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    Crime In Philadelphia

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    The film Law and Disorder in Philadelphia exemplified high violence and crimes around the streets and in the neighborhood in Philadelphia. A theory for the high crime rate in Philadelphia could be from the result of distrust between the criminal justice system and the civilians. Since the destitute Philadelphia streets established itself to be a common placed for the drug trades, local police officers routinely encounter high rates of criminal activities and the local people strongly developed…

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    Origins Of Common Law

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    The origins of common law are the England and Christianity. The Common law is a body of law based on custom and general principles embodied in case law. The common law was adopted by each of the states in the United State of America, as well as the national government of the new nation. The origin of common law can be traced back to sources such as; the common law principles of England, the equity principles, Christianity and ecclesiastical courts. (Legal, 2016). The general goals and purposes…

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    On January 22, 1990, John Doyle was born at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. Shortly after his birth, John experienced respiratory problems. John’s doctor was concerned for his well-being, so John was placed in intensive care. A week later, John’s doctor allows his parents to discharge from the hospital. After leaving the hospital John’s parents take him back to their home in Audubon, New Jersey. John’s mother Aileen was a school teacher at Paul VI High School in Audubon, New…

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    Anger Management Paper

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    Client is a seventeen year old Caucasian male who has been referred by The Department of Human Services for post juvenile detention release for intensive in-home treatment. Client has been charged with grand larceny, fire arm possession, and assault and battery; the charges are pending due to completion of post release criteria. Client was observed with calm mood and direct eye contact. The client’s speech was fluent with appropriate tone. The client answered social worker’s questions open with…

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    Prison Vs Jail

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    Leaving out robbery, assault, and larceny. Also in Rushford’s statistics he only included the first six months of 2011 and 2012 instead of the whole year. Glen E. Martin showed statisitcs himself in his article Safety and Justice Complement Each Other. First he started off by saying “Three…

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    The first reason is that white-collar crime is a significant social problem. The Federal Bureau of Investigation routinely suggest that far more is lost to white-collar crimes than to traditional property crimes, such as larceny, robbery, and burglary. White-collar crime is usually committed in businesses according to the FBI’s definition. I feel like the people that commit these crimes don’t understand the detrimental toll it takes on other people. Stealing from a business…

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    equipment. (Lau, Johnson, 2014). Blue-collar crimes are a generic term distinguish crimes that are white-collar crimes. When a person commits a property crime this is damages to someone’s property. An injury to a person’s body is a person crime. Larceny is committed by blue-collar people. Retail businesses have loss prevention related to shoplifting. Shoplifting is a serious and rampant crime. Employee theft I prevalent crime in any type of business that is out there. There is vandalism wrongful…

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    The drug abuse has been an ongoing problem in the United States. Based on findings from the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NDUH), it has been estimated that more than 8.3 million children have been exposed to parental substance abuse in their living situation (SAMHSA, 2009). This will become a problem when these children become adults. It could affect behavioral patterns, which could lead to criminal behavioral and a safety concern to the community. Some of the drugs are…

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    Juvenile delinquency refers to the violations of the law by minors. The criminal law views juveniles differently than adult crimes. Sometimes juveniles commit serious crimes are the exception to this. In this essay you will find out how much delinquency takes place in the United States and the different ways delinquency is measured. These different ways delinquency can be measured sometimes has a major impact on the conclusions that a perceived about the extent and trends in delinquency. Most of…

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    Will legalizing all drugs causes an epidemic of drug users and bring the world to chaos or will it bring peace to the war on drugs. In 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs and since then there has been a small decline in drug users (Laqueur, 2015, 767). This paper will focus on how legalizing drugs may be beneficial to drug users. If drugs were legal, drug addicts or users will not go to jail for possession of drugs and gang wars may be a thing of the past. Drug addicts will be able to obtain…

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