Again there's no money unless you have the money to start your own business. ... I could sell them for a fraction of the price that the companies could and make some money. After a summer doing that and making good money I found out that these companies don't like you selling clothes with their names on them. ... This seemed good at the time I was busy and making money, when a bunch of fiends of mine decided to move to BC, I jumped at the chance. ... After several months of this I became bored once more and realizing that's there is no money in this field either. ...

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The Office of national Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) summarizes the drug to crime relationship in three ways: [d]rug defined offenses, [which are] violations of laws prohibiting or regulating the possession, use, distribution or manufacture of illegal drugs, [d]rug related offenses, to which a drug's pharmacologic effects contribute; offenses motivated by the user's need for money to support continued use; and offenses connected to drug distribution itself [and the] [d]rug using lifestyle, a lifestyle in which the likelihood and frequency of involvement in illegal activity are increas...

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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). ... THE EXTENT OF CRIME In the present, the marijuana industry is linked to organized crime, money laundering, home invasion, extortion, assault, and murder. ... While the size of that industry has shown a slow but steady increase in some provinces, it has reached epidemic proportions in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec (Statistic Canada, 2004). ...

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Instead, to a higher or lower level, they increase the risk of criminal behaviour. ... Criminologists stress this point by saying that risk factors for crime are increasing in their effect. ... These, too, are increasing in their effect. ... To suggest that child neglect increases the risk of delinquency, or that alcohol abuse increases the risk of domestic violence, is not saying that parents are to blame for delinquency or that alcohol abuse is to blame for domestic violence. ... Secondly, is that the communication between children and their adopted parents can increase the chance of l...

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Ever since Columbine there is an increase in coverage of school shootings, making it seem commonplace in our communities. ... To the average American, it would seem as if violent crimes are increasing at an alarming rate. ... Also, both avenues of media violence are also associated with an increase of crime as well, but those findings are only speculative. ... The idea of the study, which tested if creating a personalized avatar affected violent behaviors, showed that an increased amount of sauce equaled an increase in aggression as well. In the study those who created personalized avatars, &...

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It cost a lot of money to hold a death penalty trial. ... It also cost money to house these criminals in special cells in different parts of the prison. It even takes money to operate the execution itself. ... Now, executions are largely shrouded in secrecy, although they are increasing open to the victim's family and appear with some frequency as the subject of fictional movies. ...

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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...

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In fact, with delinquency rates increasing, the problem becomes more of a desperate need to find something that works. ... Kurt Kumli, a deputy district attorney believes, that the "more swings you take", the more you increase your chances that something good will come out of the situation (Frontline 9). ... It is easy to sit around and wait to punish a child after they have done wrong, but if action is taken in order to prevent their wrongdoing, then not only would that help the child to learn right from wrong faster, but it would save more money in court hearings, spare feelings of unkno...

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It would cost taxpayers a lot of money to keep this up and running, which a lot were not happy about at all. Over $2 billion dollars was spent to try to get this registry up and running, taxpayers believe that this was just a waste of their money. ... Low education and a hard up bringing increase the chances of someone becoming involved in criminal behavior. ... This will lead them to commit crimes, which usually involve money and livelihood. ... It is easy now a day to buy a gun off the streets as long as you have the money. ...

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The government has been wasting billions of dollars a year on a program that does absolutely nothing to reduce crime, money that could be better spent on stimulus programs or reducing the deficit in our struggling economy. ... Many people believe that the only thing guns are good for is increasing our nation's homicide rate and enabling mass murders, but they couldn't be farther from the truth. ...

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For example if an individual sees a wallet with money in it, he will steal it. ... Being as bright red in colour as it was, it made him an easy target for Tsotsi to follow, even at a distance (Fugard, 2006) and his third mistake was the fact that he paid for his train ticket with money out of his pay packet. ... " Tsotsi, also known as David, fails to achieve where money is concerned. Not having money is one of his biggest strains. ... Money is not available to David in a legitimate way, with his street smarts; he goes out and finds it illegitimately by robbing people. ...

