In the first crime scene, the victim is a female college student whose body was found outside her apartment near Cal State Northridge with no signs of outward trauma. The second victim is a young male college student who was found in an alley behind a campus cafe with his throat slashed. ... The perpetrator clearly was aware of how to get rid of body tissue with bleach and tied this case into the fourth crime by placing bleach at the scene. ... "The typical serial murderer is a white male in his 20s to 40s". ... In addition, both the female cases and the male with his throat slit in...

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Bullet Fragments Leave Unique Marks The Washington Post This article starts out explaining one of the snipers victim's. Their name was not released, but it does say that it was a male. The victim's body was a crime scene in itself. The bullet's fragments were "scattered inside his torso like...

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He says that women who are born criminals are "monsters" and "belong more to the male than the female sex." ... It appears that over the past two decades women have had to assume male roles in the home and workplace. These adaptations of male roles and traits are due to a higher divorce rate, leaving many single mothers and also the rise of women in typically male positions in the workplace. As women adopt these male traits and roles, this increases the involvement in crime. ... It is also proven that if a mother has too much androgen in her body during pregnancy and birth, her child will have...

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Whenever there is a media story in the news about a violent crime committed, we automatically assume that a male is a perpetrator. This is due to males being over-represented by the media, which will be discussed later on in this piece of work. ... As the offending period is between these two ages, it also coincides with the fact that this is also the start of the age where boys will go through puberty, experience changes to their body, and male testosterone is at its peak. ... First of all, Edwin Sutherland's ideas were one of the first starting points for this body of work. ... It was ...

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Roe (2003) classifies a crime as "a wrong against a state, either by commission or omission, regarded by that body as a criminal and one to which a punishment has been attached". ... This work was continued by Sheldon and Stevens (1942) and Sheldon et al (1949) who identified three basic body types; endomorphs, who are fat and soft; ectomorphs, who are thin and fragile and mesomorphs, who are muscular and hard. ... Sheldon examined 200 students and 200 criminal delinquents and categorised each of them according to body type. ...

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The Positive Schools primary focus was on the prevention of crime and the reformation of offenders, the demand for facts and scientific proof and that there are mind and body differences between people and that the punishment should fit the individual criminal, not the individual crime. ... Hooten studied all, adult-male groups of over 13,000 criminals from ten different states and compared them to a control sample of over 3,000 non-criminals from three of the ten states (Hooten 1939c: 35). ... Criminals have thinner beards and body hair, more straight hair than curly hair, more red-brown and...

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Sohail Shah, a thirty year old male clerk at the 7-Eleven located on Barbur Blvd. near Jackson Middle School, has been in the United States for four years. ... A type of perfume is sprayed on the resulting package to keep the decomposing body's smell in check. ... The body is then, if money allows, placed in a casket. ... The financial status of the body's family also affects the depth of the hole the body will placed in. ...

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Sex is dependant on your anatomy and hormones in the body whereas gender is the role in which society has created which describes the characteristics that society believe we should have. ... Between the dates of 2007/2008 to 2008/2009 in the United Kingdom, there was a small decrease of 2% in the number of female arrests from 251,910 to 247,127, compared to the number of male arrests which decreased by 1%, from 1,223,356 to 1,215,012. ... This is because of the role in which females have been given and carry out in society can determine the leniency of male officers. ... There is a pronounced ...

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This is not surprising that young males commit most of the serious crime. ... Similarly they claim that males with chromosome abnormalities have a bizarre appearance and they behave in ways that others find odd. ... The big difference between biological and psychological theory is that psychological theories differ in that they see the deviant's sickness and abnormality as lying in the mind rather than the body. ... Cohen agrees with Merton that sticking to society's dominant values caused problems for working class male youths in inner city areas, for as they experience fai...

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There is a drastic shortage of positive male role models. ... They do not need just a body, a passive, silent presence. ... The lack of a male role model at home is compounded by the lack of male role models at school. ... Could it not also be that teachers are not ready for normal five-year-old male behavior? ...

