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Strain Theories of Crime

response to social structure. Merton argues that some social structure "exert a definite pressure upon certain persons in the soc...

Crime Theory: Felson's Routine Activity Approach

is to remove the elements inherent to crime: a location with minimal security is more likely to be robbed than one that has invest...

Two Theories on Crime

In eight pages the ways in which theories attempt to explain why some individuals break the law are examined with a discussion of ...

Investigation of Crime Theories

In eight pages various theoretical perspectives are applied to the Columbine school shooting with an article written by James Gord...

Deviance Theories and Organized Crime

In six pages this paper applies criminology and deviance theories to Gambino 'family' organized crime group. Six sources are cite...

Crime and Race Correlation and Conflict Theory

exist, most often between the races. His claim asserts that certain populations (privileged race) have historically been in contr...

Crime and Sociological Theories

In four pages this paper examines 5 sociological cures for the crime that plagues society and includes social bonding and differ...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

Sutherland's Theory of Executive Crimes

him, including mail fraud, laundering money, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. The financier was involved with a global Ponzi sc...

Juvenile Crime Theories

This paper, first of all, discusses a recent murder case and then describes the juvenile delinquency theories that are relevant to...

Pedophilia and Crime Theory

In ten pages pedophilia is examined through crime theory and literature review in a case study of an elementary school teacher sex...

the theores behind hate crimes

that the victims group membership is the cause for prejudice or hate crime" (Sun, 2008). This puts the motive for the crime precis...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Society and Crime

themselves in a great deal of trouble. They may not be able to pay their bills and this can create more criminology such as borrow...

Crime Perspectives and the Influence of Public Images

argument and the response by Janet Chan. First, a number of different social theories have been applied to an understand of crime...

Loni Athens' Brutalization Theories and Carignan, the 'Want Ad' Serial Killer

their own. The placing of the want-ad, however, seems to have been an isolated incident: he was more inclined to give his victims ...

CRIMINOLOGY THEORY AND SOCIAL POLICY

"branches," these include the social learning theory, social control theory and social reaction theory. Accordihng to Siegel, the ...

Research Proposal on the Connection Between Reducing Crime and Private Security

in order to reach a conclusion. 2. Theoretical Background To develop research that looks at if what and how private security ma...

The Sopranos First Episode Analyzed

from the contrasts that are presented in every episode. Episode One The first episode of the first year of the series is an exce...

Rely Tampons and White Collar Crime

shock syndrome.") In spite of this, tampon manufacturers did not conduct any research into TSS for five years (Kohen, 2001). In te...

Situational Remedies and Crime

which contends social ties between adults and adolescents are fragile at best. The absence of a solid, beneficial, healthy relati...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

Social Construct and Crime

social construct (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). In looking at the role of the law in relationship to detaining what is an...

A Criminology Overview

also known as drift theory ("Control," 2001). This theory, as the name suggests, speculates that delinquents drift in and out of c...

Crime Deterrence Through Harsher Punishment

these facts: * Homicide rates increased sharply beginning about 1965 or 1966. The number of executions plummeted from 47 in 1962 t...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

Sociology and Theory

and only five rapes. There is an absence of true fear and so the petty crimes, the drug offenses and so forth serve a function in ...

Crime and Punishment and Philosophy

was important to history, especially at a time when the slave trade was prominent in the New World. [2] Think about Martin Luther...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

Ku Klux Klan Activities

In eight pages the history and activities of the Ku Klux Klan are presented. Also discussed are sociological crime theories such ...