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The Social Problem of Gang Violence

111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...

Social Class and Crime

findings incorporate the authors reference to philosopher David Hume in their quest to prove the association between the free mark...

Serial Killers Kenneth Bianchi, Joseph Miller, and Ted Bundy

Bianchi was a serial killer but he did not work alone. Bianchi is one half of the duo called the Hillside Stranglers ("Angelo Buon...

Crime and Social Conditions

cases the social conditions can become such that the individual is led to criminal activity for one reason or another. A very co...

Ages, Race, Capitalism, and Criminal Theories

manner by which ethnic populations are perceived as being subordinate to their white counterparts, thereby committing a crime mere...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

Reviewing the International Criminal Court

a pivotal player in the precursors to the ICC. The Geneva Convention, signed into effect in 1864, was one of these precursors. I...

Political Commentaries of Tacitus's Annals and Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall

after this fall, which resulted in abuse of the Roman legalistic process and which also served to illustrate the cruelty of Tiberi...

Policy Analysis of Alaska Senate Bill 56

direct violation of a defendants Sixth Amendment rights (AkRepublicans.com, 2005). In effect Blakely v. State of Washington resul...

Criminal Profilers : A Comparison of Three Professionals

has formulated a computer program that analyzes crime locations and statistical information about criminal behavior in order to he...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

The Lack of Relevant Variables Represented by Previous Criminal Records and Seriousness of Crime

not as readily realized is that black Americans also represent the highest number of homicide victims between the two races. In t...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

Criminal Law, Brief Overview

the foundation for the legal system that was established during the colonial era (Lippman, 2010). Today, criminal statutes typical...

Trying Juveniles as Adult and Injustice

the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Helping the Victims of Crime

victims of violent crime. Victim assistance is something that has been gaining more emphasisi in only the last few decades. The c...

Organized Crime and Its Control

one knows what to do about it or how to control it. This paper describes the structure and relationships of organized crime, criti...

A Case study Criminal Liability, Provocation, and Psychological Injury

a level of provocation which would warrant a threatening and violent response. It would appear from the description in the ca...

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

Profiling Art and Australian Serial killer Ivan Milat

American television show called Numbers demonstrates that sometimes random killings are not really random at all and location can ...

Criminality Theoretical Development

just tell a child hes good, and hes well, hes fine, does not produce anything, nor does it increase the childs self-esteem. Child...

Criminal Investigator Characteristics

skills and abilities for three different types of crimes that a criminal investigator would need to consider. General Characterist...

Criminal Prosecution and Safety in the Workplace

national markets developed to heighten the exploitation of American natural resources (Rosner, 2000). Coal and iron were in parti...

Forensic Science and DNA Testing

RFLP is no smaller than a quarter, while with PCR Analysis the sample can be no bigger than a few skin cells. This seemingly insi...

Issues Related to Investigations

A case study of a woman cashing her deceased mother's checks is the final part of this essay. Topics discussed in essay include Mi...

Investigating Different Crimes

Over the last decade, there have been numerous high-profile, huge scams from organizations. These are called white-collar crimes a...

Cause and Effect Drugs and Crime

This paper explores the relationship between drug addiction and criminal activity. There is a cause and effect relationship in pl...

Impact on Those Who Play Computer Games

There has been a debate about the impact of action and violent video and computer games on those who play them. This especially pe...