• There were almost 223,000 juvenile arrests in California in 2005. • Misdemeanor crimes-including crimes such as petty theft and assault and battery-accounted for 60 percent of all juvenile arrests. • Felony arrests, such as burglary, accounted ... more

Crime costs our state millions of dollars each year in property losses, lost productivity, medical expenses and public program costs. Experience and research have identified effective ways of preventing juvenile crime and helping youth become ... more

Maybe. It depends, of course, on the prosecutor, and probably also on the strength of the case. (Here we assume that the evaluation would not be admissible at trial; its sole function would be to influence the prosecutor's decision whether to charge. ... more

Toronto has a low crime rate by North American standards, but this is largely because the U.S. has a high crime rate for a 1st world country. The Canadian crime rate is more less the same as the European. Canada has a relatively low population/area ... more

No. Not only has the so-called "D&D Defense," where a defendant claims that "RPGs made me do it," never stood up in court in those cases where a criminal was desperate enough to try it, but there has been no scientific evidence of any such ... more

Very definitely socially constructed. Even within a single country, and single time, different subgroups may consider certain actions as "normal" while others outside that group may consider the activity as deviant. A good illustration of this is ... more

Introduction Nowadays, in most of the Western world, capital punishment is considered an unacceptable, barbaric sentence that cannot be morally or philosophically justified. In the UK, it has been abolished since 1969, while Protocol six of the ... more

Organized crime has infiltrated a wide variety of legitimate businesses, but the waste hauling industry is particularly susceptible to the tactics that organized crime employs. Moreover, the fact that the individual carting concerns were originally ... more

General trends Ninety-four percent of juveniles were arrest-free in 1994. Of the six percent who were arrested, about seven percent were arrested for a Violent Crime Index offense. In 1985 there were 1,557,897 arrests of juveniles under the age of ... more

The Crime policy offers five coverages: Employee Dishonesty, Forgery, Theft Disappearance and Destruction of Money and Securities, Robbery and Safe Burglary and Counterfeit Currency. ... more