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America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Conflict v. Functionalist Theories on Poverty and Crime

also state that group sports teaches hard work and patience, working toward a common goal and submission to authority, which are a...

Media and Crime

whether it is real life or on television. The primary concern of course is televisions effects on children as they are malleable a...

Income and Race Impacts Upon Crime Rates

structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

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

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

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

A Criminology Overview

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

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Evidentiary Value and Protocol At a Crime Scene

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...

Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Scandal

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

3 Criminology Questions

system. Treating individuals differently because of what they are accused of constitutes assuming the individual to be guilty unt...

Federal Level Crime Prevention

attempting to finalize legislation regarding federal aid as well as a number of local anti-crime programs (5). The appropriations ...

Differential Association Theory and Crime

the subject. When approximations become regular, the psychologist the changes the expectations, and redirects the subject to an e...

Organized Crime Controlling

that context, organizational crime is aligned with academic integrity. Plagiarism would fall under that category. Falsifying docum...

The Gambino Family

Luciano would bring the Mafia into the modern age, putting the group into organized crime. Out of the ruins of the Masseria and Ma...

Katrina Refugees and Rising Crime in Houston

more than 100,000 of New Orleanss displaced residents flocked into town in late August and early September" (Gelinas, 2006). The m...

Crime Data Predictors and Their Usage

a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...

Business of Crime and 'Organized' Lucky Luciano

was nine, his family emigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which was a rough neighborhood dominated by Italian families (...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Reduce Health Costs by Targeting Resources

The New York City Police Commissioner was successful in reducing crime by targeting high crime areas and allocating resources to t...

NATO Just War Against Serbs

There are several issues discussed in this essay. Examples are given of cruel treatment of prisoners of war, how the Bush Doctrine...

Sutherland's Theory of Executive Crimes

him, including mail fraud, laundering money, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. The financier was involved with a global Ponzi sc...

Business and Criminal Law

that are not well thought out. White collar crimes are crimes that involve a level of sophistication. They usually implicate cri...

Problems with the Juvenile System in America

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

China and The US, Crime

This research paper pertains to the increase in crime occurring in China in the 1990s and the decline of crime in the US during th...

Sex Trafficking, An Overview

This research paper pertains to sex trafficking. This overview defines the issue, describes trafficker tactics, and describes the ...

Juvenile Crime Theories

This paper, first of all, discusses a recent murder case and then describes the juvenile delinquency theories that are relevant to...

Street Gangs and Organized Crime

prostitution, and gambling (Bolz, 1995). They also engage in money laundering schemes (Bolz, 1995). This latter focus is the crux ...

Data Security and Cyber Crime

and copying the auction data from the web site. The judge; Ronald M. Whyte, granted the company the ability to temporarily ban the...

Comparative Analysis of Organized Crime in Japan, China, Russia, and Mexico

the don (also known as Godfather) at the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. I...