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Women and Law: Domestic Violence
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Since, she did not intend to kill her husband, she can at most be held to be guilty of voluntary manslaughter and she can proffer a claim for self-defense.... From the feminist point of view, Colleen is not guilty of any crime.... In this case, the husband Wayne is characterised as a violent in nature and abusive man.... There remains a significant problem with consistent implementation however and the judiciary still fails to treat crimes of domestic violence seriously3....
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Nature of Online Dating
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The paper "nature of Online Dating" defines the act of getting to know someone through electronic means that allows people at communicating and get to know people at a long distance.... Free video chatting allows one to not only talk to someone but also see and hear them while talking to them....
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Phase 3 Individual Project
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This is because the 8th Amendment of the constitution gives protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and the death penalty falls under cruel punishment.... ... ... This paper explores the various processes that will be undertaken for successful prosecution of the case.... This paper identifies the various hearings and courts the case may be heard at, and it provides an overview of such courts. ...
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The Development of a Television Series
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He notices the severed body and its bloodless nature.... he two are essential characters in the television series who influence the performance of the key character thereby influencing he nature of the plot.... The inclusion of the two murders in the same scene is essential as they help portray the serial nature of both the television program and the story line.... While the setting of the second murder among other features remain different, the murderer places a form identical to the one he placed on the first victim a feature that helps identify the serial nature of the murders....
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The Case of John White Shooting Daniel Cicciaro, Jr
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Despite act of defending and failing to recognize the state of drunken youths, the killing took place during the evening around 5pm when one is able to have a look and suggests the nature and state of a person.... The defendant pleaded not guilty to the killing and weapon penalties that resulted in the death of Cicciaro.... White is guilty about the charges while one of ten jury felt not convinced about the guilt charges sealing the fate of Mr....
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Car Robbery Prevention in the Abu Dhabi Emirate
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The paper "Car Robbery Prevention in the Abu Dhabi Emirate" states that society, materially and morally, requires the awareness and cooperative effort of the police, community, and car manufacturers to be security alert and ready to combat this crime.... ... ... ... The crime of car robbery is considered a serious crime because of several reasons....
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Battle Against Myths of Yesterday
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Opposition to this idea will claim that those people who self-proclaim to be witches are suffering from a dillusion of sorts; however, there is no evidence to support the claims that today's witches are suffering from any dillusion, or believe themselves to be magical or paranormal in nature....
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Concept of Human Nature
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The essay 'Concept of Human nature' looks at Human nature as the ocean.... The concept of human nature can be gauged through a closely-knit group in the school or an office.... It can be calm and it can be stormy.... It can also be fallacious and unpredictable....
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The Nature of Love
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The paper "The nature of Love" highlights that the poems are organized into three sections: first 'seasons' like spring, summer, and winter which talk about the changing seasons of love: from hope of new love in spring, to warmth and passion in summer.... I chose to write about 'the nature of love' because of the season that we are in.... When it was winter I was thinking about how sometimes love can be cold, and going through feelings which made me think of love and nature in this way – being heartbroken and feeling cold and bare like trees in winter....
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Cyber Fraud: Types, Cases and Laws
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The "Cyber Fraud: Types, Cases and Laws" paper is going to examine cyber fraud, laws that have been established to counter it; a few cases will be looked at to find out if the current laws are still applicable to the changing nature of internet crimes.... The dynamic nature of the internet and nature of technology makes it difficult to actually craft laws that fit all situations.... This paper is going to examine cyber fraud, laws that have been established to counter it; a few cases will be looked at to find out if the current laws are still applicable to the changing nature of internet crimes. ...
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Political views of rape on women and fraternities and rape
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There are different types of rapes and they take up the classification name due to the nature of the occurrences.... Political and government context on rape crimes against women The government has folded its arms and watched as rape crimes dominate the society without doing much to eliminate the situation....
