According to Mauser, large majorities of the general public in both countries "support gun control legislation while simultaneously believing that they have the right to own firearms" (Mauser 1990:573). Despite the similarities, there are apparent differences between the general publics in the two countries. ... From our textbook, Why Nothing Works, Marvin Harris points out that the "American Constitution guarantees citizens the right to bear arms, and this has made it possible for U.S. criminals to obtain firearms more readily than their counterparts in countries like Japan......

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For too many people in this country, the answer is "yes."" ... This is why every industrialized, developed country has given up on it. ... Budgets are being cut all across the country including education; millions of dollars are being wasted. ... A small number of countries continue to execute children and minors. During 1994 2,331 child prisoners were executed in thirty-seven countries (Policy Debate pg 1). ...

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Throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s CSOs expanded and refined and whole plethora of community-based penalties were developed. ... When the new labour replaced the conservatives in 1997, they continued the 'get tough' law but argued that an 'excuse culture' had developed within the youth justice system and implied that young offenders could not help their behaviour because of their social circumstances. ... There are more people being sent to prison than any other Western and Southern European country, current statistics show that for every 100,000 people, 151 of them are jailed...

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The author also goes into depth about past generations of the Bosket family dating all the way back to 1896 discussing the harsh realities that each generation Bosket had to go through and what turned them into the monster that soon developed Willie Bosket. ... This county is well known for being the most violent county in the country from the perspective of historians. ...

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Annotated Bibliography The Death Penalty for Juveniles The following research draws upon different opinions and perceptions for and against the further enactment of the death penalty for juvenile offenders. The various articles that are presented draw conclusions on the pros and cons of using the death penalty as punishment for young offenders. Numerous views surfaced in my research such as the views of president Bush, prominent authors and court officials as well as the views of individual states. In order to fully evaluate this sensitive topic I have presented a mixture of opposing p...

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In terms of symbolic and mediated forms of violence, such as rituals, it is hard for us to understand why violence isn't committed the same in each culture or country. ... The National Institute of Justice wrote a report on how family life can have an impact on violence and they found that if a child experiences violence as a young child, this can affect the way their brain develops, which could potentially lead to a violent outburst in later life; 'poor prenatal care, prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol, exposure to high levels of lead in the environment, and early abuse or negl...

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The headlines, large and looming, spread across the front page of every newspaper in the country. ... Edwin Sutherland developed a theory that attempted to explain how group relations impact a person's attitude and behaviors. ... If our communities are not responsive to the needs of families and their children, this neglect can develop into school violence. ... When parents fail to do so, children may develop negative--and often violent--behavior patterns. ...

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In addition, Canadians must still register prohibited and restricted firearms Crimes involving guns cost Canadians more than $3 billion a year, this is like 93$ a year from everyone in the country. ... Police do what they can to try to stop these gun rings from distributing them around the country but it still happens. ...

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With this information he developed the theory of the born criminal. ... Lombroso was concerned about the isolated parts of the European country side where he conducted his research. ... His solution to this problem was to develop he prevention of crime through the development of a science of eugenics. ...

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The apparent similarity in the state of criminal law in these countries and the sharing of common problems is not to be unexpected. Both countries have comparable cultures and similar colonial beginnings. ... The issues stemming from this unfortunate problem have been extensively reported and addressed in both countries. ... As an example, in the mid-1960's, in Australia, a common-law country arguably very connected culturally and economically to New Zealand, the attitude about convicted persons and punishment as law professors Howard and Morris state was, "It has long been the view tha...

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Structure is very important in the life of a developing child. ... The final assumption maintains that behavior develops from a person's entire life experience as a whole as well as from particular instances and recent events. ...

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Other countries that no longer have the death penalty have not experienced an increase in the number of murders. ... Countries such as Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, and Belgium have not carried out executions since the early part of the century, yet these countries have not experienced a rise in crimr rates (Block, 1983). ...

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The United States is known for the safety and security over its people. The government does not take crime lightly, that's why the prison system was introduced. Over the years the crime rate in the Unites States has steadily increased. The issue the government now faces is the overcrowding in all pr...

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All of my life I've wanted to be an officer of the law, more specifically an R.C.M.P. Though as my life went on and I grew older I realized that these goals maybe unreachable. So I set out in the world of finding a career that would satisfy my financial and family needs, and personal goals. In th...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act requir...

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