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Japan and Crime

the number of misbehaving children and incidents of juvenile delinquency" (Ministry of Education, 2001). The objectives of the r...

Sonia in Crime and Punishment

has crafted a brilliant character, encompassing both good and evil, right and wrong, perfection and sinfulness. Because of these ...

New York Mob Territory Setting for Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

Situational Prevention and Social Prevention

A four-year programme from 1989 to 1993 in five American cities -the Quantum Opportunities Programme- paid disadvantaged youths fo...

Australia's Approach to Crime Prevention

NCPPs objectives are to identify and promote innovative ways of reducing and preventing crime and the fear of crime. The program i...

England of the Eighteenth Century, Crime, and Punishment

felony, the law implies that it shall be punished with death, viz., by hanging as well as forfeiture: unless the offender prays th...

African and Women Victimized by Violence

to this new law for Muslims, introduced in the northern states of Nigeria" (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002). She was to be stoned to...

Conflict Theory and White Collar Crime

75 percent of fraud is committed by employees and 41 percent of all businesses have suffered more than five incidents of fraud wit...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Dream of Raskolnikov

met them" (Dostoevsky 54). These figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plan...

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...

Rates of Property Crime and the Impact of Unemployment

motor vehicle theft", the FBIs definition does not include robbery but does include arson (Imrohoro, Merlo and Rupert, 2001). Mer...

'Victimless' Crime and Prostitution

are again those degrees where one is not sure. There are indecency laws where performers have been arrested. They went too far sex...

Society and Crime

themselves in a great deal of trouble. They may not be able to pay their bills and this can create more criminology such as borrow...

Future Outlook for Organized Crime

Such groups are connected by strong ethnic ties (Chinese); large numbers (black gangs) and sophistication (Russian mobs) (Couns, 1...

Are There Similarities in Patterns of Crime Between First and Third World Countries?

and also poverty. This is ongoing, one example may be the country of South Africa, where in the 1980s there were increases in stre...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

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...

UK Youth Crime Representations and Public Perceptions

see a violent scene on televisions or a film does not shock us or surprise us, we see it as normal, and for many, especially where...

Insurance Fraud and Organized Crime

tissue injuries and psychological stress are not easy to disprove. Dirty professionals make the job tougher" (Schlossberg, 1992, ...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

Serial Killers and Hate Crimes

anything other than oppression and autocracy. Freedom represents many things, not the least of which is the envy and hatred...

A Case Study of the Application of California Penal Code

placed wooden horses and other toys around the still to disguise it. These elements contributed to the criminal act, but they als...

Crime Perspectives and the Influence of Public Images

argument and the response by Janet Chan. First, a number of different social theories have been applied to an understand of crime...

Forensics and 'Cyber' Crime

computer system with the intent to destroy or manipulate data is more than enough reason to augment security measures. According ...

Sociology and Theory

and only five rapes. There is an absence of true fear and so the petty crimes, the drug offenses and so forth serve a function in ...

Analyzing the Case of Marcus Dixon

does not have a good track record in terms of sexual encounters. In defense of the verdict, Rainey (2004) notes that those who op...

Juvenile Crime Approaches and Restorative Judgment Value

groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....

Crimes on the Internet

Finally, another Internet crimes (which is similar to hacking) is to release a virus on the Internet. Again, viruses can disrupt t...

Crime Scene Investigation Example

gloves were donned. The narrative description would be done next, including the fact that the womans partially nude body had been...

American Criminal Justice Policy and 'On the Waterfront'

Malden), the movie offers viewers a glimpse into the underworld dealings of crooked unions and the infiltration or organized crime...