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Homicide in Puerto Rico
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) The studies also blame growing drug addiction and chemical dependency as the vital factor behind the individuals committing of crimes.... ) In other words, emotional and sentimental collapses drag the people use drugs on the one hand, and adopt the path of crimes and delinquency on the other.... Homicide in Puerto Rico Contents Pages Abstract 3 Statement of the Problem 3 Legal nature of Homicide 4-5 Homicide Subcategories 6-8 Homicide Statistics 8-9 Puerto Rico and Selected Metropolitan Areas Homicide Comparison 9-10 Homicide Contributing Factors 10-11 Recommendations 11 References 12 Abstract Collected in 2003, the national crime statistics of Puerto Rico declare homicide as one of the most dominant causes of unnatural deaths in the country....
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The Rule of Retributive Justice
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According to the constitution, application of retributive justice is significant as it is based on ensuring that commitment of crimes of the same nature like the one that attracted a capital punishment will prevent commitment of future crimes by the potential offenders.... The paper 'The Rule of Retributive Justice' focuses on the aspect of retributive justice which calls for fair payment for actions done....
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The Development of Offender Rehabilitation into the British Criminal Justice System
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However, inmates risked being moved back to preceding stages if found guilty of misconduct or laziness.... This contrasts classical view of criminology, which holds that offenders have command over their behavior; they decide to commit crimes and can be dissuaded by the threat of punishment (Droz 2000, p.... Choice theory, which gained prominence during the 1970's, holds that criminals are rational actors who meditate their crimes, dread punishment, and merit punishment for their offenses....
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The English Legal Process
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This is an erroneous assumption particularly when jurors are selected in a random nature from the electoral poll.... The court may also consider antecedents, particularly those of a similar nature since it helps the court determine whether or not the applicant is at risk of committing an offence while on bail.... 9 However, Ray's pervious offence, although similar in nature, was committed in 1999 and is therefore a spent conviction.... This is an erroneous assumption particularly when jurors are selected in a random nature from the electoral poll....
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The Molly Mcguires of Pennsylvania
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Millions of European immigrants entered the United States between 1840 and 1860, most coming from five countries including Ireland, Wales, Poland, Russia and Germany.... They entered via Ellis Island and the New York harbor and were greeted by the sign at the base of the Statue of.... ... ... Liberty which reads ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free....
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International Criminal Law and the UN Security Council
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If the Prosecutor had initiated action, then the ICC can exercise jurisdiction in respect of crimes committed in any State Party or by its citizens14. ... The preamble to the Rome Statute states that the fundamental objective of the ICC is to erode the impunity for the perpetrators of crimes that are “unimaginable atrocities that deeply shock the conscience of humanity.... Such withholding of immunity acts as a major deterrent to the recurrence of crimes against humanity....
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DNA Profiling and the Related Ethical and Personal Issues
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DNA's role after death is mainly to find out the nature and cause of death and this where DNA profiling comes into the picture.... nature Reviews ... These recent developments are seen as harbingers of more advancement, which can aid the investigators to find out all wrongdoers and which would not allow any of them to go scot-free, thus solving more crimes and minimizing the crime rate in the society. ... So, apt legislations have to be brought in to prevent any revealing of results of DNA profiling, until the suspect is proven guilty....
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Writing Assigment
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Their primary reason is that members of the society have to be protected from criminals who commit more serious crimes like murder and capital crimes.... As per the bible, the first murder of a human being happened when Cain was killed by his brother Abel.... Men have killed humans for revenge, protection, honor,....
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Explain the content and effect of the UK law relating to money laundering
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These two crimes greatly contribute to the globally ongoing unlawful activities of crimes that are organized by terrorist organizations and other criminals (Dayanath, 2003; Johnson, 2003).... Whether one likes it or not, if a person is aware that another person in an organization is guilty of money laundering of some sort, he or she is bound by law to report the same to the authorities.... In the UK, and also in other countries, these two have been recognized as very serious crimes....
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The Dualism of Human Nature and Its Social Conditions by Emile Durkheim
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The author of "The Dualism of Human nature and Its Social Conditions by Emile Durkheim" paper describes Emile Durkheim's attitude towards human nature in a society that is focused on measuring opportunities of personality to express oneself in the community.... The Dualism of Human nature and Its Social Conditions by Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) As one ical era representatives in sociology, Emile Durkheim devoted his scientific career to finding out whether modern society is operating according to basic needs of a man....
