SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Crime and Charles Murrays Underclass Theory

Essays 241 - 270

Crime Control Through Stigmatization

In eight pages labeling theory is among the topics discussed in this proposed control of crime through stigmatization. Eight sour...

Inner City Crime Prevention

As a direct result, the likelihood of repeat offenders is greatly lessened and similarly, so is the citys crime rate. In my...

Mafia Crime Family the Genoveses

In ten pages the Genovese crime family is examined in terms of history, and organized crime activities. Sixteen sources are cited...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

PA's Juvenile Justice System

In eight pages this paper examines 1990s' crime rate statistics in this consideration of Pennsylvania's juvenile crime system. Ei...

Policy Brief on Crime Control

1996). The opposing theory of positivistic approaches to crime causality includes sociological, psychological, and biological...

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...

Oscar Wilde and Incongruity

In five pages this paper examines Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Seville's Crime, Pen, Pencil, and Poison, Decay of Lying, and The Pict...

C.S. Lewis and Karl Menninger on How Criminals Should be Properly Punished

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares 'The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment' by C.S. Lewis and 'The Crime of Punishment...

Massachusetts Program of Juvenile Courts and Crime Prevention Policy

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

Media and Crime

whether it is real life or on television. The primary concern of course is televisions effects on children as they are malleable a...

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 ...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

Federal Level Crime Prevention

attempting to finalize legislation regarding federal aid as well as a number of local anti-crime programs (5). The appropriations ...

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...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Society and Crime

themselves in a great deal of trouble. They may not be able to pay their bills and this can create more criminology such as borrow...

3 Criminology Questions

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

Crime Perspectives and the Influence of Public Images

argument and the response by Janet Chan. First, a number of different social theories have been applied to an understand of crime...

Sociology and Theory

and only five rapes. There is an absence of true fear and so the petty crimes, the drug offenses and so forth serve a function in ...

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...

Income and Race Impacts Upon Crime Rates

structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...

Situational Remedies and Crime

which contends social ties between adults and adolescents are fragile at best. The absence of a solid, beneficial, healthy relati...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Scandal

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...