What is crime? What are the elements of a crime? What changes would you recommend to the law to improve the reduction of crime? Some people think a crime could be committing a sin or doing something unthinkable. If you church holds a monthly bingo night then could this be considered a crime? On the same guidelines if someone was out shopping and left their car parked on a street to long would you consider this a crime? A crime is when you act in any way that breaks the law, in which encounters a
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ONE OF THE NATION’S LEADING INNOVATORS IN DELIVERING EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN SERVICES TURNING LIVES 1 Yolo County, CA: EBP brings measureable, positive outcomes 2 King County, WA builds new system for Mental Health RX: the PRIME 4 Assessments.com selected to direct $1.2M statewide juvenile project in CA 4 News in Brief 5 Spotlight on ADC staff: Brian Richart is new ADC President 6 EBP – Recent Research: Exploring the Black Box of Community Supervision 8 Upcoming
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Prison Gangs Prison Gangs According to (Wikipedia) a prison gang is a term used to identify any type of gang activity in prisons and correctional facilities. The difference between prison gangs and street gangs has become unclear because gang members are in and out of the prison system according to the (Street Gangs and Interventions: Innovative Problem Solving with Network Analysis, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2005). Prison gangs offer more than just simple protection for
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signs of juvenile delinquency when she admitted to running away from home. She clearly defined that over a course of years and on several occasions she made the choice of running away, and chose to become involved with the wrong crowd. Sarah Brown defines (1992) “that some of the reasons why children choose to run away from home during the early twentieth century was due to: death of parents, abusive home life, broken homes, feeblemindedness, delinquency, and poverty” (Brown, 1992). The crowd of individual’s
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Marijuana, Legal in America? Marijuana has been in America for quite some time now, and approximately one hundred million of people in the U.S. have tried this drug at least once. Marijuana is also the most common drug used in the U.S. today that is illegal. So imagine if marijuana was legalized and how much money could be made and profited from its legalization. Dangers with other drugs such as alcohol and smoking tobacco outweigh the dangers involved with marijuana by a landslide. So the
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THE CROOKS in your company have never been so tempted. The spread of technology that makes office work easier can make white-collar crimes almost laughably simple. Laser printers can forge documents with breathtaking fidelity, and color copiers can reproduce them. Imagine a dishonest executive boarding a plane and carrying a laptop computer with a modem. Using the on- board telephone, he hooks up to the mainframe at headquarters and transfers $50 million to his Swiss bank account -- as he jets toward
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Running head: Harris County: Going Paperless Harris County: Going Paperless Managerial Applications of Information Technology OVERVIEW OF THE ORGANIZATION The Harris County Juvenile Probation Department is committed to the protection of the public, utilizing intervention strategies that are community-based, family-oriented and least restrictive while emphasizing responsibility and accountability of both parent and child. As part of our core values we value the belief that everyone is to
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Abstract This paper will provide a definition and history of victimology as well as give examples of real life victims. Second, this paper will discuss how victimology is different from criminology, sociology and psychology. This paper will also discuss hate crimes, the first safe house for battered women, children’s rights groups. Finally, this paper will also discuss organizations that provide advocacy for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and homicides. Introduction
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Proactive Tactics The three proactive tactics I'm going to discuss are repeat offenders programs (ROPs), decoy operations, and efforts against drunk drivers. The repeat offenders programs first objective is to recognize repeat offenders by their past criminal history and activity. After they have recognized the repeat offenders they will use surveillance by watching the person and waiting for the individual to commit a crime. After the surveillance of a crime they can make a formal arrest.
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Hate Crimes Hate crimes have become a major concern among lawmakers in all nations and at all levels of government. The main concern is that hate crimes are nothing new. Some examples from the past are the Roman persecution of Christians and the Nazi solution for the Jews. More recently we have experienced the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and genocide in Rwanda. Racial and religious bias seems to be the inspiration for most hate crimes in the United States. Even as the United States was
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