Critical Thinking –Chapter #19 Assignment #2 7/25/2010 1. Describe a crime. Who are the parties to a criminal action? A crime is any act done by a person in violation of those duties that he or she owes to society and for the breach of which the law provides a penalty. The parties in a criminal action are the plaintiff which is the government represented by the prosecuting attorney and the defendant who is the person or business accused of the crime. 3. Describe the difference between
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violent crime categories together for each county individually. Equation: (Murder + Rape + Robbery + Aggressive Assault = total violent crime). Then one must add the property crime categories together for each county individually. Equation: (Burglary + Larceny + MV Theft = total property crime) Once the total violent crime and total property crime numbers are obtained then they can be added together to obtain the total crime per county. Equation example: (Kent County total violent crime + Kent County total
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Female Juvenile Offenders 1 Female Juvenile Offenders By: Priscella Morris Since 1987, juvenile female arrests have increased at a faster pace then male juvenile. The arrest data states that juvenile females make up proportion of arrests in the Index category as is in the violent category. The largest percent of juvenile female arrest are of property crime. The juvenile age specific arrest rates study show in 1967 female juvenile age 12 and under was 3.6 percent 13-14 yrs. old 43 percent
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A337/A523 Accounting Information Systems Midterm Study General There will be two narratives, one for context/physical DFD, one for the flowchart. It is important for your DFDs to be consistent with each other. (See the Documentation Exercises for worked examples) DFD The physical DFD should be annotated with flow labels. At this point, you are expected to know the 4 DFD symbols and how to apply them. Flow Chart This will be a shorter narrative and/or partially completed one I will
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Case: Wendy’s and the Finger-in-the-Chili In March 2005, Anna Ayala, a Las Vegas resident visiting San Jose, California, went to Wendy’s with her family. She ordered a bowl of Beef Chili. She said she bit into a spoon of chili and “suddenly I chewed something that’s kind of hard, crunch. I spit it out.” She said that’s when she realized the crunchy item was a 1 and half inch human finger well manicured nail. She hired a lawyer and sued. Denny Lynch, Senior VP of communication for Wendy’s international
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Unit 1 IP CRJS 105 Abstract After reading this paper you will be able to explain the differences between Criminologists, Criminalists, and Forensic psychologists and the differences in their discipline of expertise. Additionally, this paper will briefly discuss blue collar crimes vs. white collar crimes, the way in which the FBI reports and measures these crimes in their Uniformed Crime Reporting (UCR) system. The
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The Implications of Juvenile Criminal Statistics Chanel Walker 11/2/2015 David Purdy Crj/374 University of Phoenix The Implications of Juvenile Criminal Statistics Juvenile Delinquent (n): a minor who cannot be controlled by parental authority and commits antisocial or criminal acts,as vandalism or violence. Any person under the age of 18 is considered to be a juvenile. Fbi uniform crime reporting program is the basis of how data crime statistics are reported, tracked, and observed. Based
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when it was feared the nation was on a juvenile crime wave (Puzzanchera, 2008). There were 2.11 million juveniles arrested in 2008, which was a decrease of 16% when compared to the arrests in 1999. An estimated 324,000 juveniles were arrested for larceny-theft, resulting in a 17% decrease between 1999 and 2008. At the same time there was a two percent increase in the violent crime index between 2007 and 2008. The four crimes that make up the violent crime index consist of murder, and nonnegligent
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which are violent crime and property crime. The offenses listed with the violent crime index are murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The offenses listed with the property crime index are burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. “Although arson data are included, sufficient data are not available to estimate totals for this offense” (Hagan, 2010). The report measures the level and distribution of both serious and less serious
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Cybercrime Gabriela Peralta and James Walton CJA/204 April 5th, 2015 Robert Quesada Cybercrime The dark side of new technologies, as far as the justice system is concerned, is the potential they create for committing old crimes in new ways or for committing new crimes never before imagined; one of these ways is Cybercrime. Cybercrime is act of crime when using a computer and the Internet. Cybercrime, or computer crime, focuses on the information stored in electronic media, which is why
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