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…, or a behaviour that offends God, while others may see that all criminal offences in general are justified as forms of deviant behaviour. "Is adultery Deviant? Not in some societies, like the Lepcha of Sikkim, a tiny state in northern India. The Lepcha tolerate…

…-juvenile prostitutes admitting that they have been raped by customers, an average of 31 times per prostitute . It is not only the females who are involved in child prostitution. In regions such as Sri Lanka and North Africa there are more prostituted boys…

…police officers, they were not seen as real officers. “Most of the women hired by police agencies were performing traditional women’s jobs including secretarial work or as specialists in juveniles” (Cohn, 188). These were the main roles that women police…

…occurring between people . Thus "deviance...... is a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an offender" . Becker argues that there is no such thing as an intrinsically deviant act until so perceived by others and labelled…

…of crime not as an impulse, nor as a response to economic strain, but as a response to others around you. Cohen, in direct response to Merton's Theory of Anomie, centred his studies on juvenile delinquency, due to its non-compliance. He believed juvenile…

…States sent out a strong message that if someone commits a violent crime, the offender will receive death as his or her punishment. If the United States enforced execution through out our country, there might not be numerous violent crimes being committed…

…Megan's Law has had a profound effect on not only convicted sex offenders and prosecutors, but also on the community including real estate brokers and apartment owners. Megan's Law is a collection of statutes that were passed…

…in the hands of the people. Our legal system's failure to enforce current laws, due to prison over crowding, allows violent criminals to remain on the streets. Statistics prove that repeat offenders perpetrate a majority of violent crimes, and that enforcing current…

…et al. 2003:336). The type of crime that is committed also makes a difference. In the 2001 criminal statistics for England and Wales(page 28) it shown that 46% of offenders found guilty or cautioned was for crimes involving Theft and Handling…

…Nathaniel Abraham was eleven years old when he committed the act of murder. Under a 1997 Michigan law a child of any age may be tried as an adult for severe crimes. Abraham was the first juvenile to be tried under this statute. Accused in the murder…