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- 251: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- Study on Juvenile Psychopaths What is the "super predator"? He or she are young hypercriminals who are committing acts of violence of unprecedented coldness and brutality. This newest phenomena in the world of crime is perhaps the most dangerous challenge facing society and law enforcement ever. While psychopaths are not new, this breed of super criminal ... of youth criminals is growing up in more extreme conditions of "moral poverty" than the one before it. Mr. Dilulio defines moral poverty as "growing up surrounded by deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults in abusive, violence-ridden, fatherless, Godless, and jobless settings." The "super-predator", as told to a Washington press gathering by DiIulio, is a breed of criminal so dangerous that even the older inmates working their way through life ... is the calm before the crime storm," says Fox. "So long as we fool ourselves in thinking that we're winning the war against crime, we may be blind sided by this bloodbath of teenage violence that is lurking in the future." Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime -single-parent households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools - are getting worse. At the same time, government is becoming ...
- 252: Juvenile Crime
- The essay is writen using the (Kolb and fry model) Thesis Statement Concrete Experience Many different types of projects in different countries have reduced levels of delinquency and violence by tackling the causes - to the extent to which crime is reduced through many different types and forms of crime prevention projects including: designing out crime; promoting social control; supporting young persons and families; breaking the cycle of violence against women and children; and promoting individual responsibility, as well as various types of incarceration programs like camps, ranches and various other juvenile prisons. In this report I will be presenting some of the results ... several hundred children born in a particular year. The scientists are then able to test whether there are particular early or late childhood experiences, which are associated with more youth getting involved in delinquency and violence. These longitudinal studies confirm that there is a group of persistent offenders - fewer than 5% of males born in a particular year account for as many as 70% of offenses. Further, offending peaks during ...
- 253: Religious Life In Indonesia
- ... not allowed to vote in any elections. Indonesia is currently in a state of turmoil, protest constantly break out into full-scale riots and looting. The major social problem facing Indonesia currently is the escalating violence. Political analysts, Frans Magnis-Suseno said in Asia Week "Indonesia has a tradition of violence" and in the current society this is becoming more evident. The trouble began to appear soon after Indonesia's economy collapsed and the people were looking to find someone to blame. They were led to ... The indigenous people (pribumi) felt discriminated against and in the post Suharto era they were more inclined to say so. Because the majority of ethnic Chinese were of a different religion to the majority, the violence developed into Muslim verses Christian conflicts and was a demonstration of the distrust that exists towards other ethnic groups and belief systems despite the presence of widely diverse groups that live in Indonesia. Indonesian ...
- 254: Children and Television
- ... that it conveys information and happenings around the world that they may not otherwise know about, but some people have been questioning whether television does more harm than good. Many have been analyzing what affect violence in adult shows as well as children's shows may have on children. Most parents allow their children to watch so called "kid's shows" without even thinking about what might be contained within them ... violently to appease their anger. This includes hitting and throwing things. This is an extreme view of the situation, but who is to say that at least part of it is not true? Children see violence everyday in their cartoons, but what about shows that they watch in which people star. These shows will more than likely cause more violence than cartoons would. While watching a show such as "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" a child sees almost 30 minutes of non-stop fighting. The show also has a fantasy story that appeals to children. ...
- 255: Influence Of Gangs
- ... fail to realize the difficulty in living in the ghettos. White suburban kids do not have to avoid certain streets just to avoid confrontation. White suburban kids do not have to live with the constant violence on the streets. White suburban kids do not have to worry about drive-by shootings. With so much violence in inner cities, one can only expect teenagers to be easily misguided. Many inner city kids are able to avoid the gang life, however, there are still the others that have succumbed to the lifestyle. With the violence, peer pressure, and the need to fit in, it is not surprising that many troubled teenagers find comfort in gangs. Gangs offer them protection, Friendship, and a sense of belonging. Society often looks at ...
- 256: ... his passage
Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements" [Macbeth, I, ii, l: 17-23, p.13]. In his speech, the soldier describes Macbeth's violence to indicate qualities as a good warrior, thus showing that he has respect for Macbeth. There can be no doubt that Macbeth had entertained the possibility of being King some day, "My thought, whose murder ...
- 257: Punishment And Behavior
- ... wishes to change its citizens' behavior, a system based on punishments will be much more effective than a reward based system. First of all, there seems to be a very strong relationship between punishment and violence. The main source of this data is 3300 kids and 6000 couples who took part in the National Family Violence Survey (Straus 134). In this study physical punishment is defined as " a legally permissible physical attack on children" (Straus 134). This study reported that in this 1975 National Family Violence survey, it was found that children who were physically punished that year were three times more likely to " severely and repeatedly" assault one of their siblings three or more times over the rest of ...
- 258: Capital Punishment Is Ineffect
- ... human life. We must realize that the life of a murderer is worth as much as the life of the victim. An indecent justice, one that takes human lives based on ideals of vengeance and violence, is an immoral system that is unacceptable. The most widely used argument in support of capital punishment is that the consequence of execution influences criminal behavior more effectively than imprisonment does (Against the Death Penalty ... increasing the number of convicted murderers sentenced to death and executed by requiring mandatory death sentences was declared unconstitutional in 1976 Jewett 2 (National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty). Murder and other crimes of violence are not always premeditated. For example; gang violence, drive by shootings and kidnaping for ransom are serious crimes that continue to be committed because the criminal thinks he is too clever to be caught. Most capital crimes are committed during times of ...
- 259: Inhumanity
- ... most definitely is, to treat a human unlike a human, which we have been consistent in doing since the beginning of time. Three very abundant medias of inhumanity are, killing on command war like violence, indirect violence at random, and personal hate. The thread that binds these inhumanities are, that the people committing them are treating fellow humans as they do not deserve. The most prominent inhumanity would be war. War is ... is very impersonal for the people in battle. They are just told to kill, shoot, or bomb, complete strangers. While the stranger, their opponent, has no personal aggression towards them. This is an act of violence. True aggression involves disputes between individual rivals. The primary function of the aggressive acts is to intimidate and dominate these rivals. When violence is concerned, the victim is depersonalized and becomes, not the rival, ...
- 260: The Man Who Made Ireland
- The notion of violence as a commonplace aspect of both Irish political and social life in the 20th century. From the Easter Rebellion in 1916, to the IRA and their paramilitary efforts; violence, on a state sponsored as well as in extra-military affairs, has persistently served to shape life in Ireland. From the center of this conflict and turmoil arose a young military man, Michael Collins. In ... Had this been the case, who knows where Irish history would have turned. The body of Coogan s effort is focused on conveying Collins role in the formation of an Irish Free State and the violence that was continually linked with it. While the majority of Europe was in the trenches of World War I, the Irish were waging war on their own soil, against the British. The Anglo-Irish ...
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