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enforcement agencies are faced with the complex problem of having not just to apprehend criminals but also to report what they hav...
hundred thousand inhabitants. California reported 193 incidents per one hundred thousand inhabitants, reflecting a 2.2 drop in cri...
one knows what to do about it or how to control it. This paper describes the structure and relationships of organized crime, criti...
lives. They provide a community with a common definition for concepts like obligation and function. This paper considers the conne...
was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...
Juarez happens to be making news in recent years because, as author Mike Whitney points out, its known as the murder capital of th...
common response was the development of a task force. For instance, the sudden influx of narcotics into an area and a rise in narco...
Reactions of the Libyan forces to the protests have included the indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilians by military aircraft. ...
The way that we regard crime in our society can be affected tremendously by the media. Laws are written and enforced,...
While we fear violent crimes the most, property crimes concern us as well. Indeed, property crimes take a tremendous...
attempting to finalize legislation regarding federal aid as well as a number of local anti-crime programs (5). The appropriations ...
system. Treating individuals differently because of what they are accused of constitutes assuming the individual to be guilty unt...
stigma attached to elements of their personal development may find that no matter how they work to dispel this stigma, some of the...
with the long iron rod that completed the stations armory. Not more than an hour later, he had been killed by a shotgun bullet fi...
violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...
more importantly, there is a great bond between the men who run these "families." Once a male is born into one, the chances are gr...
whether it is real life or on television. The primary concern of course is televisions effects on children as they are malleable a...
censorship, where there has been increased realisation and commitment to deal with the type of information that is on the internet...
example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...
and individuals within the group. Sutherland chose to focus on the individual and what it was in the persons own psychological mak...
structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...
in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...
is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...
checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...
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...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
theories that serve to establish a basis upon which law enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for it...
a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...
resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...
theories: " ...such theorists viewed criminals not as evil persons who engaged in wrong acts but as individuals who had a criminal...