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    Violent crime is a completely human characteristic. It has dominated our history books, been sensationalized by the media and created a pervasive fear which dominates our culture. Is there a way to possibly prevent violent crime? Neurocriminology, a classification of criminology centered on neuroscience and its relationship between the causes and cures of crime, may have the answer to that question. Adrian Raine, a criminal psychologist for more than thirty years, proposes that criminal behavior

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    County is violent crime. The measuring for the violent crimes is through the amount of reported violent crimes such as homicide, rape, robbery in 100,000 people. Violent crime can cause people afraid to exercise outside, elevate the stress level in daily activities, and increase the prevalence of other related diseases (“Violent Crime-Description”, 2017). The data from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (“Compare Counties”, 2017) addressed that, the amount of violent crime in New

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    disproportionately exposes violent crime because is more serious, but with crime in Canada at an all time low, why is it that the media only advertises the numbers associated with violent crime to be at an all time low and not all crime. How does online news outlets cover the decrease in crime in relation to violent crime and non-violent crime? The variables that will be used are online news outlets ' stories and articles regarding the crime drop, and the reduction in crime (violent vs non violent). The sample

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    years is, do violent video games lead to violent crime? Most people would think that the answer is a simple yes or no answer, but it’s not. This type of correlation is not all black and white; there is a lot of misconception and misunderstanding about it. In this paper, I will be discussing the history of violent video games. I will include scientific studies done on violent video games. I will include various crime cases involving video games. I will discuss the effects of violent video games. Lastly

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    Minors who committed violent crimes end up usually categorized with adult penalties, instead of being classified as minors penalties. The teenagers classified with adult penalties end up in prison instead of juvenile hall tend to receive a horrible fate if not worse. I oppose the thought of juveniles who have committed violent crimes should try as adults, a point that needs emphasizing since many people agree that minors who committed violent crimes belong in a juvenile penitentiary. Which, is how

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    ARE VIOLENT CRIMES CORRELATED WITH THE USE OF 2 ARE VIOLENT CRIMES CORRELATED WITH THE USE OF 4 Are violent crimes correlated with the use of alcohol? Alfredo Zuniga The University of Texas of the Permian Basin Running head: ARE VIOLENT CRIMES CORRELATED WITH THE USE OF 1 Are violent crimes correlated with the use of alcohol? Alcohol is a drug that is consumed the world over. It is not thought of as an illicit drug or drug at all; on the contrary, it is viewed as acceptable and desirable

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    Mental Illness and Violent Crime

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    in general, believe that people with mental illness are more likely to commit violent crime with those without mental illness. In their study they seek to find evidence to that statement – to learn if having a mental illness increases the likeliness of violent crime and recidivism after release from prison. This author seeks to discover the same using similar data to learn if there is a connection between violent crime and mental illness. The data gathered in the Teplin, Abram & McClelland (1994)

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    Brian McMahon Project Analysis of Violent Crimes Prof. Angela Madden   Abstract Violent crimes happen every day in America, yet the full scope of why and how they happen are not understood by many outside of law enforcement. But within the ranks of law enforcement and the criminal justice system itself, violent crimes are examined and analyzed at length to determine both how and why the incident occurred, as well as what can be done in the future to prevent a similar event from reoccurring

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    By definition non violent crimes are crimes that do not implicate physical harm or use of force upon another person. The most common of nonviolent crimes are drug trafficking, possession of drugs, burglary and or larceny. Other cases of non-violent crimes are prostitution, bribery, arson and fraud. At first I was all for early prison release of nonviolent offenders, why should tax payers have to pay for someone growing or smoking an herb that’s legal in other states? But after much research I had

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    Violent Crimes

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    There is nothing that has done more to tear American families apart than the existence of violent crimes, guns, gangs, drugs, and the fear that walks alongside those terrors. In a violent crime, a victim is harmed by or threatened with violence. Violent crimes include rape and sexual assault, robbery, assault and murder. Violent crime and victim rights are on the rise of major concern for most of the citizens in the United States of America. | “When a man is denied the right to live the life he

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