GUIDE Hate Crimes Spring 2013 This study guide is offered as a starting point for your studies. It is not exhaustive. All topics covered in class lectures‚ readings and films may appear on the exam. The Hows and Whys of Hate Crime Laws What is a hate crime? A crime motivated by racial‚ sexual‚ or other prejudice How many hate crimes were recorded by the FBI in its most recent hate crime report? 6‚222 According to the Petrosinos article and our text‚ were there hate crimes before hate
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organized crime. A cybercrime is defined as an intended act involving the use of computers or other technologies‚ and the criminal activity must take place in a virtual setting‚ such as the Internet. The top five cybercrimes being discussed are: 1. Tax-refund fraud 2. Corporate account takeover 3. Identity theft 4. Theft of sensitive data 5. Theft of intellectual property Scope Of cyber crime Virtual environments have become fertile territory for cybercrime‚ with the number of crimes escalating
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Pauline Roberson Social Problems 24/Aug/2014 Loyd Ganey Crime in America Crime in America has decrease opposed to the crime rate in the 1990’s. However it still purposes a serious problem here in the United States. Rapes were down 2.5 percent‚ robbery was down 4 percent‚ and murder was down 0.7 percent (Friedan‚ 2012). Reason for this decline is due to the aging population‚ increase in the amount of people in jail and the changing
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In assessing the usefulness of subcultural theories it is first important to understand what subcultural theories are. They are an explanation of deviance in terms of the subculture of a social group arguing that certain groups develop norms and values which are to some extent different from those held by other members of society. There are a number of sociological theories‚ which strive to understand a cause for crime and deviance. Subcultural theorists posit the idea that there is nothing “wrong”
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might occur in its initial developing stage. For the past 20 years‚ computer related technologies and industry have been continuously advancing at radical speeds that greatly changed our way of life. The introduction of internet and digitalization of data has saved us enormous time and work required otherwise would have been wasted. On the other hand‚ however‚ it aided whole new types of property offences that are distinct from traditional ones to arise which posses’ difficulties in dealing with them
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Functionalism and crime: In this essay I will be talking about the functionalist perspective on crime and deviance and be comparing it with the Marxist view. The main functionalist theories I will be examining are Merton’s strain theory‚ Cohen’s status frustration and Cloward and Ohlin’s three subcultures. Functionalists argue that crime and deviance is useful and necessary in society as they reinforce the consensus of values‚ norms and behaviour of the majority non-deviant population. Functionalists
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Crime Statistics The crime statistics focus on giving out specific detailed information to the public and the government of United States about all the crime taken place in a certain period of time. The crime related information for the statistics is collected and published by different federal government agencies such as FBI‚ the department of Justice‚ the National Institute of Justice‚ etc. The statistics include data about how much crime is there; when and where crime occurs; what type of crime
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3. Please provide an organizational analysis that describes organized crime as a business enterprise. As such‚ please discuss the value and nature of violence within this context. How does violence‚ therefore‚ impact the nature of profitability‚ corruption‚ and the accumulation of wealth? Finally‚ what does this suggest about the relationship between organizational success and profitability. "Organized crime‚" as commonly understood today‚ is identical with economic enterprise organized for
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Introduction VIOLENT CRIMES CONSTITUTE one of the greatest social problems facing Jamaica at this time. Over the past two decades‚ Jamaica has experienced an unparalleled increased in homicides and violent assaults. Many attempts made throughout the years to reduce the number of violent crimes occurring in the island have mainly been short-term measures‚ aimed predominantly at increasing Police mobility and firepower and have ultimately proved to be unsustainable. EARLY IN THE present academic
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All Structuralist theories of crime and deviance seem to suggest that crime is socially constructed rather than focused on the individual. Albert Cohen‚ combining Structuralist and sub cultural theories drew on Merton’s idea of strain but criticized Merton’s ideas of crime being an individual response and believed that he ignored non-utilitarian crimes such as vandalism and joy-riding. Cohen was particularly interested in deviance which was not economically motivated but done simply for the thrill
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