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Careers in Criminology - A Top Career for 2010 - 2020

If you watch CSI and CSI-Miama on television, you are watching criminology at work. Criminology is an important science in the field of sociology that can help prevent future crimes and help prisons to become rehabilitative.

165 comments    erle stanley gardner
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What Should I Know about Mexico’s Drug Cartels?

This article summarizes the history and misdeeds of the Mexican drug cartels. The scope of this international problem is discussed as well, emphasizing its impact on the United States, perhaps the only country powerful enough to stop them.

65 comments    money education history
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You There! You Are Tailgating. Stop Now.

Do you hate drivers' tailgating as much as I do? If so, here is a fun way to handle the problem.

33 comments    christmas defensive driving
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How to Protect Yourself from Being Mugged

  A mugger is someone who intends to rob you in a public place and may be prepared to use violence to do so.  Also referred to as highway robbery, pick-pocketing or purse-snatching, mugging is an increasingly attractive crime because people...

68 comments    safety crime protection
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Lost Truth - The Kitty Genovese Murder Case and Controversy

After I reviewed my criminology notes and texts on the Kitty Genovese case and the Genovese crime family of New York City, I was near a second run movie house. I went in and saw Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, which gave me a good laugh...

28 comments    technology politics civil rights
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What Life Was Really Like In the 70's

Are you ever frustrated when people who are younger than you (okay, teenagers) argue about what life was really like in a previous time period when you were alive and they were not? Let's ask Mr. Peabody and Sherman to set the Wayback Machine for the 70's and find out the truth (as I see it). It'll be far-out, for sure!

17 comments    crime san francisco hippies
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5 True Crime Stories of Cheating Men Who Murdered Their Wives

Divorce may common, but these five men believed the only way out of their marriages was to commit murder. And they might have gotten away with it if it had been for one dark secret: a mistress.

10 comments    texas infidelity new jersey
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Thailand Crime

Even in beautiful Thailand there are bad guys. Scammers are common in Bangkok There are also motorcycle gangs in Ko Samui. violent street robberies in Pattaya and property frauds in Hua Hin. Things to look out for....

17 comments    travel safety crime
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Murderous Children: 12 Year Old Lionel Tate Killed a 6 Year Old Girl

In 2001, a then 14-year-old Lionel Tate was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the death of 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick that had occurred two years prior. He was the youngest person the United States to ever be given...

5 comments    florida murder robbery
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Fighting Crime In The Streets of San Francisco With The Guardian Angels

The year was 1990 and I remember watching a television talk show that featured Curtis Sliwa, a New York City resident and founder of the Guardian Angels. I was fascinated by the organization and the dramatic history of how it began. Curtis Sliwa spoke of how the organization was reaching out to metropolitan cities across the United States. I contacted the San Francisco chapter and a meeting was set up...

14 comments    san francisco guardian angels
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