...Pimping Central America Corey J.Quebedeaux CJS23/Criminology January 26, 2015 Kenneth Bitting Pimping Central America Imagine living in conditions so consumed with poverty that you are forced to risk your life to flee to another country in hopes to take care of your family. Hoping and praying to find “under the table” jobs such as roofing, gardening, grounds maintenance, cleaning houses and/or agricultural work. Central American’s do this on a daily and nightly basis; combing through the desert heats during the summer and its vicious coldness in the winter in hopes of a brighter future. Some get lucky and others either get caught and deported back to Mexico or, worse yet, trafficked and sold into a life of servitude (slavery). “Although it’s the 14th largest economy in the world, rural Mexico is still very unequal. Depending on the measure, between one-third and one-half of Mexicans live in poverty and up to 18 percent live in extreme poverty, unable to meet their basic food needs.” ("Bread For The World Institute", 2011). In this paper I will discuss death rates, risks and benefits (to include programs) of crossing through the desert for an undetermined future in the United States of America. I will also focus on the trafficking and prostitution rings between the United States and Central America. By the end of this paper I will have explained how and why these issues of Central American’s immigrating into the United States meet the specifications of the Social Structure...
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...government with over 80% of the price of cigarettes is from the taxes that the government set. This issue has caused a lot of discussion amongst us Economists. The argument is whether or not you think cigarettes are price inelastic or price elastic. If you think cigarettes are price inelastic which means that the change in price of cigarettes is disproportionate to the demand for cigarettes then you believe in Mr. Regan opinion. The price elastic view is taken up by Mr. Macey where he believes that the demand for cigarettes is very much dependent on the price. Both articles but forward two very good arguments with very clear reasons why they think the government should try and stop this high growth of criminal activity in the area of smuggling cigarettes into the country. As we found out from the articles that there is a very high percentage of contraband cigarettes in existents in Ireland today due to the very high price set by our government. Over a quarter of all cigarettes smoked in Ireland are illegal. Irish criminal gangs our making huge profits by selling smuggled cigarettes into the Irish black market (worth over €526 million to these criminal gangs) and the government need to do something about. Both articles try to solve this problem with very different views. Reading both articles I do think that Exact A by Mr. Regan has a much stronger case with very good points in this current economic climate that I do agree with but I also would take on board some of Mr. Macey...
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...Describe in detail the “Zero Drug Tolerance Policy” and explain its impact on drug use prevention. Drugs are substances that can be good or bad for an individual depending on how they are used. In today’s society there are many drugs that we as citizens abuse prescription or non prescription. Drugs can harm the body if they are abused in any way. So, the government decided to put the “Zero Drug Tolerance Policy” in effect. Zero means absolutely NO DRUGS AT ALL. Drugs are not supposed to be tolerated if they are illegal. People who break this law are punished with fines and even prison sentences. Also, people who misuse prescription drugs are punished, but illegal drugs are more prone to this policy. Have you just really thought about what the phrase Zero Tolerance means? Well, this is a term that refers to government and private employer policies that require specific punishments for certain offenses. Today, many schools have the zero tolerance policy for certain things such as weapons, firearms, alcohol, tobacco, and especially drugs. All of these items are things that can harm a person. One may seem more severe than the other, but they are all in the same category when dealing with zero tolerance. Zero tolerance is a policy where the rules must not be broken at all. Even if the rules are broken by accident, ignorance, or other circumstances, a person has to be punished regardless of what the situation maybe. All schools have a Zero Drug Tolerance Policy for students, faculty...
