To what degree are the Marxist theory and Feminist theories compatible in explaining crime?  Do you think that integrating these two theories into social policies would be beneficial to controling crime? How much do gender relations impact criminal behavior?
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I don't think Marxist dealt with crime. He dealt with capitalism and how one group dominated another group. I guess feminist would have men dominating women in their theory. It is true afterall.
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Racial profiling as in "be on the lookout for a black male, 25 to 30 years of age," is certainly a form of racial profiling; however, racial profiling per-se is not a fair nor a tool that is required by law enforcement.\nAs an example I will pose a hypothetical situation involving an African-American middle aged woman that has been found murdered. \nIt will be a justifiable opinion that the murderer may have been an African-American male for the reason that 'blacks tend to murder blacks' as middle aged whites tend to kill/rape/serial murder other whites who are mainly women but also children and other men.\nThese are general statistics that are used in homicide investigations and which are not necessarily biased either toward one race or another, but however do hold investigative value for the control of crime. \n\n“In Criminal Justice, the issue is not how to protect the offender from the arbitrariness of the state, but how to bring the state more effectively to the aid of the offender.” \n“The State is not a Behemoth to be chained and fettered, but an agent capable of fulfilling an ambitious program. Thus a policy that calls for the states’ exercise of discretionary authority in finely tuned responses is at its core Progressive.” [The Positivist School]; [p 65]\n\nIn concluding and in my opinion it is not a biased attitude that is applied in certain criminal circumstances by police investigations but rather a more positive and direct methodology that allows for a quicker solution to a crime and its future control for the better safety of our society.  Try to find out about investigative techniques and you will find that the objective towards the resolution of a crime must be free of personal bias and a respect afforded for the constituitional rights of the accused/person of interest.  Jose
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You can find some information on www.gendercide.org if you click on "Case Studies" on the left hand side of the screen. Then you'll see a list of current and historical gendercides and about 2/3 of the way down there is a link to some info about the Montreal Massacre. Try searching other sites that discuss Gendercide and you might find more information. Hope this helps. Good luck!
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Ha ha! This is a good one.  I think that one reason for this is the anatomy of the crime; meaning this is a victimless crime.\n\nIt is more likely for men to commit violent crimes than women; this is just pure psychoanalytical knowledge.  So if woman is going to commit a crime, she might tell herself it is "okay" to pass a bad check, because it won't hurt anyone.\n\nAlso, I have noticed that alot of women "hide" their purchases from their spouses and from themselves, so to speak.  This could be due to compulsive spending...which is a common a female problem. They can’t bear the thought of balancing their checkbook because then their problem would become apparent.
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All interesting topics. Two sides to all the issues so you can choose any side you want. Juvenile justice I like. Some people think that we need to charge 14 year olds as adults and throw away the key. But there's a lot of info on the other side too. 14 year olds aren't adults when they're "good' so why are they when they're bad. It can be argued that we need a better system. There is science that teenage brains aren't fully developed. And it's a money issue-if you throw a 14 yr old in prison for life instead of rehabilitation, that gets expensive. Not to mention our prisons are full. And then the war against drugs. Another great topic. Do some searches using some of those terms-wikipedia.com is a good place to start looking for ideas....
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The target gender, along with the responding gender, affected attitudes about...\n\nYou need to specify what attitudes were affected and how.  Then the sentence will make sense.\n\nHope this helps.  Cheers, K
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http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/violence/violence.htm
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This is a very tough question to answer (as the movie also points out  with the on-the-street interviews at the end).  On one hand, society as a whole would be "safer" with fewer "bad" people on the streets.  On the other hand, vigilante justice can make the same mistakes that the justice system as a whole makes (letting the guilty go free and/or punishing the innocent).  So then the question becomes, are the vigilantes also "bad" people, and if so, who is going to punish them?  To me, vigilante justice is very romanticized... it makes a great movie, but would you want to live with the consequences in reality?
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I think it would be very interesting. I am fascinated about the mental status of serial killers and I really do wish there was more information about them. I, too, do not agree with anything they do nor do I think they deserve anything but the worst punishment - but I think sometimes we need to know more about the events leading up to the fact in order to perhaps prevent it in the future or at least answer some questions.\n\nGood luck!
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Crime (in general): thought to be the work of Satan, proven to be the activity of the masses. Crime is this Nation's largest employer and the mover of more money through our economy than any other activity. To prove this point, simply try to envision how our society and its economy would be with the total absence of all crime: no police, no private security industry (rent-a-cops, etc.), no lawyers, no judges, no courts. no FBI, no ATF, no law makers (senators, representatives, county supervisors, city councilpersons, etc.), no criminal justice system of any kind, half as many firefighters (arson and criminal code violations account for most fires), half as many doctors, nurses, and hospitals (with all their supporting personnel) to take care of all the stabbings, beatings, shootings, poisonings, and a host of others injuries and ailments brought about as the result of crime, no more lock, key, and safe industry, few walls and fences would be needed, the media (TV, news- papers, etc. would have to lay off thousands without crime stories and dramas), the paper industry would all but collapse, two million inmates would have to be released, a million hookers would have to be cared for, and the number of industies, large and small, that supply all the cars, vans, buses, helicopters, uniforms, medical supplies, and thousands of other products and services that are needed as the result of crime, would simply disappear. Without all crime, tens of millions would be instantly unemployed, millions upon millions of square feet of real estate would lie vacant, and the domino effect from all this would bring ruin. And just who is committing all this crime? There aren't enough atheists and freethinkers around to hold accountable. Got any ideas? The ads say "Take a bite out of crime." (Don't take too big a bite, it just may cost you your job or business.)
