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The Positive Aspects of the Chain Gang

not leniency, indeed it is stiffened penalties for criminal behavior. A very important component of those penalties is the use of...

Domestic Violence, Policing, and Feminist Response in the UK

define as well as measure. Violence and abuse is a wide ranging topic, physical violence may be seen as usually assumed to be in...

1980 Crimes

well-known and senseless killings of 1980 was the cold-blooded killing of famous Beatle John Lennon. As Lennon stepped from a lim...

Loni Athens' Brutalization Theories and Carignan, the 'Want Ad' Serial Killer

their own. The placing of the want-ad, however, seems to have been an isolated incident: he was more inclined to give his victims ...

Crime Sociology

in that bygone era common law (or natural law) had its basis in a system of moral and ethical principles that was innate to human ...

Connection Between Poverty and Juvenile Crime in Australia

In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...

Criminals and Psychological Cognition

AND CLASS Authors Messner and Rosenfeld strive to demonstrate the inherent relationship between crime and the manner in which soc...

Crime Deterrence Through Harsher Punishment

these facts: * Homicide rates increased sharply beginning about 1965 or 1966. The number of executions plummeted from 47 in 1962 t...

Analyzing Canto XIII of 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...

Nursing Intervention and Munchausen by Proxy

the condition. More frequently it is the healthcare system which is both exposed to the condition and thus responsible for detect...

Deviance and Crime from a Sociological Theoretical Perspective

media reports on these acts and at the accompanying punishment, at once educating the citizenry by restating the rules of that par...

Prison System of the State of Texas

prison although no threats have been made on her life. In other celebrity cases, Texas saw singer David Crosby of Crosby, Stills,...

Florida Casino Gambling Legalization

a number of arguments put forth by opponents of casino gambling, but the understood motivation underlying many of them is religiou...

A Criminology Overview

also known as drift theory ("Control," 2001). This theory, as the name suggests, speculates that delinquents drift in and out of c...

Issues on Feminism

causes of unemployment may be the advent of the minimum wage law, inasmuch as minimum wage increases have caused pay scales to cha...

Black in Blue by Nicholas Alex

of the people and in the political structure of the Criminal Justice system. Nicholas Alex found that, in 1969, police officers...

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...

Crime and Drug Research Proposal

In twelve pages this paper examines the value of researching a correlation between crime and drugs and evaluates relevant literatu...

Business Ethics Case Study

still being disingenuous. He is not fulfilling his obligation as a lawyer to be honest, nor is he following the law. Whether or no...

Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Sociology of Crime

criminologists and sociologists have been actively involved in determining which factors contribute to such risk, how they may be ...

Singapore and Criminal Justice

the primary influences in the restructuring and rebuilding of the civilian forces. A womens unit was added and new uniforms were s...

Crime and Youth Myths

people, accost individuals with their language, and generally make a nuisance of themselves. We can even go a bit further and argu...

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...

Hate Crimes That Are Motivated by Race

find that our citizens are no more enlightened than we were during times of slavery, or during witch trials, or during any other p...

School Deviancy and Crime

a perspective, and as such will act accordingly. As two authors note, "Until we make schools engaging learning communities whose m...

The Lack of Rights of Children due to Globalization

to be sold for the greatest amount of profit in the "First" world. According to Clifford (1994), in Pakistan, girls as young as t...

Defining War Crimes

This paper examines World War II tribunals in terms of how war crimes are defined from legal and ethical perspectives with chain o...

Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Sigmund Freud on Crime

In twelve pages the crime views of these three influential theorists are compared and contrasted. Thirteen sources are cited in t...

Florida Community Approaches to Juvenile Crime

In eight pages this paper discusses how recidivism rates can be improved through community based programs in a consideration of Fl...