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    Crime in India

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    Crime in India 1 Crime in India Crime in India exists in various forms taking note of drug trafficking‚ gunrunning‚ money laundering‚ extortion‚ murder for hire‚ fraud‚ human trafficking‚ poaching and prostitution. Many criminal operations engage in black marketeering‚ political violence‚ religiously motivated violence‚ terrorism‚ and abduction. Other crimes are homicide‚ robbery‚ assault etc. Property crimes include burglary‚ theft‚ motor vehicle theft‚ and arson. Corruption is a significant

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    The Concept of Crime

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    What is a Crime? A crime is an offence against the public law. It is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. Crimes violate the law and order of a society and it negatively affects the social structure and the society’s fundamental values‚ morale and belief system.  The concept of Crime can vary from society to Society The crimes are events and actions that are proscribed by the criminal law of a particular

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    Sadistic Crime

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    One area of the brain in which sadistic crime is believed to be influenced by is the prefrontal cortex (Bufkin & Luttrell‚ 2005; Raine‚ Buchsbaum & LaCasse‚ 1997; Rosenbloom‚ Schmahmann & Price‚ 2012; Schiltz‚ Witzel‚ Bausch-Hölterhoff & Bogerts‚ 2013; Wiebking & Northoff‚ 2013; Yang & Raine‚ 2008; Yang‚ Glenn & Raine‚ 2008). This area of the brain‚ as indicated by its name‚ is located in the frontal lobe. Rosenbloom et al. (2012) states that the “prefrontal cortex consists of three major regions

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    Crime And Victimization

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    Crime and Victimization Chris O’Connor Strayer University CRJ 100 Professor Blais October 31‚ 2014 Dr. Carla O’Donnell discusses Rational Choice Theory as the thought processes encountered when people engage in delinquent‚ (youthful offenders‚) or criminal behavior. They have a sense that crime pays and this is the easiest way to get ahead in life. Such a criminal mindset does not consider the exact consequences of their maladaptive behavior. Criminal offenders use rational choice to commit a

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    Theories Of Crime

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    Theories of Crime Abstract This thesis explores the relatively new criminal phenomena of computer crime‚ or as it is more commonly termed‚ hacking. The foundation for the examination is based on how well traditional psychological theories of crime and deviance explain this new behaviour. Dominant theories in each of the categories of psychoanalytic‚ learning and control are discussed. The thesis concludes that for the most part‚ traditional psychological theories are deficient with regard

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    Women and Crime

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    role of gender in crime. That also means that female victimisation was minimised almost completely or ignored (Chesney-Lind et al.‚ 2004). Using legitimate statistics and some criminological theories‚ this essay will show extend of a gender gap in crime and try to explain reasons of this gap. The reason why criminology mainly focused on male offenders is pretty obvious – majority of criminal offences is done by men and women tend to be much less involved in any type of crime. Many studies and

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    Crime in our society can be defined as an act or the omission of an act that is morally or legally wrong. Many factors contribute to criminal behavior which range from delinquent nature of one’s personality to various socioeconomic challenges one may face in their life time‚ including child abuse‚ parental and peer rejection‚ homelessness and marital problems. The General Strain Theory (GST) broadly explains the association between social circumstances and crime/delinquency. According to the theory

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    Computer Crime

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    Computer Crime This type of crime is the illegal exploitation of computer technologies‚ usually involving the Internet‚ to support crimes such as fraud‚ identity theft‚ sharing of information‚ and embezzlement. Exactly what is illegal varies greatly from state to state. Consequently‚ the growth of international data communications and in particular the Internet has made these crimes both more common and more difficult to police. Luckily there are people fighting computer crime and it is taken very

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    Explanation of Crime

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    Name of Course: The Explanation of Crime Code of Course: CMY3701 Semester Code: 02 - Second Semester Assignment Number: 01 - Compulsory Student Name: Riëtte du Bruyn Student Number: 4238-255-6 Unique Number: 363036 Assignment Closing Date: 22 August 2013 Rational Choice Theory Table of Contents Section A: 15 marks 3 1. Introduction 3 2. Definition of Rational Choice 3 3. The Six propositions of Rational Choice (Joubert 2009:19-20) 3 3.1 First: Crimes are deliberate acts‚ committed with

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    Computer Crime

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    Computer Crime Bryan J. Doe CJ375 Research Paper COMPUTER CRIME One of the newest areas of crime is what we call computer crime. The at least seeming anonymity of computer technologies may actually encourage some people who would not otherwise be tempted to commit crimes to do so using the Internet. They may simply believe that they will never be caught‚ or they may not think about being caught at all. They may simply find the lure of committing virtual crimes too psychologically appealing to

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