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The Chinese Maze Murders, Feudalism, Chinese Universities in the Middle Ages
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There is clearly a lot of competition and resentment within families because of this, and it may be that many of the crimes committed out of love are caused by this situation.... Judge Dee finds Yoo Kee guilty and warns him that there is a terrible punishment for this crime of treason, which the reader assumes must be some horribly violent execution, and then says “Yet perhaps the great name of your late father and a recommendation from me might bring the authorities to mitigate the fearful fate that awaits you” (Van Gulik, 228)....
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Gender and Fear of Walking at Night
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Such would include tightening the measures take for those convicted guilty of committing a crime.... This difference has resulted from the fact that women are more vulnerable to crimes that have a great impact on personality development and have less knowledge of defense mechanisms than their male counterparts.... Past research indicates that women who have experienced crimes such as rape form the highest number of those that fear walking at night....
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The Cybercrime: Identity Theft
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The development of the computer systems and internet resources is always accompanied with the development of cybercrimes and computer viruses as the tools for committing this type of crimes.... This assignment "The Cybercrime: Identity Theft" discusses cybercrimes that are among the most dangerous crimes in the modern world.... Lusthaus, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Third Edition: Forensic Science, Computers, and the Internet by Eoghan Casey and Cyber Criminology: Exploring Internet crimes and Criminal behavior by K....
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Psycho IV: the Beginning
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The DVD strongly suggests that nurture rather than nature is the cause of Norman's psychopathology.... Some may venture to argue that it is nature, but despite the possibilities of him have inherited his mother's genes, this was not the direct reason for his change of behaviour.... This is the nature of split personality; it is both transforming and also dangerous to the individual and the people with him.... The movie also tells how Norman killed his mother years back, and since then, has had episodes where he pretends to be his mother to the extent of dressing like her, this helps him reduce his guilty feelings of killing her....
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Sigmund Freud Pessimism on Human Nature
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The essay "Sigmund Freud Pessimism on Human nature" aims to elucidate that Freud's work is greatly appreciated globally.... On the contrary, Sigmund Freud was pessimistic about human nature.... Sigmund Freud thus had a really awkward spin on the value of human nature.... Moreover, he stated that if people did not actually need the coercive and constraining laws and regulations on human nature that they would very much appreciate it if other people cared for them by a certain proportion of human nature....
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Significant Developments in International Law
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Cassese (2008) states that the purpose of the court was to charge and then attempt to prosecute individuals such as prominent politicians, who allegedly committed heinous crimes against humanity.... This charter gave power to the courts to prosecute certain individuals for crimes against humanity.... MacArthur, who approved an executive order that allowed the Tokyo Charter to establish the jurisdiction of the IMT for the Far East, where individuals were also tried for war crimes....
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Child Protection in Australia
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Tess may feel guilty for disclosing the abuse to her mother.... In the paper 'Child Protection in Australia' the author discusses the case pf Chloe Sampson, an indigenous single mother of four children.... She appears not to have the financial means to provide for her children.... Chloe's situation is made worse by the fact that she usually uses alcohol to manage stress....
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Article Critique: Kids Growing Up Scared by J. Adler
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(Adler) Fear of crimes against children is unrealistic given that there are diseases that claim the lives of children far more frequently than crimes.... Both scenarios indicate that children are exposed to conduct that is entirely adult in nature, with the result that the innocence of childhood is lost.... Today's media reports are filled with stories of children as both victims and authors of serious crimes....
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Economics of crime: addressing solely the deterrence effects of the death penalty
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Another part of Becker's model that applies to deterrence of death penalty includes the number of crimes and their resultant effects.... The disagreements centers on specific areas in research methodology.... Notably, the presence of skewed samples in earlier and current.... ... ...
