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Juvenile Justice, Due Process, and Social Control

Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...

Organized Crime Theories

but they are truly breaking the law. Many of them are murderers, but aside from such egregious crimes of murder and torture, organ...

The Evolution of Organized Crime

Our society functions in dependence on various physical and philosophical infrastructural features....

WHITE COLLAR CRIME AND SOLUTIONS

What actually constitutes workplace, or white collar crime? "Crime" typically takes into account words like "coercion," "violence"...

Hate Crimes Legislation

history, and how politics and media have affected it can help shed light on this relevant issue. The Hate Crimes Prevention Ac...

Maori Culture and Crime

as the concept of the constructionism explanation has formed the basis for many social polices and programs that are in place to t...

The Symbol of Love

fully developed, three dimensional people and they cannot be easily labeled, which is the point. Raskolnikov killed a repulsive ol...

The Symbol of Suffering

entire character development is based on the idea that he is crucifying himself through the device of his mental anguish. He has n...

the theores behind hate crimes

that the victims group membership is the cause for prejudice or hate crime" (Sun, 2008). This puts the motive for the crime precis...

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

The Virgin Islands - Trouble in Paradise

world, is suffering an economic downturn. This paper explores some of the issues facing the islanders. Discussion Part of the pro...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Drug Testing and the Invasion of Privacy

Pre-trial drug testing applies to those accused of federal crimes. The theory...

Bias in the Use of the Death Penalty?

of course, is the product of such a home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strateg...

2 Crime Theories Compared

typically combined with estate forfeiture, so the condemned mans wife and children were destitute. This is the sociopolitical cl...

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...

The New York Penal Code and Matters of Culpability

cannot claim total naivety, however, because many elements of the case suggest that she could have been clued in as to the reality...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic Serology

forensic serology and biological evidence are used in crime scene investigation. This paragraph helps the student give a brief ov...

The Transition of South Africa After Apartheid

program of peaceful coexistence, the Truth and Reconciliation commission has met with great success (Moller, 2007). Some inequiti...

Varying Factors Affecting Japanese and American Crime

The American correctional system is considered one of the most advanced in the world. That said, it...

Criminal Justice and Globalization

media, and especially the internet, policies must be created that deal with specific issues and threats. For example, scams that o...

Insuring Criminal Justice

Criminal justice has benefitted tremendously from recent scientific and technological improvements. Crime scene investigators no ...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

BOOK REVIEW: MIND HUNTER

because it shows the toll of Douglas work on his health and personal life. This is very clear from the first paragraph of the prol...

Crimes By Corporations and Their Relative Significance in the U.S.

one of her many incarcerations, who said he had stolen a loaf of bread, "You should have stolen a railroad. They would have made y...

Aspects in Criminology

feel dehumanized or disconnected from the society (Stevens, 2004). 2. Criminal Careers Land and DUnger (2010) explain that the c...

The Self-Control Theory of Crime: Addressing the Criticisms

the extent to which the self-control theory of crime can be said to be valid. This paragraph helps the student give an overview o...

Surveillance Cameras Preventing and Solving Crimes

Our world has evolved overnight into one in which we can seldom find privacy. The use of cameras to record our...

Hate Crimes Against African Americans

a "universal human emotion," which consists of "extreme rejection of another person" (Broyles, 2009, p. 4). A hate crime refers to...