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

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...

1996). The opposing theory of positivistic approaches to crime causality includes sociological, psychological, and biological...

In eleven pages this research paper assesses crime based upon gender and the phenomenon of crime fear. Six sources are cited in t...

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

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...

States and is found in ten states (Gately, 2005). For each member caught, the maximum penalty is a life sentence (Gately, 2005). C...

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

length or breadth to accurately cover his subject matter. In fact, the first twenty pages read more as a propagandist pamphlet tha...

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

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

stealing, fewer will attempt to steal anything (Schaefer, 2008). That leads directly to the code of conduct for the company and to...

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

and also by enforcing contracts during a time when the state apparatus was "too weak and corrupt to do so" (Sokolov 68). Since the...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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