data was extracted into useful information. Often, hidden relationships began to appear. Once this data became known and useful, industries grew around data mining. Data mining is a million dollar business aimed at improving marketing, research, criminal apprehension, fraud detection and other applications. History of Data Mining Computers began to be more widely used in the 1960’s. Computers were used to collect and store data. The data was stored on tapes and disks. The companies and organizations
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Danger is something that all police officers must face at some point in their career. In particular, the greatest danger for police officers is physical harm. At any given time, a police officer is at risk to be attacked or assaulted from a criminal. Then, there are the added dangers when officers lack sufficient backup. However, officers are trained to measure situations so they he/she does not go into a situation without the sufficient support or knowledge. Regardless, there still exist those
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The Death Penalty and its Ethical Permissibility Palestine Fox Kaplan University Abstract The death penalty has been used for centuries to punish criminals for heinous crimes, in spite of the fact that arguments concerning the death penalty, its concepts of retribution, deterrence and just punishments have been disagreed upon. The question at hand is whether or not the death penalty is permissible and if so under what circumstances, which has long been a heated debate for centuries. The ethical
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often feel alone, leaving them to suffer in silence. The loss of parents to prison can cause depression and trauma to a child. It compounds the existing environmental stress, such as the violent neighborhoods, poverty and a poor school system. The trend for the incarcerated differs with race, age, gender and economic status. In the same way, the effects on children range from emotional, behavioral and economic aspects. When a parent goes to prison, leaving behind their children, it creates devastating
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the Federal Trade Commission (2002), other forms of identity theft are more severe since they take a longer time to materialize (Federal Trade Commission, 2002) This view is also by Finklea (2014) in his article where he points out the issues and trends of identity theft. The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act comes in the context of increased awareness of the difficulties posed by emergent technologies. So far, identity theft has been found to involve three main stages. The first of this involves
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CPS – Hurt Page 1 Child Protection Services (CPS) and How Juveniles Are Affected Jessie Hurt SOC-331 Social Justice & Ethics Instructor Jen Brockel January 14th, 2013 CPS - Hurt Page 2 “Nearly five children die every day in America from abuse and neglect, and in 2010, an estimated 1,560 children died from abuse and neglect in the United States.” (Alliance, 2012) Children who are being abused and taken
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Introduction The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) is the principal federal program through which the federal government sets standards for juvenile justice systems at the state and local levels. It provides direct funding for states, research, training, and technical assistance, and evaluation. The JJDPA was originally enacted in 1974 and even though the JJDPA has been revised several times over the past 30 years, its basic composition has remained the same. Since the act
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These programs allow law enforcement officials to seize criminals’ money and resources to pay for police expenditures, and can thus serve as a valuable tool if used justly against criminals. But as police departments, starved of funding, use the program to essentially rob people never convicted of a crime, it transforms from a useful mechanism into a gross assault on the
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and backs up her statements with plenty of references. The way in which this article has been wrote appears to not show much biases, and backs up this research as credible. She also explains in details the current legislation within the Canadian Criminal Code that is written about sexual commerce, and breaks down all aspects of the new Bill C-36 The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (Davies, 2015). The article is backed up with plenty of evidence, and research from many different
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the “revolving door of drug use” and increasing recidivism rates. Drug courts have the ability to change a person’s life the better by teaching them how to beat their addictions by provind the proper treatments to the offenders. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader about the effectiveness, success, goals, and failures of the the Maricopa County Drug court, Baltimore City Drug Court, and the King County Drug Diversion court systems. The number of Drug court systems around the world are
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