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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...

Katrina Refugees and Rising Crime in Houston

more than 100,000 of New Orleanss displaced residents flocked into town in late August and early September" (Gelinas, 2006). The m...

Report on Crime Rates in California and Pennsylvania

hundred thousand inhabitants. California reported 193 incidents per one hundred thousand inhabitants, reflecting a 2.2 drop in cri...

Statistical Reflections of Property Crime

While we fear violent crimes the most, property crimes concern us as well. Indeed, property crimes take a tremendous...

Reduce Health Costs by Targeting Resources

The New York City Police Commissioner was successful in reducing crime by targeting high crime areas and allocating resources to t...

Scared Straight

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

Motives for Crime

or perhaps he decides that he will inject his victim with enough heroin to kill. These ideas do not require much time to implement...

La Cosa Nostra & The Cali Cartel

province, " as well as eleven affluent landowners (FBI, 2008). He was taken into federal custody in New Orleans in 1881 and sent b...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

Crime Rates HIgher Among Ethnic Groups

arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...

Natural and Legal Crimes

forcible rape (Samaha, 2005). Attempted rape with the use of force is included under the definition of forcible rape (Samaha, 2005...

Crime, Criminology Theory, and Delinquency

of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...

Criminal Law, Identity And Culture

Social Control theories are two in particular where crime, culture and identity intersect, the former of which asserts how everyon...

Law Enforcement and Cyber Crime

cyber crimes are actually reported (Joint Council on Information Age Crime, 2004). Consider the impact of one incident such as the...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...

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...

Prejudice and Crime

optimism, there exists an invisible boundary line that, even though race relations seem to be improving, keeps the races separated...

Is The Uniform Crime Reporting System of the FBI Accurate?

The CIUS is the report most commonly used in research and articles addressing crime in this country (Maltz, 1999). The FBI obtains...

Preventing Crime

crime prevention officer might begin by giving information at day care or at schools with hand-outs for children to take home. ...

Early Modern England and Perceived Correlation Between Crime and Sin

In seven pages English crime and punishment between the years 1550 and 1750 are examined in order to determine to what extent the ...

Tourism and South Florida's High Rate of Crime

This paper consisting of ten pages examines how tourism in South Florida has surprisingly been little affected by the area's high ...

Urban Renewal Project

This research paper pertains to recommendations for a redevelopment project for a run-down neighborhood with a high crime rate. Th...

Crime Analyst

Drug-based crimes are often committed by members of groups. They receive reinforcement from this group. For many of them, this is ...

China and The US, Crime

This research paper pertains to the increase in crime occurring in China in the 1990s and the decline of crime in the US during th...

Sex Trafficking, An Overview

This research paper pertains to sex trafficking. This overview defines the issue, describes trafficker tactics, and describes the ...

Criminal Victimization in the United States by Phillip Ennis

In six pages this report analyzes the statistics regarding U.S. victims of crime that appear in Ennis's text along with comparativ...

Overview of Unsolved Crimes

overwhelming. In chapter two of "Criminal Justice Today : An Introductory Text for the Twenty-First Century" Schmalleger discusse...

Crime and U.S. Soldiers in Korea

In five pages this paper discusses the crimes that U.S. soldiers committed while stationed in Korea from the 1950s' war crimes to ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plans are dark and frightening, espec...

Student Supplied Case Study on Probability

will give us a 1 in 12 million chance. However we need to look at this in order to consider how correct it is. Here we can look at...