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main research question that the authors are investigating is social and powerful crimes. They are also looking into the general strain theory and the relationship between low social class and crime. Previous literature summarizes this research question that those who are wealthy may find themselves strained due to wanting to gain more money than they already have and that general strain should not be connected to money due to the social class. Although, anyone from any social background can…

key points that will be explored in this essay is the routine activity theory and general deterrence theory. Both theories are said to posses in-depth information as to why juveniles are comfortable in committing crimes and how the corrections system believe they can stop this ongoing trends. Routine activity theory states that crime is not related to social handicaps such as poverty and inequality. Whereas, general deterrence theory states that punishment is an excellent technique to…

Industry Segments (DL) As per the Gale Business Insights Global database, there is only 15 different companies operating within the Miscellaneous General Merchandise Industry. With so few companies, there is no proper way to segment this industry in order to analyze a specific segment. The Miscellaneous General Merchandise Industry is not a fragmented industry. A fragmented industry is one in which there are large amounts of small and medium sized companies. With this industry, the opposite…

The general health subscale of the SF-12 will be used in this study as the outcome and to assess the general health perception. General health subscale includes one item rated on a 5 point scale, poor to excellent. The response of this item will be transformed to a norm-based score (i.e. 0 to 100). Higher scores indicate a better health status and lower scores indicate a poorer health status [261]. The outcome will be assessed by one item, however, the literature supports validity and…

It is important to develop skills that will not only improve your life but also your college life experience. Upon looking at the General Education Competencies that appears on the class syllabus, I decided on which skills are most important to develop in my humble opinion. One skill for example, that I find particularly essential is the ability to research and examine information, resources, and evidence that are both for academic use and those that are not necessarily for academic use. My…

The general environment framework Description: The general environment constantly influences businesses either positively or negatively. The general environments are factors external to a firm that are beyond the firm’s control. However, they do affects the firm’s strategy and profitability and affects affects porter’s five forces in various ways. The general environment consists of six segments namely: Demographic, technological, economic, sociocultural, political/legal and global. Firms need…

They should calculate the total overhead costs associated with the operation, including variable and fixed costs. Step 4: Identify cost-allocation bases Currently, Vaughan General Hospital has only 1 cost-allocation base, which is the patient bill. However, as a metropolitan health-care complex, Vaughan General Hospital provides a wide range of services to the public. Each service and supporting departments are associated with different inputs and overhead activities. For instance, the new…

According to Rousseau, the general will is a collectively held will that aims at common good or common interest. People sharing common interest will make a better community, state and nation. He argues that by giving up individual rights and interests, people will comply with the general will. In addition, Rousseau says, that people should build a community to which they completely devote or surrender themselves “What these different interests have in common is what forms the social bond, and if…

"Thou shalt not kill but needs not strive, officiously, to keep another alive." An offence cannot be committed without carrying out an action. An offence is not sitting in a room opinionating the most evil of contemplations and conjuring up the most atrocious plans. Well, if monstrous plans were constituted to be criminal offences the prisons would pack with offenders. An act is not enough to be liable for a crime; a voluntary act is also required. Lord Denning explained: ‘the requirement that…

Before General David Petraeus was brought into command of the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I), the War on Iraq seemed to be heading south. By the time President George W. Bush announced the surge policy in 2007, Iraq appeared to be slipping steadily towards chaos. Enemy attacks were growing in both number and sophistication. Something needed to be changed and fast. On January 10, 2007, President George W. Bush embraced a major tactical shift on the war in Iraq when he declared that the…