Essays 91 - 120
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...
theories: " ...such theorists viewed criminals not as evil persons who engaged in wrong acts but as individuals who had a criminal...
of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...
a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...
resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...
stigma attached to elements of their personal development may find that no matter how they work to dispel this stigma, some of the...
system. Treating individuals differently because of what they are accused of constitutes assuming the individual to be guilty unt...
and individuals within the group. Sutherland chose to focus on the individual and what it was in the persons own psychological mak...
structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...
and copying the auction data from the web site. The judge; Ronald M. Whyte, granted the company the ability to temporarily ban the...
stealing, fewer will attempt to steal anything (Schaefer, 2008). That leads directly to the code of conduct for the company and to...
the don (also known as Godfather) at the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. I...
of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...
public desires media to provide "fair coverage of the facts" of a case, so that it becomes possible to formulate an informed opini...
in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...
In eleven pages this research paper assesses crime based upon gender and the phenomenon of crime fear. Six sources are cited in t...
In five pages this paper examines Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Seville's Crime, Pen, Pencil, and Poison, Decay of Lying, and The Pict...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
In eight pages this paper examines 1990s' crime rate statistics in this consideration of Pennsylvania's juvenile crime system. Ei...
In five pages Canada's crime is examined in terms of types and includes discussion of such theories as crime ecology, differential...
In ten pages the Genovese crime family is examined in terms of history, and organized crime activities. Sixteen sources are cited...
In eight pages the relationship between the housing arrangements of elderly women, their fear regarding crime and why they might b...
This 5 page paper examines those elements in current literature that suggest truth in sentencing may deter crime. The writer provi...
both in the business community as well as in the private sector. "Business Watch" of the Seattle Police Department is designed to...
In 5 pages this paper examines what motivated Raskolnikov's 'crime' in Crime and Punishment. There is 1 source cited in the bibli...
1996). The opposing theory of positivistic approaches to crime causality includes sociological, psychological, and biological...
In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...
In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...
This paper defined what is meant by victimless crimes in an identification of 5 such crimes with prostitution and drug issues amon...