A gang can make a child feel secure and like they have a real family. ... Most towns have gang task forces and juvenile officers that parents can call to ask for help if they think their child is involved with a gang. ... They do house calls, counseling, and give prevention strategies as well as warning signs. ... In phase three officers go to the child's home and teach the parents signs to look for and about what might entice their child to join a gang. ... The child developed hyper­vigilance. ...

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Structure is very important in the life of a developing child. ... Parent-child attachment is also a key factor in the delinquency of a minor. Attachment refers to the process that bonds a child to a parent and is usually completed in infancy. ... The quality of a child's home life can also positively or negatively affect behavioral outcomes. ... Child service workers may have to intervene to help parents set limits and positively reinforce appropriate behavior. ...

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Then she realized that she should call the police; so she did. ... Of child murderers specifically boys ages 11-20, 63% killed the men who were abusing their mothers (Bruhn 49). ... There are several ways a child is affected by their parent's fighting. ... There are many ways a child can help to stop their tragedies too. ... If a fight gets serious at home a child need to call the police for support. ...

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Enzymes that break the DNA apart are put in and the broken segments are arranged by size on a sheet covered with gel, the process is called electrophoresis. ... Because 50% of the barcode is inherited from each parent the lines in the child's barcode that are not in one parent's must be in the other's. ... It will be used in divorce court cases so that if a parent is likely to develop a disease they will not be given custody of the child. ...

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Conduct In Military Housing Government housing or as some call it, on-base housing, serves as a benefit to our military families. ... A few weeks later the owner recovered the bicycles after spotting a child riding the bike through the same neighborhood from which it was stolen. Military Police were called and visited the home of the alleged thief and found multiple bicycles and parts in the garage. The child's mother denied any knowledge of the bicycles being stolen; the child was only 13 years old. ... Maybe your child is spending time over at a friend's home when the par...

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The amount of time child and parent spend together are equally important, including conversations and identification that may exist between parent and child. ... Parental imprisonment results in the absence of a significant figure in a childs life. ... Regardless a child is more prone to delinquent behavior if the parental influences are divorced. ... Wadsworths study called, Roots of Delinquincy, presented longitudinal studies of homes broken by divorce, desertion, or separation. ... Adoption has been seen as the best solution to three problems: a biological mother who cannot, will not, or i...

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Children can be called on to do adult tasks before they are ready, like caring for younger siblings. ... At this point a girl may decide to get pregnant and bear a child. ... The child must work for this love. ... A child is less apt to commit a crime with fathers visibly present. There is a saying that "it takes a whole community to raise a child." ...

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Many people believe that just because a child is not technically an adult in the eyes of the law this makes it ok for them to commit heinous crimes and not receive the same and rightful punishment as adults who commit the same crimes. ... If the situation calls for a severe punishment then this is what must be done regardless of age. When a child 14 years of age or older commits an act which would constitute a crime the district attorney may petition the juvenile court to transfer the youth to the adult court for criminal prosecution. ... The arrest of a child can be a complex and traumatic...

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But first let me state, for the issue of criminality, and the lack there of, children who commit crimes are protected under what is called the youthful offender act. ... I have found several statistics regarding child offenders. ... For example, if a child experiences hostility from older relatives or witnesses the father raping and or beating the mother, the social support for deviance overcome social controls and the child embraces deviant values and behaviors. ... These are what I like to call chaos seeking behaviors. ... Ellis calls these people "sensation seekers" who seek out stimulatin...

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Due to the lack of evidence police could not link Gacy to the missing child. ... There is three keys terms that are found in most killers: Mental illness, Brain damage, and child abuse. ... Many killers have an extremely rare disorder called multiple personality. ... Another disorder is called complexity a pattern of ideas and impulses that are emotionally charged and partly or wholly repressed. ... As a child they tend to measure themselves against others, particularly parents. ...

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He had called this scheme problem oriented policing or better known as POP. ... The next step after scanning is called analysis. ... Two main reasons for people abusing drugs are stress and being abused as a child. ... Child abuse is another huge reason for drug abuse. ... Many calls were being made through suburban and business buildings. ...

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That same someone may feel like it is an understandable reason for someone to kidnap an innocent child. ... Bowlby also discusses attachment in his theory called the attachment theory. ... Growing Up When the child becomes older they feel the need to become independent. ... Statistics show there's a higher chance of a child from a large family being a delinquent, because all the children aren't as closely attached to their parent, than they would be, if they were an only child. ... If that parent becomes overwhelmed or just plain tired and leaves that child, it could harm them f...

