It is defined as any law or policy designed to limit or abolish the sale, possession, and use of firearms. Gun control proponents argue that firearms cause tragedies and massacres (such as the Newtown and Columbine school shootings) while gun rights supporters claim that they are needed for sport, protection from tyranny, and self-defense. ... Ordinary law abiding citizens may have no interest in or need for this information, but criminals surely will. ... Isn't it ironic how laws like gun registration, made to reduce firearm violence, can instead arm criminals with the very guns the gove...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. ... Violence at school often involves the use of weapons. ... School violence occurs on school property, on the way to or from school, during a school-sponsored event, and on the way to or from a school-sponsored event. ... Regardless of family and community dependence on schools to educate, shelter, and discipline their children, most schools have difficulty playing multiple roles as educators, surrogate parents, social service, or law-enforcement agencies ( Ross, 2012). ... Sometimes after consulting with parent...

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The idea behind juvenile court was that children in trouble with the law should be helped rather than punished. ... A delinquent child is one who has committed an act that is a crime for adults under federal, state, or local law. ... Status offenses include running away from home, skipping school, refusing to obey parents, or engaging in certain behaviors such as drinking alcohol while under the age of majority. ... The idea behind juvenile court was that children in trouble with the law should be helped rather than punished. ... The idea behind juvenile court was that children in trouble wit...

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In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. ... In schools with Zero-Tolerance policies, these minor disruptions are handled by law enforcement rather than school faculty, blurring the line between the classroom and the courtroom. ... The general public perceived the epidemic to be the result of lenient laws and many advocated for more punitive practices to be implemented by law enforcement in retaliation. ... These tough-on-crime laws aimed to decrease crime through deterrence effects, h...

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A handgun carried concealed is a great way to offer that protection What gun control advocates can't perceive is that gun control laws are aimed at the legal buying and selling of guns. ... All the gun control laws are not about preventing crime. Law abiding citizens who are armed will prevent crime. ... Those favoring gun control laws claim that such laws would keep more guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals in an increasingly violent world. ... "Gun control laws might be accurately called victim disarmament laws...

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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. ... "From this perspective law, law enforcement agencies, and government itself are instruments of the ruling class to maintain advantageous positions in society and to control those who pose a threat to that position." ... 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 countr...

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Sutherland's main influence came via the Chicago school and W.I. ... 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 a good amount of law enforcement as well. ... The Chicago school had already revealed that the areas any city that has the most immigrants and highest crime rate tends to be in the central area o...

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Crime is usually defined simply as a violation of the criminal law. ... If you are in the Netherlands you will not be breaking the law if you purchase Cannabis yet in Britain you could face the maximum prison sentence of two years. ... The law does change though through time. It has to be updated from time to time which is why the law regarding the purchase and use of Cannabis has been downgraded from five years to two years. ... This process involves a wide range of `agencies`, of which the most important are school and the mass media. ...

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Juvenile delinquency is termed as an inconsiderate behavior by a minor, especially behavior that would be unlawfully carrying a punishment, if the actor were an adult, but instead is usually penalized by special laws pertaining only to minors. On the other hand, juvenile delinquent is a minor guilty of criminal behavior, which is usually disciplined by special laws not pertaining to adults. ... Arrest  The juvenile justice process often begins with an investigation by a police officer either because he or she observers a law violation or because a violation is reported (Simonsen, 1...

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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. ... Children who underachieve in school for example may have parents whose expectations of them are comparatively lower. ... Social Control theory suggests that a person's ties or bonds to social institutions such as family, church, school, etc. prevent him or her from pursuing criminal activity. ...

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Lombroso began studying the bodies of renowned criminals unlike the studies conducted by the criminologist who believed in the classical school. ... He further argued that the law should seek some sort of retribution from those who were incapable of restraining themselves from anti-social behavior. ... This research was said to have made Lombroso the founding father of the school of positivist. These ideals and theories rejected the classical schools ideals that all crimes resulted from a choice the could be potentially made be anyone. Lombroso did not disagree with the classical school th...

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Poor school achievements are known to be a good predictor of involvement in crime. ... Research investigating the shared outcomes of IQ and school achievement on crime, still, mainly agrees that it is school performance, which stops being significant (Hirschi, and Hindelang, 1977). This then could be pointing to poor school performance as only comparable with delinquency because those who do inadequately at school are usually less intelligent. ... Since procedures, which help school attainments are really not going to cause much effect on intelligence, this proposes that school performance d...

