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- 1221: Illegal Drugs
- ... than anybody because they are supporting violent crimes in the drug world. Just by using drugs they become part of that drug world. They are already commiting acrime. But the relationship between drug use and crime often means that drug users go on to commit crimes like robbery,burglary,assult, and murder. Drug addiction means that the brain is saying I need drugs now it must have drugs. This offten means ... involve someone on drugs. *75% Of prison inmates have a drug use history. *24% of addicts start dealing drugs to support their habit. Studies also show that drugs play a big part in youth and crime: *more than 83% of youth in prison have used drugs. *40% of youth in prison for serious crimes were on drugs at the time of the crime. *More than 40% of youth in prison used drugs befor the age of 12. Armed patrols Search and destroy missions and helicopter surveillance. Sounds like americans at war, well this goes on every day ...
- 1222: My Life In Vietnam and The Move To the United States
- ... boy as everyone thought I was. Rather than studying with my friends, as I had told my parents I would, I obsessed over the games. The only positive aspect to my life was my private computer programming lessons. Programming in Apple BASIC presented me with an opportunity to create my own world. One day, my parents told me that we were going to move to the United States of America, and ... them at all, so they made rude remarks about me and my race. I understood them, maybe not completely, but I knew the intent of their messages. All that I had was my Apple II computer at which I just sat and programmed when I came home from school. At home, my parents pressured me to study all of the time, but I was frustrated and wanted to return to Vietnam ... I moved on to regular third grade classes; some of which were challenging, but tolerable because of my teachers whom were willing to help with their foremost ability. I always enjoyed class trips to the computer lab, where I would start programming on the computer. Other kids would start to gather around and treat me like a genius because of my knowledge about computers. Before long, I made more friends ...
- 1223: Creative Writing: American Dream
- ... then eat a hearty breakfast, (prepared by his beautiful wife Joanne), with his daughter, Jennifer. Then he hopped cheerily into his new Mercedes, and started to work. Joel worked at Virtual Tech. Computers, a new computer company that specialized in virtual reality. Joel was the chief design editor and brought home a handsome one hundred and twenty thousand dollars per year. Joel had many friends, both at work and in the ... it secret, only working on it at home. He didn't even tell Kyle about it. But one night, while watching a football game at Joel's house, he discovered that Joel had left his computer on and unprotected. Kyle sat down just to browse around, but upon finding the new program he saw that this could be the key to his new house. Kyle quickly copied the program onto a ... Kyle?," asked Joel "No," replied Kyle. "Joanne went to her mother's last night," said Joel, "and didn't come home." "I'm sure she's fine," said Kyle as he looked down at his computer screen and smiled. Kyle arranged other meetings with Joanne, and they all went the same as the first. Kyle soon tired of the affair and wanted Joanne to leave Joel so that they could ...
- 1224: Creative Writing: Revenge of the Hacker
- ... school he went home to practice the main ceremony to this "secret life." He would get comfortable turn on the TV or radio and become an instant celebrity around the world. Ri ch was a computer "hacker." Known to all those brave souls who dared the "information highway" as Hax0r, Rich would penetrate computer systems locally and around the world. Never malicious in his endeavors he sat back and explored what seemed to be another dimension to the every day "lamer." Rich was not alone on his journey's ... of friends course there was Richard the master of hacking access to a place. When on the Internet Rich used the nickname Hax0r. Also included in the gang was also the man with the fastest computer Chris, who used the nickname |-Rage-| Chris's specialty was in the art of Warez, or getting software for the gang for free. Then there was Brian, who probably the most all around handy ...
- 1225: Police Corruption
- ... in police departments. The danger of corruption for police, and this is that it may invert the formal goals of the organization and may lead to "the use of organizational power to encourage and create crime rather than to deter it" (Sherman 1978: p 31) General police deviance can include brutality, discrimination, sexual harassment, intimidation, and illicit use of weapons. However it is not particularly obvious where brutality, discrimination, and misconduct ... April 3, 1993: p. 5) The Mollen Commission has not uncovered a citywide system of payoffs among the 30,000-member force. In fact, last week's testimony focused on three precincts, all in heavy crime areas. But the tales, nevertheless, were troubling. Dowd described how virtually the entire precinct patrol force would rendezvous at times at an inlet on Jamaica Bay, where they would drink, shoot off guns in the ... money more aggressively than they were pursuing drugs,'' says Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Bauer. (Washington Post, Jan 18, 1993: p. 11) When cities enlarge their police forces quickly in response to public fears about crime, it can also mean an influx of younger and less well-suited officers. That was a major reason for the enormous corruption scandal that hit Miami in the mid-1980s, when about 10% of ...
