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Differential Association Theory of Sutherland and Rape

stigma attached to elements of their personal development may find that no matter how they work to dispel this stigma, some of the...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

Income and Race Impacts Upon Crime Rates

structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...

Crime Analysis and the Contributions of Edwin Sutherland

and individuals within the group. Sutherland chose to focus on the individual and what it was in the persons own psychological mak...

Crime Data Predictors and Their Usage

a crime has occurred. One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigati...

Crime - Two Viewpoints

theories: " ...such theorists viewed criminals not as evil persons who engaged in wrong acts but as individuals who had a criminal...

Social Organization Theory and Crime Causation

of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...

Marxist Viewpoint on Rational Choice

theories that serve to establish a basis upon which law enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for it...

Criminal Behavior and Influential Factors

resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...

Criminal Sentencing

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

Crime and Parental Responsibility

According to the National Crime Prevention Council (1999) soaring prison costs are exceeding investments in higher education, and...

Crime and U.S. Soldiers in Korea

In five pages this paper discusses the crimes that U.S. soldiers committed while stationed in Korea from the 1950s' war crimes to ...

Does Racial Residential Segregation Increase Urban Crime?

This 8 page paper uses analysis to determine whether urban crime increases in racially segregated residential areas. The method is...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

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...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Scandal

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

Report on Crime Rates in California and Pennsylvania

hundred thousand inhabitants. California reported 193 incidents per one hundred thousand inhabitants, reflecting a 2.2 drop in cri...

Recidivism and Sexual Offenders

was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...

Organized Crime and Its Control

one knows what to do about it or how to control it. This paper describes the structure and relationships of organized crime, criti...

Organized Crime and Social Institutions

lives. They provide a community with a common definition for concepts like obligation and function. This paper considers the conne...

The Impact of Race and Gender on Adolescent Violence

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

The Worst White Collar Crime of All

collar crime that exist, it seems that environmental crime is the most dangerous. This is because tampering with environmental law...

Impact Of Crime On Society

hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...

Why Study Criminology

she will not accept mental illness or any other cause except personal choice as the impetus for crime. Likewise, judgment must be ...

Understanding and Addressing Juvenile Crime

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

Deviance and Crime

problems-for instance, many states have ridiculous laws on the books (often dealing with things like proper handling of horses and...

Why Adolecents Commit Crimes

is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...

Theories of Crime

Thus, extraverts are not impacted by punishment as much as introverts are (Brennan & Raine, 1997). Eysenck also argued that extra...