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Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Support for the Death Penalty

topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...

The Westies/Organized Crime Theory

where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...

Air Pollution/Cause and Effect

concerning controlling natural sources of pollutants and it is also a definition that recognizes the serious impact that human act...

Hepatotoxicity/Mechanisms

have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...

Scared Straight

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

Being Cut from a High School Basketball Team Did Not Deter Michael Jordan

on any team in their childhood, and Jordan was a clear exception to that rule (Green, 2006). Jordan recalls that he could not rea...

The Baby Boom in America

differently dependent upon their year of birth. By many accounts, early boomers were born between 1946 and 1955, where late boomer...

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

Deterring Piracy

however, by the insistence of some segments of society that pirates have the same rights that are granted to law abiding citizens....

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

National Security Tactics To Deter Terrorist Attacks

country. This leads to an inherent conflict that becomes even worse when we bring local and state law enforcement agencies into th...

Can Domestic Abuse Be Deterred?

who is looked upon as the ultimate decision-maker - runs the family. There is no question as to the distinctive roles played by b...

Biological Factors Deterring Marriages Between Cousins

In five pages consanguinity or inbreeding is considered in terms of its biological implications regarding maladaptations, malforma...

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...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

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 ...

Crime and Parental Responsibility

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

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...

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...

Preventing Crime and the Role of Law Enforcement

both in the business community as well as in the private sector. "Business Watch" of the Seattle Police Department is designed to...

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...

Outsourcing Decision Making

to note that only non-core activities should be contracted out. Core services, that is, the fundamental service of the business s...

Policy Brief on Crime Control

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

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...

Massachusetts Program of Juvenile Courts and Crime Prevention Policy

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

Social Theory Application in the Polly Klaas Murder Case

The sociological reasons for committing crimes are considered in this paper consisting seven pages with the emphasis on Polly Klaa...

Curing Crime Through Sociology II

In four pages 5 potential sociological 'cures' for crime are examined and include the crime causation theory of Southerland. Two ...

Inner City Crime Prevention

As a direct result, the likelihood of repeat offenders is greatly lessened and similarly, so is the citys crime rate. In my...