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Criminal Justice and Empiricism

new ideas that argued humans were intellectual beings who could control things. Positivism, which is based on science and empirici...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

Cybercrime and Spam

vulnerable to other forms of attack. Spamming is associated with a number of key scams, including first and foremost "phishing" an...

Thought Process of Criminals

indolence which refers to a desire to take the easiest path; cutoff of the ability to eliminate feelings of fear; power orientatio...

Crime and Drug Abuse

and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...

Criminal Justice and Globalization

media, and especially the internet, policies must be created that deal with specific issues and threats. For example, scams that o...

Insuring Criminal Justice

Criminal justice has benefitted tremendously from recent scientific and technological improvements. Crime scene investigators no ...

Cyber-Crime Prevention: The Ethical Considerations

consumers or clients, or even contractually confidential information in some cases) is compromised, then it could mean the total d...

The New York Penal Code and Matters of Culpability

cannot claim total naivety, however, because many elements of the case suggest that she could have been clued in as to the reality...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic Serology

forensic serology and biological evidence are used in crime scene investigation. This paragraph helps the student give a brief ov...

The Transition of South Africa After Apartheid

program of peaceful coexistence, the Truth and Reconciliation commission has met with great success (Moller, 2007). Some inequiti...

Varying Factors Affecting Japanese and American Crime

The American correctional system is considered one of the most advanced in the world. That said, it...

Rape: Incidence and Circumstances

This research paper discusses the prevalence of rape and the factors that are associated with the incidence of this crime. Three p...

A Case of Statutory Rape, Crime Scene Investigation

This research paper focuses on crime scene investigation in regards to a case of statutory rape. Evidence and scene processing, c...

When Are Your Creations Yours

Copyright laws have been in force for decades. They tend to be somewhat vague leaving people confused about things like plagiarism...

Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science by Colin Beavan

The Development of Modern Forensics This book review features The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Fo...

Hell's Angels, An Overview

This research paper pertains to Hell's Angels, tracing the history of the motorcycle club, and describing its prevalence and invol...

The "Craigslist Killer," Philip Markoff

This research paper pertains to the case of the "Craigslist Killer," Philip Markoff. The writer describes his early life, the case...

Incorporating New Approaches in Policing

The question of how to address crime has plagued civilization throughout history. The old approach to crime was to make the...

Approaches in Policing Old Verses the New

The question of how to address crime has plagued civilization throughout history. The old approach to crime was to make the punis...

Defining Crimes Against Humanity

This paper is an investigation of how the term crimes against humanity has been defined and the extreme variability in that defini...

Majoring in Criminal Science: An Overview

The college major in criminal science is the focus of this paper consisting of 4 pages with courses, choices, and career expectati...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

Cross Boarder Crime and Terrorism Following the Cold War

include criminal activity. Clutterbuck (1990) argues that the legitimate trading patterns resulting from increased liberalizatio...

UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE CONNECTION TO CRIME RATES

gas station, supermarket and bank robberies; shoplifting; residential burglaries and theft of motor vehicle parts). For each targe...

Innovative Approaches to Victim Assistance

Criminal justice is comprised of a variety of approaches to solving and preventing crime. Another...

Reducing Crime Through the Taxation of Alcohol

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A Sociological Topic: The Impacts of Deviance on Crime

lower socioeconomic conditions often do not have the opportunities or the resources to move out of that social stratum. Parental ...

The Bernie Madoff Scandal

Bernie Madoff is in prison serving a sentence that will see him there for the rest of his natural life. His crimes are explored as...