The idea behind "white-collar" crime and what it is can be quite confusing. "White-collar" crime is largely understandable in terms of routine activities and crime opportunities. It is difficult to determine who falls under the title of a "white-collar" criminal. ... Popular images have African American people being poor and committing more violent offenses, while the white people are supposed to be members of the middle class and carry out extreme "white-collar" offenses. ... A high percentage of people in trouble for "fancy" crimes are white, at the same time, a very low percentage of white ...

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The idea behind "white-collar" crime and what it is can be quite confusing. "White-collar" crime is largely understandable in terms of routine activities and crime opportunities. It is difficult to determine who falls under the title of a "white-collar" criminal. ... Popular images have African American people being poor and committing more violent offenses, while the white people are supposed to be members of the middle class and carry out extreme "white-collar" offenses. ... A high percentage of people in trouble for "fancy" crimes are white, at the same time, a very low percentage of white ...

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Is street crime more harmful than white collar crime? ... Street crime is far more dangerous than white collar crime. ... People must put bars on their windows and alarms in their houses and cars. ... We don't discredit the fact that white collar crime isn't dangerous. ... Therefore there's a good chance that some of the people are criminals, white collar criminals. ...

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Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? ... nesses close early and people avoid being on the streets. ... Where white-collar crime does not directly effect society, street crime does. ... People live in constant fear of being a victim of crime. ...

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In this prejudiced filled world where people are killed for walking down the street while black, I have come to learn the best possible thing to be in this world is white" (Thomas). ... She also is saying that in this world today white people have more of benefit in everything in jobs, in the criminal convictions, trials, and education. ... The media spreads the idea that the people of color use and abuse drugs more than white people. In a study done by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration indicates that white people and black people use drugs at a similar rate, y...

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The Race, Age, and Social Status of Death Row People who oppose the Death Penalty have long argued that the system of putting criminals on death row is unfair, favoring the white and the wealthy. ... This paper is going to tell about the people who have been executed and the people who are currently on death row. ... According to www.coadp.org, an African American is four times more likely to be sentenced to die than a white man. There have been one hundred and seventy four black people killed when they had a white victim and only twelve white people killed when they had a black victi...

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A black man who kills a white man is 63 times more likely to be executed than a white man who murders a black man (McCollum p 12). ... The death penalty is more often sought for black defendants, especially in cases where the victims are white. ... In the United States, the largest death row stands in Texas with 324 people: 144 whites, 120 African Americans, 52 Hispanics, 4 Native Americans, and 4 Asian Americans. The smallest states are Connecticut with 2 whites, New Mexico with 1 Native American and 1 white, and Wyoming 2 whites, (Mumia). ... It costs more to execute people than keep them in...

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For example in "Gilbert, Arizona, on May 3, 2012 a White supremacist, J.T. ... White supremacists are vociferous and commit a fait accompli by murdering others. ... The government equivocates the law to favor White Americans. ... The myopic view taken by the government has caused pain for many people. ... As citizens, it is imperative that there is action taken to notify the people who represent the vote. ...

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People should be treated equally no matter what race they are. ... Blacks and Hispanics tend to get more prison time than white males. ... Also, people might think that white criminals do the same crime as the black criminal, but because of the way they were raised they think that the minority should get a harsher punishment. Unfair policies and time of sentences between minority and white still exist today. ... Today, people of color make up 60 percent of inmates while comprising only thirty percent of U.S. ...

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For black men, the rate decreased by 9.8%.In 2000 they were incarcerated at 7.7 times the rate of white men, but that gap shrunk to 6.4 times the rate for white men. While the rate decreased for Black men that is not the case for white men. Incarceration rates for White men rose by 8.5% over the same period of time. ... The crime rate has gone down and many people have been advocating against juvenile confinement and trying a child as an adult. ... Incarceration is on the rise however many people advocate against imprisonment....

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Based upon the same evidence, a black defendant and a white defendant would receive different sentences. ... In addition, if the victim was white instead of black, the black defendant had six times a greater chance to receive a death sentence (144-9). ... At a White House conference, he expressed his concern about the death penalty. ... Innocent lives have been taken, and hundreds of innocent people have been convicted. ... "Death Penalty: The 23 Innocent People Who Died." ...

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In the novel, "A Time to Kill" by John Grisham many questions are answered such as, do people have the right to take justice into their own hands? ... The mainly white town reacts with shock and horror at this inhumane crime. ... Form these one hundred, ten white and two black citizens are chosen. ... A white girl being raped by two black men, who are later shot and killed by the father. They are asked to vote as if Carl Lee was the father of that little white girl. ...

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Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished In 2002, seventy-one people were executed in the thirteen different states. ... They feel more people should be put to death because it will deter people from committing acts of murder. ... The people that are against the death penalty feel that the death penalty violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. ... They claim that it is overused upon those people whose victims were white and minorities are unfairly targeted by a racist juror or jury. ... Of the seventy-one executions in 2002, fifty-three of them were white. ...

