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    Women - Jacob Where they settled and why: Port Phillip was growing at a startling rate during the 1830s. Female convicts and free settlers were ordered to Victoria as a result to the labour shortage. Women were outnumbered by almost 7 to 1, this meant they very often made up a small and vulnerable proportion of the population. The majority of Port Phillip's women were initially unmarried free settlers. House servants were often single women and the government paid for them to travel to Victoria…

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    Time In Prisons

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    not ultimately in the best interests of organization and the society. Hiring people with criminal records can harm the organization and its members. In 2009 approximately 18 percent of arrests were provided for property crimes including burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, vandalism, stolen property, forgery and counterfeiting, fraud and embezzlement. Nearly 12 percent of these people were arrested for drug offenses including production, distribution or use of controlled…

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    arrests has decreased to approximately 15% for homicide and aggravated assault and 10% for burglary and robbery crimes (Gender and Crime – Differences Between Male and Female Offending Patterns). Since the mid 1970’s, the % of female arrests for larceny, theft, fraud, forgery and embezzlement have been in the right in the range between 30 – 40 %. From the 1980’s to the 2000’s, offending rates for females has decreased from 3.1 to 1.6 %, while the offending rates for males also decreased from…

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    Commit: The Punishment They Receive” examining current data on female labor, education, arrest and prison statistics. During that time, Simon and Landis (1991) argued that women commit crime at a steady rate as men such as embezzlement, fraud, and larceny compared to men. In addition, as women become masculinized, their rates of offending for both property and violent crimes will converge with males rates of offending. To examine this study, Small (2000) used data from Uniform Crime Report from…

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    Burglary is the act of breaking and entering an occupied structure Such as a house especially at night with intent to commit a felony. Such as murder or larceny. Also, the act of entering or remaining unlawfully in a building after closing to the public with the intent to commit a crime. According to the FBI, (written by DeMille, 2016) there were an estimated 2,103,787 burglaries in 2012, a decrease of 3.7% compared to 2011. Thefts in the US regions have dropped except for in the West, where…

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    Georgia State Prison Essay

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    Residing in the unincorporated Tattnall County outside of Reidsville, GA is the home of Georgia’s Department of Corrections (GDC), formerly the Georgia Industrial Institute, purchased by the state in 1937 for approximately 1.3 million dollars. The facility had renovation done in 2007. The prison originally housed juvenile delinquents. It’s now a medium security state prison. This prison is the oldest still running correctional institution in the state of Georgia. Just like Georgia’s state prison…

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    Criminal Wrongdoing

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    Prior to an individual can be attempted and sentenced a wrongdoing, there must be a legitimate capture and charges must be documented. Despite the fact that a cop might by and by watch illicit action driving while inebriated and other petty criminal offenses are regularly seen firsthand—in many cases, law implementation officers act focused around data got from general society. When in doubt, before directing a pursuit of property or individual, a cop should either witness illicit action, have a…

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    Fav. essay How much do you know besides the name stands for Grand Theft Auto and it is the 5th one? Grand Theft Auto 5 is about half of its city/town with lots of stores, a fourth is like the hood and another is the mountain that has lifts and caves which is huge. It takes place in San Andreas or in real life, San Francisco when it’s like 2015 where you can be 3 characters Michael who has a family and is pretty normal besides the fact he faked his own death. Then there is Franklin who…

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    Malcolm X Equality

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    help the pain his family went through. His mother was mentally unstable after the death of her husband, the eight children were all spread throughout foster homes. In 1946 Malcolm Little was arrested, he was charged with ten years of prison upon larceny charges. He changed his last name to “ X” because he thought that the name Little was something that a slave owner had given one of his ancestors. Malcolm X came in contact with a family member who was studying under the Nation of Islam. He was…

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    Part I offenses consist of murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault (a threat or attempt to hurt and injury someone using a weapon or if medical attention is needed due to the assault), burglary, larceny-theft (attempt to take or have taken someone else’s property), motor vehicle theft (if someone tries or have stolen a motor vehicle), and arson (burning a building to receive insurance payment or to hide another crime). Part II offenses are less serious…

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