A juvenile delinquent is any person above the age of 7 and below 16 who commits an offense that would be a crime if committed by an adult. ... People that are poor are more prone to commit crime because they may live in places with substandard living conditions or may sometimes even be homeless. ... People living in these types of neighborhoods may pick up bad habits like using drugs. ...
In 1989 37.7 million working American, accounting for 39 percent of the total of income tax returns, received had incomes below $15,000. ... Living and working in St. Thomas, a New Orleans housing project for poor black residents, she was center to it all, she describes it "like living in another country:" The fear of violence, drugs and guns, law breakers and murder were not new to Prejean what became chilling were the racial inequalities within the law. ...
"If life is sacred, it means that every person has the right to live simply by virtue of the fact that he or she is a living and breathing human being. ... Bonner & Fessenden (2000) states, "10 of the 12 states without capital punishment have homicide rates below the national average. ...
Presented Problem- Gangs As defined by Sgt. M. Longo's website on "Gang Information" of the Huron Valley Mens, "a gang is a group of people that form an allegiance to the exclusion of others, for a common purpose of engaging in violent, antisocial, or criminal behavior" (www.geocities.com/rainforest/4207/gangs.html). Gangs have been a problem for years in the big cities of the U.S. In Los Angeles, they account for about half of the city's murders. ...
Deterrence Leslie Cantu: Fear of death deters people from committing crimes, proponents say. They also believe that if attached to certain crimes, the penalty of death exerts a positive moral influence by placing a stigma on certain crimes like manslaughter, resulting in attitudes of disgust and h...
