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“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...

Informational Memo: Crime Scene

beside the bed. It appears that she was lying on the bed but fell off. Her head is bloody. At this point, which is approximately 1...

Due Process And Crime Control Models: Shaping Criminal Procedure Policy

Party. Black suffrage would prevent southern Democrats from winning elections in southern states, as well as uphold the Republica...

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...

Lease or Buy?

This 3 page paper looks at two issues. The first assesses whether it is best to lease or buy equipment, the second considers issue...

The Importance of Covering War Crimes Trials

killed after an attempted assassination against himii. But it is not clear whether or not he did receive a fair trial and media di...

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 ...

Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Trends in Policing in the Sacramento Area

one example of a program that works in Sacramento and one that had been created to address a disturbing trend. Another trend is a...

Race, Crime, and the Law by Kennedy

crime and thereby creates a racial ideology of crime that sustains continued white domination of blacks in the guise of crime cont...

Punishment and Crime

Criminologists, sociologists, and even psychologists often agree that specific factors in the lives of an individual determine the...

Neighborhood Watch: Study Design

hall meetings, in-depth interviews and one-on-one conversations with the purpose of exploring the issue in detail. In this partic...

Jimmy Hoffa and Robert F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy. The Kennedys too, however, had connections it seems on both sides of the fence. Just as Hoffa has some...

The Knapp Commission: Organized Crime and Police Corruption

lure police officers into its grip is disturbing to say the least. Police officers are in constant public contact and have ample ...

The Impact of Fraud on Business

who became aware that someone else has been defrauded often label them as "gullible," "stupid" or "greedy," and that they got what...

Organized Crime

representatives has shrunk, and it is presumed that much of the activity is based on the east coast of the country (Grabianowske, ...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

Attack Vulnerabilities in Controlled Populations and Crime Victims

be. In 1964, the landmark case of Cooper v. Pate served to secure prisoners civil rights with the Supreme Court ruled that they "...

The Effects of Truancy on Society

gang activity. It is also noted that in particular graffiti and burglaries may subside as a result of targeting truancy. One may t...

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

the legislation enacted with regard to punishment is concerned with the method used, not with the fact that an individual is being...

Russian Organized Crime

to the Russian Mafia are members of an organization that has "hundreds of gangs" and its membership numbers in the thousands (Meye...

New Orleans Police Department Corruption

murdered on October 13 of that year (Good Bad and Corrupt, 2006). Federal agents had Davis under surveillance for suspected drug-d...

Security Manager Assistance Offered by Analyzing Crime Patterns

in front of their school are all examples of provocative situations that may escalate and trigger crimes."1 Human nature i...

United Kingdom's Criminal Justice System, Crime, and Mental Illness

the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...

Crimes and Drugs

according to Tonry, "fugitive," that is, it is carried out by private sector research firms, independent research agencies and non...

Marxist View of Black Violence

perspective, which draws on a Marxist perspective, as it examines patterns of "political, economic, social, and cultural organizat...

Politics, Organized Crime, and a Reciprocal Influence

"union members were denied the right to go to federal court to challenge elections won by violence and fraud; only the Secretary o...

Sociology - Two Essays

to the fact that people learn behavior due to interactions with others (Andersen & Taylor, 2005). Conflict theory, on the other ha...

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 Scene of a Homicide Imagined

the victims bedroom was askew, as though it had recently been pulled away from the wall. The victim was up against the closet doo...