Computer technology presents many new challenges to social policy regarding issues such as privacy, as it relates to data mining and criminal investigations. ... Within the federal government, departments dealing with law enforcement, national security, criminal justice, the private sector, foreign policy, critical infrastructure and social issues are all involved in the ongoing efforts to develop these solutions. ... On the issue of cyber crime, Canada is an active participant in an number of international organizations such as the G8 Group of Senior Experts on Transnational Organized Crim...

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Structural violence refers to an orderly method in which social structures either harm or to somewhat disadvantage individuals. ... "Structural violence is visited upon all of those whose social status denies them access to the fruits of scientific and social progress" (Farmer, 2001). A main issue with structural violence as previously mentioned is its invisibility, and because of this assigning liability is difficult, therefore how can punishment be administered with no one to blame. ... Secondly it has been argued that violence is deviant, legally, socially or morally, from the mainstream ...

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Various laws and regulations of customs authorities are being issued more and more often. ... The history of civilization, the development of the state and law show that through the application of criminal prohibitions and sanctions, none of the states is able to solve the social problem of crime combating in general, the economic smuggling in particular. ... Market relations, accompanied by unemployment, property and social stratification, competition, stimulate the growth of economic crime. ... The mechanism of this control assigned criminal and customs laws the place of last chance when oth...

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(Barberet, 2010) In essence, feminist victimology concentrates on the social construction of gender, and heavily focuses upon "uncovering, assessing and responding to the victimisation of women and, in particular, men's violence against women" (Newburn, 2013, pp. 322). ... According to Smart, (1989) in a research analysis of the criminal justice system, both radical and social feminists observed that the law was biased against women and in favour of men. ... Still, radical victimology has drawn attention to the theoretical victimisation of the powerless by exposing the structura...

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In reviewing the existing body of literature, I will underline the detrimental impact that zero tolerance policies have had on U.S. public schools and outline alternatives to school discipline that are more supportive of educational achievement and conducive to the needs of adolescents during this period of social and cognitive development. ... The mere perception of violence in schools can both physically and psychologically impact students in a detrimental way: impeding physical, social, or academic growth and development (Furlong, Morrison, & Dear, 1993). ...

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This strategy works very closely with police organisation and aboriginal community fight against public alcohol issues, homelessness, family violence and antisocial behaviour. ... Where this project is based on social approach to crime and preventative measures. ...

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The death penalty is morally and socially unethical, and should be interpreted as cruel and unusual punishment since it is both discriminatory and prejudicial; it has no proof of serving as a deterrent, and it risks the brutal and unacceptable injustice of executing innocent people. ...

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