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A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

Social Expectations Significance and Criminal Activity

handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...

Increased Crime Rate in England During the 19th Century

In eleven pages this paper considers the crime increase in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the crime re...

United Kingdom and Computer Crime

censorship, where there has been increased realisation and commitment to deal with the type of information that is on the internet...

3 Criminology Questions

system. Treating individuals differently because of what they are accused of constitutes assuming the individual to be guilty unt...

Differential Association Theory of Sutherland and Rape

stigma attached to elements of their personal development may find that no matter how they work to dispel this stigma, some of the...

Federal Level Crime Prevention

attempting to finalize legislation regarding federal aid as well as a number of local anti-crime programs (5). The appropriations ...

Planning an Attack on Organized Crime

more importantly, there is a great bond between the men who run these "families." Once a male is born into one, the chances are gr...

Classical/Choice Theory and the Death Penalty

this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...

Reading: The Rule of Law and Military Tribunals

the most immoral atrocities ever committed, but it was not enough for the Allies to condemn them morally: "... this was to be a le...

China and Crime

with the long iron rod that completed the stations armory. Not more than an hour later, he had been killed by a shotgun bullet fi...

Media and Crime

whether it is real life or on television. The primary concern of course is televisions effects on children as they are malleable a...

Income and Race Impacts Upon Crime Rates

structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...

Evidentiary Value and Protocol At a Crime Scene

scene log is started and this is used to record entry and exit from the site by all authorized personnel as well as to record othe...

Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Scandal

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Controlling Organized Crime

contingencies of the contemporary world. The FBI Organized Crime Program utilizes a methodology designed to provide the maximum ef...

Crime Analysis and the Contributions of Edwin Sutherland

and individuals within the group. Sutherland chose to focus on the individual and what it was in the persons own psychological mak...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

Crime, Punishment, and Jesus of Nazareth

In four pages this essay examines whether or not Jesus did in fact commit any crimes within the context of the Roman system of law...

Crime Detection in the Works of John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, and Agatha Christie

In five pages this paper examines detective crime fiction and how the readers are engaged in the detection of the crime in Carr's ...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

PA's Juvenile Justice System

In eight pages this paper examines 1990s' crime rate statistics in this consideration of Pennsylvania's juvenile crime system. Ei...

Canada and Crime

In five pages Canada's crime is examined in terms of types and includes discussion of such theories as crime ecology, differential...

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...

Policy Brief on Crime Control

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

Mafia Crime Family the Genoveses

In ten pages the Genovese crime family is examined in terms of history, and organized crime activities. Sixteen sources are cited...

Oscar Wilde and Incongruity

In five pages this paper examines Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Seville's Crime, Pen, Pencil, and Poison, Decay of Lying, and The Pict...

Criminal Victimization in the United States by Phillip Ennis

In six pages this report analyzes the statistics regarding U.S. victims of crime that appear in Ennis's text along with comparativ...