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Cruel and Unusual Punishment

the legislation enacted with regard to punishment is concerned with the method used, not with the fact that an individual is being...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

Attack Vulnerabilities in Controlled Populations and Crime Victims

be. In 1964, the landmark case of Cooper v. Pate served to secure prisoners civil rights with the Supreme Court ruled that they "...

The Bill of Rights and Law Enforcement Procedures

seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and parti...

Forensic Science: Overview

presence of embalming fluid and the interaction with soil. Chapter 2 Obtaining evidence is not considered a free-for-all where f...

The Worst Incident in My Life So Far

I had just briefly stopped my car, but it was still running. I realized that helping this individual could take some time, so I pa...

“The Female Offender” by Chesney-Lind and Pasko

them a growing population in the world of crime and incarceration. The first section of the book deals with such things as "Trends...

"Desert Exile"

and wound up in camps. The Issei often simply went along obediently, as was their tradition; but the Nisei were not as willing to ...

Crime Theories: Comparison

enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for its presence, as well as the best way to approach therapeu...

Lease or Buy?

This 3 page paper looks at two issues. The first assesses whether it is best to lease or buy equipment, the second considers issue...

The Importance of Covering War Crimes Trials

killed after an attempted assassination against himii. But it is not clear whether or not he did receive a fair trial and media di...

The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime and Justice by Belknap

crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

Criminal Justice: Goal And Policy Implementation

presence; however, the propensity for crime to occur despite a greater incidence of police patrol has been documented, as well. I...

Community Planning: Crime Deterrents

crime, the most appropriate method of crime prevention based upon crime pattern analysis is to deter the offender from carrying ou...

The Importance of Crime Scene Investigation

people provide comments on the subject and then the chapters commence. Medicolegal Death Investigation Guidelines are produced and...

Gender and Film: "Senorita Extraviada"

their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...

The Enron and Martha Stewart Cases Compared

those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...

Computers in the Twenty-First Century

it is the advent of the Internet that really changed things and rendered the computer a necessity. What might the typical computer...

Diploma Forgery and Identity Theft

a fake Kansas State University diploma and transcript for $249.99" (Rock, 2006). The same thing could be, and probably is, happeni...

One of the Negatives of Advanced Technology: Identity Theft

his or her social security number written on various documents, someone that throws all mail into the trash without securing vital...

Criminal Behavior: Psychological And Personality Theories

the inherent connection between why some people engage in criminal activity and others do not (Barondess, 2000). III. DIFFERENTIA...

Due Process And Crime Control Models: Shaping Criminal Procedure Policy

Party. Black suffrage would prevent southern Democrats from winning elections in southern states, as well as uphold the Republica...

Assault vs Aggravated Assault

vs. battery are surrounded by many misperceptions and, in some instances, actually reflect the bias the law sometimes holds when i...

Increasing the Prison Term for Armed Robbery

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Trends in Policing in the Sacramento Area

one example of a program that works in Sacramento and one that had been created to address a disturbing trend. Another trend is a...

Race, Crime, and the Law by Kennedy

crime and thereby creates a racial ideology of crime that sustains continued white domination of blacks in the guise of crime cont...

Punishment and Crime

Criminologists, sociologists, and even psychologists often agree that specific factors in the lives of an individual determine the...

Deviant Behavior: Crime

"Albert Cohen found that deviant subcultures occur more often in the lower classes and are based on values that oppose the dominan...

Neighborhood Watch: Study Design

hall meetings, in-depth interviews and one-on-one conversations with the purpose of exploring the issue in detail. In this partic...

The Ethics of Hacking

be quite costly and we have endured this cost for several decades. Roush (1995), for example, provides insight on the historical ...