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Society and Tattooing and Body Piercing

is now considered to be part of mainstream culture (Armstrong 236). Iverson contends that the discomfort society has with tattoos ...

Edward J. Cleary's Beyond the Burning Cross

In six pages the hate case involving a St. Paul Minnesota couple and the cross two adolescents burned on their yard is examined wi...

Amazonians and Sexual Behavior in Anxious Pleasures Sex Lives of an Amazonian People by Thomas Gregor

In five pages this anthropological and sociological text is reviewed....

Neonaticide

The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...

Theorists Barry Glassner and Antonio Gramschi

there should be working class intellectuals, and that one way that these workers allowed themselves to be controlled was by not as...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

The Police as Portrayed in La Haine by Mattleu Kassowitz

This essay discusses the function and characterization of the police as they are portrayed in Mattleu Kassowitz's movie La Haine (...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...

Different Types of Sociological Research Approaches

those aspects (religion) and rather than offering alternatives, asks the subject to place religion on a sliding scale of importanc...

The Practice of Trying Juveniles As Adults

by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...

Methodologies of Sociological Research

power, which indicate submissiveness, and so on....

Failure of the American Family as a Sociological Model

In six pages this paper discusses the various issues that have undermined the American nuclear family as a failed sociological mod...

Investigating Different Crimes

Over the last decade, there have been numerous high-profile, huge scams from organizations. These are called white-collar crimes a...

Vera Drake

to deviance, one can not that most people remain controlled and those who do not remain controlled become deviant. But, in the fil...

“Natural Crimes” and “Legal Crimes”

be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...

Deviance

it is not really that different in relationship to teenagers "normally" engaging in experimentation and rebellion. But, aside from...

Using the Sociological Model to Understand Will Smith’s Life Cycle

second of four children of Caroline and Willard C. Smith; his mother worked for the school board and his father owned a refrigerat...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

Sociological Analysis of “12 Angry Men”

they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...

Natural and Legal Crime

that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates...

The Battle Over Same Sex Marriages

that the basic needs and desires of a society to maintain stability and social order are often very influential in where a society...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

Social Institution, Ethnocentrism, and Id Concepts

conscience thoughts and counteracts the ID (Ego, 2006). Freud stated that the Superego is the moral agent that links the consciou...

Hate Crimes: Bush v Obama

When a hate crime is committed on federal property such as a national park, prosecution falls to the federal government....

An Analysis of Crime Statistics (1968 through 2008)

an interesting tale, but the data must be reviewed in concert with economic and social trends that affect the nation overall. Some...

Why Study Computer Crime?

damage caused by incidence of computer crime. This includes virus attacks, spam, worms, denial of service (DOS) attacks or other ...

Sociology - Two Essays

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

A Sociological Topic: The Impacts of Deviance on Crime

lower socioeconomic conditions often do not have the opportunities or the resources to move out of that social stratum. Parental ...

The Self-Control Theory of Crime: Addressing the Criticisms

the extent to which the self-control theory of crime can be said to be valid. This paragraph helps the student give an overview o...

Oakland, California and Crime

In eight pages the steps the city of Oakland has taken in order to reduce crime since 1997 are discussed with the inclusion of the...