patents, labor issues, pensions, and profit sharing. The state authority covers business association, contracts and trade secrets. Concurrent authority manages tax law, security law, and employment law (American Legal System, 2004). The Federal Judicial System consists of the United States Supreme Courts, Court of Appeals, District Courts, and Bankruptcy Courts. The federal judges once appointed remain there for life, except when congress observes treasons, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors
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I knew I wanted to study crime in white communities when, I graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with a degree in Criminology. While attending John Jay, I was introduced to research, all of the research I had been a part of dealt with black males. As a student and a researcher I became aware that something was missing, “what about members of the poor white communities?” Most of the work I did and the discussions that were apart of my courses, all focused on poor black and brown communities
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Parenting and Delinquency Rates Parenting or more specifically poor parenting is the most prominent cause of delinquency. In class we reviewed many causes of delinquency including family, biology, socioeconomics, peers, diet, early child abuse, and lack of education. In this paper I will try and show how all of these things can be linked back to parenting or lack of parenting. Much of the research I have done talks about family influences on delinquency. However in many cases I think that
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City Demographics and Crime Profile of Chicago AJS 514 October 19, 2015 James L. Smith City Demographics and Crime Profile of Chicago Chicago is a big and beautiful city in the United States, this paper will discuss the cities demographics and analyze a criminal profile. It will include the characterization of the city in terms of social and intellectual context and identify social factors that contribute to crime. A description of beliefs people living there would accept for explaining
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internet outlets. Disproportionate minority contact as defined by Kakar, journal article, Understanding the causes of disproportionate minority contact: Results of focus group discussions is “a large number of minority youth who come into contact with juvenile justice system in relation to their representation in the general population” (2006). DMC is often associated with the African American and Hispanic community but also so extends beyond those demographics to the Asian American, native American pacific
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can have from three to a hundred prisons depending on their necessity for them. In time because of overpopulation, and unique cases such as women and children being criminals there was a need to expand prisons, and to create a place for women and juveniles to go to serve their time. In state and federal prisons there are several various levels of security. Today’s prisons have security levels such as minimum security, medium security, maximum security, closed-high security, and open security. There
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being held against their will. The most important aspect of the conference is safety. If safety cannot be insured than a VOC should not be conducted. Accountability for the juvenile offender means taking responsibility and acting to repair the harm that they had done. If the offender is not willing to do this than the issue is returned to the court system. Dan gave many examples of how victims and offenders have negotiated a deal and things worked out smoothly in the end. This program began as a
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Crime Rate versus Arrest Rate CJA/204 December 10, 2012 Judge Troy Webber The most common error involving the relationship between crime rates and arrest rates occurs when the statistics claimed have been contradicted by the factual information readily available. Another common error, whether intentional or accidental, is to compare the raw number of reported crimes without adjusting for the expected baseline of the crimes that were committed. Not adjusting for this happens consistently
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2016 ABSTRACT My topic is about being a drug dealer and addressing all of the concepts of what and constitute and define a drug dealer, and it does get a bad rap, but at the same times it is glorified through songs and movies. We will address the issue of whether being a criminal is an inherent trait or learned behavior, the average age group of most dealers and their family and social environments. I will only use data as it pertains to cocaine, whether it is powder or crack, heroin and methamphetamine
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Kristin Smith Jennifer Schlenker BUS – 420 January 19, 2014 When I located Illinois State Court’s website I realized it was surprisingly a little hard to understand for the information I needed to provide for this assignment. One might assume that because our president is from the state of Illinois that their state court website would be a little easier laid out and better to understand, but I found it quite the opposite. Therefore, I chose to do this assignment on the state of Ohio. I look
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