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    Cyber Crime In Australia

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    Cyber-Crime can be defined as the action of making an offence using computers, information technology and virtual reality that is punishable by law. Cyber-Crime can range from fraud, hacking, money laundering and theft, through to cyberstalking, cyberbullying, identity theft, child sexual exploitation and child grooming. The specific type of Cyber- Crime that will be explored sexting. Which can range from sending sexually explicit pictures and messages and also, others taking sexually explicit pictures

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    Low income neighborhoods contribute to individuals to be involve in crime. As described on our book scholars say that “kinds of places matter more than kinds of people” (134). This view refers to that the people do not cause crime but rather the place where individuals reside is the one causing the crime. The living situation in urban neighborhoods is a common association between teenagers and other adults to be exposed to crime. Some individuals who are not criminals and that are connected to this

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    The majority of crimes committed in the United States were accompanied by a weapon, which was usually a gun. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research dedicates its service to prevent gun-related deaths and injuries. Studies have proven that in 2010 there were 52,436 gun related deaths which calculated out equals 143 deaths a day. A study by researchers from the University of Chicago, John Lott and David Mustard, showed that violent crime is reduced when citizens have a law that allows them

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    Many people believe the saying, “If you are old enough to commit the crime, you are old enough to do the time.” However, many of the people that believe this saying do not consider the ratio of seriousness of crime to age of offender. Other people may say, “Oh, they are just too young. They did not really know what they were doing.” Maybe that statement is true or maybe the juvenile offender knew exactly what he or she was doing. Who else besides the child would know? Who can accurately and fairly

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    gives the people the power to resist a tyrannical government. The Right to Bear Arms has been a fundamental right just as the freedom of speech and the rest of the amendments since the Bill of Rights have been ratified. Some people think and feel that law-abiding citizens should not be able to own any guns and that we are supposed to allow the government to keep us safe. Some think that the Second Amendment is the most important amendment because it keeps the government from being able to impose tyranny

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    Bambam2 Because crime is one of the more appealing themes in popular culture, the public receives a skewed version of crime. The public’s knowledge may be particularly lacking with regard to the entire field of criminology, the differences between blue-collar and white-collar crime, and the general perception of the incidence of crime in the United States. You are asked, as the public relations representative of your police department, to provide an information session on the field of criminology

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    committing crimes and violating laws. This way, deterrence shapes public awareness about what is wrong and unlawful. Rather than actual punishment, the deterrence philosophy warns and alerts people from the consequences of violating the law. Obviously, imposing warnings seems more effective than taking formal legal actions. This means that deterrence releases the society from possible offenders, and therefore omits punishment at all. General deterrence assumes one’s decision not to commit a crime at all

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    Believing that the television show Law & Order: SVU actually portrays the correct way our precincts handle how sex crimes are being investigated today is incorrect. The world we live in, television shows can paint us a fictional picture of how much concern and care police precincts put into conducting full investigations so our victims are getting Justice. When In fact, most cases don't even get noticed, investigated or took into consideration that there is a suspect walking around doing deviant

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    intent to destroy a particular group, physically and biologically. However, the social concept of genocide focuses on the more widespread concept of mass killings. The confusion, pertaining to what constitutes genocide and what can simply be termed crimes against humanity, can be attributed to this divide. To understand the clash between the legal and social conceptions of genocide and the responsibilities of the Security Council and the international community, the article “The schism between the

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    The laws enforced by police have multiple effects on the citizens that they control. Quite often, these laws are too harsh and upheld as a means of catching the minor crimes as opposed to the more severe ones. This creates an effect on citizens that manipulates their minds and emotions. The criminals become easier to pick out of the crowd and revert to a life of crime rather than back into society as honest citizens. People in society live in fear of whether they did or are going to do something

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