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Overview of Juvenile Crime

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

Courts and Ethics

technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...

Conflict v. Functionalist Theories on Poverty and Crime

also state that group sports teaches hard work and patience, working toward a common goal and submission to authority, which are a...

Can Computer Crime Be Effectively Fought?

attracting the novice-to-intermediate computer user; however, the growth rate for the Internet was no less than fifteen percent ba...

Stereotypes Involving Organized Crime and Italian Americans

crime as a malignant tumor on the face of society. After assessing the facts against what popular culture has had to say about th...

Effectiveness of Law Enforcement

is occasionally not as effective in fulfilling its role to society and its citizens as it should be. There can be little doubt t...

Sweetwater Florida Development Plan

(2002, p.PG), which is quite low, particularly in the current real estate market. Thus, one can surmise that it is not a desirable...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Global Violent Crime in the 21st Century

of the marriage, it is not uncommon to find a significant percentage of the married female population enduring regular and constan...

Meaning of Hate Crimes

are placid and do nothing, allowing these they of crime to continue. If we consider the way that those in society are...

Minorities and the US Justice System

average offender what a thinking, compassionate, middle-class parent or brother or son would do for someone in their family, were ...

Africa, AIDS, and Women

diagnosed with what many assume was AIDS, though this was never confirmed. Faced with the certainty that Caroline would never see ...

History of War Crimes Committed by Soldiers

Nazi assassins were brought to justice at the Nuremberg Trial and were themselves sentenced to die (Special Report: Yugoslavia War...

Crime and Charles Murray's 'Underclass' Theory

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

Programs and Juvenile Crime

a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...

Crime and Social Policy's Impact

helm of this controversial topic is the mandate of minimum drug sentencing for what some consider to be insignificant usage. As s...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

Punishment and Poetry

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

Arguing for Quick Executions of Convicted Death Penalty Inmates

as their cases are rehashed over and over again is not only expensive but allows these criminals a chance to profit from their cri...

Max Weber, Conflict Theory, and Crime

labeled criminal because the bourgeoisies control of the state protects them from such stigmatization. * As capitalist societies ...

Policy and Issues Involving Gun Control

these two conditions; namely, common sense, in which guns should be kept away from untrustworthy people and, political philosophy ...

Japan and Crime

the number of misbehaving children and incidents of juvenile delinquency" (Ministry of Education, 2001). The objectives of the r...

New York Mob Territory Setting for Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

Situational Prevention and Social Prevention

A four-year programme from 1989 to 1993 in five American cities -the Quantum Opportunities Programme- paid disadvantaged youths fo...

Sonia in Crime and Punishment

has crafted a brilliant character, encompassing both good and evil, right and wrong, perfection and sinfulness. Because of these ...

Dreams and Their Function in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

such as George Eliot and Fyodor Dostoevsky constantly show the "complexity of the individual consciousness" and reduce it often to...

Evidence Found in the 1996 Case of Jon Benet Ramsey

be suspects after many years of lingering doubt. Still, the timing is curious as Christmas Eve is a time that is usually associate...

Research Proposal on the Connection Between Reducing Crime and Private Security

in order to reach a conclusion. 2. Theoretical Background To develop research that looks at if what and how private security ma...

Crime and its Causes

racial identities, cultural perceptions, religious ideals, moral codes, and more. Clearly then such diversity necessitates a dive...

Rape Victims Issues

whether or not a woman has actually been the victim of a "real" rape. What the student working on this project will want to consi...