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The Films Taxi Driver and Angels with Dirty Faces and the Portrayals of Antiheros

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Media Violence

In five pages this paper discusses how values and America's youth are affected by media violence and criminal acts. Eight sources...

Texas and Criminal Punishment

This paper considers the criminal punishment issue as it relates to Texas in five pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Are Incarceration Alternatives Economically Feasible?

In a paper consisting of five pages the different types of incarceration of nonviolent criminals are discussed from a cost perspec...

Method of Criminal Containment

The writer compares and contrasts the benefits and drawbacks of boot camps and electronic monitoring as method of containing crimi...

Criminal Recidivism

the adults in his life frequently quarrel and vent their frustrations physically; he, or a member of his family, may suffer one or...

The Importance of Forensic Accounting

This paper addresses the vital occupation of forensic accounting. The author describes duties, responsibilities, and why forensic...

Capital Punishment Does Not Effectively Deter Crime

This paper consists of five pages and argues that the death penalty does not effectively deter criminal acts. Eight sources are c...

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...

The Activities and Crimes of Adolf Karl Eichmann

In five pages Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, his activities during the Second World War, escape, capture and subsequent trial a...

A Day in a Central New Jersey Court

years and several months. Civil Case: Resident Vs. Local Business In a civil case at Mercer County Small Claims court, sub...

Crime and the Mens Rea Concept

Criminal liability is relieved in the case of insanity. Legal minors are also relieved of criminal liability, as are persons subje...

U.S. Criminal Law and the Massachusetts 'Au Pair' Trial

In twelve pages this research paper examines what can be learned by American criminal law by studying the case of the Commonwealth...

Essays on Corrections

crimes. But what it does suggest is that under such conditions, the likelihood is greater that criminal behavior will be instigat...

Law Enforcement and Photography

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of photography in law enforcement in an examination of criminal evidence gatheri...

Law Enforcement Officials and the Problem of Biker Gangs

In twenty two pages this research paper analyzes the criminal behavior of so called 'biker gangs' in terms of history and certain ...

Criminology Theories

In five pages social learning and labeling theories are applied to a consideration of criminal behavior. Ten sources are cited in...

Criminal Participation and Economic Approaches

In six pages this paper considers criminal participation and examines the weaknesses and strengths connected with an economic appr...

Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard

In five pages Leonard's examination of the criminal mind is considered within the context of the social commentary it reflects. T...

Issues of Field Collection in Criminal Forensics

evidence such as the possession of property which can be connected to a crime, to the possession of a gun which can be demonstrate...

Classical Theory and the Demonic Perspective

In five pages this paper takes a theoretical examination of criminal deviance. Three sources are listed in the bibliography....

Feminist Criminal Theory

This paper addresses how criminologists developed a theory of feminist criminal behaviors. This ten page paper has seven sources ...

Biography of Charles Colson

In five pages the transformation from Watergate criminal to Christ convert is examined in this biography of Charles Colson, with t...

Criminal Profitability at the Victim's Expense

In eight pages victims rights and restricting a criminal from profiting off of crime and victimization is discussed in a considera...

History of Vocational Youth Organizations

In nine pages this paper examines vocational youth organizations from an historical perspective with criminal offender retraining ...

Crime and Women from a Feminist Perspective

This paper takes a feminist approach to female criminal behavior in five pages. Three sources are cited in the bibilography....

Journey into Darkness by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

In six pages this paper examines psychological criminal profiling of serial killers and how it can also be applied to someone who ...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Edwin Sutherland's Theory of Criminology

Edwin Sutherland in the 1930s broke from tradition when he posited that criminal behavior is not genetically controlled, but is a ...

Theories Regarding Teen Misbehavior Regarding Sex and Substance Abuse

In twelve pages this paper examines teenage deviant behavior in a consideration of various social factors and how they can escalat...