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...RESEARCH PAPER General Topic: America’s War On Drugs Research Paper Question: How is the elimination of Drug supplies going to affect the economies and social concerns involved in the trade? Research Thesis Statement: The total elimination of illegal drugs in circulation will decrease employment in the US and increase unemployment in Afghanistan and Colombia. ABSTRACT: The "War on Drugs" is a campaign undertaken by the Federal government of the US with the assistance of participating countries such as Co lombia and Afghanistan , intend ed to reduce illegal drug trade to curb supply and diminish demand for certain psychoactive substances deemed harmful by the government. This initiative includes a set of laws and policies that are intended to discourage the p roduction, distribution, and consumption of targeted substances. COST: The U.S. government estimates the cost of the War on Drugs by calculating the funds used in attempting to control the supply of illegal drugs, in paying government employees involved in waging the war on crack, and to satisfy rehabilitation costs. This total was estimated by the U.S. government's cost report on drug control to be roughly $12 billion in 2005. Additionally, in a separate report, the U.S. government reports that the cost of incarcerating drug law offenders was $30.1 billion — $9.1 billion for police protection, $4.5 billion for legal adjudication, and $11.0 billion for state and federal corrections...
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...The illicit drug trade in France is a very controversial topic in such country because of the variations it can have and of the many exceptions that are sometimes allowed. France has taken a firm position in encouraging the development of prevention centers and programmers rather than actually punishing the consumers. It believes, though it believes that more effort must be put into restricting the consume of these products and punishing those who distribute it. France developed a Three-Year Plan to Combat Drug Use and to Prevent Dependence (1999-2001) where it clearly states that the aim of such program is not “to change the law or modify the hierarchy of prohibitions”. While France has created successful institutions to deal with this problem, estimates have shown a high percentage of consumption especially cannabis, alcohol, tobacco and heroin. Since 1982, France has counted on the Inter-departmental Mission for the Fight Against Drugs and Drug Addiction (MILDT). “The MILDT prepares the government plans for the fight against drugs, and monitors the application of these plans.” While enforcing the policies made to combat drug traffic, the MILDT believes that users should be placed instead of punishment, in rehabilitation centers where there addictions will be treated. Another two relevant institutions are French Monitoring Centre for Drug Addiction that collates available data on drugs and dependencies; and the Drug Information Service, a service that offers telephone...
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...HUMAN TRAFFICKING A SEMINAR PAPER PREPARED BY ELEGBOGUN OSERERE JULIET COURSE TITLE: CLASSICAL THEORIES OF CRIME, DELINQUENCY AND SECURITIES COURSE CODE: 800 IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER IN CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS LECTURER : PROFESSOR SOYOMBO OMOLOLU FEBRUARY, 2013. ABSTRACT With the rapidly increasing rate of migration – a by-product of a more globalised world – human traffickers have greater opportunities to exploit those who migrate to other States. First, human trafficking is driven by poverty and international productivity/living quality disparities. Second, the existing humanitarian and/or suppressive approaches cannot solve the problem. Third, the best option for solving the problem is setting up the ‘reciprocal direct investment’ (RDI) scheme between leading and lagged economies. The RDI scheme can facilitate improvements in the quality of public governance in lagged economies and...
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...other projects required by the faculty mentor. The known submission of another person’s work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and may result in academic dismissal. | | CJ7006 | Dr. Andre Williams | | | Intro to Maritime Narcotic Smuggling | TealWCJ7006-4 | | | ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty Name> <Grade Earned> <Writing Score> <Date Graded> Maritime Narcotic Smuggling Countermeasures William R. Teal...
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...DRUG TRAFFICKING 2. This research paper is on Marijuana and Cocaine trafficking in the United States. It is a very interested topic to learn about. There are several people who’s in prison for drug trafficking. This research will define the problems with drug trafficking, it will also explain who it affects and how it affects them. Drug trafficking in the United States can go far and wind. “It is the commercial exchange of drugs and drug paraphernalia. This excludes any equipment used to manufacture illegal drugs or use them,” (Jessica Cook, ehow.com 2011). One of the largest problems that drug trafficking creates is the financial cost on society; for example in 2002 drug related cost society were estimated at $180.9 billion, which is divided between various cost like health care and productivity lose according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Cocaine and Marijuana both brings an increase in violence and criminal activities, even though the level of violence associated with Cocaine trafficking does not compare to the rampant violence of the 1980s when the crack epidemic was at its worst. Drug trafficking can also lead to death both directly and indirectly. In fact between 1991 and 2000, 33 of our officers were killed during drug related operations. In 1993-1997 the F.B.I. details that on an average half of all police corruption is drug related. Colombians control the majority of the Cocaine trade in the major activities; They...
