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Rape Victims Issues

whether or not a woman has actually been the victim of a "real" rape. What the student working on this project will want to consi...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

Effects of Violence in the Media

According to that particular definition, finding a body in a pool of blood would count while Kramer bumping into a door on the Sei...

Unjust Treatment of Female Victims of Violent Crimes

assertive women. Women who file claims of rape must first be subjected to a battery of evidence collecting tests to determine the...

Just Say No to Gun Control Legislation

In five pages this paper argues that gun control legislation restricting firearms' ownership is not the answer to increased violen...

Youth Violence

In seven pages 2 violent child crime videos are reviewed in terms of the justice system and whether or not it is fair to try youth...

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 ...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

African and Women Victimized by Violence

to this new law for Muslims, introduced in the northern states of Nigeria" (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002). She was to be stoned to...

Early Modern Great Britain and Violence

In seven pages this paper discusses the marked increase in violent crime in 19th century Great Britain. Five sources are cited in...

Childhood of Serial Murderers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer

In six pages this paper searches for clues in the childhoods of these serial killers in order to determine whether or not anything...

Types of Serial Killers

relative change in the number of incidents. Mitchell (1996) cites the words of retired FBI Agent Robert Ressler: "Serial killing ...

Family Structure and Crimes of Violence

In five pages this paper examines the impact of family structure on the incidences of violent crime with information analysis and ...

Innovative Approaches to Victim Assistance

Criminal justice is comprised of a variety of approaches to solving and preventing crime. Another...

Impact of Imperialism on South Africa

racism and the politics of apartheid or separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, wa...

“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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Neonaticide

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

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Changing Behavior

This essay explains what classical and operant conditioning are. It discusses how politicians, moviemakers, and advertisers use cl...

Abuse in Childhood, Abusers as Adults

raised in an atmosphere of domestic violence. When they see a parent beaten by the spouse, they accept this as normal and may cont...

Violent Video Games: Who Takes Responsibility

This 4 page paper gives an answer to the question of who is responsible for violent video games. This paper includes the Supreme C...

Practicum Proposal: PTSD in Women Victims of Violent Crime

diagnosis or believe they do not. PTSD The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, sp...

Violent Crimes and Female Perpetrators

"The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing..."....

President Bill Clinton's Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

In seven pages this research paper focuses upon the anticrime bill passed during the first term of President Bill Clinton in an ov...

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...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Spain, Crime, Employment and Education Benefits

growth. This is the case even under conditions where an educated individual must wait some time before obtaining work, which seems...