The Underground Economy Many people have heard of what is called the Underground Economy. ... According to Eric Schlosser in his book Reefer Madness this economy is described as "where economic activities remain off the books, where they are unrecorded, unreported, and in violation of the law." ... The last area he spoke about in his book was the porn industry going from illegal to legal in some areas, and being a very successful business here in the United States. ... Some of the workers on these farms does not have a home to live in. ... So now tapes were available for people to view th...

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Chapter two speaks of an invention called PCR. ... Finally a call to the leading newspaper in Richmond was made. ... Twelve years later he was going home, 5 days from his execution date. The next chapter discusses what it calls "junk science." ... This book proves that the truth of th...

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With no eyewitness, evidence at the home lead police to suspect O.J to be responsible for the crimes. ... When providing a theoretical analysis of this crime there are many things to consider: including people involved in the offender's life, the victim, and places. ... A bloody glove found outside the home matched one of the gloves found at O.J's guesthouse. ... (Guinness Book of Records, 1996, p.409). ... The Guinness Book of Records lists the case as the "most viewed trial" with a daily average of 5.5 million American watching (Guinness Book of Records, 1996, p.409). ...

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Travis Hirschi's 1969 book, Causes of Delinquincy, he focuses on the family, the school, and peers as the most influencial factors on a youth. ... The first three come from what is labeled as the "broken home" and will be classified as such. ... Of all the broken home factors divorce is the most studied and is often compared to the death of a parent. ... Wadsworths study called, Roots of Delinquincy, presented longitudinal studies of homes broken by divorce, desertion, or separation. The results showed that such homes were more likely to produce serious delinquency in comparison to homes ...

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I was doing great in my book however, my choices in my environment affected me later on. ... Detroit was home, but I only had a couple friends and little social life outside the house. ... I was still going back and forth from Farmington the Highland Park my first home. ... High school was a breeze, I was still very shy but I now had a hand full of people I could call my associates. ... They left home to go to school to continue the day as normal. ...

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Gary Lorden's book, The Numbers behind Numb3rs: Solving Crime with Mathematics, they respond to people's doubts on using real math in the TV show Numb3rs by arguing and showing that the math can be used in real life to help in investigations. The authors of the book start by summarizing the first TV episode of Numb3rs: Special agent Don Ebbs brings his evidence home because he has felt like he has hit a dead end in a rape and murder case. ... In the same chapter of the book, The Numbers behind Numb3rs: Solving Crime with Mathematics, the authors show how the first episode is base...

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"The delinquent is a rogue male" stated by Wooden and Blazak in their book on delinquency. ... Indeed, an important point to understand about the nature of delinquency, and particularly female delinquency, is that youth can be taken into custody for both criminal acts and a wide variety of what are called "status offenses." These offenses allow for the arrest of youth for a wide range of behaviors that are violations of parental authority: running away from home, being a person in need of supervision, being "incorrigible," "beyond control," in need of care and protection, and so on. ... N...

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Poverty, unemployment, inequality and boredom, as well as factors such as single parent families, child abuse, broken homes and also media violence, drugs and moral decline have all been used to attempt to explain the problem. ... In his book L"Umo Delinquente (1876) he argues that criminals were throwbacks to an earlier and more primitive form of human being and claimed to have identified a number of genetically determined characteristics which were often found in criminals. ... While working for the Bush administration's secretary of health and human services he was appalled by the ep...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate