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American Youth as Crime Victims

for a few days. They engage in many risky behaviors. Further, juveniles are not rational actors who look at the potential results ...

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...

Crime Deterrent of Shari'a Law

Souryal compares various studies which seemed to support the claim of Saudi superiority in low crime rates, and came to the conclu...

Information Technology and Current Issues

meaning is larger than this Henderson (2002), describes this as the difference between the information literate and the informatio...

Good Detective Fiction and a Consideration of The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

Predatory Criminal Behavior and How It Can Be Dissuaded

2003, 124)" Despite our tendencies to ask such questions, however, we must somehow overcome the...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

The Lack of Relevant Variables Represented by Previous Criminal Records and Seriousness of Crime

not as readily realized is that black Americans also represent the highest number of homicide victims between the two races. In t...

Crime, Gangs, and Law Enforcement Strategies That are Ethnic and Race Specific

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

Women Victims of Violence in America

because of domestic violence. According to the FBI, thats about 1,400 a year - with most of those killings occurring by what NOW d...

Criminal Investigator Characteristics

skills and abilities for three different types of crimes that a criminal investigator would need to consider. General Characterist...

3 Questions Regarding Economic Issues and Problems

convenience" (Thomas PG). For example, there is no question how the concept of Electronic Funds Transfer, which has been in...

Australia's 1914 Crime Acts

In four pages this paper considers Australia's 1914 Crime Acts in a discussion of how law evolved and changed. Four sources are c...

English Social Critique Utopia by Thomas More

"For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to refrain men from theft," because there is no pu...

The Work of a Crime Scene Investigator

One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigation, the "study of fire-...

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...

CRIME AND SPORTS - THE CAUSES

to pass better. The fact that Sprewells "punishment" consisted of a 68-game suspension (rather than an outright lifetime ban from ...

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

Criminal Justice Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

IS THAT WE ARE NOT INHERENTLY MORAL AND WE HAVE TO WORK TO ACHIEVE OUR MORALITY. PART OF THAT WORK HAS BEEN THE DEFINITION OF VAR...

The Many Applications of Genetic Engineering

can be amplified. Copies can be made off of the original template to use in biological and medical research and other application...

CRIMINOLOGY THEORY AND SOCIAL POLICY

"branches," these include the social learning theory, social control theory and social reaction theory. Accordihng to Siegel, the ...

Australia and Crime Prevention

in use that may be encountered with the product or service" (p. 24). This applies to every effective business organization in ope...

Adolescents and Crime

possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

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...

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 ...