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UK Youth Crime Representations and Public Perceptions

see a violent scene on televisions or a film does not shock us or surprise us, we see it as normal, and for many, especially where...

Are There Similarities in Patterns of Crime Between First and Third World Countries?

and also poverty. This is ongoing, one example may be the country of South Africa, where in the 1980s there were increases in stre...

Situational Prevention and Social Prevention

A four-year programme from 1989 to 1993 in five American cities -the Quantum Opportunities Programme- paid disadvantaged youths fo...

Australia's Approach to Crime Prevention

NCPPs objectives are to identify and promote innovative ways of reducing and preventing crime and the fear of crime. The program i...

Problems and Solutions of Serial Murder

them by type ("Serial killer," 2005). Motive types of serial killing include the visionary, one that is mission oriented, the hedo...

Ages, Race, Capitalism, and Criminal Theories

manner by which ethnic populations are perceived as being subordinate to their white counterparts, thereby committing a crime mere...

Police Officer's Societal Role

sometimes through undercover work. An officer may pose as an ordinary citizen or mark, or he may pose as a drug dealer or drug use...

Social Organization and the Self Control Criminology Theory of Michael Gottredson and Travis Hirschi

interest of society as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child...

Victimization Recovery and the Effects of Social Support

impacts of criminal victimization, including interpersonal violence, sexual abuse and domestic violence, all of which comprise a s...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

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...

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 ...

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...

Two Major Social Problems

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

Overview of Serial Killers

is irrefutable. Senator Ed Perlmutter, who sponsored a bill to stiffen the punishment of animal cruelty charges, has no doubt th...

Deviance Social Theories

In six pages a 1998 article that examines theories of social strain and anomie as each relates to crime is analyzed with suggest...

A Social Crime Analysis of Carlito's Way

This five page essay examines the film by Brian DePalma in reference to the social crime theories of Walter B. Miller. This film ...

Crime and Sociological Theories

In four pages this paper examines 5 sociological cures for the crime that plagues society and includes social bonding and differ...

Local Police and Citizen Dissatisfaction

In nine pages this research paper examines how people perceive local law enforcement with such determining factors as economics an...

Security Management and Social Theory

has decreased 50 percent overall. The psychology has changed and it is working. Enforcement forces in those cities are no longer t...

Social Problems and Substance Abuse

In twenty pages this paper discusses growing welfare costs, crime, and teenage pregnancy in this consideration of the social probl...

Crime in Great Britain During the Victorian Age

This paper consists of six pages and discusses crime and other social issues that occurred during the Victorian Age. Six sources ...

Social Welfare Program Process

problems come in bunches and are inextricably linked. Not only do they affect the poorer communities, but there is a spill over ef...

Feminism, Science, and Philosophy

In nine pages this research paper examines the ongoing debate regarding feminist philosophy and feminist science, addressing such ...

Literature Review on the Topic of Latchkey Kids

In ten pages this paper presents a literature review considering the social issue of latchkey children with crime statistics and s...

Female Gangs; Social and Historical CausesGirl Gangs, Historical and Social Causes

This paper examines the reality of female gangs. The author addresses social and historical reasons for their inception, as well ...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

Effectiveness of Law Enforcement

is occasionally not as effective in fulfilling its role to society and its citizens as it should be. There can be little doubt t...

Conflict v. Functionalist Theories on Poverty and Crime

also state that group sports teaches hard work and patience, working toward a common goal and submission to authority, which are a...