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Social Expectations Significance and Criminal Activity

handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...

Evidentiary Value and Protocol At a Crime Scene

scene log is started and this is used to record entry and exit from the site by all authorized personnel as well as to record othe...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

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

Income and Race Impacts Upon Crime Rates

structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

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

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

Forensics and Computer Crime

In eight pages computer forensic specialists are considered in a discussion of computer crime investigation that includes crime ty...

Spain, Crime, Employment and Education Benefits

growth. This is the case even under conditions where an educated individual must wait some time before obtaining work, which seems...

Control Theories of Criminology

In five pages criminology is examined in terms of control theories, their differences in focusing not on crime causes but on why c...

Crime Analysis and the Contributions of Edwin Sutherland

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

Quality of Life, Delinquency, and Crime

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

Crime and Parental Responsibility

According to the National Crime Prevention Council (1999) soaring prison costs are exceeding investments in higher education, and...

Crime and U.S. Soldiers in Korea

In five pages this paper discusses the crimes that U.S. soldiers committed while stationed in Korea from the 1950s' war crimes to ...

Does Racial Residential Segregation Increase Urban Crime?

This 8 page paper uses analysis to determine whether urban crime increases in racially segregated residential areas. The method is...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

5 Types of 'Victimless Crimes'

This paper defined what is meant by victimless crimes in an identification of 5 such crimes with prostitution and drug issues amon...

Crimes and the Differences Between Them

In five pages this paper examines why white collar crimes are distinguished from other crime types and therefore treated different...

Classical/Choice Theory and the Death Penalty

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

Motivation of Raskolnikov's in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

In 5 pages this paper examines what motivated Raskolnikov's 'crime' in Crime and Punishment. There is 1 source cited in the bibli...

Business and Criminal Law

that are not well thought out. White collar crimes are crimes that involve a level of sophistication. They usually implicate cri...

Problems with the Juvenile System in America

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

Are Criminals Made Or Born?

the head, cheekbones and jaws which were enlarged, lips that protruded and abnormal teeth along with dark skin (Jones, 2006; Willi...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Katrina Refugees and Rising Crime in Houston

more than 100,000 of New Orleanss displaced residents flocked into town in late August and early September" (Gelinas, 2006). The m...

Why Crimes Involving Corporations Should be Reported

even when it comes to anonymous tip lines. The drug dealer will figure out who called and then, that endangers the life of the tip...

Blacks and Unfair Crime Sentencing

In eleven pages the sentencing of crimes committed by blacks is examined in terms of disparity between this and white crime senten...

Criminal Victimization in the United States by Phillip Ennis

In six pages this report analyzes the statistics regarding U.S. victims of crime that appear in Ennis's text along with comparativ...

Inner City Crime Prevention

As a direct result, the likelihood of repeat offenders is greatly lessened and similarly, so is the citys crime rate. In my...

Town and City Crime Audits

In seven pages the ways in which a crime audit might be conducted by a Central Business District are considered with a discussion ...