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...As a member of law enforcement with Probation, Parole, Pardon services and with the City of Charleston Police department, I worked with many agencies on educating people on the importance of being abstinent. There has not much I have not seen as a probation officer, from death, murder, and drug dealers. Through my affiliations with the US Marshals, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, local police department and the FBI on occasion, I have done everything in my power to assist with the drug problems. There are many agency’s out there speaking out against drugs and some of the more important programs are; Drug Court Program, Drug Enforcement Unit, Dare programs, probation officers in general, and talking with schools about Drugs. In my career with probation I brought down some of the biggest king Pins in the South Carolina and I did through snitches developed from supervising offenders. This would not have occurred if I did not gain their trust and show a genuine interest in them. Through this paper I will give you a background on myself, the programs that have made a difference in drug related offenses, give you’re the government actors who apprehend narcotic smugglers, tactics of local law enforcement, new laws that should be in place between the US government and foreign countries and Coast Guard technologies to counter drug gangs technologies. As an agent with Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services in Horry County, SC it was my job to take an offender and rehabilitate...
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...Economically and culturally smoking is considered to be a “norm” within society. The government has policies on cigarettes that try to help reduce smoking, but in an effort to make more revenue the taxes that are placed on cigarettes are not so high that consumer usage will drastically decline and affect government revenue. The government has imposed quotas and tariffs on cigarettes to help regulate the importation of them. A country like the United States has a high border tariff, which the government likes, because its economic level of exporting is high. Countries that are considered to be third-world or developing nations tend to have low or no border tariffs on tobacco. By placing a tariff on tobacco, consumers lose, but the government earns income from it in the form of taxes. Quotas on the other hand, take some of what the consumers lose and give it to the suppliers who are fortunate enough to have their product shipped as part of the quota. For example, the few tobacco farmers in the United States who are granted quotas by the government earn a lot of money mainly because they have no shipping cost – government pays for their shipping cost. The government knows that cigarettes are a bad commodity but since the government makes money off of it, taxes are put in place. The taxes are not only put in place for the government to make money but an effort to reduce smoking, particularly amongst young people (MBN, 9). Young people are targeted the most because studies have...
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...There has been an alarming increase of illegal immigrants in the U.S. A debate has arisen over the amount of action that has been exerted on the behalf of the national government to control the amount of illegal immigrants in the country. This debate has brought up a controversial topic about if the national government or the state government should be in charge of controlling illegal immigration. Most of the illegal immigrants at this time are coming from Mexico, which means the bordering states are the major concern. Some of the illegal immigrants are not people that sneak into the country, but rather those that overstay their visa limit. Most of the visas over stays are for work purposes. The greatest concern at this time is Mexico. Smuggling aliens has become more frequent every year. The smugglers are willing to go to great steps to smuggle people across and are escaping before they get caught. Very few are actually caught and the illegal immigrants enter this country and disappear. Some people believe that the state government should have the control to...
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...severe asthma problems and has to carry an asthma inhaler with him at all times to prevent the possibility of an asthma attack. As he is going through check-in, a big, muscular white man in a security jacket orders him to step aside and show him his belongings, especially the asthma inhaler he is carrying on grounds that Ronaldo’s asthma inhaler contains cocaine. Like Ronaldo, many minorities are stopped more often at airports and other locations for possession of illegal drugs because of America’s war on drugs. Why specifically does American society target minorities for illegal drugs? Minorities are more likely to be accused of smuggling drugs because they tend to come from enemy countries, have on average a lower socio-economic status, and are very associated with crime in the media. Minorities are more likely to be framed for illegal drug smuggling because of their association with America’s political enemies. Edward Said defines the Orient as America’s “contrasting image, idea, personality, experience” (Said 87). Since the Orient is America’s “contrasting image”, America has always attempted to put an “umbrella of Western hegemony” over the Orient. This is because America, according to Edward Said, views the Far East as something is very strange and different, or “a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes” (Said 87). Not only does America view the Far East as a place of “haunting memories and landscapes”, America according to Benedict, “confus [es]...
