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Safety in Schools

remains a mystery. Professor Ewing has studied juvenile murders for years and has written several books about this topic (Perrita...

Punishment and Poetry

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

Arguing for Quick Executions of Convicted Death Penalty Inmates

as their cases are rehashed over and over again is not only expensive but allows these criminals a chance to profit from their cri...

Max Weber, Conflict Theory, and Crime

labeled criminal because the bourgeoisies control of the state protects them from such stigmatization. * As capitalist societies ...

Policy and Issues Involving Gun Control

these two conditions; namely, common sense, in which guns should be kept away from untrustworthy people and, political philosophy ...

Crime and Social Policy's Impact

helm of this controversial topic is the mandate of minimum drug sentencing for what some consider to be insignificant usage. As s...

Programs and Juvenile Crime

a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...

Jasper, Texas' James Byrd Jr. Murder Case Investigation

(Bill) King, a building erector who had spent some time in prison for burglary, Lawrence Brewer, who had served seven years for a ...

The Beggar's Opera and the Criminal World of Moll Flanders Compared

them. There was no such thing as government agencies in those days that would provide help for these children. In this novel, Mo...

Africa, AIDS, and Women

diagnosed with what many assume was AIDS, though this was never confirmed. Faced with the certainty that Caroline would never see ...

History of War Crimes Committed by Soldiers

Nazi assassins were brought to justice at the Nuremberg Trial and were themselves sentenced to die (Special Report: Yugoslavia War...

Crime and Charles Murray's 'Underclass' Theory

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

Juvenile Crime Approaches and Restorative Judgment Value

groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....

Insurance Fraud and Organized Crime

tissue injuries and psychological stress are not easy to disprove. Dirty professionals make the job tougher" (Schlossberg, 1992, ...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

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

Serial Killers and Hate Crimes

anything other than oppression and autocracy. Freedom represents many things, not the least of which is the envy and hatred...

Sociology and Theory

and only five rapes. There is an absence of true fear and so the petty crimes, the drug offenses and so forth serve a function in ...

Analyzing the Case of Marcus Dixon

does not have a good track record in terms of sexual encounters. In defense of the verdict, Rainey (2004) notes that those who op...

Overview of Mobster Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano

1945 and was one of five children (Amoruso, 2002). His parents were not a part of organized crime; rather, they were hard working ...

Crime Scene Investigation Example

gloves were donned. The narrative description would be done next, including the fact that the womans partially nude body had been...

Crimes on the Internet

Finally, another Internet crimes (which is similar to hacking) is to release a virus on the Internet. Again, viruses can disrupt t...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

Crime Perspectives and the Influence of Public Images

argument and the response by Janet Chan. First, a number of different social theories have been applied to an understand of crime...

Forensics and 'Cyber' Crime

computer system with the intent to destroy or manipulate data is more than enough reason to augment security measures. According ...

A Case Study of the Application of California Penal Code

placed wooden horses and other toys around the still to disguise it. These elements contributed to the criminal act, but they als...

Are There Similarities in Patterns of Crime Between First and Third World Countries?

and also poverty. This is ongoing, one example may be the country of South Africa, where in the 1980s there were increases in stre...

Stuart Woods' Capital Crimes

conservative who is on a regular CNN television show debating issues with liberal commentator Evan Turner. As Ted is on the escala...

Novels Featuring Russian Society and Culture

story we have "Yevgeny Vassilyitch Bazarov, a nihilistic young medical school graduate and Arkadys closest friend. Arrogant and ru...

Crime and Punishment and Philosophy

was important to history, especially at a time when the slave trade was prominent in the New World. [2] Think about Martin Luther...

Credit Card Fraud

nearly $70,000 using stolen credit card information (Brunker, 2004). Clearly, this is not a small-stakes game, but a potentially ...