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Journey into Darkness by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

In six pages this paper examines psychological criminal profiling of serial killers and how it can also be applied to someone who ...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

The Commandant of the Andersonville Confederate Prison Camp Henry Wirz

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

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...

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...

Hypothetical Criminal Intelligence Unit Examined

the Criminal Investigations Bureau but it is also identified as "a support function for the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT...

Criminal Reframing in Government

operation of prisons by the private sector became a vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the f...

Investigations That Are Intelligence Based

extending from an increasing prison population and the struggles of the government to address this problem (Brann, 1993). Casa (1...

DNA Database Crime Laboratory Necessity

Aspects such as hair, eye, and skin color, height, weight, bone structure are only a few example of the physical characteristics w...

Various Types of Crime Theories

might encompass the criminals perception of societal views if criminal activity and how that view would extend to them if they wer...

Failure to Act and UK Criminal Liability

different elements, conduct, consequences and circumstances. However, some crimes may be purely seen as a result of the conduct, o...

Criminal Investigations and Forensic Psychology

To understand the growing importance of computers in criminal investigation consider the practically limitless applications of DNA...

President Richard M. Nixon's Failure to Protect the Presidential Office

the hands of Congress because they contain sensitive information concerning military and other global activities falling strictly ...

Deception and English Criminal Law

was brought under section 15 and not section 16, where workman told a householder work needed to be undertaken when it did not, a...

Evidence, Law, the Burden of Proof, and EC's Human Rights

we can also see that there maybe some acts which we feel to be immoral or unethical, but they do not constitute criminal acts, whe...

The Films Taxi Driver and Angels with Dirty Faces and the Portrayals of Antiheros

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Criminal Law and Strict Liability

the moral aspect needs to be remembered, but the case is made on the law and on the facts surrounding the case, not on moral indig...

Concept of Criminal Mischief

the activity is labeled as criminal mischief. It is a mischievous act indeed as they do not have permission to paint. Criminal mis...

Case Study on Computer Crime

experts, criminal activity with computers can be broken down into three classes -- first being unauthorized use of a computer, whi...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

Criminal Behavior and the Impact of TV

in obscure settings where television was nonexistent. Then, another group with television was compared and contrasted to the origi...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

Injustice Theme of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...

Society, Criminals, and Mandatory Drug Sentencing

emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....

Three Cases Involving Forensic Science

Mattias Reyes and DNA evidence. One author notes that, "Investigators are nearing completion into their inquiry of Mattias Reyes r...

What Can be Done About UK Money Laundering

have been written about money laundering, the problems with it and how to prevent it from happening. Yet it still continues on to ...

An Examination of The Fourth Amendment

restroom ("New Jersey," 2004). When one of the girls was told by administrators to empty her purse, she complied, but marijuana w...