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Criminal Policies

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

Ann Jones/ "Women Who Kill"

be viewed within its historical context in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials a...

Forced Drug Testing

"those who were tested for heroin use and placed in drug treatment in addition to other supervision services, and those who were s...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

Argument: Carrying Concealed Firearms Helps Society

violent crime. They also state plainly that carrying concealed handguns has its "greatest deterrent effect in the highest crime co...

In Support of the Death Penalty

that contend that it is a gruesome and uncivilized option for our society, those that contend that we have advanced to the point t...

Imposing Sentence in an Identity Theft Crime for Monetary Gain Case

states laws regarding identity theft can be quite different with penalties varying significantly (Perl, 2003). Whether or not the...

Terrorism: Prosecuting Terrorists Under International Law

affairs; if and when this body of rules is either ignored or blatantly disregarded, such disrespect for all other countries involv...

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...

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...

Two Major Social Problems

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

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...

Italian and Russian Organized Crime

In relationship to Italian organized crime the story is quite different for it is essentially based in a very rich and long...

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...

Crime Trends in Georgia

efforts on the part of city planners to attract both people and employment opportunities to the central city with improved MARTA a...

Criminal Behavior: John Wilkes Booth

and Bernstein, 2007, p. 78). While Eysenck apparently did not develop his theory of behavior specifically with regard to crime, la...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Crime and Race Correlation and Conflict Theory

exist, most often between the races. His claim asserts that certain populations (privileged race) have historically been in contr...

Crime Scene of a Homicide Imagined

the victims bedroom was askew, as though it had recently been pulled away from the wall. The victim was up against the closet doo...

U.S. and the Effects of Identity Theft

first arrests of its kind when the FBI successfully captured a large group of Milwaukee hackers known as 414s, whose infiltration ...

Sociology - Two Essays

to the fact that people learn behavior due to interactions with others (Andersen & Taylor, 2005). Conflict theory, on the other ha...

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 Effects of Truancy on Society

gang activity. It is also noted that in particular graffiti and burglaries may subside as a result of targeting truancy. One may t...

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...

Jimmy Hoffa and Robert F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy. The Kennedys too, however, had connections it seems on both sides of the fence. Just as Hoffa has some...

The Knapp Commission: Organized Crime and Police Corruption

lure police officers into its grip is disturbing to say the least. Police officers are in constant public contact and have ample ...

The Impact of Fraud on Business

who became aware that someone else has been defrauded often label them as "gullible," "stupid" or "greedy," and that they got what...

Russian Organized Crime

to the Russian Mafia are members of an organization that has "hundreds of gangs" and its membership numbers in the thousands (Meye...

Italian and Irish Criminal Groups

may be witnesses who refuse to talk. In fact, because most witnesses realize that their lives could be threatened, a witness prote...