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    Arizona Drug Crimes

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    Drug offenses are considered serious offenses in the state of Arizona, and are often aggressively prosecuted. According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, there were more than 25,000 drug possession arrests in 2012 alone. Those who are found in possession of dangerous drugs, or other illegal substances, could face serious penalties if they are convicted. For legal purposes in the state of Arizona, illegal drugs are generally separated into three categories – dangerous drugs, narcotics and

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    paper I will discuss one transnational crime, and compare the contrast of two nations for their definition of the crime rate, and tools used to measure the crime. I will give each country’s legal tradition and their major influences on crime definition, rate, and measurement. In this assignment I will analyze the extent to which crime statistics collected in different nations can adequately be compared. I have chosen to address the transnational crime of drug trafficking in Japan and China. The

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    Goldstein for the association between drugs and crime. Goldstein divided explanations of the drug-crime connection into three models: "economic compulsive" (crime as a means of getting money to support drug use); "psychopharmacological" (drug effects resulting in a change or impairment in cognitive functioning that precipitates criminal behaviour); and "systemic" (crime occurs as part of the system of drug distribution and use)4 (Bennet & Holloway, 2009). In this model, drugs lead to violence through an addition

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    VIOLENCE, CRIME AND DRUGS ON POVERTY IN KINGSTON JAMAICA I. Introduction A. Background Poverty serves as a motivation to commit crimes and crime has been a substantial contributing factor to poverty in Jamaica. • In Kingston, Jamaica the violence that takes place is directed at the citizens of the island. According to the Jamaica Crime and Safety Report in 2014, almost 1200 murders took place in 2013. • Jamaican on Jamaican violence is a very common type of violence in Kingston, although crimes rarely

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    obviously a dangerous city and there is crime everyday. While anyone can commit a crime, in this particular video it was mainly blacks that were spoke about, I feel that they themselves sold drugs and killed people with guns because that’s the only way of life they knew and were not brave enough to change it for the better. The dealing of drugs was apparently big at one time and more arrest’s meant more money to the state, in order to stop violence and crime with guns, this meant trying to arrest

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    The word ‘Problem’ is used many times throughout the report, and in every case the ‘problem’ is experienced by the prisoner, as if the prisoner was the victim, and the only mention of crime is in the phrase ‘drug-related crime’ thereby distancing the prisoner from the crime, and blam-ing criminal activity on drugs, as if to minimise the responsibility of the offender. RAPt states that regime restrictions and substantial reduction in meaningful activities have made life more difficult for prisoners

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    1.) Many drugs have been used for medical purposes at one time or another. Pick two drugs that have been utilized in this capacity and explain the medical rationale behind their use. Conclude your answer with a description of why each drug was later banned from medical usage. - Besides being an extremely addictive and dangerous narcotic, cocaine has some medicinal use. Cocaine has been used as a local anesthetic for eye and nasal surgery. Besides being an anesthetic, it also is a potent vasoconstrictor

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    Drug Abuse and Crime Drug abuse and predatory criminality go hand in hand in a few, select social groups, while in others, drug abuse most often occurs without criminal behavior (other than the fact they’re doing drugs.) Despite what most might think, drug abuse typically follows predatory criminality. As drug abusers keep trying harder drugs due to necessity, the intensity of their criminal behavior escalates dramatically. When using more than one type of drug at one time, studies show that

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    between juvenile justice and drug crime: Drugs are types of pills that cause your body to be unhealthy or healthy. In general, no one is suppose to do drugs that may harm or kill you when taken. In some cases, drugs are also types of medicines that cure diseases. This argumentative essay explains children attending juvenile justice because of their addiction to bad drugs, which is a crime. Juvenile crime that is related to drug use has a chronic effect on violent crimes, poor family relationships

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    Sense and Nonsense about Crime and Drugs by Samuel Walker Samuel Walker, author of Sense and Nonsense about Crime and Drugs, presented us in his book with forty-eight propositions that dealt with crime, drugs, and our efforts toward getting rid of these problems. A few of these propositions informed us on positive actions taking place in our criminal justice system, but the majority of them told us what was not working to fight crime and drugs. One of those propositions that was a negative

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