to marry him, only for them to break up with him after giving the man false hope of love and the status of their relationship. Such crimes cause economic problems in the country, tourists will not want to come visit our country when they know their lives will be in danger. Investor will leave or not come to Namibia to invest in our country as results of the crime rate being high. Politically we have a bad reputation in organisations such as SADC, AU, UN etc. All this can cause us to lose the support
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things. In the age of information which we recently live in there are many technologies that many would have thought would be impossible in this day, time and age. Especially when it comes to the way our criminal justice system has the ability to solve crimes much faster than it did in the past through the most powerful tool used today DNA. This is what gave the criminal justice a big break at even the hardest cases that was unsolved for years. Modern technology has given the criminal justice
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not to commit crimes or violate laws. When a person decides not to do something like parking in a handicapped space because they will be fined for breaking the law, this is called deterrence. Officers can decide to write a warning instead of taking formal actions like having the offender appear in court. (Meyer & Grant, 2003) The two types of deterrence used are known as general and specific. Specific deterrence or is when an offender decides not commits future crimes. General deterrence
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Introduction to Criminal Justice Assignment 8_08 Part A 1. Describe the loss of the right to vote for inmates who are incarcerated. Prisoners are citizens too. They may have committed a felony, but they are still citizens of their home country. Some people think prisoners should not have the right to vote, but many others think they should. About two million people in U.S. are in prison. All those people do not get to cast a vote in the election. They are not able to decide who runs
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follow firearm laws? If a nationwide gun ban is enacted, criminals will not suddenly follow the law and reject the thought of buying a firearm on the black market. Banning all guns in the United States would be irrational because it would not lower crime or prevent firearm-related murders. Outlawing firearms punishes the law-abiding citizens by leaving them defenseless against criminals who obtain their firearms illegally. Michael and Susan Gonzales of Jacksonville, Florida learned first-hand
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Unit 4 Written Assignment 2 Thanks to an earlier incident in which an employee allowed malicious software to infect the servers, it has been decided to implement a stricter policy in regards to what employees are allowed to access and do with their workstations. Three other company’s policies will be compared and used to help define the policy, ending with an AUP describing said policy. The first company’s AUP that will be analyzed is Iowa Network Service’s AUP (http://support.netins.net/AUP.shtml)
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Global Crime Analysis Sequina Allen CJA/394 August 11, 2012 James Wheatley Global Crime Analysis Every nation of the world experiences the same crimes on some level within their society. From burglary to murder, every nation must deal with the criminals who help in various ways to shape the society that many either admire or fear. The rates of crimes around the world are significantly different from the crime rates that occur within the United States. The political and social structures
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Personal Ethics Versus Professional Ethics Term personal ethics to mean one’s conscience and the term professional ethics to mean adherence to a professional code. Sometimes those two roles can conflict. For instance, we have cases of doctors who have refused to prescribe the morning after pill, because they believe it will terminate a human life. In this case the doctor has decided that his personal ethics will guide him or her. Personal ethics depends highly on personal beliefs and
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Measuring Crime in the United States Kyra Pettit CJA/204 August 5, 2013 Dr. Wafeeq Sabir Measuring Crime in the United States In the following paper, these criminal justice students will address the three major points of crime measurement in the United States. Even though there may be changes of crime statistics, but not changes in the crime rate; that is because crime can be measured in numerous ways. Two measuring systems being the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and Uniform
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) that map locations where crimes are taking place. These areas are now identified as hotspots or problem areas. With this new historical data of crime, mathematicians have created algorithms to activate this historical data. All performed in hopes of serving police departments with capabilities of predicting future crimes. Steps within this process have the ultimate purpose to eliminate crime in advance. By observing trends, planning accordingly, and proper
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