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    into separate rooms. They are given a couple of choices; they can rat on each other and get 10 years in jail, I can rat on the other and get no years in jail but the other prisoner has to clam up. The person that clams up however will get 20 years in prison or if they both clam up and get 1 year each. Now they are really only only thinking about themselves. So the prisoners best idea would be to minus the cost as much as possible by ratting on the other and hoping the other clams up. Therefore…

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    The name that agreed by the criminologists to crime prevention strategies is Situation Crime Prevention (SCP) which is meant to lessen the criminal opportunities that come about from the routines of everyday life. Those strategies includes ‘hardening’ of the potential targets, improving the surveillance of areas that might create a centre of attention of crimes such as closed-circuit television surveillance (CCTV), deflecting probable offenders from the places which crimes might occur. The SCP…

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    and for the interest of the offender such as a young man who is sent to prison for smoking marijuana. I like how you pointed out that some people who are considered "normal" are able to commit criminal acts under certain situations such as finding their significant other in bed with another individual. I agree that prisoners are in need of treatment especially in a place like prison. I would consider the idea that many prison inmates develop psychological disorders while in that environment…

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    Ai Weiwei, has had an incomprehensibly tough life, living in exile for the first 16 years on the Russian border, with a non-existent educational system in the surrounding area and harsh living conditions. He creates many pieces of art that convey and express the many experiences he’s had in his life. From being illegally arrested by the government to growing up ostracised and being an illegal alien in New York after graduation. Artwork created with such experiences and honest feelings can be…

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    According to Gosselin (2013), Justifiable Homicide is best defined as a reasonable killing act of an individual done out of self-defense to protect either themselves or others (pg. 306). Under the circumstance, if the victim kills without an evil motive the killing is socially acceptable because the victim appears to technically not be at fault for what has happened due to the violence been used by the perpetrator (Gosselin, 2013, pg. 306). Some factors that are looked at when determining if…

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    Considering the Three Components of the Criminal Justice System Leo Louis Grantham University Abstract This paper will cover the three components of the Criminal Justice system, which component of the three has the most difficult undertaking and why. It will also review the scenario of “boss” for a day and what changes would be implemented in that component to help make it more successful. The three components of the criminal justice system are law enforcement, judicial courts and…

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    The Due Process is referred to as “law of the land” and “legal judgement of peers” (usconsitution.net). This process originated in English Common Law stating no individual’s right to life, liberty or property should be taken without notice. The Due Process law can be found in The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, the government is not allowed to take an individual’s right to life or liberty unfairly. With the help of The Due Process there are many innocent people who are saved…

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    Thank you for your attention in this matter. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a difference between “self defense” and “retaliation”.There is also a difference between what constitutes reasonable doubt, and the amount of excuses that justify the defendant. Ladies of the jury, Zimmerman provoked the fight that night Treyvon Martin was killed. The law does not allow a man to pick a fight with a minor, to then create the need to defend himself. There is an old cliché “actions speak louder than…

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    Free Will Response The theist says that God is defended by the problem of evil because God gave us human’s free will. It says that God is not responsible for the problem of evil because God gave the ability of free will to his people that way they can make their own mistakes and live their own lives. However God does control every aspect of your life he does allow free will so that way you can make your own choices and if those choices lead to God he will allow you into Heaven. He understands…

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    just thrown in prison, and another statistic, but helped with their psychological problems. In this paper, i'm going to talk about a 1998 case of, Maddie Clifton an 8-year old child who was killed by her 14- year old neighbor, Josh Phillips. Also, the case of Lionel…

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