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Specific and General Deterrence Criminological Theories

other citizens from committing the same behavior (Renteln 192). General deterrence operates under the assumption that no matter h...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

Parole, Probation, and Sociological Factors

twenty-five years. Last year just under 2.1 million offenders are incarcerated around the country (Whitford, 2004). Another 15 m...

Criminal Justice I

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

Cooley and Mead, Critical Theory and Functionalism

is highly involved in sociological perspectives. Yet it also differs from both the conceptualizations of Cooley and Mead and that ...

Sociologist Nancy Kleniewski's City Definition

that examines urban life and helps one determine a precise definition of a city. The principle features of metropolitan life--the ...

Holland, England, and Homicide

In forty eight pages this paper compares the rates of homicide in Holland and England in a consideration of required comparative m...

Technology and Future Schools

were infants. To reflect this savvy technological knowledge, teachers and theorists have determined yet another need for change. A...

Indian Politics and the Significance of Religion

With this, one may be critical of modern life (1008). Further, some thinkers look at Durkheims "social cement " and equate it wit...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

An Examination of a Serial Killer

games with police, but one important question lingers. What makes serial killers kill? It is a hard question to answer as there...

Structural Functionalism and 4 Sociological Readings

reality, public opinion and opposition that makes a specific action a crime, not the act in and of itself (1984). This is an insig...

A Sociological Study of the Caribbean

"class, race, gender, politics (and) region"--but always in order to reflect on the qualities that make the Caribbean a particular...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

Visionary Theorist W.E.B. Du Bois

works is quite appropriate. The Souls of Black Folk provides an overview of how the black man is seen in American culture. At lea...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Karl Marx and Max Weber

that a student writing on this subject examine the ways in which authors answer such questions. In terms of Marxs inattention to i...

Marriage and Sociology

The primary reason for dating, though it is strictly on a subconscious and biological level, is to find and obtain a mate for the ...

Global Warming

There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...

Grapes of Wrath (1940), A Sociological Film Review

This paper consists of a film review of John Ford's 1940 film, "The Grapes of Wrath," which encompasses a sociological analysis of...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Process Issues Dickeson Model

The recent economic crisis has once again led state legislators and governing boards insisting that colleges set priorities for th...

Whites Benefit from Discrimination on an Australian Bus Line

This paper considers the many sociological shortcomings revealed in a New York Times article "When Whites Get a Free Pass" by Ian ...

Philadelphia (1994) from a Sociological Viewpoint

This paper begins by presenting a brief summary of the plot to "Philadelphia," a 1994 film. The writer, then, present a sociologic...

An Ethical Consideration of the Drug Companies

Drug companies are often criticized for unethical behavior. The writer considers the pharmaceutical companies from an ethical per...

Industrialization and Its Social Impacts at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....

Sociological Explanations of Gender Discrimination

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at gender discrimination. Sociological issues are given emphasis. Paper uses eight sourc...

Sociological Research Method Issues

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at sociological research. Problems with method are illustrated by looking at two key s...

Elementary Students, Gender, and Science Achievement

This research paper describes research that pertains to the gender gap in science achievement that exists between boys and girls. ...