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Marijuana and the Advantages of Legalization

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses how legalizing marijuana would carry with it the advantages of crime reduction, pri...

Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Sociology of Crime

criminologists and sociologists have been actively involved in determining which factors contribute to such risk, how they may be ...

A Criminology Overview

also known as drift theory ("Control," 2001). This theory, as the name suggests, speculates that delinquents drift in and out of c...

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...

Victimization Recovery and the Effects of Social Support

impacts of criminal victimization, including interpersonal violence, sexual abuse and domestic violence, all of which comprise a s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Police Officer's Societal Role

sometimes through undercover work. An officer may pose as an ordinary citizen or mark, or he may pose as a drug dealer or drug use...

Social Organization and the Self Control Criminology Theory of Michael Gottredson and Travis Hirschi

interest of society as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child...

Ages, Race, Capitalism, and Criminal Theories

manner by which ethnic populations are perceived as being subordinate to their white counterparts, thereby committing a crime mere...

Problems and Solutions of Serial Murder

them by type ("Serial killer," 2005). Motive types of serial killing include the visionary, one that is mission oriented, the hedo...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Society and Crime

themselves in a great deal of trouble. They may not be able to pay their bills and this can create more criminology such as borrow...

UK Youth Crime Representations and Public Perceptions

see a violent scene on televisions or a film does not shock us or surprise us, we see it as normal, and for many, especially where...

Are There Similarities in Patterns of Crime Between First and Third World Countries?

and also poverty. This is ongoing, one example may be the country of South Africa, where in the 1980s there were increases in stre...

Australia's Approach to Crime Prevention

NCPPs objectives are to identify and promote innovative ways of reducing and preventing crime and the fear of crime. The program i...

Situational Prevention and Social Prevention

A four-year programme from 1989 to 1993 in five American cities -the Quantum Opportunities Programme- paid disadvantaged youths fo...

Overview of Serial Killers

is irrefutable. Senator Ed Perlmutter, who sponsored a bill to stiffen the punishment of animal cruelty charges, has no doubt th...

Crime in Great Britain During the Victorian Age

This paper consists of six pages and discusses crime and other social issues that occurred during the Victorian Age. Six sources ...

Social Problems and Substance Abuse

In twenty pages this paper discusses growing welfare costs, crime, and teenage pregnancy in this consideration of the social probl...

Security Management and Social Theory

has decreased 50 percent overall. The psychology has changed and it is working. Enforcement forces in those cities are no longer t...

Deviance Social Theories

In six pages a 1998 article that examines theories of social strain and anomie as each relates to crime is analyzed with suggest...

A Social Crime Analysis of Carlito's Way

This five page essay examines the film by Brian DePalma in reference to the social crime theories of Walter B. Miller. This film ...

Crime and Sociological Theories

In four pages this paper examines 5 sociological cures for the crime that plagues society and includes social bonding and differ...

Local Police and Citizen Dissatisfaction

In nine pages this research paper examines how people perceive local law enforcement with such determining factors as economics an...

Social Order and Organized Crime

In sixteen pages this research paper discusses how social order was destroyed by organized crime groups throughout history with so...