The only positive effect , Mundt, found in the study was the decrease in the use of firearms in robbery with comparion to trends in the United States . ... In his book, The Saturday Night Special, Robert Sherrill explains the cheap, usually illegal, easily concealed handgun that plays a part in so many crimes in the United States. ... In their study they found that "in Canada there were 443 handgun killings per 100,000 people compared to 4108 in the U.S. over the period of 1977-1983" . ... Examining the above materials can identify similarities and differences found in the va...

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Some people think that guns should be more harshly regulated, while others believe that they should be more easily available. ... The founding fathers made it crystal clear in the Constitution that the ability to own guns is a right, and this decision has been confirmed by our nation's courts and by the custom and practice of the generations that came before us throughout our history. ... The founding fathers anticipated that gun control could become a serious issue in the future, so they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution. ... With gun registration maps online for the entire ...

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In media representations, young people, especially young men and boys, easily attract and are readily ascribed offender status yet have to work hard to achieve any kind of victim status (Brown, 1998; Munice, 2004). ... Madeleine has never been found and no one has yet been held accountable. ... Interpersonal crimes, for example sex and violence, can easily be portrayed as dramatic and titillating than non-violent crimes, especially if children can be added to this increasingly toxic mix of news values. ...

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Is it physically violent behavior provoked sometime by bullying, by personal differences, by gang disputes, and causes that are not easily identified. ... Another study found by high school, 25% of students fear victimization by their peers. ...

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Due to the overwhelming caseloads processed through the court system, the needs of the offender for additional treatment (i.e., drug addiction, mental illness, alcohol abuse) find themselves incarcerated in an already overcrowded jail or prison with little or no treatment programs to address their issues. One point of view to take is offenders do not have constitutional right to treatment. They committed the crime; they can do the time. On the other hand the view point of balancing prison and jail overcrowding, public policy, the right to fair and equal treatment, and assessing those who can...

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What about those who are wrongly accused but are found guilty in a trial? ... How can a judge feel after they have falsely accused someone of committing a crime they didn't do, then come to find out there is evidence found leading to the fact that you were wrong. Someone's life in your hands and you just through it away so easily. ...

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On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero. (4) In one study, researchers found no significant differences in total robbery rates between cities where guns were widely available and cities where they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons. (5) The best available evidence, based on at least eight national surveys of the gene...

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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. ... They need money quick and easily and the gang is an easy source to obtain this. ...

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A study in Georgia found that in matched cases, prosecutors sought the death penalty in 70 percent of the cases in which a Black killed a white, and 15 percent of the cases in which a white killed a Black.9 Although these numbers cannot be extrapolated to indict the entire nation's prosecutors, other figures do indicate vast disparity. ... It also found that Black killers of white victims are far more likely than white killers of Black victims to receive the death penalty.10 Although the Court upheld the death penalty, it only did so because of precedent which states that discrimination m...

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Meanwhile, the FBI had found where the Rider Truck was rented from. ... In the end the jury found Timothy McVeigh guilty of one hundred sixty-nine counts of murder after on three days of deliberation. ... Terry Nichols was found guilty of federal crimes of conspiracy and manslaughter, the state of Oklahoma tried to charge him with state murder charges but was hindered by the double jeopardy laws. ...

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After consulting a criminological text such as The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds, one comes to find that common criminal theories are not only evident in criminal society but also tie closely with criminal beliefs and values. The main focus of this particular case study, Sam Goodman, is a prime example to use when illustrating these theories" role in the criminal world. Discussions of his experiences in the criminal, and also non-criminal world help to shed light on how Sam has exhibited these theories throughout his life, sometimes unknowingly, because they had just been worked into h...

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During the 18th century the legislations that protect children did not exist. Children were tried and sentenced for crimes they committed and were even sometimes put to death. In the 19th century people reformed for a change in the way that juveniles were treated within the criminal justice system. ...

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Without the conviction of morality, the easily frightened will not break the law, but the fearless will break the law, the irrational will break the law, and all others will break the law. ... During highly publicized death penalty cases the homicide rate is found to go down but it goes back up when the case is over (Bailey). ... Isaac Ehrlich found out through his research that capital punishment did deter (Van den Haag, 210). ...

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