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Chapter Summaries on Police Deviance

thought, ultimately rendering "peace officers" the instigators of terrible crimes against humanity. The concept of a rational soc...

Kaplan and Reckless Theories' Overview

living on the edge. Reckless and Kaplan do have similar ideas but it pays to take a look at each of their theories and also the co...

Criminal Justice and Various Educational Strategies

appropriate way students are able to obtain a full and eclectic spectrum of what is being taught. Of course, not every subject ne...

Exhibiting Social Deviance

glared and showed signs of impatience but said nothing. Perhaps a more direct approach would draw more direct response. Th...

Sexually Deviantl Behavior

explains that the concept of sexuality has resulted from the discourse (2001). That is, sexuality would not have even been a topic...

Jeffrey Dahmer and Applications of Reckless' Containment Theory of Delinquency and Gottredson and Hirschi's Self Control Theory

as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child-rearing which resul...

Deviance Theory of Merton

In five pages this paper considers college campus's sociocultural norms in an application of Merton's deviance theory. One source...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

Deviance in Conflict Theory and Consensus

the process of indicating which individuals abide by the prescribed societal rules and which ones do not. Generally, a community ...

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Depiction of Deviance

have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...

Deviance and Sociological Theory

upon individuals within a group" (Wong, 2005). This theory lays the blame for delinquent behavior on the community, which was una...

Influence of the Chicago School of Criminology

of the most commonly applied sociological theories brought forth from the Schools influence and provide a closer look at the resul...

Deviant Behavior Such as Suicide

Many people have become very concerned with such instances of suicide because of political, social and/or religious reasons, and t...

Child Molestation and Deviance

is it readily connected to the original incident. Similarly, perhaps the child grows up and engages in drug and/or alcohol abuse ...

Prostitution Deviance and Theories of Sociology

exchange for money and in the absence of an existing social relationship is deviant in comparison with the normative culture. But...

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...

Those Who Use Marijuana, Those Who Don't and Attitudinal Variations

came up with a theory as to why people utilized marijuana for pleasure (Hallstone, 2002). This sociologist looked at drug use from...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

Economic Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

Benefits of Legalizing Marijuana Touted). The spokesman for Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, Billy Rogers, stated "We are...

Legalization of Marijuana

wrestles with a myriad of questions about substance use and abuse. First, there are good reasons why marijuana should be legali...

Argument in Favor of Marijuana

thus freeing up money and space for more serious criminals. If marijuana were legal the law enforcement industry could spend more ...

Marijuana and its Effects

been absolutely established is that THC does attach itself to brain receptors associated with "thought, memory, concentration, and...

Criminal Justice VI

initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...

Canada and Marijuana Legalization

stated that both the political and public attitude towards the legalization of marijuana is greatly "skewed" (NORML). One Cons...

Illegal Drugs and Their Impact

a variety of legal prescriptions under false pretenses, one is actually taking drugs illegally. Similarly, teenagers are no allowe...

Addiction and Marijuana

g of cannabis, and up to 2-3 mgs can induce pleasurable effects for the occasional marijuana user (Hall and Solowij, 1998, p. 1611...

Literature Review on Stress Agents

often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...

Pot's Illegality

In eight pages this paper considers the reasons behind the illegality of marijuana from ethical and moral perspectives. Six sourc...

Marijuana Legalization and Economic Benefits

to legalizing marijuana. The author states that "Supporters of an initiative that would decriminalize marijuana in Nevada said ...