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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...

Films A Place in the Sun, Double Indemnity, Suspicion and the Interaction Between Money, Love, and Murder

these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...

Pro Choice Case

In six pages this paper supports freedom of choice in an argument supporting abortion legalization that refutes the murder argumen...

Liability in Criminal Cases

case that the person above has caused the death, but the degree of liability would depend, amongst other issues, on how likely the...

Racism and On Being White, Female and Living in Bensonhurst by Marianna Torgovnick

- almost justifying it, to an extent (Mancuso, 2002). She attempts to explain the racism as going back to the machismo of Italian-...

Interrogations and Law Enforcement

long investigation by the Washington Post into allegations that homicide detectives engaged in activities that in fact coerced mur...

Mothers Who Murder Their Infants

performed. Indeed, there is no argument that mothers who kill their children suffer from mental illness, yet it is the manner by ...

1991's Crown Heights Riots in Brooklyn, NY

Not only was Cato killed, but the accident also hurt and actually critically injured his seven year old cousin Angela (1991). It...

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 ...

Marquez' Chronicle of a Death Foretold

the community live, Angelas twin brothers, Pedro and Pablo, feel compelled to enact revenge on Santiago in order to redeem the fam...

Investigation of the Green River Serial Killer Gary Ridgway

decomposed and hard to identify. Although Ridgway had always been considered one of the top five suspects in the case, County sher...

The Murder of Cara Knott by California Highway Patrol Officer Craig Peyer and its Impacts

order to pull them over and harass them, and the general public is left with little about which to feel safe. This rising contemp...

Jealousy and Love in William Shakespeare's Othello

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

East and West Coast Rap Wars and the Deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

for example (Kinnon, 1997). However, the genre changed around 1988 with the emergence of a sub-genre termed gangsta rap (1997). A ...

Affirmative Action, Martin Luther King Jr., and Electoral College

institutions were not capable of doing the same thing at home or to say each of these deaths (King and the two Kennedys) was an is...

Media and the Criminal Justice System

that jurors, witnesses and attorneys are not prohibited from writing books after a case ends, and this could substantially impact ...

How the 21st Century Student Would Analyze Hamlet

answer might lie with the inner conflicts that were raging within Hamlet regarding his concept of honor and his desire to o the ri...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

Criminal Investigator Characteristics

skills and abilities for three different types of crimes that a criminal investigator would need to consider. General Characterist...

Fallacies in Analysis

those facts and circumstances. In induction the opposite is true, reasoning progresses from the particular to the general. Induc...

The Murder of Agamemnon

and should never be murdered. But, in the days that this work was written we are supposed to understand that a womans place was no...

Catherine Cryer's A Deadly Game

of his beloved wife. His behavior was discordant and disturbing" (Crier). Because of this she began to wonder and slowly realized ...

Columbine High School Killings

a collective, nor were they the first to seek vengeance on individuals in their own school: just the year before, Kip Kinkle enac...

Predatory Crimes and How to Prevent Them

myriad of ways. For example, someone might become "street wise" and make sure their pocketbook is held tightly. They can continual...

Procedure and Criminal Law II

The definition of felony murder is that it is a killing that is unintentional, occurring "during the commission or attempted commi...

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...

Antwone Fisher's 'Finding Fish'

to protest against a society that had not provided them with the same privileges as their white counterparts. While Antwone was yo...

Student Submitted Case Study on Spelunkean Explorers

their companions, the group made a pact. They decided that if they are truly starving, they would sacrifice one member of the grou...

Facts and Fiction Regarding Jack the Ripper

believed to be the Rippers fist victim (Bonderson, 2001). Emma Smith, Martha Turner, and Rose Mylett were once believed to have f...

Murder and the Dark Side of Domestic Violence

Through various case studies, Schechter found that many women were hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because th...