Charles Ng was born December 24‚ 1960‚ in Hong Kong‚ China. At 18‚ Ng obtained a student visa to study in the United States. After joining the Marines he was caught stealing military weapons and served three years at Leavenworth. Upon his release‚ Ng moved in with Leonard Lake and the two began a campaign of abduction‚ rape and murder. Once caught‚ Ng was sent to San Quentin and sentenced to death. Serial killer. Born Charles Chitat Ng on December 24‚ 1960‚ in Hong Kong‚ China. The son of a wealthy
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since 2003 when it began in Manhattan‚ New York. Flash mobs have resurfaced in the news in the past couple of months. Although not all flash mobs are violent‚ the newsworthy actions that have taken place have been just that. There have been multiple robberies and assaults that have been committed by flash mobs over the last months that that have made it to news headlines all over the nation. Majority of the these groups are made up of teenagers that are meeting up through text messaging. The reasons why
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convicted of his first crime at age 13‚ and by his late teens had been arrested for crimes ranging from narcotics possession to armed robbery. Morris reportedly ranked in the top 2% of the general population in intelligence‚ as measured by IQ testing. He served time in Florida and Georgia‚ then escaped from the Louisiana State Penitentiary while serving 10 years for bank robbery. He was recaptured a year later while committing a burglary‚ and sent to Alcatraz in 1960 as inmate number
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Katherine "Flossie" Bailey‚ was a Hoosier leader for justice and equality. She was a Marion resident‚ Civil Rights leader and President of the Marion branch of the Indiana NAACP. She worked tirelessly - but unfortunately unsuccessfully - with the Indiana Attorney General in an attempt to bring the racist perpetrators of the heinous 1930 Marion Indiana lynchings of Thomas Shipp (age 17) and Abram Smith (age 18) and the attempted lynching of Dr. James Cameron (age 16) to justice. However‚ her work
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Legal Crime vs Natural Crime The natural definition of crime is any act that is seen as fundamentally wrong‚ strongly disapproved‚ and deserving of punishment”‚ regardless of whether it is legal. Natural crime is one that is mala in se‚ or wrong in itself. Meaning that is wrong to do regardless of your circumstances. Natural crime presumes a common morality that society agrees that everyone should behave the same way towards certain areas. It is also based on the principle that within most religions
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O. J. Simpson robbery case The O. J. Simpson robbery case (officially called the State of Nevada v. Orenthal James Simpson‚ et al.) was a criminal case prosecuted in 2007-2008 in the U.S. state of Nevada‚ primarily involving the retired American football player O. J. Simpson. On the night of September 13‚ 2007‚ a group of men led by Simpson entered a room in the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas‚ Nevada. A sports memorabilia dealer‚ Bruce Fromong‚ testified that the group of men broke into
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The secular laws of Babylon were laid down by Hammurabi in “The Code of Hammurabi”‚ and in the book of Exodus. These laws provided stability and order in those respective societies. As society depended upon them‚ it is natural to assume that the laws relied upon society as well and reflect the values held by each society‚ not only in the laws themselves‚ but also in how they are written‚ whom they pertain to and how they are executed. While at first glance the law codes appear similar‚ there are
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATION COUNCIL SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT SOCIAL STUDIES Candidate’s Name: Brandon Pindling Candidate #: Territory: Jamaica Centre #: School: Excelsior Community College Teacher: Mrs. C. Morrissey Year: 2012/2013 Topic: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Table of Contents Page # Table of Contents 1 Acknowledgements 2 Statement of the problem 3 Method of investigation 4 Instrument used to collect data 5-8 Procedure used to collect data 9 Presentation and explanation
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The Effectiveness of a Three Strikes Law Introduction Opponents and proponents of Three Strikes Laws argue vehemently for its effectiveness in deterring crime‚ and‚ conversely‚ for its ineffectiveness and economic imprudence. This study proposes to sift through the relevant constitutional amendments and examine the sentence structure of the law vis-à-vis fairness and justice. In short‚ does a Three Strikes Law sentencing structure achieve its goals without exceeding its authority? Goals of
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are reinforced by ABCI (1991) findings which found that youth illegal activities revolved around anti-social behavior and low-level property crime. When it comes to crimes of violence‚ however‚ the picture is quite different where 21 per cent of robbery offenders‚ 11 per cent of minor assaults offenders‚ 12 per cent of rape offenders‚ 10 per cent of serious assaults offenders and just 5 per cent of homicide offenders were juvenile. The general conclusion that we can draw from these figures is that
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