As I grew older I began more and more to realize that this was the career for me, as I've always felt a need for helping people and my community. ... 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 doing nothing I became restless and moved to Shelburne and began working on boats doing mid-life refits. ... To further impose order in violent streets of a city of nearly a million people, he created three squads of police who were placed under the command of the urba...

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It's interesting that there is even a division of opinion concerning this question in both the people who support the death penalty and those who oppose it. ... Historically, executions not only were open to all, they were major public spectacles and at times people close to the victim participated. ... But even denied direct access to the execution, people in places like Mississippi until the 1940s gathered "late at night on the courthouse square with chairs, crackers and children, waiting for the current to be turned on and the streetlights to dim". ...

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Some people still see California as a state for the laid-back, people who sat in movies or television, surf, tan, and otherwise live a life of pleasure. ... (Westerman 2) The problem is not the judges' discretion, but the prosecutors' zeal in putting people in jail. ... "For Ernest Pizarro and his family, the move from one apartment to another within the same complex might not have seemed like a big deal. But because the convicted rapist didn't alert authorities of the move two years ago, he'll soon have a new address in prison, where he's been sentenced to 25 year...

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McVeigh was still in custody at the time and was soon moved to a more secure location. ... The trial was held in Oklahoma even though the defense tried to have it move as far from Oklahoma as possible in order to limit the amount of influence the community would have on the jury (Clark, 1995). ... Later he received the death penealty and was moved to the super max prison in Florence, Colorado (Ottley, 1995). ... One hundred and sixty-nine people died due to the blast, including one rescue worker (Jackson, 1996). ... Many people died, more were injured. ...

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Most people during this time where killed with an ax. ... People were often crucified, drowned, and beat to death. ... This angered and frustrated many people among the colonies. ... Fights would often break out, as people wanted to get the best "view " for the hanging. ... States began making public hangings illegal and moved towards private hangings. ...

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Differential association emphasis how an individual' interactions with people can have an affect on criminal behavior. ... By 'society' here, I mean society in the abstract, rather than a particular community, region, nation, or other geographically bounded collection of people" (Sutherland, 1939). ... Sutherland felt that these high rates in criminal behavior within the central area did not move as individuals moved out into the other areas in the city; he believed that there were certain values and morals in the central area were causing these higher crime rates (Suth...

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How can people respond to killing by killing. ... People think that execution is physically painless. ... Some people think it is painless because during the electrocution the prisoner does not move or speak. ... People legally desire justice. ... The state in which people live in is setting the example. ...

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For example, to a certain degree, many legal systems have moved away from the harsh practices of public torture, mutilation, banishment, and public hangings to more humane treatment. The relatively new concept of restorative justice is an effort to move away from "bigger threats, more punishment" mentality in the justice system. ... Criminal sentencing procedures are a means to deal with the people who have been convicted of crimes. ...

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These people defended life imprisonment as a more rational choice. ... It is believed that fear of execution discourages people from committing crimes. ... Historically, many people have been wrongfully executed for crimes that they did not commit. According to research, in the United States alone, there have been 23 incidents of innocent people executed since 1900. ... Often, the only people who know what really happened are the accused and the deceased. ...

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The verdicts in these cases have been less than acceptable, and this has caused people to ask more questions about our "justice " system. These cases and the dwindling faith in our justice system have people asking if race plays a key role in the sentencing of defendants. The role of judges also has people asking if they are making the right decision when they hand out verdicts. ... It makes people wonder what some factors are that can increase or decrease a criminal in getting a longer or shorter sentence. ... "Few people familiar with the state of race relations in the United States toda...

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There is a saying that goes something like, "If black people don't want to go to jail, then they shouldn't commit crimes.... When people think of criminals they often think of a minority (Volsky 2013). ... The law is usually disproportionally enforced on people of color ("Crime in new york city" 2014). ... The common thought is that playing violent video games gives people, especially youths, the propensity to commit delinquent acts of violence. ... Because of this inundation of popularized crime and violence, those two highly negative parts of our society have moved f...

