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Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Their Depiction of Crime and Punishment

He seems to have made up his mind at the very beginning of the saga. He has become a part of the military...

Rates of Property Crime and the Impact of Unemployment

motor vehicle theft", the FBIs definition does not include robbery but does include arson (Imrohoro, Merlo and Rupert, 2001). Mer...

How Being Victimized by Crime Can Change a Person

his anger, his confusion, have not receded and he is a victim of crime. We see how this man is affected by his position as a vi...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

New York Mob Territory Setting for Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

Criminal Justice and Computers

In five pages the criminal justice system is examined in terms of the significant impact of computers with FBI investigations of o...

Gun Control and Organized Crime in America

hand and hand. Controlling of firearms would help in controlling other illegal activities that fall under the category of organiz...

Arguing for Drug Legalization

This opinion paper consisting of five pages equates crime reduction in Europe to legaling drugs and argues that the same impact co...

History and Progress of Community Policing

In seven pages community policing is considered in terms of history and impact of 1994's Crime Act that established a COPS grant p...

Youth Problem of Crime and Crack Cocaine

Youth populations are the focus of this thesis consisting of twenty five pages that assess early crack cocaine onset use and its i...

Overview of Serial Killers

is irrefutable. Senator Ed Perlmutter, who sponsored a bill to stiffen the punishment of animal cruelty charges, has no doubt th...

Family Structure and Crimes of Violence

In five pages this paper examines the impact of family structure on the incidences of violent crime with information analysis and ...

Organized Crime in Japan and an Overview of the Yakuza

evolved from there. They wore unusual clothing and their haircuts were also odd (2001). They carried long swords, which were quite...

Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Impact of Family

In six pages this essay compares these two literary works in terms of family impact and protagonist alienation. There are no othe...

Mass Communication and Social Policies

This paper discusses a 2001 article by Mira Sotirovic entitled, Affective and Cognitive Processes as Mediators of Media Influences...

Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison and Jack Henry Abbott's The Belly of the Beast

These texts are contrasted in terms of how each author views crime in society and the impact of socioeconomics in five pages. Two...

Government Crime and the Watergate Scandal Example

This paper discusses government crime in an overview of the public impact of the US Watergate scandal of the early 1970s in thirte...

Oscar Wilde's Writings and the Impact of Homosexuality

In 10 pages this paper examines the impact of homosexuality on Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Importance of Being E...

Individual and Societal Effects of Organized Crime

corruption is seen as nothing more than the standard way of operating various government agencies. Most of the former Eastern Blo...

Atlanta and Detroit Crime from 1986 Until 1996

In eight pages a literature review of these two regions is presented in order to compare these cities' crime problems and concludi...

Lesbian and Gay Students and the Impact of Curricula Design

In twenty one pages the various approaches to school sex education programs and the impact they have on lesbian and gay students a...

Quality of Life, Delinquency, and Crime

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

Motivation of Raskolnikov's in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

In 5 pages this paper examines what motivated Raskolnikov's 'crime' in Crime and Punishment. There is 1 source cited in the bibli...

Crime and U.S. Soldiers in Korea

In five pages this paper discusses the crimes that U.S. soldiers committed while stationed in Korea from the 1950s' war crimes to ...

Does Racial Residential Segregation Increase Urban Crime?

This 8 page paper uses analysis to determine whether urban crime increases in racially segregated residential areas. The method is...

Crime and Parental Responsibility

According to the National Crime Prevention Council (1999) soaring prison costs are exceeding investments in higher education, and...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Policy Brief on Crime Control

1996). The opposing theory of positivistic approaches to crime causality includes sociological, psychological, and biological...

Crime Fear and Gender

In eleven pages this research paper assesses crime based upon gender and the phenomenon of crime fear. Six sources are cited in t...

Fear, Residence, Elderly Women, and Crime

In eight pages the relationship between the housing arrangements of elderly women, their fear regarding crime and why they might b...