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Crime Analyst

Drug-based crimes are often committed by members of groups. They receive reinforcement from this group. For many of them, this is ...

Fighting Global Hunger

a major concern for not only national leaders but individuals, activists and support groups as well. For decades now, people have ...

Definitions of Poverty and its Effects

to the industrial subsistence patterns of today. If we define poverty from a strictly numeric perspective, as the so-called "pove...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...

World Community and Poverty's Effects

our own sense of security has somewhat eroded. This is true not only from a security threat standpoint that the discontent people...

Prejudice and Crime

optimism, there exists an invisible boundary line that, even though race relations seem to be improving, keeps the races separated...

Is The Uniform Crime Reporting System of the FBI Accurate?

The CIUS is the report most commonly used in research and articles addressing crime in this country (Maltz, 1999). The FBI obtains...

Preventing Crime

crime prevention officer might begin by giving information at day care or at schools with hand-outs for children to take home. ...

Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

population. Roosevelt called for "a decent standard of living for all individual men and women and children." He said, "Freedom fr...

St. Francis and Previous Monks on the Concept of Christian Poverty

"On arriving in a certain town, being very hungry, they went, according to the Rule, begging their bread for the love of God....

Poverty and Children

the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of...

World Poverty and Globalization

restructuring of the global economy which was so desperately needed in 1944, and the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs desig...

Early Modern England and Perceived Correlation Between Crime and Sin

In seven pages English crime and punishment between the years 1550 and 1750 are examined in order to determine to what extent the ...

North Africa, the Middle East, and Poverty

In sixteen pages this paper discusses the regions of North Africa and the Middle East as they involve poverty issues with regional...

U.S. Nuclear Family and Poverty

In ten pages this paper discusses the nuclear family's role in U.S. poverty with the Culture of Poverty and various other theories...

Comparison of Contemporary Poverty and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Nineteenth Century Poverty in Hard Times

rather than the shameful exception" (Trevelyan, quoted in Johnson, 274). But even more dramatic was the change in attitude towa...

A Poverty Explanation

In nine pages the reasons why poverty exists are probed with a culture of poverty thesis, the importance of a work ethic with refe...

Overview of Unsolved Crimes

overwhelming. In chapter two of "Criminal Justice Today : An Introductory Text for the Twenty-First Century" Schmalleger discusse...

Crime and its Causes

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

Crime Types, Causes, and Solutions

the desire to destroy something or to remove it from the possession and control of its rightful owner. Enterprise crime most ofte...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plans are dark and frightening, espec...

Drug Related Crimes

Another source indicates that, "Although the number of drug-related homicides has been decreasing in recent years, drugs still rem...

The Impact of Street Crime on Society

if their fear keeps them inside, there is a chance that they are not victims simply because they are not on the streets as frequen...

CRIME AND SPORTS - THE CAUSES

to pass better. The fact that Sprewells "punishment" consisted of a 68-game suspension (rather than an outright lifetime ban from ...

Organized Crime

the society was used to having it and thus would not simply sit quite while it was illegal. But, Prohibition is a good example of ...

What is Organized Crime?

house and steal, or mug someone on the street, in order to get money to get more drugs. This is not organized and is ultimately ve...

Crime and the Difficulties in Determining Its Causes

on the other hand talks about poverty and claims that while it is true that poverty may enter the picture at times, it is not enou...

Student Supplied Case Study on Probability

will give us a 1 in 12 million chance. However we need to look at this in order to consider how correct it is. Here we can look at...

Cause and Effect Drugs and Crime

This paper explores the relationship between drug addiction and criminal activity. There is a cause and effect relationship in pl...

Ann Jones/ "Women Who Kill"

be viewed within its historical context in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials a...