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Essays 1921 - 1950

Strain Theories of Crime

response to social structure. Merton argues that some social structure "exert a definite pressure upon certain persons in the soc...

Crime Theory: Felson's Routine Activity Approach

is to remove the elements inherent to crime: a location with minimal security is more likely to be robbed than one that has invest...

Predicting Adolescent Crime

external controls are social and legal. Socialization is the reason for law-abiding citizens. Hirschi later offered a social bond...

Do Genes or Environment Determine Crime

Theories abound as to why people commit crime. One of these theories purports...

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Film Analysis

over the credits, signifying that Judah has recovered from his burden of guilt and is prepared to get on with and enjoy his life (...

Case Information About Specific Crimes

can detain and frisk suspects if they have a reasonable suspicion that criminal behaviors have or will occur. The case found that...

Handling Evidence in a Crime Scene Investigation

Slide Four: During the search for evidence, overzealous behavior can actually hinder the process by destroying evidence. Avoid the...

Crime and Social Inequality

crime Poverty = material wants Unfulfilled material wants = incentive to commit crime Having established that poverty is related ...

Crime in the Newspapers: An Anomie-Oriented View

the crime being committed. First of all, the report indicates that the suspect was in his late 20s, had a beard, and wore a sloppi...

Poverty and Crime Among Canada’s First Nations

Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...

Compensating the Victim in Crime and Tort Cases

Law provides both the rules by which we are expected to abide and legal remedies for situations in which one individual has wronge...

Surveys as a Means of Assessing the Impact of Crime

Crime is a very real problem in our country. One way of assessing how crime is affecting our lives is through surveys. Surveys a...

Young Women as the Perpetrators of Crime

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

Sports and the Connection to Crime

it either way; the most sensible conclusion has to be that since he was tried by a jury which acquitted him, and since they sat th...

Sports, Crime, Drugs And Gambling

has not been lost on organized crime, whose historic presence has been both looming and lucrative. Casino sports books is where a...

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...

Helping the Victims of Crime

victims of violent crime. Victim assistance is something that has been gaining more emphasisi in only the last few decades. The c...

Defining, Identifying, and Analyzing Personal Crimes

An example would be if during a bank robbery a teller would collapse and die from a stress-induced heart attack, the robber could ...

The Biological Theory of Crime: The Social Implications

to criminal behavior are not so far-fetched. This paragraph stresses the risks of being too aggressive in intervention of "crimi...

Is Rape a Crime of Shame or Power?

Rape is defined by McCabe and Wauchope (2005) as the "penetration of the anus or vagina by a penis, finger or object or the penetr...

Addressing A Recurring Crime: Teen Rebelliousness

first element of establishing a proactive approach to addressing the issues of gambling and juvenile drinking problem in the Westw...

Crime and Neighborhood Security

to vary from one respondent to the other. The best of both worlds in terms of survey design is a survey that combines...

Increase In Downtown Crime: Comprehensive Combat Strategy

Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...

Hate Crimes: Bush v Obama

When a hate crime is committed on federal property such as a national park, prosecution falls to the federal government....

Forensics And Cyber Crime

with computers and electronic data."2 However, the actual hands-on aspect of collecting evidence presents a far greater challenge...

Cyberspace Crimes and the Law

offences and the law has not been able to keep pace with new technology. With law enforcement lagging behind, cyber criminals some...

Digital And Psychological Profiling Of Cyber Crime

still in its infancy; only in the recent past have inroads been made in overcoming the boundaries inherent to such undesirable tec...

Youth Crime in Brisbane

he feels it has nothing to offer a "nonconformist" such as himself. In addition, since hes not at school very often he hasnt made ...

White Collar Crime: Ponzi and Pyramid Schemes

something that involves the promise of high returns when it comes to investments, and the money is changed to the older investors ...

Categorizing Crime

This paper distinguishes between criminologists and criminalists as well as other less than obvious points of distinction in the c...