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Need for Community Prevention and Correction Programs

officers and to a much lesser extent fund prevention programs ( Petersilia, 1995). In the next year, 1995, the bill was revised a...

University and College Crime Reduction

heavily related to the discovery of the crimes. Campuses are somewhat their own entity in society and crime often goes unreported....

Social Engineering and the Law

logical of those options revolve around positive and negative reinforcement. Skinner contended that an organisms behavior was the...

Trying Juveniles as Adults and Crime Deterrence

of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...

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...

Criminals and Psychological Cognition

AND CLASS Authors Messner and Rosenfeld strive to demonstrate the inherent relationship between crime and the manner in which soc...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Crimes Against Nature

chapter he begins with the "Mess in Texas" which is the home state of Bush. He states, "According to the Texas Commission on Envir...

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

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...

Dispelling Police Investigation Myths

In three pages this paper exposes the false myth that all crimes are investigated by law enforcement officials. Three sources are...

Victimization Recovery and the Effects of Social Support

impacts of criminal victimization, including interpersonal violence, sexual abuse and domestic violence, all of which comprise a s...

Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Sociology of Crime

criminologists and sociologists have been actively involved in determining which factors contribute to such risk, how they may be ...

Singapore and Criminal Justice

the primary influences in the restructuring and rebuilding of the civilian forces. A womens unit was added and new uniforms were s...

Crime and Drug Research Proposal

In twelve pages this paper examines the value of researching a correlation between crime and drugs and evaluates relevant literatu...

Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Ethics

In five pages this 1989 movie's portrayal of ethical and moral considerations is examined along with a discussion of how it portra...

Business Ethics Case Study

still being disingenuous. He is not fulfilling his obligation as a lawyer to be honest, nor is he following the law. Whether or no...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

Crime and Social Policy's Impact

helm of this controversial topic is the mandate of minimum drug sentencing for what some consider to be insignificant usage. As s...

Programs and Juvenile Crime

a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...

Deviance and Crime from a Sociological Theoretical Perspective

media reports on these acts and at the accompanying punishment, at once educating the citizenry by restating the rules of that par...

Prison System of the State of Texas

prison although no threats have been made on her life. In other celebrity cases, Texas saw singer David Crosby of Crosby, Stills,...

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...

Analyzing Canto XIII of 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...

Nursing Intervention and Munchausen by Proxy

the condition. More frequently it is the healthcare system which is both exposed to the condition and thus responsible for detect...

Black in Blue by Nicholas Alex

of the people and in the political structure of the Criminal Justice system. Nicholas Alex found that, in 1969, police officers...

Crime in the Making by Robert Sampson and John Laub

overwhelming temptations, from the smallest infraction of stealing candy to the most contemptible of all crimes: murder. Ke...

Florida Casino Gambling Legalization

a number of arguments put forth by opponents of casino gambling, but the understood motivation underlying many of them is religiou...

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...

Summary of Crime and Punishment

He mutters about the thing about which he is thinking of doing, which we assume is the crime of theft. After he has visited the o...

Issues on Feminism

causes of unemployment may be the advent of the minimum wage law, inasmuch as minimum wage increases have caused pay scales to cha...