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Essays on Corrections

crimes. But what it does suggest is that under such conditions, the likelihood is greater that criminal behavior will be instigat...

Sociological Overview of Juvenile Delinquency

for the next several years. The exceptions to this generalization are some older youths who get involved in car theft, robbery, bu...

Prostitution and Theories of Systematic Deviance

In four pages this paper examines prostitution through an application of systematic deviance sociological theories. Two sources a...

A Gang Subculture Sociological Analysis

In this paper consisting of nine pages the text Monster The Autobiography of An L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur is examined as ...

Social Theory Application in the Polly Klaas Murder Case

The sociological reasons for committing crimes are considered in this paper consisting seven pages with the emphasis on Polly Klaa...

Social Theory and Deviance

In six pages deviance is considered through various sociological theories from Sutherland until Becker along with Brown's conformi...

Sociological Theories and Serial Killers

In five pages this paper considers the anomie concept in this discussion of serial killings and how they may be explained through ...

Crime and Sociological Theories

In four pages this paper examines 5 sociological cures for the crime that plagues society and includes social bonding and differ...

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 ...

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Research on Gangs as it Relates to Critical Theory

religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...

Religious Colleges, Nondenominational Universities and Sociological Theory

the individual human action. To explain social institutions and social change is to show how they arise as the result of the acti...

Deviance and Sociological Theory

upon individuals within a group" (Wong, 2005). This theory lays the blame for delinquent behavior on the community, which was una...

Sociologist Nancy Kleniewski's City Definition

that examines urban life and helps one determine a precise definition of a city. The principle features of metropolitan life--the ...

Sociological Perspectives of Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

two kinds of privilege; the first is that exercised by an aristocratic class and a monarchy, the second is that exercised by those...

Labeling Theory from a Sociological Perspective

Examples the student may choose to use to illustrate the predominance of the labeling theory include two Los Angeles Times article...

Theories on Conflict

"broadened the Marxian interpretation of social stratification by introducing the concept of status groups parallel to but analyti...

Family and Sociological Theory

made even in consideration of the fact that alternative families differ in several respects from the traditional concept of a nucl...

Holland, England, and Homicide

In forty eight pages this paper compares the rates of homicide in Holland and England in a consideration of required comparative m...

Indian Politics and the Significance of Religion

With this, one may be critical of modern life (1008). Further, some thinkers look at Durkheims "social cement " and equate it wit...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

Symbolic Interactionism Article Evaluated

boy. That said, there is a lot one can glean from the essay from the fact that gender roles may indeed be socially constructed to ...

Marriage and Sociology

The primary reason for dating, though it is strictly on a subconscious and biological level, is to find and obtain a mate for the ...

Visionary Theorist W.E.B. Du Bois

works is quite appropriate. The Souls of Black Folk provides an overview of how the black man is seen in American culture. At lea...

Empowerment and Social Work

taken into account. This is itself mediates against the dogmatic and prescriptive approach to social work and towards a theoretica...

Crime Sociological Theory

objection to the idea. "...It is too risky to allow mentally ill adults in a residential neighborhood close to schools and senior...

Questions on Concepts in Sociology

way, anomie is experienced. To Merton, along with the precepts of his social strain theory, one can say that the way in which the ...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...

Sociological Views on the Divination Function in 1 Samuel 28

I bring up unto thee? And he said, bring me up Samuel" (1 Samuel 28:11). Samuel does appear, but warns Saul of his upcoming ruin d...