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- 1941: Gangs
- ... their families, it is dangerious to neaborhoods, towns and cities, it affects society as a whole. The young juvenile go though the same initiation as the older kids do. This often includes commiting a violent crime, getting "jumped in" (beaten by other gang members) being sexed in or having sex with a known HIV positive gang member, A notorious street gang called the Bloods initiates its new members by requiring them ... the media--news shows, movies, videos, games, and even through the music of various artists. Some music and movies tend to glamorize the gang lifestyle. Even telling a would be gangbanger how to commit a crime, Many kids who gravitate to gangs do so out of a need to belong to something and for the power that is gained from being in a gang. The society that we live in makes ...
- 1942: Medicalizing Drugs
- ... Ehrenfeld, it seemed to fully support what I had originally felt would occur if we were to follow Alan Dershowitz's proposal. Rachel states in her article that "But the result was increased drug use, crime, violence, and prostitution, which quickly became intolerable." This is exactly what I felt would happen here in the United States if we were to allow some charlatan like Alan Dershowitz and his proposed solution to ... down. This is not what needs to be done in these situations at all. We need to get our judicial system to change their current direction on how to deal with individuals accordingly to the crime that they have committed. We need a no tolerance rule put into effect and no matter who you are you must deal with the consequences of your own actions. This includes cleaning up where criminals ...
- 1943: Bennet's: The Executioner
- Bennet's: The Executioner "I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the ... be the executioner. This again arises suspense. Bennett uses an interesting way to show the executioner's motive to get revenge. The first is by the quote stated at the beginning, saying that "When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance, then comes the time for someone to declare himself the executioner." At the end of the story, Oliver (the executioner) says some brilliant words that ...
- 1944: Al Capone
- ... involved in many serious crimes including the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, income tax evasion, and the illegal selling of liquor. He also took part in the running of gambling and prostitution. He dominated organized crime in Chicago from about 1925 to 1931. Al Capone's parents immigrated to the United States from Naples, Italy in 1893. Six years later on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, Al Capone was born. He quit school after the fourth grade and became involved in petty crime and gangs. In a fight in a saloon, a young rival slashed Capone across his left cheek, earning him the nickname "Scarface." Al Capone spent nearly ten years of his life in Brooklyn with various ...
- 1945: Adult Entertainment and The City of New York
- ... establishments must conform or terminate within a year. These regulations are set forth by the New York Department of City Planning for the following reasons: decrease property values of surrounding business and residents, increase in crime, substantial loss of business because of loss in investments and decline in economic and pedestrian activities. Issues. The controversies in the dispute involving the interests of the city versus the interests of the Adult Entertainment ... before a direct connection could be established and give reason for a action by the city in the form of regulation. It is less clear whether the adult entertainment commercial business effects "an increase in crime and a decline in economic and pedestrian activities. It would seem that if the adult entertainment businesses were profiting by customer demand and sales were up, the economic status of the area would be in ...
- 1946: The Sources Of Public Policy
- ... for making or remaking policy. There are two kinds of agendas: a. Popular agenda, which is the list of problems and issues in which the general public is most interested. Opinion polls report that unemployment, crime, or lack of medical insurance heads of concern in a given month. Issues rise and fall on this agenda because of such factors as media publicity, they reflect what government is already doing-well or ... bodies or leaders rank as high priorities for action. These concerns reflect the popular agendas but emphasize specific matters on which some agreement is possible. Ex: At a time, when the public is worried about crime, legislators’ agendas may include proposals to put more police on the streets or increase prison terms for violent offenders. Administrative departments and agencies also have internal agendas that develop from assigned missions. Admission of an ...
- 1947: The Client
- In writing the Crime novel ‘The Client’, John Grisham has quite effectively intertwined the plot, characters, themes and issues to create a dramatic and suspenseful story. To do this he creates strong interesting characters along with an in depth ... Reggie tells them where they can find the body. Mark and his family are hastily flown away and kept under the witness protection program. John Grisham uses a very similar format for all his famous crime novels. Firstly he creates very strong and individual characters, in this case we follow the character of Mark Sway who intrigues the reader right at the beginning of the story with his rebellious and outspoken ...
- 1948: Internet Advertising
- ... as well as the others mentioned makes Internet advertising much more interactive, beneficial, effective, less expensive and is highly recommended for smaller firms or venturesome entrepreneurs looking to enter new markets. Presently, anyone with a computer, or who purchases a computer is offered a way to connect to the Internet. With many Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) whose services differ, many people are getting connected to the Internet and exposing themselves to advertising on the WWW ...
- 1949: A Clockwork Orange
- ... in a man who deliberately chooses evil, than in one that is forced to be good. Burgess repeatedly reveals his powerful beliefs that even the most violent crimes are trivial when compared to the heinous crime of oppression. He considers it to be a destructive wrong against one’s spiritual existence. His war is against moral oppression and the government causing it. His weapon, a powerful one, is his incredible satiric ... society has placed him in (Cohen). This serves to bind the whole of the novel together, even to the final chapter where ‘Our Humble narrator’ is finally ready to break the repetition of violence and crime. Burgess’s definition of moral freedom as the ability to perform both good and evil is presented by implication in his discussion of A Clockwork Orange. In his introduction, he states that if one “can ...
- 1950: Argument-based Homicide In America
- ... socially responsible communities, assuming that greater moral values would curb the likelihood of these argument-related homicides. This relies on the notion that greater social organization will lead to a decrease in the rate of crime. Dov Cohen, in her article "Culture, Social Organization, and Patterns of Violence" shows that in the West (which includes Colorado) and South, where a culture of honor persists, there is a higher rate of argument ... stability within a community would not have the effect of reducing argument-related homicides because increasing community stability seems to condone these actions, not only by sentiments, but by laws which make this type of crime more acceptable. For this reason it is not the communities who should be blamed, and the ability to point fingers at a lack of morals may be diminishing. By Cohen s theory, the Columbine killings ...
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