Zoran Kanduc (2006) proposes that when confronted with the concept of organized crime, thoughts usually revolve around types of mafias who are social outsiders (Michael Levi, 2008, p. 367), whether they have small or large illegal businesses structures, who earn their money and gain their power by selling illegal goods and demand payments in exchange for safety and/or security, or borrow and launder dirty money (p. 44). ...

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School violence has been a very controversial and serious issue in America over the past decade. Perhaps the most shocking, however, was the shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Co, where two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Clebold killed 12 classmates. Michael Moore, an activist filmmake...

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Miami-Dade is a distinctive and very diverse county in Florida. With a population in 2010 of 2,496,435 million, this county includes 27 cities and roughly 284 neighborhoods (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011). Miami is well known for its glamour, fashion, prestigious appearance, beautiful scenery, celebritie...

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" This information leads me to believe that not only from an outsider's standpoint such as students or parents but also someone that works in the criminal justice system also believes that with the use of armed officers in our schools creates a school to prison pipeline. ...

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