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Liability in Criminal Cases

case that the person above has caused the death, but the degree of liability would depend, amongst other issues, on how likely the...

Racism and On Being White, Female and Living in Bensonhurst by Marianna Torgovnick

- almost justifying it, to an extent (Mancuso, 2002). She attempts to explain the racism as going back to the machismo of Italian-...

1991's Crown Heights Riots in Brooklyn, NY

Not only was Cato killed, but the accident also hurt and actually critically injured his seven year old cousin Angela (1991). It...

Culpability and Motive in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...

Interrogations and Law Enforcement

long investigation by the Washington Post into allegations that homicide detectives engaged in activities that in fact coerced mur...

Adult Punishment for Murderous Teens

"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...

Critiques of 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson Examined

that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...

Murder or Accident?

The First Amendment specifies that Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free...

Marquez' Chronicle of a Death Foretold

the community live, Angelas twin brothers, Pedro and Pablo, feel compelled to enact revenge on Santiago in order to redeem the fam...

Investigation of the Green River Serial Killer Gary Ridgway

decomposed and hard to identify. Although Ridgway had always been considered one of the top five suspects in the case, County sher...

Jasper, Texas' James Byrd Jr. Murder Case Investigation

(Bill) King, a building erector who had spent some time in prison for burglary, Lawrence Brewer, who had served seven years for a ...

Jealousy and Love in William Shakespeare's Othello

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

East and West Coast Rap Wars and the Deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

for example (Kinnon, 1997). However, the genre changed around 1988 with the emergence of a sub-genre termed gangsta rap (1997). A ...

Outline of a Play on Actor Robert Blake's Murder Case

to appear aloof, although his concerted effort belies the attempt. This sudden spot in the limelight has enhanced his lagging ego...

Affirmative Action, Martin Luther King Jr., and Electoral College

institutions were not capable of doing the same thing at home or to say each of these deaths (King and the two Kennedys) was an is...

Emily Mann's The Execution of Justice and Social Injustice

an interesting portrayal of the injustices which exist in American culture and, in particular, our justice system. The play is cl...

Scholarly Criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...

Comparative Analysis of Tabloid and Broadsheet Reporting

In five pages this paper discusses how murder cases are covered in terms of style and perspective by The Sun tabloid and quality p...

Story of the Boston Strangler

In twelve pages this paper examines the alleged Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo's tale that includes his victims, confession, his ...

Theodore Roosevelt's 'New Nationalism' and Woodrow Wilson's 'New Freedom'

In three pages this research paper compares these two presidential agendas in terms of how each would satisfy Progressive objectiv...

Martin Friedland's 'The Death of Old Man Rice'

This 4 pages essay discusses issues including the role of the press and how they play an important role in Rice's murder as well a...

Riggs v. Palmer Court Case

and was termed, the forfeiture rule. The forfeiture rule in the context of succession law is a rule of public policy under which t...

Social Work and the Impact of School Violence

practices that have developed within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent par...

Rape in the United States Explained

is that a rapist by description is often a sex-starved, crazy or drunken, disgusting man who surprises women in the night (1997). ...

Emperor Julius Caesar's Life and Times

a family name, became an important title (PG). Who was this Caesar everyone is enamored with? II. The Life and Times of Julius C...

Folk Ballads and the Theme of Murder

and evolving over time, this form of "news" tended to keep the sensational details, but in most cases, retained very little refere...

Journey into Darkness by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

In six pages this paper examines psychological criminal profiling of serial killers and how it can also be applied to someone who ...

Legal Principles of Res Judicata and Double Jeopardy

that protects citizens as described above are called double jeopardy and res judicata. They are similar in nature but have distinc...

Nineteenth Century Anti Semitism

Jews were not the only ones affected by anti Semitism. In the nineteenth century not only they but Cristians, Catholics in partic...

Crime and U.S. Soldiers in Korea

In five pages this paper discusses the crimes that U.S. soldiers committed while stationed in Korea from the 1950s' war crimes to ...