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James Q. Wilson's "Just Take Away Their Guns" - Critical Analysis

not be the disarming of law-abiding citizens. It should be to reduce the number of people who carry guns unlawfully, especially i...

State Gun Laws and Gun Violence Levels

states scored more than 50 percent of the 100 available points ("Gun control," 2000). The study also illustrated the extreme varie...

Are Guns the Real Problem?

This paper explores the inverse relationship that exist between gun control and gun violence. Something is turning our children i...

Gun Control No, More Strict Gun Regulations Yes

used as power weapons in such crimes as drive-by shootings, minor altercations and myriad other random acts of violence. With the...

Position Paper on Opposing Gun Control

is so irresponsible as to use firearms in violent assaults, being that there is no such connection with the average Americans abil...

Faith

in this case the history of religions, any particular "religion" does not seem to mean a great deal. Faith is a very personal issu...

The Sociological Aspects of Weight Control

because he is becoming obese. His weight has led to a good many physical complications that he is attempting to deal with, but w...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

Unresolved Issue of Gun Control

In seven pages a historical perspective is taken regarding the unresolved gun control issue in an examination of governmental legi...

Gun Control: Does It Prevent Crime?

gun control activists maintain that these controls have not only affected crime rates in a positive manner but have also proven to...

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...

Crime, Criminology Theory, and Delinquency

of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...

Deviance and Crime from a Sociological Theoretical Perspective

media reports on these acts and at the accompanying punishment, at once educating the citizenry by restating the rules of that par...

School Deviancy and Crime

a perspective, and as such will act accordingly. As two authors note, "Until we make schools engaging learning communities whose m...

Current Arguments on Handgun Control and the National Rifle Association

In five pages this paper examines the NRA's website and assesses gun control's pros and cons. One source is cited in the bibliogr...

3 Web Sites and the 'Myths' About Gun Control Dispelled

number of guns used in crimes have been stolen from either registered owners or gun store robberies, which goes to show that if a ...

Pros and Cons of Gun Control

In nine pages gun control's pros and cons are evaluated based argument fallacies and strengths, opposition, and considers various ...

Arguments for and against gun control

This is based not only on sociocultural factors such as crime rates, but also on different perspectives on the 2nd Amendment. ...

Gun Control: Rights

citizen who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of society who will always have access to firearms...

Gun Control's Advantages and Disadvantages

school shootings that often seem to take place, even on just recently where a young child took a gun to an after school program an...

American and Japanese Street Crime

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares street crime in Japan and the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Ten sources ar...

Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

Gays and Hate Crimes from Sociological Perspectives

In six pages this research paper examines hate crimes against gays from differing interactionist and functionalist perspectives. ...

Gun Control and the Right to Own a Gun

maintaining the right own guns and it is also an amendment wherein many people claim modern times no longer dictate such a need. P...

Sworn Strength And Its Impact Upon Crime: Times Have Changed

- cowardly - that he is compelled to go along with the illegal activities of others of his group, is not qualified to wear a badge...

In Support of the Death Penalty

that contend that it is a gruesome and uncivilized option for our society, those that contend that we have advanced to the point t...

Curing Crime Through Sociology II

In four pages 5 potential sociological 'cures' for crime are examined and include the crime causation theory of Southerland. Two ...

Capital Punishment Argument

In five pages this paper defends the practice of capital punishment for certain instances and discusses it as a serious crime dete...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Deterrent of Capital Punishment in Texas

In six pages the use of capital punishment as a crime deterrent in Texas is discussed. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliogra...