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Thought Process of Criminals

indolence which refers to a desire to take the easiest path; cutoff of the ability to eliminate feelings of fear; power orientatio...

Crime 'Benefits'

fact that some individuals are more advantaged than other in regard to the types of environments in which they live. There are, i...

Violent Crimes and Female Perpetrators

"The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing..."....

Wives and Crime in Trifles and Sweat

first introduced to the condescending nature of men in general when one man says, in relationship to the state of the house, "Not ...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

The System of Trokosi

by a spokesman for the fetish priests, Togbe Atsu Eklo of the Adzimashi shrine, which appealed to the gods and their ancestors to ...

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...

Financial Crimes against the Elderly

abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

Parental Accountability for Children's Crimes

another excellent point in favor of the parents. So a valid argument would be that parents are not responsible for the actions of...

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...

New Orleans Police Department Corruption

murdered on October 13 of that year (Good Bad and Corrupt, 2006). Federal agents had Davis under surveillance for suspected drug-d...

Stuart Woods' Capital Crimes

conservative who is on a regular CNN television show debating issues with liberal commentator Evan Turner. As Ted is on the escala...

The Worst Incident in My Life So Far

I had just briefly stopped my car, but it was still running. I realized that helping this individual could take some time, so I pa...

Crimes Committed by Computers

The Comprehensive Crime Control Act was created as a means by which to provide Secret Service with legal influence over both compu...

History of War Crimes Committed by Soldiers

Nazi assassins were brought to justice at the Nuremberg Trial and were themselves sentenced to die (Special Report: Yugoslavia War...

Criminal Recidivism

the adults in his life frequently quarrel and vent their frustrations physically; he, or a member of his family, may suffer one or...

Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis

In a paper consisting of seven pages Lewis explores the wrongful accusation and imprisonment of a man for a crime he did not commi...

Crime and the 'Black Myth'

In five pages this paper dispels the mistaken notion that blacks are responsible for committing more crimes than whites are. Six ...

Henry Wirz, A Scapegoat for Crimes At Andersonville During the Civil War

crossfire fervor of post war vengeance. The tragedy at Andersonville was not of Wirz doing. He was in the wrong place, at the wron...

Social Classes in Pakistan

In seven pages this paper examines Pakistan's social class structure in an examination of people's lifestyles and how they vary so...

Group Communication and Various Roles

be asked when planning a breakfast for a firm. The group wants to create a good breakfast at a low price. In order to gather price...

Natural and Legal Crime

that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

“Natural Crimes” and “Legal Crimes”

be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...

The Heroism of Beowulf

The writer argues that Beowulf can be seen as an archetype of the ideal hero, and that his deeds have come to be considered as a m...

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

The writer reviews the book Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, which is a study of the way in which ordinary people can commit ...

The Nature of Evil

permit others to do so on your behalf" (p.5). Despite the fact that the book is titled The Lucifer Effect, what makes people tick ...