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I would recommend the documentary to any individual fascinated by history and past events as well as international crimes and anyone who is interested in finding out the truth about the Nazi Rule in Germany.... Genocide can be defined as the systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of individuals on the basis of their ethnic origin, religion, tribe, race, caste or nationality.... The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of t5he Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) in 1948 described genocide a deliberate crime that involves killing, causing mental and physical harm as well as inflicting on the conditions of life of a group or part of it based on nationality, ethnicity or race....
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With time however, some of the kids mustered courage and started approaching me as a normal person because my resistance to continue using the hijab and yet go about my duties normally proved to them that I was just as a normal person as they were.... Indeed, some of these kids were even bold enough to ask me about why I was wearing the headscarf, questioning me by asking, “Where is your hair?...
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The typifications may work to neutralize the impact of crime and may elongate the prosecution.... As Hester & Eglin would say," As far as study of crime is concerned, the first premise entails the view that whether a given act is criminal or not depends upon the meanings which are attributed to it"(Hester & Eglin,_Year).... Similar to above typifications regarding the crime, its settings and offenders police also have typifications of a typical rape complainant and they come to regard some complaints as more legitimate than others under the influence of these typifications, as observed above....
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Customary intelligence and wisdom is being challenged by improved and modern forms of evidence, which has questioned certain… Principle of call for fairness is also challenged by growing means to ascertain the truth besides personal evidence of eye witness' which are found in error in number of case and insistence is being placed on call for certainty, especially in case It may be argued that methods to find the truth are not supplementary to each other and these should not be so, because there is nothing absolute....
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Even when shows like Dexter, a serial killer/law enforcement employee, show crime being freely committed, there is an effort to portray the evil of a crime by making Dexter kill only those that are considered menace to the society.... Considering that majority of the viewers have had very limited direct interaction with law enforcement, many have relied, however unconsciously, on television to learn about laws, their rights, obligations of the police, and the dynamics between the uniformed and the civilians (Surette 1992)....
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The documentary presents a multifaceted… oach where it presents in the movie the videos made by the older Friedman brother, along with the interviews; it is imperative to highlight here that the truth remains hard to pin down after watching the documentary.... Before the giving a verdict it is imperative to take in to consideration the way the truth was moulded and fashioned and also to consider the arguments presented by the director in order to provide a statement to the critics....
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The media has been seen to contribute to racism through biased reporting in relation to the prevalence of high crime rates in the minority groups as opposed to the dominant groups (Banton, 1988).... This has resulted in unbalanced social construction, with the minority groups, most especially the African Americans being stereotyped as crime-prone than the rest of the communities.... The impact of this is that such minority groups have in turn adapted crime as the tool for revenge against the marginalization....
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Heather Mac Donald's article “Distorting the Truth About Crime and Race” appeared in the City Journal and is based on an article which made the front page of the New York Times.... People belonging to a particular race will have distinct features and biological traits which the other group would not have.... These people think that certain people belonging to a particular race are superior and the 'lower race' does not deserve to even be at the same place as them....
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