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Anatomy of a Murder Critique
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, physical examination is a valid proof to announce sentence to the offender as well as set the innocent free, but the case is quite reverse sin practical sense, because the offenders are set free and the victims themselves are declared as the guilty of crime.... The essay "Anatomy of a Murder Critique" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues in the novel Anatomy of a Murder....
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Sex Offenders
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hese statistics prove that due to fact sex offenders are likely to reoffend, the general public is at risk from these crimes.... The sex offender has had the due process of law and found guilty.... The sex offenders have had legal counsel, a jury, judge, and process through which they were found guilty, or pled guilty to their charges....
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The State of Connecticut vs Arnold Bell
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The defendant was found guilty of both charges, however, the State presented another charge on the defendant that he was a constant threat to the public because of his history and, therefore, he should be kept behind bars.... On the new trial, both parties presented their justifications however, the jury concluded that there was sufficient evidence that Bell was guilty of a crime and should serve a prolonged sentence in view of public interest i.... the defendant was found guilty of murder and crime was justified as sufficient evidence was provided by the State on the matter....
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Film analysis with historical theme
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The drug trade is the core of the nature of economic stability in Columbia and once in the United States, the characters find themselves facing the hope of opportunity that they did not have in their home country.... In the film Maria Full of Grace, history and fictional biography are joined in order to express a time and place in a discussion of how the political climate of nations affects the lives of those who inhabit them....
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The US Security Has Relatively Increased under the Department of Homeland Security
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For example, DHS has established links where the public can report crimes.... For example, DHS has established links where the public can report crimes or possible threats.... In addition, the department has been carrying out various privacy impact assessments cyber vulnerability surveys and effecting necessary measures to counter the spread of cyber crimes.... However, it should be noted that terrorism and other organized crimes are hard to detect as they evolve everyday and often executed by equally smart people....
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Elements of Consciousness
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Quantum mechanics, is a branch of Physics which assumes that matter has both particle and wave nature.... In short, both consciousness and energy are similar in nature as we cannot see both of them even if we can experience the power of these entities in different ways.... In fact such people will never feel any guilty consciousness in their life even after committing serious brutal crimes.... On the other hand, even hardcore criminals may feel some kind of guilty consciousness at some stages of their life because of the influence of consciousness....
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The Main Purpose of Punishment and Its Importance
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Retribution in criminal justice refers to the ideology that perpetrators of wrongful acts and deeds should be punished for crimes committed when they willingly violate laid down social rules.... Retribution has for many years been the theoretical basis for the criminal justice system in many nations and governments, with its normative assumption being that there should be severe punishments for severe crimes committed.... Retribution in criminal justice refers to the ideology that perpetrators of wrongful acts and deeds should be punished for crimes committed when they willingly violate laid down social rules....
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An Argument for the Conviction and Acquittal of the West Memphis Three
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nother argument directed against Jessie is his sexual nature (36:20).... The point is that he may have had a mental handicap as what his lawyers pointed out but his highly sexual nature allowed him to be a sexual criminal at the same time.... Instead, it focused on the nature of the identity and credibility of the suspects.... Even in the 90's, the police may have already started employing some techniques to make suspected criminals confess to crimes that they have not committed....
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Masculinity and Gun Violence
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According to Daly and Chesney-Lind, “Marxist and socialist feminist believe that men's nature cannot be described in universalistic or biologically-based terms but is a product of history and culture, and is related to other systems of domination such as classism, racism and imperialism.... More significant is that males are often the ones perpetrating gun crimes.... un crimes among males reveal a possible link between masculinity and gun violence. ...
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Combating Cyber Crime in the UAE and the UK
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The paper "Combating Cyber Crime in the UAE and the UK" states that under the sub-topic 'understanding the nature of cybercrime in UAE and UK and UAE and UK laws on cybercrime' there are kinds of literature that have been reviewed that are appropriate to aspects of the problems.... Methodology: under the sub-topic ‘understanding the nature of cybercrime in UAE and UK and UAE and UK laws on cybercrime' there are literatures which have been reviewed that are appropriate to aspects of the problems....
