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Social Theory Application in the Polly Klaas Murder Case

The sociological reasons for committing crimes are considered in this paper consisting seven pages with the emphasis on Polly Klaa...

Curing Crime Through Sociology II

In four pages 5 potential sociological 'cures' for crime are examined and include the crime causation theory of Southerland. Two ...

Evidentiary Value and Protocol At a Crime Scene

scene log is started and this is used to record entry and exit from the site by all authorized personnel as well as to record othe...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

Income and Race Impacts Upon Crime Rates

structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Scandal

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Crime Analysis and the Contributions of Edwin Sutherland

and individuals within the group. Sutherland chose to focus on the individual and what it was in the persons own psychological mak...

Differential Association Theory of Sutherland and Rape

stigma attached to elements of their personal development may find that no matter how they work to dispel this stigma, some of the...

3 Criminology Questions

system. Treating individuals differently because of what they are accused of constitutes assuming the individual to be guilty unt...

China and Crime

with the long iron rod that completed the stations armory. Not more than an hour later, he had been killed by a shotgun bullet fi...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Planning an Attack on Organized Crime

more importantly, there is a great bond between the men who run these "families." Once a male is born into one, the chances are gr...

Federal Level Crime Prevention

attempting to finalize legislation regarding federal aid as well as a number of local anti-crime programs (5). The appropriations ...

United Kingdom and Computer Crime

censorship, where there has been increased realisation and commitment to deal with the type of information that is on the internet...

Media and Crime

whether it is real life or on television. The primary concern of course is televisions effects on children as they are malleable a...

Spain, Crime, Employment and Education Benefits

growth. This is the case even under conditions where an educated individual must wait some time before obtaining work, which seems...

Forensics and Computer Crime

In eight pages computer forensic specialists are considered in a discussion of computer crime investigation that includes crime ty...

Control Theories of Criminology

In five pages criminology is examined in terms of control theories, their differences in focusing not on crime causes but on why c...

Increased Crime Rate in England During the 19th Century

In eleven pages this paper considers the crime increase in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the crime re...

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...

Police Deviance And Ethics

principles its members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of con...

Violent Crime and White Collar Crime

to the lowest-ranking person in an business or organization. First, it is important to understand just what white collar crime ac...

Criminal Theory and Crime's Psychological Correlates

in the future. While the early years of forensic psychology were characterized more by mistakes in psychological diagnose...

Industrialized Nations, Violent Crime, and High US Violent Crime Rates

that the determinants of violence are socio-economic and cultural factors rather than the availability of any particular deadly in...

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

Forces of Deviance by Kappeler, Sluder, and Alpert Chapter Summaries

(authoritarian and conservative) that attract them to police work and that their personalities shape the work they do. The other ...

Differential Association Theory and Crime

the subject. When approximations become regular, the psychologist the changes the expectations, and redirects the subject to an e...