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Reasons for Predatory Crime and How to Prevent It

up indifferent and hostile as well (Anonymous, 1996). "Growing up in such families is like being raised by a pack of wolves," the ...

Sexually Abused Children and Art Therapy Assessments

when human subjects are utilized there is the need to apply an ethical standard to the research process. Inherent, then, in the d...

Social Construct and Crime

social construct (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). In looking at the role of the law in relationship to detaining what is an...

Racketeering and Organized Crime Families

as white collar career criminals - front the operation from their offices, while the organized criminal enterprises supply the pat...

Investigation of Identity Theft

arrested"). Not only did this individual commit a crime that is attached to finances, but the activity could affect his driver lic...

Procedure and Criminal Law II

The definition of felony murder is that it is a killing that is unintentional, occurring "during the commission or attempted commi...

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...

Predatory Crimes and How to Prevent Them

myriad of ways. For example, someone might become "street wise" and make sure their pocketbook is held tightly. They can continual...

Article Review on Racketeering and Organized Crime

States and is found in ten states (Gately, 2005). For each member caught, the maximum penalty is a life sentence (Gately, 2005). C...

Criminologists and Practitioners of Criminal Justice

Based upon the information found in this crime data report that illustrates a significant discrepancy between blacks and Hispanics...

Uncertainty and Culture Change

parents for the safety of their children, wanting to know where they are and who they are with. There is an increased feeling of t...

Evidence Admissibility

continue working on it "as long as there is workable information," but there is no way to predict how long the investigation will ...

A Health Care Fraud Opinion

not just the physician but also the office assistant. The lesson that this case provides is that agreements regarding fraudulent ...

Social Reality Construct and Crime

The theory states that there is something missing in the criminal, one of the links that controls then actions and links the...

Need for Community Prevention and Correction Programs

officers and to a much lesser extent fund prevention programs ( Petersilia, 1995). In the next year, 1995, the bill was revised a...

University and College Crime Reduction

heavily related to the discovery of the crimes. Campuses are somewhat their own entity in society and crime often goes unreported....

Social Engineering and the Law

logical of those options revolve around positive and negative reinforcement. Skinner contended that an organisms behavior was the...

Argentina and Security Systems Market Entry

the market (BuyUSA.Gov, 2005). And, that industry is still in its infancy, in fact, 45 percent of the security companies in the co...

Crime and the Difficulties in Determining Its Causes

on the other hand talks about poverty and claims that while it is true that poverty may enter the picture at times, it is not enou...

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...

Monster Film and Crime

are completely realistic and very believable. They are individuals who have no real direction in their lives. They are lonely, and...

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...

Opposing Capital Punishment

In six pages this report presents a moral argument in opposition of the death penalty and also considers how a greater crime deter...

Rick Porrello's The History of the Cleveland Mafia

In 10 pages this memoir considers the author's family's organized crime activities during the Prohibition era. One source is cite...

Criminal Justice Theories of Cesare Beccaria

In nine pages the utility theory of Cesare Beccaria is considered as it applies to criminal justice and crime and its influence up...

Childhood of Serial Murderers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer

In six pages this paper searches for clues in the childhoods of these serial killers in order to determine whether or not anything...

Two Crime Theories

In eight pages the 1910 Strain Theory and 1939 Differential Association Theory are examined regarding theoretical answers to quest...

Crime of Computer 'Hacking'

The topic of this argumentative essay consisting of seven pages is computer hacking, which is presented as a serious crime that re...

Films and Organized Crime Depiction

through but they were no mobsters. And they used broken English as well. To be fair, the genre most specifically related to organi...