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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 pri...

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In LA County alone gang related incidents increased 189% from 1988 to 1989. ... Most do not even have a high-school education and making money on the streets earns youths respect and freedom. ... It is not unusual for an area of high demand to increase profit on its initial investment by a factor of four. ... It becomes obvious why violence is often the result of disputes over the best sale areas and why the opportunity of jobs paying minimum wage do not sound appealing to an individual involved in such a money making enterprise. ...

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The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". But how much of this is true? Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there has been inequality. Appearance has held such precedence...

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Capital punishment has been banned in most western countries, although, countries like the United States, despite earlier attempts to eliminate capital punishment have now had an increased amount of support from several states, in the use of capital punishment for serious offenses such as murder. ... Money is always worried about in any government's budget. ... It is argued that the social cost of keeping a criminal alive, sheltered, eating and sleeping out of tax payer's money is shocking, whereas homeless people all around the country would benefit much more from this money. ...

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Taxpayer money is spent housing, clothing, feeding and medical care on offenders in jails and prisons that are not providing much in the way of being a productive citizen. ... Other types of problem-solving courts include community courts that function by increasing court time for minor misdemeanor offenses, replace jail and fines, collect offender data, offer comprehensive resources and services within the community, and punishing noncompliance with stricter sanctions. ...

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Instead of putting money into childcare, low-income housing, employment training and food subsidies, the Regan administration put enormous amounts of funding towards the building of new prisons, at an estimated of cost of $50,000 per bed. ... Between 1981 and 1991 the federal government cut its contribution to education by 25 percent and increased it allocation for criminal justice by 29 percent. ... The bases of their argument were quite simple, had Pat had enough money to afford a good lawyer, they wouldn't then be pleading for his life. ... In instances, a sum of money was paid in ex...

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Over the years the crime rate in the Unites States has steadily increased. ... The solution presented would save a lot of wasted time for inmates and money for the government. ... With money the government saves by keeping out prisoners they could put the money toward more important aspects of life. ...

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Butch was in an out of Institutions for his psychological issues, as Butch got older his deviant culture began to increase and he would get involved in more criminal activities. ... When the clerk of the pawn shop tells him to get outta here I don't have your money Butch gets enraged and picks up a knife that he claimed was sitting on the counter, he then stabs the pawn broker in the chest killing him instantly as well as the customer that walked in on Butch committing the act. ...

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During the moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States, murder increased by one hundred percent ("Justice For All" 5). A review of the fourteen nations who abolished the death penalty showed that the murder rate increased by seven percent from the five-year pre-abolition period to the five-year post-abolition period ("Justice For All" 5). ... By increasing the use of the death penalty, thousands of lives could be saved. ... Of course, it is impossible to make that a reality, but our government can make justice much more swift, severe, and certain than it already is if we simply incre...

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I. INTRODUCTION During the past century, the english-speaking legal world has experienced real and considerable change in the areas of criminal law and criminal sentencing procedures. These ever-changing systems of legal processes, rules, and theories are typically reflective of the society's cultural make-up, beliefs, and level of social advancement. As the common-law evolves and changes we gain deeper understandings of crime, the motivation of crime, and rehabilitation of criminals. Many legal jurisdictions often adopt different definitions on what is deemed a crime and how to t...

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Dinkins's police program, known as "Safe Streets, Safe City," the department's average daily patrol strength -- officers in radio cars and on foot patrol during a 24-hour period -- has increased from 6,640 in August 1990 to 7,813 for the current fiscal year, ending in June 1993 "(Wolf,1993,p.1). ...

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"Sexual Violence- While the crimes of "rape- and "incest- have been on the statute books for hundreds of years, it was not until the 1970s that "sexual violence- was more fully explored and developed as a concept. Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). Feminism responsible for debunking some of the myths about rape • women "ask for it...

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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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