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Overview of Serial Killers

is irrefutable. Senator Ed Perlmutter, who sponsored a bill to stiffen the punishment of animal cruelty charges, has no doubt th...

Crime in Great Britain During the Victorian Age

This paper consists of six pages and discusses crime and other social issues that occurred during the Victorian Age. Six sources ...

Crime and Sociological Theories

In four pages this paper examines 5 sociological cures for the crime that plagues society and includes social bonding and differ...

Social Problems and Substance Abuse

In twenty pages this paper discusses growing welfare costs, crime, and teenage pregnancy in this consideration of the social probl...

Local Police and Citizen Dissatisfaction

In nine pages this research paper examines how people perceive local law enforcement with such determining factors as economics an...

Social Order and Organized Crime

In sixteen pages this research paper discusses how social order was destroyed by organized crime groups throughout history with so...

the theores behind hate crimes

that the victims group membership is the cause for prejudice or hate crime" (Sun, 2008). This puts the motive for the crime precis...

Loni Athens' Brutalization Theories and Carignan, the 'Want Ad' Serial Killer

their own. The placing of the want-ad, however, seems to have been an isolated incident: he was more inclined to give his victims ...

Crime Deterrence Through Harsher Punishment

these facts: * Homicide rates increased sharply beginning about 1965 or 1966. The number of executions plummeted from 47 in 1962 t...

Mass Communication and Social Policies

This paper discusses a 2001 article by Mira Sotirovic entitled, Affective and Cognitive Processes as Mediators of Media Influences...

Connection Between Poverty and Juvenile Crime in Australia

In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...

Crime Sociology

in that bygone era common law (or natural law) had its basis in a system of moral and ethical principles that was innate to human ...

Crime Theories: Comparison

enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for its presence, as well as the best way to approach therapeu...

Society According to Emile Durkheim

of solidarity in terms of society in general. But, according to Durkheims theorizing, it is not necessarily a beneficial transitio...

An Analysis of Crime Statistics (1968 through 2008)

an interesting tale, but the data must be reviewed in concert with economic and social trends that affect the nation overall. Some...

Neighborhood Watch Research Study

of ideas in regards to the motivations of criminals. Some of these principles are that human beings are rational; the human will c...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

Crime Theory: Felson's Routine Activity Approach

is to remove the elements inherent to crime: a location with minimal security is more likely to be robbed than one that has invest...

Strain Theories of Crime

response to social structure. Merton argues that some social structure "exert a definite pressure upon certain persons in the soc...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

Situational Remedies and Crime

which contends social ties between adults and adolescents are fragile at best. The absence of a solid, beneficial, healthy relati...

Research Proposal on the Connection Between Reducing Crime and Private Security

in order to reach a conclusion. 2. Theoretical Background To develop research that looks at if what and how private security ma...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

The Sopranos First Episode Analyzed

from the contrasts that are presented in every episode. Episode One The first episode of the first year of the series is an exce...

Max Weber, Conflict Theory, and Crime

labeled criminal because the bourgeoisies control of the state protects them from such stigmatization. * As capitalist societies ...

Crime pattern theory in relation to security management

are also linked to the everyday movements and routines of people: shoplifters will choose times when retail stores are busy and st...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

Crime Control Through Stigmatization

In eight pages labeling theory is among the topics discussed in this proposed control of crime through stigmatization. Eight sour...

Radical Conflict Perspective Analysis of Rape

become byproducts of our own system. But rape has risen with particular velocity only during the last quarter of the twentie...

Deviance Theories and Organized Crime

In six pages this paper applies criminology and deviance theories to Gambino 'family' organized crime group. Six sources are cite...