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Crime and Punishment and Philosophy

was important to history, especially at a time when the slave trade was prominent in the New World. [2] Think about Martin Luther...

3 Criminology Questions

system. Treating individuals differently because of what they are accused of constitutes assuming the individual to be guilty unt...

The Anomie Theory of Criminology

misguided ideas about what the discipline is all about. Many consider the science of criminology to be an outdated pseudo-science,...

An Overview of Sociobiological Criminology

tension between the need to maintain social order and the actions of some individuals which threaten that social order. This tensi...

Delinquency Topics

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

Research in Criminal Justice

internal and external stressors. b. Repeat offenders repeat their crimes because there are no other options. B. Incapacitation 1....

Problems Associated with Gaining Reliability in Criminology Qualitative Research

The writer considers the argument that the weaknesses associated with quantitative research has the potential to undermine the pr...

Qualitative Criminology Research and the Importance of Sampling

comparing levels of antisocial feeling among different inmates would be more qualitative. It is notable, however, that there is s...

Conflict and Social Control Theories of Criminology

as criminality is at its root a subset of the totality of human behavior, and even after hundreds of years of dedicated research, ...

Contrasting 2 Criminology Models

competing models: the "Crime Control and Due Process models" (Klein, 2006, p. 2023). The following discussion contrasts and compa...

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...

Deviance and Crime

problems-for instance, many states have ridiculous laws on the books (often dealing with things like proper handling of horses and...

Dahmer, the Mind of a Serial Killer

marriage broke-up and their was an acrimonious divorce (Jeffrey Dahmer, 2009). Dahmer developed alcoholism in high school. After g...

Why Study Criminology

she will not accept mental illness or any other cause except personal choice as the impetus for crime. Likewise, judgment must be ...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Three Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control

its broadest definition is the study of demons from a Christian perspective (What is Christian demonology?, 2007). In this traditi...

Theories in Criminology

the author notes that labelists do not generally support such simplistic notions (Goode, 1994). In other words, one label does not...

Choice Theory from a Marxist Perspective

really not obvious in violent scenarios as it appears that everyone involved loses. The more obvious reasons that crime is committ...

Rational Choice Theory

to look at the thinking process in the planning stages as well as during a later involvement in an offence ("Rational Choice Theor...

Carl B. Klockars’ Approach to Research in The Professional Fence

understand the workings of the organized crime figures mind and how he can justify his illegal activities. Klockars research is e...

Case Study Analyses in Criminal Justice

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

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 ...

Neighborhood Watch Research Study

of ideas in regards to the motivations of criminals. Some of these principles are that human beings are rational; the human will c...

Labeling Theory and Columbine

noted that they had previously made a video, for their class, wherein they killed "a jock on school grounds" (Bramwell, 2004). Thi...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

Reparations for Slavery

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

Survival Through Social Action in Brazilian Rubber Tappers' Movement of Chico Mendes, Penan Movement of Malaysia, and Chipco Movement of India

Mendez soon found that his survival and the survival of his family and fellow villagers required that he change his role in life. ...

Criminology Case Study Analysis

she became a prostitute and fulfilled her role as a drug addict who would do anything to get a fix. Of course, labeling theory has...

Comparing and Applying Theories of Criminology

the heart of the notion that constructivism is a more applicable approach to understanding the function of deviance and relating t...