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...Brian Piersall Vincent Portillo Proposal for an Inquiry Paper 4/13/11 Border Crime Background: The blanket topic of border crime has always held a great amount of interest for me. I have done a few other papers on the topics of immigration, and the Mexican drug cartels. Through those papers I have learned a great deal, however I have only ever researched the problems along the Mexican-American border. Through this paper I have started branching my research out to include criminal activities along the other border as the Canadian-American border and the oceanic borders. In addition to already having done some research on one part of this topic, there is another reason that caused me to be interested in this topic as well. This reason was the main event that was the spark that lit the flame of curiosity in me, and it occurred on one of the many trips down into Baja Mexico that my father and I take almost every year. This particular incident took place around two to three years ago in some small Mexican down about some odd two hundred miles down into Baja. Back then I had no real interest in the problems that occurred along our borders any more than what I would see from time to time in the newspapers or on TV. I didn’t really realize that there was a real problem with the Mexican Cartels; I like many Americans was blind to what was going on outside of my own little bubble in my own little town. However after this trip I realized that there were problems in Mexico...
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...Drug trafficking in the United States: Blacks are treated unfairly when it comes to drugs. Cheryl Cooper English Composition 11 Instructor Lesa Hadley 01/18/2012 When it comes to drug trafficking in the United States most African Americans and minorities are treated unfairly when it comes to drug charges being handed down from the criminal justice system. “Critics of American drug policies have long said that war on drugs is really a war on people. Today, the Justice Policy Institute is releasing a new study chock- full of jaw- dropping statistics to prove it. One in four people locked up in American prisons is behind bars for a drug offense, the study finds. They number almost as many as the entire US prisoner population did in 1980 (458,131 vs. 474,368). The study adds that the US incarcerates 100, 000 more people for drug offenses than there are people imprisoned for all offenses in the entire European Union even though the EU has 100 million more citizens than the US. Other stats show how America’s war on drugs has been waged disproportionately against African Americans.” The groups that are mainly targeted in the drug trafficking in the United States are minorities and African Americans. This is a worldwide problem and it needs some immediate attention do to the lack of fairness that is presented when it comes to whites committing the same charges. There are issues and concerns when it comes to racial profiling that takes place in poor low income...
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...Vol 6. No. 2, June 2013 African Journal of Computing & ICT © 2013 Afr J Comp & ICT – All Rights Reserved - ISSN 2006-1781 www.ajocict.net Design and Implementation of Real-Time Crime Information System for National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Nigeria C.H. Ugwuishiwu & K.C. Ugwu Department of Computer Science University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria Chilkodili.ugwuishiwu@unn.edu.ng H.C. Inyiamah Department of Computer Engineering Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria drhcinyiama@gmail ABSTRACT The problems of narcotic drugs in Nigeria as manifested in the cultivation, trafficking and abuse of drug is of increasing concern to the government, social researchers, and other stakeholders. The impact of illicit drugs continues to threaten the economies and social structures of both producing and consuming countries. This paper presents an implementation framework for a reliable, efficient and mobile real- time crime information system (CIS) that will help to maintain instant flow of information between the general public and NDLEA. This application solved this problem through a just-in-time flow of crime information from an informant who could be an individual, corporate body or any other government agency to the NDLEA office for a necessary action. This kind of information if handled properly will lead to illicit drug supply suppression hence reduce its availability as well as other substances of abuse. It will also help in drug demand reduction which result in a decline...
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