and Minorities Juvenile arrests in 2008 also focused on the increase and decrease of female arrests. In 2008, 30% of juvenile females were arrested for crimes. However, violent crimes were lower for females than that of males. Simple assaults, larceny, and DUI arrests increased for females compared to the decrease in male arrests. For example,
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Crime Prevention CRJ 305 Michelle McMichael Professor Levit September 10, 2013 Crime Prevention “The ultimate goal of crime prevention is to reduce the risk of being a victim.” (SIU, par. 1) “Successful crime prevention efforts will promote a safer community by enhancing the perception of safety and the attitudes and behaviors that help people feel safe.” (SIU, par. 3) Reducing crime must be a community effort. It requires the work of not only law enforcement but also the community
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Property Crimes and the Criminals Behind it History of Theft Theft is not unique to modern times the theft of personal property has been known throughout history. The crusades of the eleventh century inspired peasants and downtrodden noblemen to leave the shelter of their of estates to prey upon passing pilgrims. Crusades felt it was within their rights to appropriate the possessions of any infidels Greeks, Jews, or Muslims they happened to encounter during their travels. By the thirteenth century
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juvenile jurisdiction disposed more than 1.3 million delinquency cases (http://www.ojjdp.gov). In detail, Juveniles were involved in 1 in 10 arrests for murder in 2010, about 1 in 4 arrests for robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, and disorderly conduct, and about 1 in 5 arrests for larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft according to The Office of Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention. As stated in the most recent available data from FBI Arrest Statistics, the juvenile arrests percentage had dropped 43%
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On Thursday, June 9, 2016, I responded to 3457 Hillsborough Road, the Kroger’s fuel center in reference to a trespassing call. Upon arrival, I met Mr. Willie Marcus Brown an armed security guard with Dunbar Company. Mr. Brown stated he was at the fuel center. He exited his vehicle to purchase an item when he heard his vehicle’s door close and witnessed a white male in the driver seat of his vehicle. The suspect locked the doors and was revving the engine but could not place the vehicle in the drive
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Kevin May Criminal Law Exam part B 08/17/2014 kevinmay1911@gmail.com In criminal law, there are two types of crimes, misdemeanors and felonies. However, within those two groups, there are several varieties of crimes such as crimes against people and crimes against property. Within the several variety of crimes, there are legal defenses to go with them. Criminal law is a simple concept, however, it has multiple complex elements that go with every concept. In this paper, I will be discussing
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Affect Property Crime Rates I have analyzed the data of the factors that affect property crime rates in the United States. Here are my results. Data The data provided included; crime rate per hundred thousand inhabitants (which included burglary, larceny, theft, and motor vehicle theft), pincome- per capita income for each state, dropout- high school drop-out rate, precip- average precipitation in inches in the major city in each state over 1951-1980, pubaid- percentage of public aid recipients, density-
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property crimes. Violent crimes include murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Property crime includes burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. These two crimes are committed all over the united states, at random times and random places. These are the most popular crimes in the database. Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is
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uses deception as its principal technique. This deception is implemented through fraud schemes: specific methodologies used to commit and conceal the fraudulent act. There are three ways to relieve a victim of money illegally: force, trickery, or larceny. Those offenses that employ trickery are frauds. The legal definition of fraud is the same whether the offense is criminal or civil; the difference is that criminal cases must meet a higher burden of proof. For example, let’s assume an employee
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Running Head: Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Juvenile Crime Kalah Jiggetts Criminal Justice Abstract This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide
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