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Male colleagues subject them to humiliating initiation rituals and grope their breasts and bottoms. ... Sarkar and Rina Sarkar wrote they say, "Sexual assault on women, unlike any other offence, e.g., theft, robbery or murder, leaves a deep-rooted effect or stigma in the body and mind of a woman who has to live the rest of her life in society with the unpleasant shadow of this incident. ... In the book that I had read the author said, "Paraphilia's are primarily (but not exclusively) male disorders, many of which begin in childhood or adolescence and persist into adulthood. ... Males get ...

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The US Bureau of Justice Statistics concludes that the chance of a black male born in 2001 of going to jail is 32% or 1 in 3. Latino males have a 17% chance and white males have a 6% chance. ... The US rate of incarceration is five to eight times higher than other highly developed countries and black males are the largest percentage of inmates. ...

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Often, offenders share particular physical traits such as, being young males, muscular, having lower than average IQ, and a impulsive personality. ... Sugar consumption can cause a chain reaction in the body leading to anti-social behavior because the pancreas releases insulin which makes excess glucose. ... This shows that our biochemical make-up can also contribute to a persons motivation to criminal behavior but the way our body reacts to certain environmental toxins is not a valid explanation for criminal behavior. ...

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Justice's of the peace were all male until 1919 when women were allowed to hold this office. ... Crimes usually were all associated with young males and mostly involved property abuses. ... The Law Enforcement Officers Killed and assaulted reports intentional and accidental line of duty deaths of officers with information of weapons used, use of body armor and the circumstances surrounding their deaths. ...

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Justice's of the peace were all male until 1919 when women were allowed to hold this office. ... Crimes usually were all associated with young males and mostly involved property abuses. ... The Law Enforcement Officers Killed and assaulted reports intentional and accidental line of duty deaths of officers with information of weapons used, use of body armor and the circumstances surrounding their deaths. ...

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The Illinois Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for Kokoraleis, who has been on Death Row since 1982 for the murder of Lorraine Borowski, a 21-year-old woman whose body was found beaten, stabbed and mutilated in a DuPage County cemetery. ... He said Southern Baptists did not wish to remain silent in the midst of the current debate, in which a number of other religious bodies have called for moratoriums and studies on capital punishment. ... In murder cases, at least 2 "trustworthy" male Muslim witnesses to the crime are needed for a sentence of death. ...

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This paper will examine the extent of alcohol-related violence and some of the ways in which the Government and local bodies are addressing the issue. ... The BCS (2000) identified males' aged 16-29, visiting licensed premises regularly and with high levels of alcohol consumption as most likely to be victim of a violent assault. ... This sharing of information has only been possible since the implementation of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which allows public bodies to share information if aimed at reducing crime and disorder. ...

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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/rainfore...

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The majority of cases of juvenile sexual aggression appear to involve adolescent male perpetrators; however, a number of clinical studies have pointed to the presence of females and prepubescent youths who have engaged in sexually abusive behaviors. ~ Looking at social process theories one might conceive that youths who perpetrate these crimes against other children are lacking elements of social bonds; Commitment (family, success, future goals), Belief (honesty, morality, fairness, responsibility), Attachment (family, friends, community), and Involvement (school activities, sports, communi...

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The below excerpt is taken from The Body of Liberties of 1641 and can add to the understanding of why and how such punishments discussed were carried out. ... In 1672 Alice Thomas was found guilty of entertaining males in her home. ... On their first appearance in Massachusetts (July, 1656), where two male and six female Quakers arrived from Rhode Island and Barbados, they found that the reproach entailed on their sect by the insane extravagance of some of its members in England had preceded their arrival, and that they were regarded with the utmost terror and dislike by the great bulk of th...

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Statistics show that more than one-fourth of all black males and 16% of Latinos can expect to spend time in prison during their lifetime, while only 4% of white males will ever go to prison. ... In addition, a third of all African American males aged 20-29 are right now either locked up, on probation, or on parole. ... Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's body absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit the ground. ...

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FACTS Mr Praveen Singh, the accused was charged with three offences. He was charged with two statutory offences and one common law offence. All these offences took place on the night of August 20, 2000. He pleaded guilty with regards to the charges of reckless or negligent driving in contravention of s 63 (1) of the National Road traffic Act . Mr Singh was driving on a public road and whilst doing this he unlawfully and negligently passed a vehicle in front of him. ...

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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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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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