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A few days later Willie would go on to take another man's life on another subway as well as attempting to rob two other people. ... The constant fighting in Edgefield left people feeling numb toward violence from the 1760s to the 1780s. ... Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population then whites, so when the votes came about the blacks were voting for the republicans whom would be fighting for black people's rights, the ratio is said to be 4:1 bl...

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This crime has now evolved into a thriving industry employing hundreds of thousands of people and generating billions of untaxed dollars in annual revenues. ... A countering theory suggests that since only some people surrender to environment influences, additional factors must be considered. ...

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"The practice of transferring juveniles for trial and sentencing in adult criminal court has produced the unintended effect of increasing recidivism, particularly in violent offenders, and thereby of promoting life course criminality. " [Cen07] There are two sides to every coin. There are two sides...

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For many people piracy adds an exciting thrill to maritime history with its adventure, romanticism, mysteriousness, and its alluring nature. ... The people of New England regarded sins to be crimes and used Biblical precepts and ideas to create laws and orders.9 The colonists used law as a way to secure religion in the community and keep the people free of sin. ... The people in the colonies all were enticed to hear the details of his career, the way he lived his scandalous life, and about his death. ... Many articles, in the eighteenth century, about piracy mention their immoral habits and co...

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However there are times when people try. ... Specifically the part that says the "right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." ... Many people feel that gun control violates the right of the people given in the second amendment the right "to bear arms". ... In conclusion there are valid reasons for why certain people feel that gun control is unfair. ... The battle over gun control Is not about controlling inanimate objects; it is about controlling people. ...

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Second, "the crime and delinquency rates of incarceration, and rates of arrest and of victimization of those who move away from these slums are indistinguishable from whites of the same social class."13 This fact suggests that socioeconomic factors are very important in the existence of crime. ...

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On a daily basis, Sam was dealing with criminals that thought like businessmen, basically allowing himself to believe that he was doing society a service, and running a business just like any other: "There are, after all, many similarities between a legitimate business and a fencing business - the incomes of both depend on the scope of operations and the operator's skill at marketing; both need people who can be trusted, people who can remain loyal, people who can keep secrets or at least are discreet about what they say, people who are on time, and people who are dependable."...

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Quality of education can be severely impeded by widespread fear among students, teachers and the general school community; if people are afraid to go to school, including school staff, there can be very negative impacts on the school environment (Mulhern, 1994). ... While policing in schools became increasingly more common and school administrators frequently transferred responsibilities of student discipline to law enforcement, people began to question if such harsh policies were necessary means of violence prevention (Fine et al., 2003). ...

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What started as a good idea based on real and pressing needs became, in the hands of people interested more in their hobs and an image of order, very much like what it was designed to replace-(Cole, 1972 p. xviii). ... Intake  The intake officer is responsible for determining whether or not a case should move ahead for further court processing.  The intake officer may recommend that a petition be filed, equivalent to filing a charge and then refer the case to the juvenile court prosecutor.  The juvenile may be detained but the decision is reviewed by a judge or ...

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His work showed that different groups of people, teach other people their skills, motivations, and beliefs; this, therefore, coinciding with my previous point earlier on how children may pick up certain ideas or traits from their parents if they are violent. ... This is done in three steps; ' first, how aggressive patterns of behaviour are developed; second, what provokes people to behave aggressively; and third, what determines whether they are going to continue to resort to an aggressive behaviour pattern' (Ray, 2011: 86). ...

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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). ... When a gang member moves from a city such as Los Angeles or Chicago to a small community, he will be "revered in that community" says David Gonzales, commander of the Arizona State Gang Task Force, "he has instant credibility, and boom, you have an instant gang." ... Often people are going to raise their kids, the w...

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Researchers suggest that service providers avoid removal from the home whenever possible and to minimize the frequency with which a child moves between foster homes (Shumaker, 1997). ... Differential Association theory posits that if a child displays deviant/delinquent behavior then (s)he ultimately learned that behavior from the people closest to him/her. ... This theory is based on the concept that people commit crime because it is the easiest, most efficient; most gratifying way to satisfy one's needs and/or wants. ...

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