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The answer is greed. Organize and strike. Hit the streets in protest's. There is no other effective means for change.\nOrganized crime is alive and well in America, Some call it State, Local and Federal Goverment.
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http://www.amren.com/997issue/997issue.html\n\nIt's genetic.  That is a very unpopular thing to say but the research is pretty darn conclusive.\n\nTo answer your question, no it is most definitely not racist to notice what is extremely obvious.  And the stats hold up everywhere in the western world and are far worse in places like africa.  That is not the disturbing part.  The disturbing part is the lack of sociological variables to explain it.  There is no correlative let alone predictive variable that you could say, he look, THIS is the cause of that behavior and it just happens to be over represented in that population.  For example, poverty is the traditional explanation for these things.  Problem is that violence and crime do not correlate with poverty but DO correlate highly with race.  It's the same with every other possible sociological cause.\n\nSo, to answer your question as to WHY this is a problem that is so greatly over represented in blacks, there is none.  No reason whatsoever that you can point to.  If there was, then maybe society could focus in on it and address it.\n\nBut, that leaves a very uncomfortable conclusion by default.  That it is intrinsic.....genetic.  Our culture is not ready to address issues like that at all.\n\nThe truth of the matter is that society will not bend to address this issue so you have to.  You need to move out of the area.  You have no choice.  You just don't have any business being there.
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Interesting. \n\nCommon good? \n\nFear of retribution? \n\nSometimes policy is not in our realm to alter 'on the street', so to speak. Motivating one individual through the 'proper channels' perhaps is one method some authority figures may choose to aide someone whom policy has hindered. \n\nSometimes stopping someone from acting on a strong believe can in the end move that believe to higher channels, and in the end form stronger opinion for it. (i.e. violent acts do move public to abhore a group based solely on thier actions and not motivations).  A police officer (I use this example as per your question) may see this in a perspective the protestor does not, and while understanding the motivations behind the act, knows to stop the act itself will in fact further the resolution in favour of common good will and understanding and therefore possible policy changes become more likely. \n\nAnother example is a peaceful 'march' gains more public notoriety simply by having a police task force on hand. Whether they believe in the marchers motivations or not they are required to offer protection regardless of thier own beliefs. \n\nOne of the main stands in joining the police force, I believe is that they have to stand forward unbiased, and work to the society's set laws regardless of thier own belief system. Protect and serve regardless of whether they like or dislike the citizen. \n\nIt is in fact a double edged sword. \n\n..with early retirement common I'm sure, simply because of this moral requirement in a lot of cases.
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One area I find particularly alarming is the statistics often given by feminists that 50 - 60% of girls with disabilities for example experience sexual abuse in their lifetime.  Either I am blind or deaf, but I have never been sexually abused and I work with many women who have had disabilities for most of their lives and share with me lots of stuff about themselves; I recall only two or three of these woman complaining about this issue.\n\nThe same goes for domestic violence.  Feminists claim that 95% of all domestic violence incidents are perpetrated by men.  In actual fact, the perpetrator is equally likely to be female.  There are also many unspoken truths about lesbian abuse and child abuse (where mothers are more often the perpetrators than the fathers).  Feminists tell part of the truth, but then neglect to tell the other part.\n\nAn excellent writer that wrote about many of these issues is Donna LaFramboise.  She used to write for the Toronto Star, but I have not heard about her since she stopped doing so.
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Absolutist: pure essentialism. Certain behaviors, identities, and modes of thought are "naturally" deviant; everywhere, and across time. Deviance is conceptualized as an objectively real characteristic found in "things," and can be located and studied through a positivist approach. \nStatistical--relevant, but not sufficient. The idea here is that those behaviors, identities, and modes of thought which rarely occur are deviant (based on the statistical conception of the "normal curve"). \nHarm--relevant, but not sufficient. Are all harmful behaviors and thoughts deviant? Are there forms of deviance that aren't harmful? \nCriminal--relevant, but not sufficient. Are there criminal acts that wouldn't be defined as deviant? Are there forms of deviance that are criminal? \nPositive Deviance? This is an extrapolation of the statistical definition, and shares elements of the "harm" criteria. If we use the idea that deviance entails a negative reaction, and consequences for the deviant, then is positive deviance a useful concept?
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Marxism, economic and political philosophy named for Karl Marx. It is also known as scientific (as opposed to utopian) socialism. Marxism has had a profound impact on contemporary culture; modern communism is based on it, and most modern socialist theories derive from it (see socialism). It has also had tremendous effect on academia, influencing disciplines from economics to philosophy and literary history.\nAlthough no one treatise by Marx and his coworker Friedrich Engels covers all aspects of Marxism, the Communist Manifesto suggests many of its premises, and the monumental Das Kapital develops many of them most rigorously. Many elements of the Marxist system were drawn from earlier economic and historical thought, notably that of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the comte de Saint-Simon, J. C. L. de Sismondi, David Ricardo, Charles Fourier, and Louis Blanc; but Marxist analysis as fully developed by Marx and Engels was unquestionably original.
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Wow, that's tough.  Is your assignment to argue that retribution is socially cohesive, or did you come up with this yourself?\n\nThis is what I can think of:\n\nRetributive justice is based on the idea that criminals should be punished for undermining social "harmony" or "balance."  Therefore, we can't dole out retributive punishment before we first have a definition of what is social harmony or balance.  Social harmony and balance can be defined through laws, custom, or religion.  The PROCESS of defining social harmony and balance is socailly cohesive because, to some extent, we must generally agree on what the definition of social order is.  In other words, the PROCESS of accepting and agreeing on laws/customs/religion is socially cohesive.\n\nThe rehabilitation theory of punishment is probably the most socially cohesive because it is based on rehabiliting the criminal so that he can successfully reenter society.