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Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Organized Crime Impresario Meyer Lansky

In six pages this essay profiles the life of organized crime boss and financial genius Meyer Lansky with a comparison that include...

Blacks and Unfair Crime Sentencing

In eleven pages the sentencing of crimes committed by blacks is examined in terms of disparity between this and white crime senten...

Historical Perspective on the Middle East and Western influences

the two-headed structure of the palace and residence of the consul-general; dualism of urban spaces with the contrast between loca...

Arguing in Favor of Capital Punishment

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the death penalty can serve as a crime deterrent as illustrated by large city ...

Criminal Victimization in the United States by Phillip Ennis

In six pages this report analyzes the statistics regarding U.S. victims of crime that appear in Ennis's text along with comparativ...

Overview of Hate Crimes II

This paper consists of seventeen pages and presents an exhaustive hate crimes' overview that examines the prejudice that motivates...

Town and City Crime Audits

In seven pages the ways in which a crime audit might be conducted by a Central Business District are considered with a discussion ...

Success Evaluation of Juvenile Crimes and Tough Punishment

A research paper consisting of eight pages considers juvenile crime statistics in an assessment of whether or not getting tough on...

Inner City Crime Prevention

As a direct result, the likelihood of repeat offenders is greatly lessened and similarly, so is the citys crime rate. In my...

Curing Crime Through Sociology II

In four pages 5 potential sociological 'cures' for crime are examined and include the crime causation theory of Southerland. Two ...

Crime and Parental Responsibility

According to the National Crime Prevention Council (1999) soaring prison costs are exceeding investments in higher education, and...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Factors Influencing Behavior from an Adolescent Psychology Perspective

In six pages factors that influence adolescent psychological development such as environmental and genetic factors are explored. ...

5 Types of 'Victimless Crimes'

This paper defined what is meant by victimless crimes in an identification of 5 such crimes with prostitution and drug issues amon...

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Organized Crime

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

Crimes and the Differences Between Them

In five pages this paper examines why white collar crimes are distinguished from other crime types and therefore treated different...

Does Racial Residential Segregation Increase Urban Crime?

This 8 page paper uses analysis to determine whether urban crime increases in racially segregated residential areas. The method is...

Crime and U.S. Soldiers in Korea

In five pages this paper discusses the crimes that U.S. soldiers committed while stationed in Korea from the 1950s' war crimes to ...

Massachusetts Program of Juvenile Courts and Crime Prevention Policy

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

Crime Fear and Gender

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

Oscar Wilde and Incongruity

In five pages this paper examines Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Seville's Crime, Pen, Pencil, and Poison, Decay of Lying, and The Pict...

How Culture and History Influenced the Philosophical Perspectives of William James and Rene Descartes

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

Motivation of Raskolnikov's in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

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

Quality of Life, Delinquency, and Crime

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

Preventing Crime and the Role of Law Enforcement

both in the business community as well as in the private sector. "Business Watch" of the Seattle Police Department is designed to...

Deterring Crime: The Effect of Truth in Sentencing

This 5 page paper examines those elements in current literature that suggest truth in sentencing may deter crime. The writer provi...

Policy Brief on Crime Control

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

Increased Crime Rate in England During the 19th Century

In eleven pages this paper considers the crime increase in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the crime re...

Control Theories of Criminology

In five pages criminology is examined in terms of control theories, their differences in focusing not on crime causes but on why c...