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Overview of Hate Crime

In eight pages the hate crime of racism is presented in an overview that includes various theories, legislation, study methodology...

Crime pattern theory in relation to security management

are also linked to the everyday movements and routines of people: shoplifters will choose times when retail stores are busy and st...

CRIMINOLOGY THEORY AND SOCIAL POLICY

"branches," these include the social learning theory, social control theory and social reaction theory. Accordihng to Siegel, the ...

Crime Sociology

in that bygone era common law (or natural law) had its basis in a system of moral and ethical principles that was innate to human ...

Mass Communication and Social Policies

This paper discusses a 2001 article by Mira Sotirovic entitled, Affective and Cognitive Processes as Mediators of Media Influences...

Connection Between Poverty and Juvenile Crime in Australia

In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...

Crime Deterrence Through Harsher Punishment

these facts: * Homicide rates increased sharply beginning about 1965 or 1966. The number of executions plummeted from 47 in 1962 t...

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...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

Max Weber, Conflict Theory, and Crime

labeled criminal because the bourgeoisies control of the state protects them from such stigmatization. * As capitalist societies ...

The Sopranos First Episode Analyzed

from the contrasts that are presented in every episode. Episode One The first episode of the first year of the series is an exce...

Criminal Behavior: Psychological And Personality Theories

the inherent connection between why some people engage in criminal activity and others do not (Barondess, 2000). III. DIFFERENTIA...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

CRIME AND SOCIAL THEORIES

by William Glasser, points out ten "axioms," which include components such as "the only person whose behavior we can control is ou...

Organized Crime Theories

but they are truly breaking the law. Many of them are murderers, but aside from such egregious crimes of murder and torture, organ...

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 ...

Ku Klux Klan Activities

In eight pages the history and activities of the Ku Klux Klan are presented. Also discussed are sociological crime theories such ...

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...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

'The Eye of the Beholder' and Crime

is any action that is against the laws of the land, and as such needs to be a social construct as it is the laws that are develope...

Mixed Method Study and Juvenile Crime Intervention Strategies

The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...

Social Construct and Crime

social construct (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). In looking at the role of the law in relationship to detaining what is an...

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...

Crime Explanations by Social Theories

respond to them in that way and then the deviant reacts to the stimulus by engaging in untoward behavior (2005). This theory helps...

Situational Remedies and Crime

which contends social ties between adults and adolescents are fragile at best. The absence of a solid, beneficial, healthy relati...

C.S. Lewis and Karl Menninger on How Criminals Should be Properly Punished

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares 'The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment' by C.S. Lewis and 'The Crime of Punishment...

Marxist View of Black Violence

perspective, which draws on a Marxist perspective, as it examines patterns of "political, economic, social, and cultural organizat...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

Policy Brief on Crime Control

1996). The opposing theory of positivistic approaches to crime causality includes sociological, psychological, and biological...

Preventing Crime and the Role of Law Enforcement

both in the business community as well as in the private sector. "Business Watch" of the Seattle Police Department is designed to...