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Prison Life in US
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There can be numerous causes that an individual gets himself in the criminal activities or become a part of the social, economic, political, emotional, environmental, and cyber crimes.... However, it can come under many arguments that whether a person's behavior or perspective related to performing crime changes after getting punishment for the crimes he committed.... The criminals involved in social crimes such as robbery, kidnapping, rape, murder etc comes under penalty by imprisoning them....
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Resistance Against Allies in Afghanistan
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But everyone more or less agreed on the nature and severity of the threat.... This essay "Resistance Against Allies in Afghanistan" is about the Afghanistan intervention that was caused by invoking article five of the NATO charter, which called an attack on one, which would be seen as an attack on them all....
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What Motivates Serial Killers
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They also follow up on their crimes in the media and take pride in them.... To perform his operations, he kept friends in the government secretly who helped him get away with crimes.... n most of the crimes Jack committed, he could keenly follow up on the profile of the target and their activities before attacking.... The method helps in analyzing connected crimes to determine the most probable residence of the offender (Felson, 2008). ...
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The darkness by Gitta Sereny
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The book does not end by conforming to the crimes which took place beyond the dark walls of those camps and inside the gas chambers but at the same time, it tries to delve deep and investigate into the minds of those who were associated with the crime.... Then what actually led him to sign in the regime of abnormality of such series of heinous crimes (Whitehead, “Even in the Sleeper”)?...
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Gender Based Violence, Police Behavior and the Court System
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Masculinity is another theoretical lens that proposes that the criminal behavior of men is purported by their masculine nature.... This is confirmed by the dominant fact that one gender is majorly known to be the perpetrators of certain crimes while another is on the receiving end.... Taking a broader view, we realize that men are also victims of gender –based crimes.... Morsh,(2006) argues that agencies responsible for human security should realize that men equally need protection from such violence meted on them, just because they are of the masculine gender, does not mean that they can entirely defend themselves from such crimes. ...
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Investigations Involving Children as Victims of Violent or Sexual Offences in the United Arab
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Such professionals should undergo adequate training that will in turn ensure that the professionals are well versant with the appropriate techniques to handle children due to their delicate nature and prevalent frustration.... This is due to the fact; the child related crimes may be of diverse nature each varying in the level of magnitude.... In addition, both the professional and the investigator should be aware of the dynamic perspective that the child related crimes may adopt....
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Criminal Law: assault charge
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Therefore, he has been charged with two crimes, and in my opinion he has been charged correctly because he committed a robbery and assaulted the shopkeeper; he did not assault with the intent to rob but the other way around. ... George is charged with assault and robbery because robbery is a crime which is considered as being "the crime of seizing property through violence or intimidation....
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Economic Principles in Understand the Operation of Illicit Drug Markets
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When enforcers stop focusing on other crimes and concentrate on the drug market, then the distribution of the drugs decreases, forcing the dealers to increase the prices of the drugs.... Efforts to deal with other crimes ... ccording to the diagram, when the enforcers focus more on reducing the distribution of drugs than they do on other crimes, the prices of drugs move towards B.... In the due course of compensating the risks, there are chances that the rate of other crimes will go higher....
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The Death Penalty Should Be Legalized
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For example, the largest democracy in the world, India, employs the death penalty for certain heinous crimes.... n addition, China is a nation that imposes the death sentence for several crimes.... If Rodriguez had been executed after his initial crimes, then such a terrible fate would not have befallen his hapless victim Lorraine Martelli (Justia US Law).... These people realize that some of the crimes, due to their gruesomeness, deserve the ultimate punishment, namely execution (Ewegen). ...
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The European Convention on Human Rights 1950 vs UN Convention on Status of Refugees
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Exclusion clauses of Geneva Convention in Article 1(f) talk about non-applicability of protection provisions to individuals who have committed serious crimes against peace, a war crime, crime against humanity, serious non-political crime outside the country of his refuge prior to admission to that country as a refugee or those guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United nations.... However, the Court's scrutiny of the existence of a risk of ill-treatment in breach of needs to be a strong one in view of unqualified nature of this provision and the fact that it enshrines one of the fundamental values of the democratic societies making up the Council of Europe. ...
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