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In Her Own Words

surface, to bring to the publics attention, the varied experiences and perspectives of women who have become involved in crime. In...

Two Major Social Problems

computers, and increasing insurance coverage are three simple factors that might have increased the number of reports made to auth...

DIVERSION PROGRAMS AND JUVENILE CRIME IN NEW JERSEY

a result, non-profit and private organizations have tried to step forward to provide diversion programs, or alternates, to incarce...

More Guns, Less Crime

wounded an intruder attempting to break into his row home (Gallagher 21). Police promptly removed the .22 rifle from Scotts posse...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

An Analysis of Crime Statistics (1968 through 2008)

an interesting tale, but the data must be reviewed in concert with economic and social trends that affect the nation overall. Some...

Preventing Attacks: A Comparison of Two Approaches in Reducing Susceptibility to Becoming a Victim

The articles reviewed for the purpose of this paper parallel one another quite closely in terms of the criteria that they identify...

Children And Moral Recognition

merely a reflection of ones own self-interest? Distinguishing these moral and ethical actions presses one to determine if the act...

Kant: Good Will

"actions are morally right in virtue of their motives, which must derive more from duty than from inclination" (Kemerling, 2002) -...

Communication: Gramsci's Hegemony

grand and far-reaching; that every form of media can readily influence those they inform speaks to the level of ideological contro...

Hate Crimes: Bush v Obama

When a hate crime is committed on federal property such as a national park, prosecution falls to the federal government....

Increase In Downtown Crime: Comprehensive Combat Strategy

Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...

Suffering in Crime and Punishment

Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...

The Biological Theory of Crime: The Social Implications

to criminal behavior are not so far-fetched. This paragraph stresses the risks of being too aggressive in intervention of "crimi...

Sports and the Connection to Crime

it either way; the most sensible conclusion has to be that since he was tried by a jury which acquitted him, and since they sat th...

Sports, Crime, Drugs And Gambling

has not been lost on organized crime, whose historic presence has been both looming and lucrative. Casino sports books is where a...

Forensics And Cyber Crime

with computers and electronic data."2 However, the actual hands-on aspect of collecting evidence presents a far greater challenge...

Defining, Identifying, and Analyzing Personal Crimes

An example would be if during a bank robbery a teller would collapse and die from a stress-induced heart attack, the robber could ...

Helping the Victims of Crime

victims of violent crime. Victim assistance is something that has been gaining more emphasisi in only the last few decades. The c...

Gun Control: Does It Prevent Crime?

gun control activists maintain that these controls have not only affected crime rates in a positive manner but have also proven to...

Compensating the Victim in Crime and Tort Cases

Law provides both the rules by which we are expected to abide and legal remedies for situations in which one individual has wronge...

Poverty and Crime Among Canada’s First Nations

Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...

Young Women as the Perpetrators of Crime

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

Surveys as a Means of Assessing the Impact of Crime

Crime is a very real problem in our country. One way of assessing how crime is affecting our lives is through surveys. Surveys a...

Profit Motive and the Destruction of Health in "Food, Inc."

determined to adopt sustainable practice, more attention than ever is being leveled at what we eat. Some experts believe that ther...

Crime in the Newspapers: An Anomie-Oriented View

the crime being committed. First of all, the report indicates that the suspect was in his late 20s, had a beard, and wore a sloppi...

Case Information About Specific Crimes

can detain and frisk suspects if they have a reasonable suspicion that criminal behaviors have or will occur. The case found that...

Crime and Punishment of the Mentally Ill

While the insanity defense gets a considerable amount of public attention whenever it is used, fewer than 1 percent of all cases s...

Crime and Social Inequality

crime Poverty = material wants Unfulfilled material wants = incentive to commit crime Having established that poverty is related ...

Handling Evidence in a Crime Scene Investigation

Slide Four: During the search for evidence, overzealous behavior can actually hinder the process by destroying evidence. Avoid the...