Police enforced rules to the max of their ability, maintaining public order. ... Community policing was a new way for the police to serve the public and to enforce the law. ... Drug dealers were selling drugs more often on corners, these dealers would also confront passers by offering numerous types of drugs. Drug addicts were doing drugs out in the open add prostitution into the mix and you get a very unpleasant environment to be in. ... People were not very happy with the fact this policy was being enforced, but crime did begin to decline. ...

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Gangs in Jackson are responsible for drive-by shootings, murders, drug activity, and violence. He says that most of the gang members have migrated from Chicago and Detroit to capitalize on the drug market. ... A crack cocaine epidemic began in the mid-1980's and public concern of drugs and violence combined with youth gangs heightening. ... The role model may end being a criminal or drug addict. ... Since joining a gang gives direct access to the drug trade, with time it is easy to gain knowledge as to who the main dealers and suppliers are, and who the runners are, to deliver the drugs...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. ... The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. ... During the 1980's, the United States saw an increase in drug use and drug related crime throughout the country. ... This era, known as the War on Drugs, introduced zero-tolerance policies as a measure of combating this crime wave that so many feared. ... As these policies expanded in schools, controversy grew ar...

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It is mainly the young recruits that carry out the majority of the crimes for the gangs, including prostitution, robbery and the selling of drugs. ... Unfortunately research suggests fewer than half of serious violent crimes by juveniles are reported to law enforcement (Lopez and Emmer 2002). The data that are available focus primarily on use of weapons, presence of peers, drug and alcohol use, and other observable or easily defined correlates of offending situations. ... Some of the most popular methods of recruiting new members includes: Temptation At first the recruite...

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Meanwhile, offences such as prostitution or drug abuse would fall into the mala prohibita class. ... 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). ... Today, most law enforcement experts agree that over half of the marijuana is now grown domestically (RCMP). ... Furthermore, marijuana offences accounted for three-quarters of all drug-related incidents reported in 2000 (RCMP). ... Specifically, more attention needs to be placed on youths living in Vancouver's Easts...

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Gangs and criminal organizations" come in many forms - street gangs, youth gangs, organized crime gangs, drug gangs, terrorist gangs, prison gangs, etc.. A gang is a static or fluid organization, network or collective, possesses identifiable leadership or a leadership structure, associates on a cont...

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The prohibition movement and the drug trade policy were very substantial problems in the 1920s and 1930s (Sutherland, 1924). ... Law enforcement as a whole comes to an understanding about legal norms when their cultural and behavioral aspects are also on the same page. The fifth proposition says that the lower the power of the individual the higher the need for law enforcement (Turk, 1969). The lower the economic status of the individual the higher law enforcement will be in that social structure. ... If there is a good amount of individuals committing crime in an area then there will also be ...

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(Question 1) Juvenile delinquency is a complex social problem that significantly impacts all members and processes of a social structure. Delinquency refers to a set of behaviors that are not in line with the collective practices and/or ethics of the dominant social group. Essentially, these behaviors deviate from societal norms and more specifically they violate established criminal codes and laws. Juvenile delinquency incorporates not only general criminal activity but conduct that is only unlawful for youths such as running away from home and skipping school. Current research into th...

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Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist born in Venice, Italy on November 18, 1836 to parents of Jewish decent. He wrote several books which were published including a book on antisemitism. Blaming Jewish people for their conditions and proposed assimilation as the answer for problem of prejudice. Also in his career he published other books that were highly derogatory works on women. Lombroso studied at several universities including the following but not limited to the University of Padua, Vienna University and the University of Paris. ...

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