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  • Rise Of The Penitentiary In America
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    After years of trying to locate the origins of crime and delinquency within society the Jacksonian's came to the conclusion that crime was the fault of the environment, not a permanent or inevitable phenomenon. As a result America set out to protect the safety of society and to achieve unprecedented success in eradicating deviancy. This analysis of the origin of crime became a 'rallying cry to action' and according to Rothman was directly responsible for the invention of the penitentiary. The Pe...
  • Private Costs To The Criminal
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    4. Private Enforcement of Law 4.1 Ostracism and boycott Unlike governments, private bodies do not normally have jails, police, and soldiers to enforce their rulings. This is why many people assume that only governments can enforce private agreements, and, indeed, private arbitration. However, the whole thrust of the economic analysis of crime is that a criminal sanction is much like a price; what precludes private bodies from exacting the same price that the government does While the usual crimi...
  • New England Patriarca Mafia
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    Organized crime in the United States keeps the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in a never-ending investigation of criminals suspected of the infiltration of legitimate businesses. A notorious twentieth century organized group was the New England Patriarca Mafia, or N.E.P.M... Originating in 1915, the N.E.P.M. evolved over the early twentieth century decades, until 1954 when Raymond Lore do Salvatore Patriarca was donned as boss and promptly began to expand its power. Due to mafia-related ...
  • Unjustified Searches
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    Pro Exclusionary Rule agree with the exclusionary rule, though there may be few things to take into consideration. There are two reasons for the exclusionary rule. One is the idea that this is similar to other parts of the law, where a person cannot benefit by his own bad behavior. Here, the police should not benefit from an illegal search. The second reason is that we want to prevent the police from making illegal searches. This is a good motivation, since we want to avoid illegal searches. We ...
  • Execute Of The Criminals
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    Debate Over Capital Punishment Justice can not be served until the debate on capital punishment is resolved and all states have come to agree that the death penalty is the best way to stop crime completely. "The bottom line is, one method of execution is just as brutal and as barbaric as the next", says Mr. Breedlove of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. This comes straight from the mouth of a member of a national organization against capital punishment. The American Heritage D...

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