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Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Criminal Justice: Goal And Policy Implementation

presence; however, the propensity for crime to occur despite a greater incidence of police patrol has been documented, as well. I...

Community Planning: Crime Deterrents

crime, the most appropriate method of crime prevention based upon crime pattern analysis is to deter the offender from carrying ou...

Informational Memo: Crime Scene

beside the bed. It appears that she was lying on the bed but fell off. Her head is bloody. At this point, which is approximately 1...

Punishment and Crime

Criminologists, sociologists, and even psychologists often agree that specific factors in the lives of an individual determine the...

Neighborhood Watch: Study Design

hall meetings, in-depth interviews and one-on-one conversations with the purpose of exploring the issue in detail. In this partic...

Trends in Policing in the Sacramento Area

one example of a program that works in Sacramento and one that had been created to address a disturbing trend. Another trend is a...

Race, Crime, and the Law by Kennedy

crime and thereby creates a racial ideology of crime that sustains continued white domination of blacks in the guise of crime cont...

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...

More Guns, Less Crime

wounded an intruder attempting to break into his row home (Gallagher 21). Police promptly removed the .22 rifle from Scotts posse...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

Beth Henley's Play Crimes of the Heart

In seven pages this play is analyzed in terms of crime, punishment, and character. There are no other sources listed....

Hidden Self and Oscar Wilde

he sees Dorian daily; "I couldnt be happy if I didnt see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me" ("Picture", 113). Howeve...

Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”

men are following a "preset plan" in their search for evidence and are, therefore, convinced at the end of the play that they have...

Two Major Social Problems

computers, and increasing insurance coverage are three simple factors that might have increased the number of reports made to auth...

DIVERSION PROGRAMS AND JUVENILE CRIME IN NEW JERSEY

a result, non-profit and private organizations have tried to step forward to provide diversion programs, or alternates, to incarce...

Italian and Russian Organized Crime

In relationship to Italian organized crime the story is quite different for it is essentially based in a very rich and long...

Debating the Innocence or Guilt of Greek Philosopher Socrates

This paper consists of eight pages and considers the injustice of the trial Socrates received in an attempt to determine whether o...

Social Welfare Program Process

problems come in bunches and are inextricably linked. Not only do they affect the poorer communities, but there is a spill over ef...

New York Sen. Alfonso D'Amato

In five pages this paper discusses the record of New York Republican Sen. Al D'Amato regarding welfare reform and crime issues. F...

Analysis of Dante's 'Inferno' Canto 12

In six pages this research paper considers Canto XII in terms of how murderers and tyrants are murdered and where along with how m...

Preventing Attacks: A Comparison of Two Approaches in Reducing Susceptibility to Becoming a Victim

The articles reviewed for the purpose of this paper parallel one another quite closely in terms of the criteria that they identify...

Themes in the Works of Fyodor Doestovsky

In six pages this essay compares the characterizations in Dostoevsky's novels The Brothers Karamazov, Possessed, The Idiot, and Cr...

Middle Eastern Crime Fiction from 1916 to 1980s

In six pages this paper presents a textual overview of The Middle East in Crime Fiction by Reeva Simon. Four sources are cited in...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

In Her Own Words

surface, to bring to the publics attention, the varied experiences and perspectives of women who have become involved in crime. In...

Criminal Behavior: John Wilkes Booth

and Bernstein, 2007, p. 78). While Eysenck apparently did not develop his theory of behavior specifically with regard to crime, la...

Argument: Carrying Concealed Firearms Helps Society

violent crime. They also state plainly that carrying concealed handguns has its "greatest deterrent effect in the highest crime co...

Crime Trends in Georgia

efforts on the part of city planners to attract both people and employment opportunities to the central city with improved MARTA a...

Forced Drug Testing

"those who were tested for heroin use and placed in drug treatment in addition to other supervision services, and those who were s...