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| | School House Hype: The School Shootings, and the Real Risks Kids Face in America |
 | | The Senate juvenile crime bill is just one example of major criminal justice reform being proposed to remedy the "crisis" of school shootings that will fundamentally change the nature of children's rights. | | | 54 Crime and Justice Trends in the District of Columbia. | | | To remedy the purported "crisis" of classroom violence, politicians have proposed solutions ranging from posting additional police officers in our schools, to eliminating any minimum age at which children may be tried as adults, to expanding the death penalty to juveniles. |
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http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/shooting/shootings.html
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| | British & Canadian Crime Rates |
| | I wish I had more Canadian crime data available -- but if Canada is going to be presented as an example of the success of gun control laws, the facts readily available aren't persuasive. | | | England and Wales would be between the lowest and the second lowest murder rate states in the U.S. The U.S. murder rate for 1985 was 8.2/100,000 (down significantly from its peak in 1980 at 11/100,000). | | | Gun prohibition advocates frequently point to British and Canadian crime rates as proof that gun prohibition makes a dramatic reduction in crime rates. |
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http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/cramer.us.canada.html
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| | Encyclopedia topic: Crime statistics |
| | Law enforcement agencies in some countries, such as the FBI in the United States, publish crime indices (additional info and facts about crime indices), which are compilations of statistics for various types of crime. | | | Crime statistics provide a statistical (additional info and facts about statistical) measure of the level, or amount, of crime ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act) that is prevalent in societies. | | | Because laws vary between jurisictions, comparing crime statistics between, and even within, countries can be difficult, sometimes even problematic. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/cr/crime_statistics.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - Russia - Crime Statistics - Organized Crime Russian Information Resource |
| | Many of those crimes were contract killings attributed to criminal organizations. | | | The 1994 report to the president described collusion between criminal gangs and local law enforcement officials, which made controlling crime especially difficult. | | | According to the center, between 70 and 80 percent of private enterprises and commercial banks were forced to pay protection fees to criminal organizations, which in Russia received the generic label mafiya. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/russia/russia210.html
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| | Summary of Hate Crime Statistics, 2003 |
| | Situational crime prevention as a key component in embedded crime prevention.(includes text in French)(Canada) (Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice) | | | is a hate crime in which two or more offense types were committed as a result of two or more bias motivations. | | | The one drop rule and the one hate rule. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004885.html
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| | Crime statistics - definition of Crime statistics in Encyclopedia |
| | The most common source of such statistics are records reported to the police. | | | Crime indexes are generated to analyze crime statistics. | | | This makes it difficult to know whether a "10% increase" has any real meaning. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Crime_statistics
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