Through the "Say No to Drugs" campaign, the Drug Enforcement Administration found it necessary to include race and ethnicity as components of profiles used to apprehend drug dealers and traffickers. ... Characterizing minorities as disposed to criminality creates and perpetuates a wide range of additional social problems involving race relations in the United States (Carter, 2004). ... For each criminal, terrorist, or undocumented immigrant apprehended, many more law abiding minority citizens are treated unfairly through racial profiling. ... Because police look for drugs and cont...

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Mitigating factors are what the defence can use to advocate for a lesser charge and include lack of a prior criminal record, culpability of the victim, mental or physical illness, and circumstances at the time of the offense. ... It can also be argued that hate crime laws are unfair because they provide special protection for listed minority groups. It is no lie that ethnic minorities are targeted and treated with discrimination but should those minorities be more protected than Caucasians for example ("Counterpoint: Loving Hate: Why Hate Crime Legislation is a Bad Idea", 2009? ...

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The following factors: A racially biased judicial system, the effect of populist lobby groups, the politicization of crime, media centered on crime and Neo liberalism can be found culpable for the current punitive trends and the overrepresentation of ethnic minorities in the New Zealand adult penal system. ... Vigil has called multiple marginality; a phenomenon where ethnic minorities are subject to specific negative social forces. Multiple marginality has its foundations in racism, repression of culture and migratory patterns that lead to the formation of hotbeds of low socio-economic status ...

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The President's Task Force on Victims of Crime have proposed that the Sixth Amendment be modified to include specific rights to crime victims. ... The media also tends to focus on victims with higher visibility, i.e. minorities. The problem is that they do not focus on minorities as the victim but as the offender and as the only ones who commit these types of crimes. ...

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This in turn includes that there are never any mistakes when it comes to convicting a criminal, meaning that they don't believe in the mistaking of convicting an innocent person, despite evidence. ... There have been studies done that include statistics on how and why capital punishment is considered racially and socioeconomically bias. This is a leading and causing concern among citizens of minorities within the U.S. ... This seems to initiate that in most cases the targets of race are African American and Hispanics/Latinos, which actually happen to be the minority of the overall populat...

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includes interviews with the family of 21 year old Vandy Davis, an unarmed black father of three young children, who was shot and killed by white R.P.D. cops. ... As a Hispanic, I have experienced Police Brutality firsthand, and through video production I am able to expose how these cops out here treat minorities, my next project is titled "R.P.D.: Badges of Dishonor, Corruption and Murder!" ...

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As ethnic minorities, they are also likely to receive more strict judgments from juries than whites that commit the same crime. ... Together, their accomplishments include working at hospitals, teaching illiterates to read, creating a correspondence school, making significant developments in the World War II Malaria Project and writing a grammar book. ...

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Some of these conditions include the weather in and around the building, the direction the sun is facing/where shade is produced, and the rough temperatures of the ground, air, and between the body (in cases involving death) and the ground. ... The largest issue that comes with applying any form of forensic entomology to criminal law, especially the two minority subclasses, is that there are very few specialists available around the world that are able to use this line of work. ...

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These include cases involving the so-called "suicide by execution syndrome" in which a person with the desire to die but who also fears taking his own life will commit murder, believing the state will execute him. ... Statistics show that the underprivileged and minorities are more likely to receive the death penalty. It cannot really be disputed, because the minorities and under privileged are more often prosecuted for capital crimes. ...

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White gangs almost always originate in prison and are a minority. ... Some of their rules include: do not steal, respect all inmates, if you want something pay and if you think you can't pay then don't borrow, do not lustfully desire an inmate's visit, street beefs are dead in jail, respect the officers so that you can be respected, don't fight with your family, watch your personal hygiene, and If you want to talk to the police take somebody with you to watch your back and be a witness. ...

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Terrorism? Mafias? Gangs? These are all examples of key words that people use to describe organized crime because these are the ways that it is portrayed in the media. When talking about media, it includes things like news television, newspapers, radio stations, magazines, films/movies, and songs. R...

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The term mental disorder refers to a wide variety of mental health conditions that can affect your behavior, mood and thinking; these disorders include depression, anxiety, bipolar, attention deficit hyper disorder (ADHD) and addictive behavior. ... "While a minority of delinquent youth has mental health issues, approximately 50 to 66 percent of youth who are in the custody of the juvenile justice system across various types of settings have a mental disorder compared to 15 to 25 percent of youth in the general population....

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The term mental disorder refers to a wide variety of mental health conditions that can affect your behavior, mood and thinking; these disorders include depression, anxiety, bipolar, attention deficit hyper disorder (ADHD) and addictive behavior. ... "While a minority of delinquent youth has mental health issues, approximately 50 to 66 percent of youth who are in the custody of the juvenile justice system across various types of settings have a mental disorder compared to 15 to 25 percent of youth in the general population....

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These youths may also lack important containments which counter Internal pushes (self control of restlessness, discontent, hostility, rebellion, mental conflict anxieties, and need for immediate gratification), External pressures (adverse living conditions such as relative deprivation, poverty, insecurity and minority status), and External pulls (involvement in deviant groups, mass media and pornography). ... Ellis calls these people "sensation seekers" who seek out stimulating activities, which can include aggressive and violent behaviors. ... Factors that have received the most attention t...

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The primary purpose of the juvenile justice system is to hold juvenile offenders accountable for delinquent acts while providing treatment, rehabilitation, and programs designed to prevent recidivism. Juvenile courts have recognized that there are developmental differences between adults and juvenil...

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Introduction This research paper will be focusing on the controversial issue of mandatory minimum sentences in Canada. There has been much debate over the topic, as it has quickly become implemented for the sentencing of drug offenders, drug-related crimes and banned firearm offenses. I will argue ...

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These include rebelling against authority, listening to loud music, hanging out, drinking alcohol and getting high. ... Laws such as the Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act'' are designed to require states to address prevention efforts to reduce the disproportionate number of minorities that come into contact with the juvenile justice system. ...

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But a small minority is ready to believe in these statistics and to abandon the deterrence argument. ... This high cost includes $265,640 for the trial; $294,240 for the state appeals; $113,608 for federal appeals (over six years); and $135,875 for death row housing. ...

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