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Impact Of Crime On Society

hundred thirty-four people; pertinent to the gathered data are such aspects as rate of recurrence, attributes and outcome of crimi...

Report on Crime Rates in California and Pennsylvania

hundred thousand inhabitants. California reported 193 incidents per one hundred thousand inhabitants, reflecting a 2.2 drop in cri...

Recidivism and Sexual Offenders

was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...

Organized Crime and Social Institutions

lives. They provide a community with a common definition for concepts like obligation and function. This paper considers the conne...

19th Century Boston, Crime, and Punishment

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

Comparative Analysis of Organized Crime in Japan, China, Russia, and Mexico

the don (also known as Godfather) at the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. I...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

The Impact of Race and Gender on Adolescent Violence

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

The Worst White Collar Crime of All

collar crime that exist, it seems that environmental crime is the most dangerous. This is because tampering with environmental law...

Deviance and Crime

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

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...

Crimes and the Differences Between Them

In five pages this paper examines why white collar crimes are distinguished from other crime types and therefore treated different...

Theory and Social Control

Social institutions, such as organized religion, the family, educational institutions, and political groups were radically questio...

5 Types of 'Victimless Crimes'

This paper defined what is meant by victimless crimes in an identification of 5 such crimes with prostitution and drug issues amon...

Forensics and Computer Crime

In eight pages computer forensic specialists are considered in a discussion of computer crime investigation that includes crime ty...

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 ...

Does Racial Residential Segregation Increase Urban Crime?

This 8 page paper uses analysis to determine whether urban crime increases in racially segregated residential areas. The method is...

Human Beings and Destiny

In five pages actional and nonactional theories are applied to a consideration of destiny in order to determine whether or not hum...

Edwin Sutherland's Theory of Criminology

Edwin Sutherland in the 1930s broke from tradition when he posited that criminal behavior is not genetically controlled, but is a ...

An Overview of Apocalyptic Literature

it is not truly a detailed prediction of the future nor is it an invitation to withdraw from the concerns of this world (1997). In...

Quality of Life, Delinquency, and Crime

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

Crime and Parental Responsibility

According to the National Crime Prevention Council (1999) soaring prison costs are exceeding investments in higher education, and...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Non English Welfare System Applicants

In five pages this paper discusses the US welfare system problems particularly as they pertain to deaf or non English speaking app...

Crime Fear and Gender

In eleven pages this research paper assesses crime based upon gender and the phenomenon of crime fear. Six sources are cited in t...

Fear, Residence, Elderly Women, and Crime

In eight pages the relationship between the housing arrangements of elderly women, their fear regarding crime and why they might b...

Deterring Crime: The Effect of Truth in Sentencing

This 5 page paper examines those elements in current literature that suggest truth in sentencing may deter crime. The writer provi...

Preventing Crime and the Role of Law Enforcement

both in the business community as well as in the private sector. "Business Watch" of the Seattle Police Department is designed to...

Motivation of Raskolnikov's in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

In 5 pages this paper examines what motivated Raskolnikov's 'crime' in Crime and Punishment. There is 1 source cited in the bibli...

3 Criminology Questions

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