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The "Craigslist Killer," Philip Markoff

This research paper pertains to the case of the "Craigslist Killer," Philip Markoff. The writer describes his early life, the case...

Decreased Crime and Abortion

This essay, first of all, describes the proposal made by Donohue and Levitt, which connects decreased crime in the 1990s with incr...

Urban Renewal Project

This research paper pertains to recommendations for a redevelopment project for a run-down neighborhood with a high crime rate. Th...

Curfews for Young People

This 5 page paper gives an overview of curfew laws in the United States. This paper includes the lack of evidence that curfews pre...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

Overcrowding in US Jails, Prisons

This essay offers an argument that it is a moral and ethical outrage that overcrowding in the nation's jails and prisons has been ...

UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE CONNECTION TO CRIME RATES

gas station, supermarket and bank robberies; shoplifting; residential burglaries and theft of motor vehicle parts). For each targe...

Innovative Approaches to Victim Assistance

Criminal justice is comprised of a variety of approaches to solving and preventing crime. Another...

Delinquency Topics

to the ways in which individuals rationalize their behavior when their personal choices go against societal norms. Matza and his a...

Cross Boarder Crime and Terrorism Following the Cold War

include criminal activity. Clutterbuck (1990) argues that the legitimate trading patterns resulting from increased liberalizatio...

Incorporating New Approaches in Policing

The question of how to address crime has plagued civilization throughout history. The old approach to crime was to make the...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

Review of 2 Lectures

of factors, including socio-economic status and ethnic background; for example, 40% of African Americans have a fear of being murd...

Approaches in Policing Old Verses the New

The question of how to address crime has plagued civilization throughout history. The old approach to crime was to make the punis...

The New York Penal Code and Matters of Culpability

cannot claim total naivety, however, because many elements of the case suggest that she could have been clued in as to the reality...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic Serology

forensic serology and biological evidence are used in crime scene investigation. This paragraph helps the student give a brief ov...

The Transition of South Africa After Apartheid

program of peaceful coexistence, the Truth and Reconciliation commission has met with great success (Moller, 2007). Some inequiti...

Varying Factors Affecting Japanese and American Crime

The American correctional system is considered one of the most advanced in the world. That said, it...

Cyber-Crime Prevention: The Ethical Considerations

consumers or clients, or even contractually confidential information in some cases) is compromised, then it could mean the total d...

Criminal Justice and Empiricism

new ideas that argued humans were intellectual beings who could control things. Positivism, which is based on science and empirici...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

Cybercrime and Spam

vulnerable to other forms of attack. Spamming is associated with a number of key scams, including first and foremost "phishing" an...

Thought Process of Criminals

indolence which refers to a desire to take the easiest path; cutoff of the ability to eliminate feelings of fear; power orientatio...

Transnational Crime

867 Organized crime presents many...

Victimization and Criminology

traits are genetically transmitted and psychologists know that being raised in certain environments makes a child more likely to p...

Hypersexuality in Sexual Offenders

In a four page paper, the author considers the issue of hypersexuality in sexual offenders. Many sexual predators have been the v...

Theories in the Field of Criminology

between Alien Conspiracy Theory and ethnic succession theories is that the former relies on physical and biological factors, where...

The Bernie Madoff Scandal

Bernie Madoff is in prison serving a sentence that will see him there for the rest of his natural life. His crimes are explored as...

A Sociological Topic: The Impacts of Deviance on Crime

lower socioeconomic conditions often do not have the opportunities or the resources to move out of that social stratum. Parental ...