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checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

The way that we regard crime in our society can be affected tremendously by the media. Laws are written and enforced,...

and individuals within the group. Sutherland chose to focus on the individual and what it was in the persons own psychological mak...

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

attempting to finalize legislation regarding federal aid as well as a number of local anti-crime programs (5). The appropriations ...

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

more importantly, there is a great bond between the men who run these "families." Once a male is born into one, the chances are gr...

system. Treating individuals differently because of what they are accused of constitutes assuming the individual to be guilty unt...

stigma attached to elements of their personal development may find that no matter how they work to dispel this stigma, some of the...

hundred thousand inhabitants. California reported 193 incidents per one hundred thousand inhabitants, reflecting a 2.2 drop in cri...

one knows what to do about it or how to control it. This paper describes the structure and relationships of organized crime, criti...

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

problems-for instance, many states have ridiculous laws on the books (often dealing with things like proper handling of horses and...

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

collar crime that exist, it seems that environmental crime is the most dangerous. This is because tampering with environmental law...

hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...

she will not accept mental illness or any other cause except personal choice as the impetus for crime. Likewise, judgment must be ...

whether it is real life or on television. The primary concern of course is televisions effects on children as they are malleable a...

with the long iron rod that completed the stations armory. Not more than an hour later, he had been killed by a shotgun bullet fi...

enforcement agencies are faced with the complex problem of having not just to apprehend criminals but also to report what they hav...

was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...

is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...

lives. They provide a community with a common definition for concepts like obligation and function. This paper considers the conne...

Thus, extraverts are not impacted by punishment as much as introverts are (Brennan & Raine, 1997). Eysenck also argued that extra...

a positive view of the term. Social institutions, one tends to feel, are helpful things like libraries, fire departments, families...

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

the most immoral atrocities ever committed, but it was not enough for the Allies to condemn them morally: "... this was to be a le...

contingencies of the contemporary world. The FBI Organized Crime Program utilizes a methodology designed to provide the maximum ef...

this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...