My dream of being a police officer started at a very young age, as a child playing I was always a cop, never the bad guy, or every time I passed a police cruiser or officer of the law I was astonished at the man in the uniform, not the man, but "the uniform" was a symbol of lawfulness to me. ... Well I thought this would be right up my alley, to my surprise, when I found out it's not like playing around in the garage. ... In Japan in the seventeenth century the ruler had devised an police system in which each castle town had a military samurai warrior who served as town magistrate, judge...

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[pgs. 2-3] By associating himself with both worlds, Sam was playing a role in both worlds, and could have presumably lost touch with wrong and right. ... Hirschi's Social Control Theory proposes that if our bond with society is broken, in one way or another, then we will most likely become deviant, or withdrawn from society. ...

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(Camp,1995) Later that morning a 1977 yellow Mercury was pulled over by police in the small town of Perry, Oklahoma, which is some seventy-five miles from Oklahoma City (Ottley, 1995). ... The club would then have online town meetings in private rooms to approve memberships (Allbrition, 1998). ...

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Steven Wiley, the FBI chief overseeing the fight against violent crime says that the small cities and towns of 25,000 and less are now experiencing gang activity. ... All of these factors play a part in gang participation. ...

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