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His father didn't have the money to support a child so Perry floated from child homes for most of his early life. ... There was this one nurse she used to call me 'nigger' and say there wasn't any difference between niggers and Indians" (132). ... A child is molded by the experiences they have in their early years. ... As a child Dick was not subject to the amount of abuse that Perry experienced. ... The doctor found that Dick "shows fairly typical characteristics of what would psychiatrically be called a severe character disorder. ...

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Children can be called on to do adult tasks before they are ready, like caring for younger siblings. ... At this point a girl may decide to get pregnant and bear a child. ... The child must work for this love. ... A child is less apt to commit a crime with fathers visibly present. There is a saying that "it takes a whole community to raise a child." ...

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Other causes include failure at school, increased availability of drugs and alcohol as well as guns which to tend to increase probability of a child committing a crime although direct cause has not been established. ... Residential treatment usually is in a group home where the child undergoes psychological and vocational counseling. Non-residential treatment is where a child remains on their home and goes for treatment at mental health facilities. ... There is another program that is called Community Based Juvenile Justice which is a joining of schools, police. ...

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When Billy gave him the note, he calls it the "passport to his new life." ... " From a child protection perspective, separation has benefits. ... Separating a child from their parent can interfere with their development. The more traumatic the separation, the more likely the child will develop negative consequences. ...

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In "Convention on the Rights of the Child," in Article 37, part (b), it states that, "no child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily. The arrest detention or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time." ... This rule calls for no less and no more than a fair reaction for any juvenile that is accused of committing delinquent acts. ...

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They work for the best interest of the child. ... The theory that is used to explain this phenomenon is called the labeling theory. ... The gang would make the child feel loved. ... This phenomenon is called anomie. ... The theory of learning the actions of others and applying them to your life is called the social learning theory. ...

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This criminal class, which he called "Homo Delinquens" displayed external characteristics which betrayed their criminal disposition These features included a narrow sloping brow, a prominent jaw, high cheekbones, large ears and extra nipples, toes and fingers. ... To do this, the ego employs what Freud called "ego defence mechanisms" which protect the mind from imbalances but can manifest themselves in violent or aggressive behaviours; thus causing crime. ...

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Over one thousand protestors took to the streets in Sanford, Florida to call for the arrest of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. ... We can put a black man in the White House, but we cannot walk a black child through a gated neighborhood. ... Although Zimmerman claims he shot Martin out of self defense after the teenager attacked him getting into his car, voice identification software proved that the screams for help on the 911 call made by Zimmerman were not made by Zimmerman himself. ...

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Factors in a child's home determine the outcome of the child. ... Elena Rojas at twelve-years old was constantly beat up by her sixteen year old boyfriend, Elena seeked the refuge of an all girl gang called Take No Shit (TNS), from her boyfriend's abuse (Atkin 34). ... A high number of teenage girls drop out of gangs to mother a newborn child. ... Also to find someone that can be respected and thought of as a leader to follow, which replace the missing of a father or any other vital character in a child's life. ...

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According to Quinney, this is called a crime of resistance which attacks the system and those who are a part of it. ... The public called for justice to be served swiftly and harshly. ... This was proven at 10:00pm on September 6th, 1998 when federal agents in thirty-one American cities working in conjunction with law enforcement agencies from eleven different countries brought down the largest child pornography ring in the history of law enforcement (Allbritton, 1998). ... The club was composed of members that paid one hundred dollars a month for access to the child pornography library that w...

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There are several crimes that can be committed in a computer such as identity theft, cyber stalking, child pornography, frauds, plagiarism, and many others. ... This is called cyber terrorism where hackers can get the control of a government website with another computer, and they do this for a political benefit or for money. ... Criminals use internet to download illegal images such as child pornography or brutal sexual images. Many people can ignore those types of crimes, but people should report those individuals that have those types of images to stop child abuse. ... Individuals that hav...

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Gun Control The basic premise of the constitution is to allow people to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone else cannot take one's right to life. However there are times when people try. When that time comes, the victim must have a way to protect himself. A handgun ca...

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Capital Punishment is a legal concept that the offender is put to death as the punishment for severe crimes like Murder related to rape or child molestation, Murder for hire, Murder involving torture, etc*. Crime causes to the result of capital punishment called capital crimes or capital offenses. ... He deprived 35-loved-innocent child from happy family. ... Family of 35-unfortunate victims of Ted Bundy can escape from the feeling that "they are not done enough with their child's lost" by his execution. ...

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