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- 401: The Effects of Organized Crime
- The Effects of Organized Crime The Mafia is a secret criminal organization that wields great economic and political control over large segments of Sicilian society and operates both criminal and legitimate enterprises in the United States. It is believed to ... in what was called the Castellamarese Wars. However, the lieutenants of these gangs had developed other plans. By the mid-1930s the Mafia had taken on the institutionalized structure that is now typical of organized crime in the United States. Salvatore Lucania "Lucky Luciano" had arranged the murders of the Mustache Petes, and became the Boss of Bosses, taking for his lieutenants the underbosses of both Masseria and Maranzano's gangs. Bugsy Segal led the hit squad that killed Masseria. Although the name Mafia (or the title Cosa Nostra, "our affair") is often used to encompass the entire spectrum of organized crime, the true Italian-descended Mafia is now only one component of a much larger criminal establishment. One of the first manifestations of this new syndicate was one that would help ensure the loyalty and " ...
- 402: The Tomorrow City by Monica City
- ... B i) The plot of this book centres around two adolescents, David and Caro and an evil supercomputer which aspires to control the futuristic city of Thompsonville. Dr. Henderson, Caro's Father creates the "perfect" computer designed to solve all of the problems of Thompsonville by gaining almost complete power of the city. The computer then begins to make rash decisions of it's own. It decides that humans are incapable of making decisions of there own and soon devises a method of controlling the minds of everyone in the city. Only two young people, Caro and David, are not manipulated by the computer. They band together and work out a strategy to disable the computer. The two make a daring infiltration of the building that the computer is located and after a traumatic episode in which Caro ...
- 403: Mafia - A History
- Throughout history, crime has existed in many different forms and has been committed by not only individuals, but by groups as well. Crime is something that knows no boundaries; it exists in all cultures, is committed by all races, and has existed in all time periods. Crime exists as a part of the economic institution and is a lifestyle for many people. Crime also exists in both organized and un organized forms. Since the early 1900's, "organized" crime has existed ...
- 404: Crime And Punishment 8
- ... entertainment for the reader. In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake; the act of violence contributes to a greater meaning of the complete work. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov s actions in Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is an example of this. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a desperate man, thinks very highly of himself and believes that his greatness gives him the right to break the law if ... he's insane. Unfortunately for him, several police officials, including Porfiry Petrovich, the investigator in charge of the pawnbroker's murder, hear about his self-incriminating actions. He faints in the police station when the crime is discussed; he returns to the scene of the crime and makes a spectacle of himself; and he is obsessed with the details of the murder. Even without any physical evidence against him, suspicion focuses on him. Is Raskolnikov a criminal who should be ...
- 405: Preventing Chronic Delinquency: The Search for Childhood Risk Factors
- Preventing Chronic Delinquency: The Search for Childhood Risk Factors Together, these findings on the characteristics of chronic delinquency suggest that one important way to decrease overall crime rates among youths is to prevent chronic delinquency, and that early childhood may be an important developmental period to target for its prevention. The remainder of this article explores how and whether chronic delinquency can ... should be such that they attempt to enhance parents' social support, foster positive parenting and family interactions, facilitate child cognitive development (especially verbal skills), and reduce family level and community level poverty. In other words, crime prevention programs should seek to reduce or eliminate the risk factors associated with delinquency. The next section of this article reviews early education and family support programs which have attempted to improve the lives of ... their education and job skills. Providing poor children with better parenting and better education yields more productive workers in a market which increasingly values highly skilled workers.74 Early childhood programs that prevent delinquency and crime represent at least two potential sources of savings to society: (1) reductions in crime and in justice system costs, and (2) gains in work force participation when youths who are less delinquent than their ...
- 406: Internet 2
- ... a stolen card. Likewise, the buyer has no assurance that the vendor on the other end is who he/she claim to be. Richard E. Smith in Internet cryptography says that data travels from one computer to another leaving the safety of its protected surroundings. Once the data is out of the sender's hand it can fall into the hands of people with bad intention. they could modify the data ... plain text data and transform it into ciphertext in a reversible way. William R. Cheswick & Steven M. Bellovin in Firewalls and Internet Security assert that encryption is often touted as the ultimate weapon in the computer war but it is not. They claim that encryption is a valuable tool, but like everything else it is a tool towards an ultiminate goal. They continue to assert that if encryption is used improperly, it can hurt the real goal of the organization. pg14. According to an article published in the General Media and Daily Newsfeeds hackers are geting better at breaking computer codes. The article states that a computer hacker was found guilty on five counts for hacking systems to gather credit card information which he intended to sell on the black market.when the computer ...
- 407: Crime and Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, and Different Punishments
- Crime and Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, and Different Punishments Our topic for this paper is Crime and Punishment. There are several different issues on this subject. We chose three main points to talk about: The Crimes, the People who solved them, and the different types of punishments. These are the topics we chose for our report. Crime in the nineteeth century was rapid though out London. But because of all of the poverty and sickness in the streets, crime was the only way to survive. Most of the crimes that took ...
- 408: Concerns Facing the United States in the 1990s: Crime, Education, and Employment
- Concerns Facing the United States in the 1990s: Crime, Education, and Employment A variety of concerns face the United States in the 1990's. Among these concerns are crime, education, and employment. But fortunately our government and several organizations have attempted to deal with these problems to help our world become a better place. Crime has been a big concern of the American public in the 1990's. In many poles it was found to be that Americans thought that crime was the number one problem facing the U. ...
- 409: Big Brother, Little Sister Computer Monitoring
- Computer Monitoring, Forging Tools for the Future Computer Monitoring is most often intended to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace, but with good intentions comes the opportunity for abuse by employers and employees alike. An example of both can be found in an article taken from The Futurist. Kristen Bell De Tienne's composition " Big Brother or Friendly Giant: Computer Monitoring in the 21st Century" is an exceptional observation as to what the future may hold for those people choosing to enter the technological field such as industry, commerce, medicine and science. As Computer ...
- 410: Artifical Intelligence
- ... Help Us? Introductory Paragraph, including thesis statement I. Description of Artificial Intelligence A. Descriptions of AI 1. Definition of AI 2. Coined in 1956 B. How AI can be achieved 1. Specialized software 2. Specialized computer systems 3. Add-on applications C. How can we measure the ability to think 1. Relative brain-power 2. Usefulness of the application II. How AI is developed A. Neural Networks 1. Membrane of neurodes ... police departments, and manufacturing plants have all been changed by AI but how? These questions and many others are the concern of the general public brought about by the lack of education concerning rapidly advancing computer technology. Artificial intelligence is defined as the ability of a machine to think for itself. Scientists and theorists continue to debate if computers will actually be able to think for themselves at one point (Patterson 7). The generally accepted theory is that computers do and will think more in the future. AI has grown rapidly in the last ten years chiefly because of the advances in computer architecture. The term artificial intelligence was actually coined in 1956 by a group of scientists having their first meeting on the topic (Patterson 6). Early attempts at AI were neural networks modeled after the ...
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