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    Hate Crime

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    Hate crime is a unique impact in the United States that causes the victims not only being hurt physically but also emotionally. Moreover, hate crime has a bias against “individual’s or a group’s perceived race, religion, ethnic/national origin, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation (Taylor, 2015). As for the ways of how white supremacist group uses the Internet to spread their message of hate toward individuals or a group can be varied from web cartoon characters, videos and video games…

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    Amnesia In Crime

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    Variations of Amnesia in Crime Amnesia; partial or complete memory loss. Amnesia is witnessed in three diverse states; dissociative, organic and malingered amnesia. All of which contain a lapse in memory recollection. However, each maintains a distinctive trigger. Criminals are exploiting the inadequate constraints of dissociative and organic amnesia in an effort to malinger amnesia in criminal trials. Although there are a number of perceived reasons why a person may become amnesic, either…

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    Felony Crimes

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    If you are charged with a crime, you need to understand the different levels of offense that you can be charged with. This will help you determine what you should plea when you appear in court, and what the consequences will be of pleading guilty or accepting a plea deal. The Worst Kind: Felonies The most serious type of crime that you can be charged with is a felony. Felonies can be brought against you at both the state and federal level. If you are convicted of a felony, you sentence will…

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    Crime In Chelsea

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    Sirens, crimes, police, and robbed banks,it has been all heard before, it sounds cool but it's not. Think about it, what if it happened to people around that are close. There is not enough police and cameras around the city of Chelsea. We have nothing to catch big criminals or murderers. It is a very big problem that must be dealt with! Police, there’s not enough of them ,and if there were how would they watch over the city? Also no one likes people breaking into people’s homes and stealing…

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    Gun Crime

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    “We Can’t Afford the True Cost of Gun Crime” One of the biggest issues in America today is gun violence and gun control, but nothing is being done to solve these complications. In the article, We Can’t Afford the True Cost of Gun Crime, Petuila Dvorak views gun violence and gun control as an economical problem. Dvorak estimates the cost of shootings from damages, and who has to pay for these things.She sees gun violence as a public health issue. She also mentions that the Founding Fathers…

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    Deviant Crimes

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    membership is on the rise due to the growing participation of citizens. Outlined in this paper, a discussion based on the explanations of deviant behaviour committed by individuals involved with gangs, the characteristics of these individuals, and the type crimes being committed by these individuals. Also, how strain theory results in deviant, or criminal behaviour. What is strain theory? Strain theory is “The proposition that people feel strain when they are exposed to cultural goals, they are…

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    Crimes And Misdemeanors

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    Crimes and Misdemeanors, according to Conard’s article, poses a lot of important questions about the meaning of life and the existence of God. He begins his article by stating the plots of the two lives being shown in the movie. One in particular, of a man named Jonah where he questions his own values based on his life situation in that moment. Conard makes the premise that Jonah got away with murder because his views on God were not demeaning to his own life. Meaning that since Jonah did not…

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    Heinous Crime

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    A Heinous Crime, Heinously Unpursued Jon Krakauer’s Missoula has shone a bright light on a dark sector of American law. The American legal system exists to protect American citizens from harmful or unlawful acts, and by most reasonable metrics, it accomplishes this goal. However, socio-legal scholars have noticed a peculiar phenomenon that has set in over a long period of time, where an especially egregious crime – rape – has continued to go under the radar, with its perpetrators going…

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    Crime is something that will always exist in society. It will always be in different forms and because of that there has to be some way to oversee crime. In 1929 a program called The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), created by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, keeps track of reported crimes. The UCR was organized to be able to seek knowledge on crime in the nation. The FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics later on in 1930. There are a distinct…

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    Unified Crime Reports or UCR is how the FBI compiles a list of crimes that are reported to law agencies. The UCR includes arrests, incidents, clearances, and offender age/race/sex/gender. It has two categories that are classified by seriousness (part one and part two). Data collected by the UCR is a way to see crime trends in the United States. It reported that the overall crime rate is smaller than twenty years ago. Also, the UCR report shows that there has been a decrease in violent crimes.…

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