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Neonaticide

The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...

Investigating Different Crimes

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

Natural and Legal Crime

that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

“Natural Crimes” and “Legal Crimes”

be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...

Juvenile Justice, Due Process, and Social Control

Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Key Points

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

Juvenile Delinquents and Mental Retardation

In five pages this paper examines mentally retarded adolescence and the increases in juvenile crime which result. There is the in...

Crime Prevention Through Education

This paper addresses the idea of using education as a preventative measure for fighting crime. The author focuses on juvenile del...

Youth and the Societal Roles of Juvenile Halls and Prisons

This paper consists of four pages and considers the societal roles juvenile halls and prisons play regarding youth crime. Three s...

Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Programs

to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

Criminal Law and Current Trends

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

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...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

Culture of Turkey

In 8 pages this paper on the culture of Turkey includes a discussion of popular music, juvenile crime, and prisons. There are 5 ...

Juvenile Arrests 2001

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

Juvenile Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Aspects of Crime

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

Delinquency and Crime Correlation

of aggravated assault yet lacks the capacity to ascertain that he actually committed a crime, then it would seem prudent that he b...

Overview of Hate Crimes II

This paper consists of seventeen pages and presents an exhaustive hate crimes' overview that examines the prejudice that motivates...

Sex Trafficking, An Overview

This research paper pertains to sex trafficking. This overview defines the issue, describes trafficker tactics, and describes the ...

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Organized Crime

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

Organized Crime in America

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...