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By the 1930s, as many as 150 people were executed each year. ... More than 2,000 people are on "death row" today. ... With this statement from Genesis, some people could almost feel as if they are doing something religious. ... In the 20th century, when the death penalty was used for rape, no white men were executed for raping non-white women whereas most black offenders who raped white women were executed. ... And the store and life of the six people that were presented In The Exonerated expressed this well. ...

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They were often paid one quarter to one half the wages of their white counterparts working on the railroad. ... For example, In 1907 in Vancouver's Chinatown, a huge white mob ignited and engaged in a riot harming and destroying much of the people and property of that community (Henry,78). Also during these times, visible minorites were not able to enter various professions such as education, law, and pharmacy due simply to the fact that they were minorites and a threat to the white community. ... Despite all these occurences and the attitudes held the white communi...

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Many people terms graffiti as criminal while others view it as a method of passing positive message (Torres, 2014). ... Graffiti is an art and is about expressions that can either be good or bad (White, 2014). White argues that, even some art may look beautiful or distorted. ... It should not be discarded due to its simplicity and creativity (White, 2012, p. 8). ... Graffiti can be regarded as an art if people break the boundaries that it is practiced by illegal groups. ...

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The most famous people to be executed are Socrates and Jesus. ... Throughout history, governments have been extremely inventive in finding ways to execute people. ... The fear of death deters people from committing crimes. ... A black man who kills a white person is 11 times more likely to receive the death penalty than a white man who kills a black person. ... Before the 1970s, when the death penalty for rape was still used in many states, no white men were guilty of raping nonwhite women, whereas most black offenders found guilty of raping a white woman were executed. ...

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Form example, in the article, the writer shows a chart of white men and the percentage of crime they have committed. Now since this article concentrates on rapists, for the white race, rape has a low percentage but if you want to talk about theft offenses or burglary, that's when you see the numbers start to rise. ... Poor neighborhoods tend to have people with low incomes which means that people have very low degrees of education. ... By looking at the statistics, we can all see the factors that lead people and what type of people to commit certain and specific crimes. This helps us ...

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American History X is about a man named Derek who was a co-leader of a white supremacy group called the D.O.C. Derek started having a problem with minorities ever since his father was killed putting out a fire in a black neighborhood because he was white. ... Derek is let out of prison after three years for killing two black people because they were breaking in his truck. ... I think it resembles the gang he is in, or white power. ... I think a theme in the movie is that people can change. ...

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The pro-death penalty division also believes that the death penalty is a deterrent that keeps people from committing capital crimes. ... In this state, people are often unable to consider the consequences of their actions. ... Surprisingly, statistics show that the states that abolish the death penalty have lower homicide rates than the states whose jurisdictions are eager to sentence people to death in the United States. ... But this actor was one of the few colored Americans who did not receive a harsh punishment just for the fact that they were being non-white. ... -68% of all cases ove...

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Aboriginal customary laws, before white settlement in 1788, were considered primitive by the British, if considered at all. ... Although the laws varied throughout the ages, this way of life remained until white settlement. ... There were also "secret" laws and different people in the tribes knew different laws, for example, women knew laws that were unknown to men, and vice versa. ... Australian law states that no person can legally marry until the age of 18, or have sex until the age of 16, and it is socially unacceptable for people to have numerous partners. ... Relatives or ceremonial le...

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Would anybody argue that racial profiling was committed against white people aboard that flight? ... If the same scenario occurred involving a white individual in place of a Middle Eastern man, it would be virtually impossible to say racial/ethnic profiling played any role in the event. ... Since history shows that young adult Middle Eastern all played major roles in the 9/11 tragedy, than it makes sense for airline officials, and those in charge of searching people, to keep a slightly closer eye on those that fit that description. ...

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Policing relies on people of the community to trust them and for us to be safe around them. ... People look at this as a form of racial profiling. ... This means that for every 100 people carded (percent is out of 100) there were 220 people carded! ... The second survey tat he conducted shows that Blacks have been physical searched by the police more frequently than those who are White or Asian. In conclusion to both of his surveys, because the Black community is subject to greater police surveillance, they are also much more likely to be caught when they break the law than White people engage...

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Also, according to a report by the Human Rights Organization, death penalty decisions interestingly increases if the victim is white rather than black in the United States. The same report tells that more than 125 black suspects have been executed for the murder of a white victim, while only five white suspects have been executed for the murder of a black victim. ... We can see many mistakes have been made in sentencing people to death. ... During the same period of time, over 500 people have been executed. These statistics represent that innocent people are executed and there is an absolute r...

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People convicted of a crime that is punishable by death have later been found to be innocent. ... In America's history, in the over 18,000 convictions of capital punishment, only thirty-seven were of a white person being punished for the murder of an African-American. ... In fact, a comprehensive study in Georgia concluded that murderers of white people are 4.3 percent more likely to receive a death sentence than a killer of an African-American ("Five"). ... Out of the over 3,500 people on death row ("Five"), only 54 are women. ... A reasonable sentence should never have the potential t...

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