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Feminist Utopian Literature Represented by Women on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

destroyed, and that in its place, a society based on equality and not by the limitations imposed by gender. Piercys radical views...

Islamic Women: Feminist Influence

roles. Inasmuch as the barricade toward womens rights "remains deeply rooted in traditional Islamic culture" (Witte 2005:A24), it...

Deviance and Crime from a Sociological Theoretical Perspective

media reports on these acts and at the accompanying punishment, at once educating the citizenry by restating the rules of that par...

The Murder of Cara Knott by California Highway Patrol Officer Craig Peyer and its Impacts

order to pull them over and harass them, and the general public is left with little about which to feel safe. This rising contemp...

Gays and Hate Crimes from Sociological Perspectives

In six pages this research paper examines hate crimes against gays from differing interactionist and functionalist perspectives. ...

Crime and Contradictory Perspectives

In five pages the contradictory views taken by various news sources regarding the same issue of homicide in New York City are cons...

Sociological Perspective on the Crime Deterrent Aspects of Gun Control

In seven pages this paper evaluates the crime deterrence aspects of gun control from a sociological perspectives and concludes tha...

Article Analysis: Women and Power

the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...

The Value of Women's Studies

women as opposed to men. Women it seems are on the whole more interested in legislation involving the family and such issues as e...

Business Plan for Krista's Clothing

video rental stores. Conventional wisdom says that in starting a new business, it is necessary to find something new that has at ...

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...

Rape Victims Issues

whether or not a woman has actually been the victim of a "real" rape. What the student working on this project will want to consi...

Crime and Women

to make ends meet and in order to feed her children, without the aid of a deadbeat significant other, must resort to some sort of ...

Identity Theft

the identity gets the bill, at least eventually. Unscrupulous individuals pretending to be someone else in order to access mater...

African and Women Victimized by Violence

to this new law for Muslims, introduced in the northern states of Nigeria" (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002). She was to be stoned to...

Women Victims of Violence in America

because of domestic violence. According to the FBI, thats about 1,400 a year - with most of those killings occurring by what NOW d...

American and Japanese Street Crime

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares street crime in Japan and the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Ten sources ar...

Violent Crimes and Female Perpetrators

"The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing..."....

Monster Film and Crime

are completely realistic and very believable. They are individuals who have no real direction in their lives. They are lonely, and...

The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime and Justice by Belknap

crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

Assault vs Aggravated Assault

vs. battery are surrounded by many misperceptions and, in some instances, actually reflect the bias the law sometimes holds when i...

“The Female Offender” by Chesney-Lind and Pasko

them a growing population in the world of crime and incarceration. The first section of the book deals with such things as "Trends...

Crimes Against Women: Style of Dress in the United States and the Middle East

a reality, or a society, wherein women were taken advantage of and often victims of crimes, primarily sexual crimes. In the United...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

Death Penalty and Various Perspectives

In eleven pages 3 differing liberal and Green Party perspectives on capital punishment are presented in an argument that the death...

Rape as a Crime

In twelve pages this research paper discusses the crime of rape in a consideration of why many women do not report it with blame a...

An Analysis of Crime and Punishment in Dead Man Walking

This three page paper analyzes crime and punishment from the perspective of the film by Tim Robbins. The question of whether just...

Part I of Gun Control Philosophies

In five pages this paper considers due process and crime control perspectives in a consideration of gun control policy. Six sourc...

Community Policing and Ethics

In twelve pages community policing is considered from an ethical perspective in terms of virtue, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism wi...