed with rehabilitation and alternative programs, which are in all likely hood to benefit the community, versus an incredibly expensive hard punishable sentence which you must out live only to be released more knowledgeable in crime to re-offend again, as jail promotes criminal activity, and we are using tax payers money to promote criminal activity. ... Recently more and more inmates have been volunteering to learn, paying back for their ...

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The crimes are getting more serious and in the last five years the percentage of youngsters committing crime has increased more than fifty percent. ... Although there was no conclusive proof that this abnormal gene was completely responsible for an increase in violence. ... While the culture of American society encouraged people to seek "money success", the social structure was unable to provide unlimited opportunities for all; Merton argued that this strain led to deviance and crime. ... He states that gang delinquency was a way of life for the young in certain inner city areas, it t...

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