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Lombroso and Criminal Behavior

a sensation with his book that was published in 1876 ("Cesare," 2001). In the work, the doctor utilized Darwinian principals of ev...

Criminal Behavior and Criminology Theory

diverse. Many criminals are characterized by some type of drug addiction (alcohol included) and they engage in criminal activity ...

English Criminal Law's Function

or threat may cease to be a threat yet still remain a crime (James, 1984). The English Criminal Justice system is unlike ot...

Edwin Sutherland's Theory of Criminology

Edwin Sutherland in the 1930s broke from tradition when he posited that criminal behavior is not genetically controlled, but is a ...

Crimes Committed by Males and Females, Aggression, and Testosterone

nature versus nurture; females are, by nature, less aggressive than males are, because they do not have near the same level of tes...

Motivations and Personalities of Serial Killers

has also been pointed out that those with active or high fantasy prone imaginations are more apt to be able to become serial kille...

Theories Regarding Teen Misbehavior Regarding Sex and Substance Abuse

In twelve pages this paper examines teenage deviant behavior in a consideration of various social factors and how they can escalat...

Crime and Women from a Feminist Perspective

This paper takes a feminist approach to female criminal behavior in five pages. Three sources are cited in the bibilography....

Feminist Criminal Theory

This paper addresses how criminologists developed a theory of feminist criminal behaviors. This ten page paper has seven sources ...

Social Expectations Significance and Criminal Activity

handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...

Nurture vs. Nature in an Exploration of Criminal Behavior

biological determinism and the changing values of our day which expose us on a daily basis to such concepts as criminal deviancy h...

Is Deviant Behavior Criminal Insanity Or Something That Can be Treated, Punished Through Incarceration?

anything, nor does it increase the childs self-esteem. Children begin to feel that no matter what they do, that its okay. Theyre...

Causes of Criminal Behavior

make-up, were twice as likely than fraternal twins, to share a criminal record(Selzer, 838). This would seem to support their theo...

Is It Possible to Be Born a Criminal?

strange and terrible" (Lanier and Henry, p. 94). Interestingly, this theory was supported by sociologist Richard Dugdale, who art...

Therapeutic Approaches and Criminal Behavior Theory

to legitimate opportunities for attaining material goals" (Anonymous, 2002), as well as have no other availability to acquire thes...

Works of Dewey, Mill, Nozick, Rawls, Locke and Burke and the Influences of Education, Society, and Politics

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

Political Theories' Synopsis

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

6 Studies on Criminal Behavior Personality and Psychological Theories

development as the unconscious development in early childhood influences behavior later in life (Flowe; Wood). Historicall...

Criminal Behavior and the Role of the Media

In two pages this paper examines criminal deviance and the role the media plays in encouraging this behavior. Two sources are cit...

Reform and Prisons

This paper consists of six pages and considers the lack of success with reforming the prison system in a consideration of perpetua...

C.S. Lewis and Karl Menninger on How Criminals Should be Properly Punished

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares 'The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment' by C.S. Lewis and 'The Crime of Punishment...

Criminology Theories

In five pages social learning and labeling theories are applied to a consideration of criminal behavior. Ten sources are cited in...

Criminal Behavior Explained

In fifteen pages this paper argues that society alone does not adequately explain crime but that this type of human deviance is be...

Essays on Corrections

crimes. But what it does suggest is that under such conditions, the likelihood is greater that criminal behavior will be instigat...

The Factors that Influence Behavior in Criminal Justice Work

the persons subjective view of the situation are important (More, Wegener and Vito, 2005, p. 56). This perspective suggests tha...

Article Critique/Male v. Female Substance Abuse Patterns

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

Correlation Between Poor Nutritional Habits And Criminal Behavior

without the means for proper growth/development and ultimately fail to thrive. Indeed, the very fundamental formation of ones ent...

Why Violence IS So Prevalent In Sports

very heart of causal processes (Bandura, 1986). Emphasizing the notion of learned expectations, this theory is closely associated...

Article Analysis/Effects of Parenting

half were single parents. An example of deductive logic in this study is the selection of the study hypothesis, i.e., the premises...

Criminal Behavior: Psychological And Personality Theories

the inherent connection between why some people engage in criminal activity and others do not (Barondess, 2000). III. DIFFERENTIA...