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Prejudice and Crime

optimism, there exists an invisible boundary line that, even though race relations seem to be improving, keeps the races separated...

Is The Uniform Crime Reporting System of the FBI Accurate?

The CIUS is the report most commonly used in research and articles addressing crime in this country (Maltz, 1999). The FBI obtains...

Law Enforcement and Cyber Crime

cyber crimes are actually reported (Joint Council on Information Age Crime, 2004). Consider the impact of one incident such as the...

Social Change Theories

homeless people happened after they had been homeless for a while? Would that change the publics perception of the homeless? ONeil...

Crime Rates HIgher Among Ethnic Groups

arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...

Explanation of Social Theories

In ten pages this paper explains such social theories as alienation, social stratification, social strain, differential associatio...

Preventing Crime

crime prevention officer might begin by giving information at day care or at schools with hand-outs for children to take home. ...

Early Modern England and Perceived Correlation Between Crime and Sin

In seven pages English crime and punishment between the years 1550 and 1750 are examined in order to determine to what extent the ...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...

Festinger's Theory

There have been many important contributions to social psychology. Many scholars state that the most important theory in the field...

Explaining Exploitation Theory and Exploitation Theory of Prejudice

The paper gives a good overview of exploitation theory and exploitation theory of prejudice. The basis of the theory and the way ...

What is Organized Crime?

house and steal, or mug someone on the street, in order to get money to get more drugs. This is not organized and is ultimately ve...

Organized Crime

the society was used to having it and thus would not simply sit quite while it was illegal. But, Prohibition is a good example of ...

Drug Related Crimes

Another source indicates that, "Although the number of drug-related homicides has been decreasing in recent years, drugs still rem...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plans are dark and frightening, espec...

Critiquing Postmodernism

started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...

Questions on Juvenile Delinquency

In nine pages this research paper examines juvenile delinquency questions in a compilation of 4 brief essays that include such the...

Overview of Unsolved Crimes

overwhelming. In chapter two of "Criminal Justice Today : An Introductory Text for the Twenty-First Century" Schmalleger discusse...

Society, Deviance, and Differences

In five pages deviance in society is examined in a discussion of the labeling theory along with the philosophies of Emile Durkheim...

A Review of The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The writer reviews The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, in which the scientists challenges many current theories. The writer arg...

Different Views on Chaos Theory

7 pages and 7 sources. This paper provides an overview of the basic elements of chaos theory and relates them to views of their a...

Equity Theory

When examining this very there are a number of inputs that need to be considered which will impact on the way that the...

The Impact of Street Crime on Society

if their fear keeps them inside, there is a chance that they are not victims simply because they are not on the streets as frequen...

Addiction Behaviors and Two Psychological Theories

up with them. They will become compulsive and obsessive about getting their drug or drink. Classical conditioning theory would e...

Theories Moral and Social-Cognitive Development

bridge from behavior theorists to social theorists (Davis, 2006). It encompasses some of the foundations of each field. Bandura wa...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Criminology Theory Glossary

go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...

Word Processing Programs Support Cognitive Learning

Word processing programs support the cognitive learning theory by helping students learn how to edit their documents from beginnin...

Theories in Criminology

the author notes that labelists do not generally support such simplistic notions (Goode, 1994). In other words, one label does not...

Student Supplied Case Study on Probability

will give us a 1 in 12 million chance. However we need to look at this in order to consider how correct it is. Here we can look at...