- 1226: The Issue of Gun Control
- ... the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for the right to own a hand gun, the introduction of legislation for gun control, to try to reduce the crime in the United States, has been a hotly debated issue in recent years. Although many people feel that gun control violates the right of the people, given in the second amendment "the right to bear ... an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition, gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of social issues such as crime and drugs. Guns have become closely linked to drugs and murder in the public mind. Drug dealing and high tech weaponry have escalated the warfare in cities between long established loosely knit gangs. Predominantly ...
- 1227: The Stranger - Immersed in Sensuality: A Contemptible Trait
- ... was inhuman and oppressive. (15) People on a whole would like to believe that when a man is put on trial, his guilt or innocence is determined solely by whether or not he committed the crime; in The Stranger, this isn’t so. Mersault’s guilt is based primarily on his actions at his mother’s funeral, an issue which Mersault “pointed out...that none of…[which] had anything to do with my case” (Camus 65). When asked why Mersault was on trial, the prosecutor blatantly admitted the reason was not for killing an Arab, but for “burying his mother with crime in his heart” (Camus 96). The prosecutor’s statement is reinforced by his seemingly irrelevant line of questioning. Even the inattentive Mersault realized that he is contemptible for letting the sun as opposed to his ... 90) The prosecutor asked no questions to any of the witnesses about the events in the murder of the Arab, but peculiarly, Mersault was sentenced by the jury to pay the ultimate price for this crime. Sentenced to death by a jury who knew no details of the crime itself, one must ask, why was Mersault executed? The answer is simple — for bringing the fear to the world, the fear ...
- 1228: Mafia
- ... economy through illegal means. In 1903, Nicola Gentile, a native of Siculiana, Sicily, finding no occupation in his village, came to America as a stowaway on a ship to soon begin his life full of crime. Although barely able to read and write, he believed that he possessed an uncommon strength of will to be sinister. This trait would soon help him to rise to the high rank in the Mafia ... other places. Another law people began to live by was proposed by Gentile, saying that you should take what you can get. The law of the jungle you might say, therefore giving justification to organized crime today. Many tried to argue with people, among themselves, saying that once they made a lot of money; they could “earn” God’s blessing by doing good things for other people with their money. Many ... a week, the three leaders of the guilty gang were murdered. Owney was also associated with Arnold Rothstein, who in the process of denying his father and the Jewish religion, turned to violence and organized crime. He soon became involved in gambling, and learned to earn the friendships of the older men for protection. Arnold would loan money to those in need to gamble, and expected in return five dollars ...
- 1229: Bleeding Ireland and Black America
- ... moved more cautiously due to its growing Communist/Marxist nature and some ideological dissension between its members.2 Data exhibits, just as the inner cities of the US, that the rates of poverty, unemployment, serious crime, single-female headed families and welfare dependency in N. Irelands Catholic slums, rose drastically during this time. There was an increase in drugs, alcoholism (in Ireland?!), guns, bombings (from both sides)3 which all created ... back to IRA bombs in London. As W.E.B DuBois put it: “The Irish resist, as they have for hundreds of years, various and exasperating forms of British [colonial] oppression. Their resistance is called crime and under ordinary conditions would be crime; in retaliation not only the 'guilty' but the innocent among them are murdered and robbed and public property is burned by English 'guardians of the Peace'!”10 No one else should be able to ...
- 1230: Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood An
- ... Rookwood (1834) and Jack Sheppard (1839-40). Several of these novels were based upon famous crimes and criminal careers of the past (Eugene Aram, Dick Turpin in Rookwood, and Jack Sheppard); others derived from contemporary crime (Altick, 1970, p. 72). Although many authors chose to base their stories on criminals, William Harrison Ainsworth s Rookwood and Jack Sheppard are two of the best examples of the theme of crime and punishment in the nineteenth century. Ainsworth started his writing career as a writer of Gothic stories for various magazines. Gothic elements are included in Ainsworth s novel: the ancient hall, the family vaults, macabre ... was born in 1702 and hanged at Tyburn on November 16, 1724, at the age of 21. He became a carpenter s apprentice when he was 15. The record shows that he never committed a crime until the age of 20. One may wonder why Ainsworth chose a character with such a short career in the crime business. The answer lies in the fact that the real Jack Sheppard was ...
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