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Many Sociologists, like Durkheim, express that Deviance is necessary for society. Durkheim portrays the idea of Adaptive functions and Boundary maintenance(Giddens, 2013). He indicated that deviance can bring new ideas into society and can bring social and cultural ideas. Many sociologists may conclude that his knowledge is correct, however, crime still today is affecting social instability in major factors. Major negative factors that will be brought upon in this essay is the affect on the…

“It’s not hard you just have to take the time to try”- John Craddock was able to completely turn around the White River in Muncie indiana by eliminating the waste coming from major factory producers. If there is one thing I would love to be done in my hometown it would be monitoring and coming up with peaceful solutions to eliminate water pollution in our own small river: the Blue River. In the small town of Columbia City in northeastern Indiana, there are a multitude of billboards and media…

Violent crime post-1950 period, discuss the changes in the offending patterns and analyses the reasons for the changes. Violent crime started to increase during the period after the war around 1950s and onwards, most likely because people had seen and had been exposed to a lot of violence. Therefore people especially amongst the youth population had problems distinguishing good from bad behaviour. Another factor that contributed to the increase of violent crimes was poverty, those living in…

Today the National Football League (NFL) is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, but little did you know its origins as the American Professional Football Association were a whole lot more humble. Its birth really originated in an Ohio auto dealership, some teams in the cities such as Decatur and Munchie and the crowning of a champion four months after the last snap was taken. 14 men huddled inside the Jordan and Hupmobile automobile showroom in downtown Canton, Ohio, on the night of September 17,…

PGA #1 Option 3: Stress For my PGA assignment, I decided to visit a high stress area and observe how people acted in this area to the stressors. For my high stress area, I chose the local MITS bus stop in downtown Muncie on a Monday afternoon as people finished their daily work schedules. I chose this location for a variety of reasons. A former professor of mine was forced to use the MITS buss system as her form of travel. She complained in her office hours that the whole event was stressful…

The SS454 transmission options were the Muncie M22 4 speed manual or the automatic M40 TH400 3 speed auto. The body style of the 1970 Chevelle SS is everything that comes to mind when you think of a muscle car. It's squared-up stance, subtle fender flare, dual domed hood and aggressive styling…

confinement, the justice system has seen some pretty drastic reform. In 1948, juvenile detention facilities were added in to the criminal justice system. (Muncie) The system has since undergone several reforms to make it what it is today. Throughout all the reform, one commonality has always remained; that is the use of “shock-discipline” (Muncie). Detention facilities are meant to shock adolescents into behaving in a desirable manner. Criminal justice is designed to redirect criminals through…

Opportunity theory From the definition given in the Sage dictionary of Criminology (McLaughlin and Muncie, 2013) the student concludes that the opportunity theory is an approach developed to examine the characteristics of situations that bring about opportunities for criminal activities to take place. Opportunity theory explains the diversity in criminal…

I aced the certification exam. Shortly after the New Year of 2014, I find employment at a small nursing facility in a small town just outside of Muncie, called Yorktown. It was less than 100 beds in the facility. It has changed management since I have been there, I’m not sure what it is called now. I enjoyed working there. I ended up leaving after a few months, but not for the work requirements.…

within the body to prove criminality, believing criminals were atavistic, evolutionary throwbacks to when crime was socially useful (Hopkins Burke, 2009). He categorised these as born criminals stating they inherited characteristics (McLaughlin and Muncie, 2001) which Lombroso believed made them distinguishable from non-criminals (cited in Jupp, 1989). He later acknowledged environmental factors leading him to identify other criminal types such as criminaloids who were influenced by the…