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An Article 'Psychopathy and Violence in Criminals' by Serin Reviewed

In seven pages this article is reviewed in terms of research study purpose, subjects, data, methodology, findings, conclusions, ob...

Scared Straight

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

Faulkner/Knight's Gambit

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

Rawls and Nozick on Equality

traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...

Religious Profiling And Police Brutality: How They Affect Operations

up with Iraqi fundamentalists. To what extent did personal opinion play a role in determining someones moderate stance if he mere...

Coordination for National Security

America was attacked on September 11, 2001. The many American agencies that gather and analyze intelligence had missed the cues. W...

Plea Bargaining: Unfair Advantage For Criminals

perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...

Mental Illness And The Juvenile Offender

to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...

Correctional Filter

to convict. This particular offenders filter ends with him walking out the courtroom once again a free man (Petersilia, 2006). A...

The Culture and Operation of the Special Court in Sierra Leone

The Sierra Leone Special Court is an Ad Hoc court set up to hear the cases of those most responsible the atrocities in the Sierra ...

Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System?

For all of its faults and shortcomings, the American legal system is the best in the world. That system revolves around two prima...

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...

Crime And Youth: How Family Relations Contribute To The Development

Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it were a natural occurrence for them to outgrow the tendency; howe...

Canada: Haven For Criminals Entering From The United States

become accountable for harboring criminals. The aspect of accepting personal responsibility for ones actions has long represented...

Decisions and Discretion in Morality in Criminal Justice An Introduction to Ethics by Daryl Close and Nicholas Meier

sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which in turn provide the concepts of how people inc...

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...

Standard Probation and the Alternative of Intensive Supervision Programs

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how to reduce criminal recidivism through intensive supervision programs instead of standar...

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...

Crime and Government Statistics

In five pages this paper considers government population statistics concerning crime and criminal characteristics. Four sources a...

Gangs and Sociology

This paper consists of three pages and examines the similarities and differences that exist regarding gangs that are criminal, vio...

Life or Death and Cost Effectiveness

This research paper adresses the fact thaty it is far more costly to house and feed criminals for life than it is to sentence them...

Rate of Recidivism and Drug Use

Before delving into proving the thesis, looking at relevant literature and statistics, it is important to look at drug use and its...

Overview of Fingerprinting

In twelve pages the use of fingerprinting in criminal investigations is examined in an historical overview that also includes the ...

Classical Theory and the Demonic Perspective

In five pages this paper takes a theoretical examination of criminal deviance. Three sources are listed in the bibliography....

History of Vocational Youth Organizations

In nine pages this paper examines vocational youth organizations from an historical perspective with criminal offender retraining ...

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....

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 ...

Prison Numbers and the Canadian Criminal Code

In five pages this paper discusses the rates of incarceration in Canada in a consideration of the Canadian Criminal Code. Seven s...