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Criminal Law and Strict Liability

the moral aspect needs to be remembered, but the case is made on the law and on the facts surrounding the case, not on moral indig...

President Richard M. Nixon's Failure to Protect the Presidential Office

the hands of Congress because they contain sensitive information concerning military and other global activities falling strictly ...

Criminal Investigations and Forensic Psychology

To understand the growing importance of computers in criminal investigation consider the practically limitless applications of DNA...

Hypothetical Criminal Intelligence Unit Examined

the Criminal Investigations Bureau but it is also identified as "a support function for the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT...

Criminal Reframing in Government

operation of prisons by the private sector became a vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the f...

Society, Criminals, and Mandatory Drug Sentencing

emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....

Investigations That Are Intelligence Based

extending from an increasing prison population and the struggles of the government to address this problem (Brann, 1993). Casa (1...

DNA Database Crime Laboratory Necessity

Aspects such as hair, eye, and skin color, height, weight, bone structure are only a few example of the physical characteristics w...

Various Types of Crime Theories

might encompass the criminals perception of societal views if criminal activity and how that view would extend to them if they wer...

Failure to Act and UK Criminal Liability

different elements, conduct, consequences and circumstances. However, some crimes may be purely seen as a result of the conduct, o...

Injustice Theme of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

Case Study on Computer Crime

experts, criminal activity with computers can be broken down into three classes -- first being unauthorized use of a computer, whi...

Three Cases Involving Forensic Science

Mattias Reyes and DNA evidence. One author notes that, "Investigators are nearing completion into their inquiry of Mattias Reyes r...

What Can be Done About UK Money Laundering

have been written about money laundering, the problems with it and how to prevent it from happening. Yet it still continues on to ...

An Examination of The Fourth Amendment

restroom ("New Jersey," 2004). When one of the girls was told by administrators to empty her purse, she complied, but marijuana w...

Technology and Criminal Investigators

the latest technological innovations and how this information is being applied. These articles uniformly indicate that police inve...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

Criminal Behavior and the Impact of TV

in obscure settings where television was nonexistent. Then, another group with television was compared and contrasted to the origi...

Issues in Criminal Evidence

event in question (Beitman, 2005). Secondly, physical evidence can be authenticated if a chain of custody can be established. Th...

International Criminal Court, International ad hoc Tribunals v. National Legal Systems

and bring nearer the day when no ruler, no State, no junta and no army anywhere will be able to abuse human rights with impunity."...

John Gotti and Theories of Crime

in the Cosa Nostra (John Gotti, 2009). He stood trial several times but was always acquitted, earning him the nickname the "Teflon...

Criminal Profiling

Many people in the law enforcement community regard criminal profiling as a useful and accurate tool as the use of this strategy ...

ADJUSTING TO TERRORISM

small group, or individual, that would premeditate an attack against a building or government employee (Mosley, 2003). This was th...

Behavioral Profiling

as to who they might be. Obviously, such irrefutable evidence as fingerprint or DNA evidence is the most desirable in crime scene...

Criminal Policies

(Purpura, 1996). "The crime control model stress the importance of protecting society through efficient and effective law enforce...

Taylor and Rawls/Premodern to Modern

a hierarchy in the cosmos."iii This hierarchy, which is typically referred to as the Great Chain of Being, was "gradually taken ov...

Forensic Procedures: Criminal Profiling

profiling methods is the ample numbers in which they exist, making identification a much more accessible venture. Because of the ...

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...