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[were] more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the influence, drunkenness, or liquor law violations, [along with] more than [nine] times likely to be arrested and booked on assault charge[s]" (ONDCP 2000). ... A study conducted for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, for example, found treatment to be 15 times more cost-effective than law enforcement at reducing cocaine abuse. ... In the 1980s, many new American drug laws resulted from escalating efforts to "get tougher" on drugs and drug users. ... Common measur...

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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. ... After high school not knowing what the world would offer or what I could offer it, because I never finished high school ,four credits short of my degree, and swore I would never return. ... What could a boy do without his high school? ... Years ago if you had high school and were big enough you had the job. ... In the early 1700's the Russian tsars also established a police system to enforce their laws. ...

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Most do not even have a high-school education and making money on the streets earns youths respect and freedom. ... PSD, which is an after school community based program, provides artistic alternatives to teenagers who have problems with school, their families or the community. ...

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The most significant study conducted to evaluate the evidence of the "innocent executed" is the Bedau-Radelet Study (Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases, 40, 1 Stanford Law Review, 11/87). ... (Markman, Stephen J. & Cassell, Paul G., "Protecting the Innocent: A Response to the Bedau-Radelet Study" 41, 1 Stanford Law Review, 11/88). ... Had a high school student presented such a report, where 50-60% of the material was either false or misleading, a grade of F would be a likely result. ...

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Two gunmen, part of the Trenchcoat Mafia, walked into their school at 11:30 am in Littleton, Colorado and started firing. ... People were afraid to send their children to school, in fear of what the day holds. ... In the eighteenth-century, the law did not distinguish any differences between juvenile crime and adult crime. The common law was that no child under the age of seven could be found guilty of a serious crime. ... In an article for Law and Human Behavior, Woolard, Fondacaro, and Slobogin declare, "rehabilitation is perceived as too costly, ineffective and offensive to notions of ju...

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INTRODUCTION The Electronic Encyclopedia's definition of the word "crime- is an act committed in violation of a law forbidding it and for which a court may impose a variety of punishments including imprisonment, death, fine, or removal from office. ... 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). ...

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Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. Butler's thesis, published in an article in the Yale Law Journal, is that "for pragmatic and political reasons, the black community is better off when some nonviolent lawbreakers remain in the community rather than go to prison. ...

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Unfortunately research suggests fewer than half of serious violent crimes by juveniles are reported to law enforcement (Lopez and Emmer 2002). ... Some signs that a child may be involved in a gang or in gang activities are; they may have new friends or stop hanging out with their old friends or they may not let you meet any of their friends, they may start spending a lot of time away from home, they may display a lack of interest in school or school related activities and their grades may drop, they become difficult to deal with, argumentative, they may start to use drugs or alcohol, the...

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Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. ...

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Ever since Columbine there is an increase in coverage of school shootings, making it seem commonplace in our communities. ... An example is the Stop and Frisk laws in New York that allows officers to stop anyone who seems suspicious. The law is usually disproportionally enforced on people of color ("Crime in new york city" 2014). ... Using fear as a justifier, it opens the door to laws like Stop and Frisk which begin to infringe on the rights of the individual. ...

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This is in stark contrast to the idea that there must be some sort of natural law which governs all human beings. According to the theory of natural law, our laws are merely a reflection of this foggy, grander conceptual law which exists somewhere in the minds of all people. In our society, we make the best laws that we can in accordance with the general idea of morality most people have. ... We make a conscious decision to have sex with another individual, and I feel that most people in our culture, especially since the initiative to have sex education in schools, know that sex can result ...

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A society's legal system is based on this premise, and therefore a violation of acceptable conduct is a violation of the laws of that society. ... This compared with 19 percent of a control group, although methodological concerns have been raised over the socio-economic background of the control group; who were private school educated, a factor which may have affected their average physique. ... Kline argued that normal law-abiding citizens who have control over their id acknowledge the threat of punishment and this provides sufficient deterrent from antisocial behaviour. ...

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The only people that can get access to a juveniles record are law enforcement personnel. ... Studies show that children who grow up in low income homes are less likely to achieve in school and are less likely to complete their schooling than children with more affluent parents (J. ... There is a higher chance of poor family youths dropping out of school then a youth thats family has money. ... A broken home may cause law violating behavior, anti-social behavior, and greater susceptibility to peer pressure. ...

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