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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...
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...
structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...
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...
in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...
is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...
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...
a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...
of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...
resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...
In 5 pages this paper examines what motivated Raskolnikov's 'crime' in Crime and Punishment. There is 1 source cited in the bibli...
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 research paper assesses crime based upon gender and the phenomenon of crime fear. Six sources are cited in t...
1996). The opposing theory of positivistic approaches to crime causality includes sociological, psychological, and biological...
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...
According to the National Crime Prevention Council (1999) soaring prison costs are exceeding investments in higher education, and...
In five pages criminology is examined in terms of control theories, their differences in focusing not on crime causes but on why c...
In eleven pages this paper considers the crime increase in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the crime re...
handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...
censorship, where there has been increased realisation and commitment to deal with the type of information that is on the internet...
In eleven pages the sentencing of crimes committed by blacks is examined in terms of disparity between this and white crime senten...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the death penalty can serve as a crime deterrent as illustrated by large city ...
In six pages this essay profiles the life of organized crime boss and financial genius Meyer Lansky with a comparison that include...
In six pages this report analyzes the statistics regarding U.S. victims of crime that appear in Ennis's text along with comparativ...
This paper consists of seventeen pages and presents an exhaustive hate crimes' overview that examines the prejudice that motivates...