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Overview of Juvenile Crime

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

Courts and Ethics

technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...

Conflict v. Functionalist Theories on Poverty and Crime

also state that group sports teaches hard work and patience, working toward a common goal and submission to authority, which are a...

Can Computer Crime Be Effectively Fought?

attracting the novice-to-intermediate computer user; however, the growth rate for the Internet was no less than fifteen percent ba...

Stereotypes Involving Organized Crime and Italian Americans

crime as a malignant tumor on the face of society. After assessing the facts against what popular culture has had to say about th...

Effectiveness of Law Enforcement

is occasionally not as effective in fulfilling its role to society and its citizens as it should be. There can be little doubt t...

School Deviancy and Crime

a perspective, and as such will act accordingly. As two authors note, "Until we make schools engaging learning communities whose m...

The Lack of Rights of Children due to Globalization

to be sold for the greatest amount of profit in the "First" world. According to Clifford (1994), in Pakistan, girls as young as t...

Jasper, Texas' James Byrd Jr. Murder Case Investigation

(Bill) King, a building erector who had spent some time in prison for burglary, Lawrence Brewer, who had served seven years for a ...

The Beggar's Opera and the Criminal World of Moll Flanders Compared

them. There was no such thing as government agencies in those days that would provide help for these children. In this novel, Mo...

Africa, AIDS, and Women

diagnosed with what many assume was AIDS, though this was never confirmed. Faced with the certainty that Caroline would never see ...

History of War Crimes Committed by Soldiers

Nazi assassins were brought to justice at the Nuremberg Trial and were themselves sentenced to die (Special Report: Yugoslavia War...

Crime and Charles Murray's 'Underclass' Theory

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

Global Violent Crime in the 21st Century

of the marriage, it is not uncommon to find a significant percentage of the married female population enduring regular and constan...

Meaning of Hate Crimes

are placid and do nothing, allowing these they of crime to continue. If we consider the way that those in society are...

Minorities and the US Justice System

average offender what a thinking, compassionate, middle-class parent or brother or son would do for someone in their family, were ...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

U.S., Russia, and Crime

comparing pages of numbers that are in essence meaningless. TYPES OF CRIME IN EACH COUNTRY Research reveals that Russia is much...

The Field of Forensic Entomology

the skin. The field of urban entomology can be of importance because the forensic entomologist can be a crucial part of civil jud...

Portrayal of Racial Stereotypes in the Media

to recognize the implications of such attitudes is the only way to fight against its continued allowance. Descriptions of such ra...

Due Process Model and Packer's Crime Control

models of the criminal justice system in order to better depict how these two different viewpoints "compete for priority in the op...

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 ...

War and Escalation of Violence Such as Rape

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

Report on Cyber Crime

situation has resulted in opportunities for great innovation and creativity in both legitimate and illegitimate enterprise. Not su...

Understanding How Crime is Experienced by Senior Citizens Research Proposal

The National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the rate of violent crime victimization of persons ages 65 or older was about...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

How Being Victimized by Crime Can Change a Person

his anger, his confusion, have not receded and he is a victim of crime. We see how this man is affected by his position as a vi...

1980 Crimes

well-known and senseless killings of 1980 was the cold-blooded killing of famous Beatle John Lennon. As Lennon stepped from a lim...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...