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    that has been created to work with DNA. Years ago, if people were falsely convicted they would stay convicted for most their life. Where as now people may be convicted originally or go to trial for a crime they didn’t commit but nowadays after DNA evidence is matched most are acquitted of their crime.…

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    Crackdowns Research Paper

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    something about crime.” (107) Even though crackdowns may not be fully directed at crime itself, it does not mean that it does not have any impact. Any impact, big or small, has its merits in the grand scene of crime prevention. “In most long-term crackdowns with apparent initial deterrence, however, the effects began to decay after a short period, sometimes despite continued dosage of police presence or even increased dosage of police sanctions.” (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu) Crackdowns may…

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    This paper will examine the research question of whether or not income inequality increases crime rate. Income inequality can be defined as an unequal distribution of collective or individual income across the populace in a given economy. In conjunction with crime rate, the importance of income inequality is significant. Equality is a critical characteristic for most societies. The increase of inequality specifically in economic terms, creates a greater gap between the wealthy and the…

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    could have prevented a criminal from walking into the store with a firearm in the first place. The belief is that stricter gun control laws can help prevent many crimes from taking place. Our country has many gun control laws that already…

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    Plea bargaining is right and proper and should be continued. In the United States plea bargaining is considered an essential part of the criminal justice system (Terrill, 2013, p. 82). I consider plea bargaining a necessary evil. With overwhelming court dockets, a plea bargain allows the prosecutor to streamline the court docket as well as minimizing costs (Savitsky, 2009, p. 9). It would be impossible and take entirely too much time to take every case to trial. When a defendant receives…

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    Leopold and Loeb, a pair of teenage prodigies, were seen as perfect to the general public. This was until the boys committed what was known as the “Crime of the Century”. There were many reasons that the Leopold and Loeb case earned the title “Crime of the Century”. To start, kidnapping itself is a severe crime, especially when a child is involved. Although Leopold and Loeb spent months planning the crime, their victim could have been anyone in the area. They lived in a very wealthy area in…

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    Crime Prevention Theory

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    explain why crimes occur in some places and not in others. For example, the routine activity theory explains that “crime occurs when a motivated offender, a suitable target and the lack of capable guardian coverage in the same place at the same time”. (National Institute of Justice, 2013). Meaning that criminals choose to find their targets within context of their routine activities. The broken windows theory suggest that when maintaining and monitoring urban environment may prevent small…

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    Latin America has lots of problem. It isn’t a perfect country. Nothing is perfect and there is going to be problems. Some of these difficulties and more severe than others and some aren’t nearly as bad as others. In Latin America they have really bad financial problems and they have child labor. These are really bad problems, but, believe it or not some problems are worst than this. One of them is crimes that are due to drugs. I believe that in Latin America the main problem is that people…

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    two million dollars from the Brinks Armored Car depot located in Boston. As it hit news headlines everywhere, it instantly became the perfect crime and robbery. The suspects were caught a few days before the statute of limitations. Tony Pino was the director and mastermind of the theft and Joe McGinnis assembled the group of eleven. The thieves rehearsed the crime numerous times before they went. They were prepared for everything. While inside the counting room the thieves tied up all the…

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    a system to control crime, they failed. Also it wasn’t effective when they were hired by a political official. The political official will determine how important the crime is based on their opinion not the law. The police officers had to answer to one person…

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