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The Origins of Criminal Behavior in Psychodynamic Theory

which posits that human behavior is the result of internal psychodynamic conflicts; conflicts in which different aspects of the mi...

Criminal Surveillance: Pros and Cons

casual downtown shopping trip; they feel this constitutes an invasion of their privacy. For instance, the House Majority Leader at...

Forensic Procedures: Criminal Profiling

profiling methods is the ample numbers in which they exist, making identification a much more accessible venture. Because of the ...

Responsibility Aspects

In five pages a student supplied fictitious case is used to argue if a passive action can be regarded as leading to criminal respo...

Sixteenth Century Torture as Criminal Punishment

The book had been in continuous circulation for a period of over a hundred years. This was more "than any other book of similar sc...

Henry Wirz, A Scapegoat for Crimes At Andersonville During the Civil War

crossfire fervor of post war vengeance. The tragedy at Andersonville was not of Wirz doing. He was in the wrong place, at the wron...

Alternatives and Assessment in a Judicial Review Case

and potential use of judicial review, and then at how it can be applied as well as the potential defences that may be cited by the...

A Case Study of Criminal Mapping

based on the evaluation of three elements: motivation, suitability of the target, and guardianship (Conklin, 2010). Essentially,...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

"Craziness and Criminal Responsibility" by Stephen Morse

This essay reviews and critiques "Craziness and Criminal Responsibility" by Stephen Morse, which pertains to the legal principle ...

Two Fraud Cases

Fraud continues to be rampant in the corporate world. Prudential Securities were charged with late trading. A manager for Johnson ...

Investigating Different Crimes

Over the last decade, there have been numerous high-profile, huge scams from organizations. These are called white-collar crimes a...

Impact on Those Who Play Computer Games

There has been a debate about the impact of action and violent video and computer games on those who play them. This especially pe...

Issues Related to Investigations

A case study of a woman cashing her deceased mother's checks is the final part of this essay. Topics discussed in essay include Mi...

Process of Aging and DNA

the cell divides the telomeres (outer sections of DNA) are cut off; in the young cell, these sections are superfluous and their lo...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Human O6-Alkylguanine-DNA Allkyltranferase and Zinc Occupancy's Effects

transition metals, including zinc, the researchers asserted that the zinc found in the comparative view of hAGT might in fact play...

An Analysis of an Article on Fingerprints by Gregg Easterbrook

testing since its available and relatively inexpensive-why would we not want to make sure that the people who are in prison actual...

Society and the Impact of Technoloyg

potential ramifications of cloning: "He believes that while it is impossible to accurately forecast what the psychological and soc...

Evidentiary Value and Protocol At a Crime Scene

scene log is started and this is used to record entry and exit from the site by all authorized personnel as well as to record othe...

Overview of Nucleic Acids, Structure, and Function

acid determines the information that is carried by the molecule. In other words, the nucleotide bases provide a "genetic alphabet"...

Case Analysis of The People of Colorado v. Michael Eugene Shrek

must be collected and processed in a carefully documented scientific manner. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a molecular c...

Analysis and Collection of Forensic Evidence

This paper addresses common questions in the field of forensic evidence. The author covers polygraphs, fingerprints, DNA typing, ...

Constitutional Rights, Early Arrest Phase, and Mandatory DNA Testing

To tackle the question of the rights or wrongs of DNA testing at the point of arrest, it must be acknowledged up front that DNA ev...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

DNA in Terms of Reliability and Accuracy

For instance, in RFLP analysis, probabilities range from "one in tens of thousands to one in hundreds of thousands, or even a mil...

Disability, Eugenics, and Repeating History

In eight pages the Human Genome Project is examined in terms of the genetic controversy and considers whether identification of di...

Identity Testing and DNA

known, and "probability of identity" applies only to the father. Genetic Profiles (1998), a laboratory specializing in DNA ...

Anastasia and the Anna Anderson Riddle

the Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, being invited to see the patient. The Grand Duchess pulled the bedsheet off the patient and said ...

Paternity Cases and DNA

Applying DNA fingerprinting to paternity lawsuits is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. Six sources are cited in t...