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    Predictive Policing

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    Predictive Policing Paul T. Lane CIS500005VA016-1134-001 Dr. Edwin Otto 14‚ April 2013 COMPSTAT (COMPuter or COMParative statistics) is a geographic information system adopted by the New York City Police Department in 1994 to predict future crimes. Mathematicians utilize COMPSTAT by designing algorithms to come up with future crimes for police departments. These crimes include‚ but are not limited to drug distribution‚ theft‚ homicide‚ and domestic violence. This method of policing has come

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    Social Control Theory Report

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    SOCUL CONTROL THEORY AND DELINQUENCY* APA References MICHAEL D . WIATROWSKI Wiatrowski‚ M. D.‚ Griswold‚ D. B.‚ & Roberts‚ M. DAVID B . GRISWOLD K. (1981). SOCIAL CONTROL THEORY AND Florida Atlantic University MARY K . ROBERTS DELINQUENCY. American Sociological Review‚ University of Florida 46(5)‚ 525-541. Hirschi ’s social control theory proposes that delinquents fail to form or maintain a bond to society consisting of attachment‚ commitment‚ involvement‚ and belief. Using data from

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    Policing in America

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    Policing as we know it today has developed from various political‚ economic‚ and social forces. To better understand the role of police in United States society‚ one has to know the history of how policing became what it is today. The following paper discusses the views of the historical context of police which helps us better understand how political‚ economic‚ and social forces have shaped the social institution of policing. First‚ in "The Evolving Strategy of Policing‚" George Kelling and Mark

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    Race And Policing

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    relations with the communities they serve has gotten worst and worst. With all of the acts of brutality and over use of force by officers‚ this is no surprise. In the article “Here’s The Truth About Race And Policing”‚ by Redditt Hudson‚ valid arguments and statements are made against policing done wrong in America. Hudson goes into great depth on how our criminal justice system has been filled with systematic racism over the years. So what makes an officer willingly over use their authority you ask

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    K1 Danielle K Marxist Theory and Crime and Punishment Throughout human history countless philosophers have risen with what they thought to be the best form of government for society as a whole.  Karl Marx may be the most influential philosopher in Russian history.  According to The Free Dictionary‚ Marxism is the concept that “class struggle plays a central role in understanding society’s allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society”

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    Community Policing

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    05-19-2014 One of the most effective policing strategies used in law enforcement is community policing. Two experts in this strategy are Robert Trojanowicz and Bonnie Bucqueroux. They have done research and wrote many articles on the topic. Trojanowicz worked for Michigan State University and has recently passed away. Bucqueroux was a victim of domestic violence and has added ideas in this area for community policing. Over many years community policing has become one effective method used by law

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    Community Policing

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    I would start off the class with the history and background of policing. The modern concept of police was started in London in 1829 by Robert Peel. Robert Peel felt that the law should be responsible up to the prosecution phase but the trial‚ conviction and punishment phase should be the responsibility of another party. However‚ Robert Peel’s approach and community policing one thing is the main goal and that’s prevention of crimes. (http://voices.yahoo.com/law-enforcement-sir-robert-peels-concept-community-638595

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    Biological theories of crime causation adhere to the principle that many behavioral predispositions‚ including aggression and criminality are constitutionally or physiologically influenced and inherited of the first basic principles of biological theories is the mind and locus of personality which is the organ brain. The brain is the organ of behavior. We have the basic determinants of human behavior passed on from generation to generation. Human behavior and traits are genetically based to a considerable

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    Lectures MEC308 CONTROL ENGINEERING 16474::Vijay Shankar Course Category Tutorials Practicals Credits Courses with numerical and conceptual focus 2.0 0.0 0.0 TextBooks Sr No Title Author Edition Year Publisher Name T-1 Automatic Control Systems Farid Golnaraghi‚ Benjamin C. Kuo 9th 2009 John Wiley & Sons‚ India Reference Books Sr No Title Author Edition Year Publisher Name R-1 Modern Control Engineering Katsuhiko

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    The question I chose to respond to is to explain the sociological theories of crime. I chose to specifically focus on the labeling theory. The textbook definition describes labeling theory as examining the ascribing of a defiant behavior to another person by members of society (Introduction to Sociology: pp.147). In other words‚ this means what is considered deviant‚ or the nonconformity of norms accepted by most people‚ is determined by the reactions of others to the inappropriate behavior‚ rather

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