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Scared Straight Programs and Deterrence Theory

This paper's content is the speaker notes that accompany the PowerPoint presentation khjuvawarpro.ppt, and the topic addressed is ...

Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

Richard Russo's Straight Man

Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in. June, his wife, whose sense of self-worth is...

Scared Straight

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

Deterrence and the Death Penalty

the death penalty is rarely used and perhaps not used on a consistent basis involving particular crimes. Regardless, however, ther...

Death Penalty Supporting Argument

In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...

Police Officers and Domestic Violence

In ten pages this research paper examines the incidences of domestic violence in the law enforcement profession and how the relati...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

ICT Learning Program Design

Social constructivism is a part of the larger school of cognitive constructivism, developed by the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsk...

Specific and General Deterrence Criminological Theories

other citizens from committing the same behavior (Renteln 192). General deterrence operates under the assumption that no matter h...

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Criminology Theories

get caught. Gleissner (2011) reported that only 1.2 percent of burglaries result in the burglar going to prison. If they do get ca...

Overview of Criminal Rehabilitation

In nine pages criminal rehabilitation is examined in terms of the crime deterrence of the death penalty and statistics regarding i...

Criminal Justice System Deterrence

There are pros and cons to deterrence programs and some are far more effective than others. Comparing and contrasting these aspec...

Evaluation Theory in Academia

This 25 page paper discusses the field of evaluation with regard to academic programs. The paper includes a literature review of p...

Quitting Tobacco Use

This paper includes one Table and one Gantt Chart. One of the two heaviest smokers are the mentally ill. Why is not exactly known....

Applying Ariely's Theories

Ariely offered the Fudge Factor Theory and the theory of ego depletion to explain why good people cheat. This paper provides a bri...

Why U.S. Policy Can Deter Terrorists

may in fact be behaving rationally-contrary to public opinion-options to control terrorism may be explored. Options to control te...

Classical/Choice Theory and the Death Penalty

this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...

Sentencing Models

The individual is paying his dues, so to speak. There has been much criticism waged against retributive justice. Why? It seems tha...

Various Types of Crime Theories

might encompass the criminals perception of societal views if criminal activity and how that view would extend to them if they wer...

Problems and Solutions of Serial Murder

them by type ("Serial killer," 2005). Motive types of serial killing include the visionary, one that is mission oriented, the hedo...

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...

Word Processing Programs Support Cognitive Learning

Word processing programs support the cognitive learning theory by helping students learn how to edit their documents from beginnin...

McCarthyism and the Red Scare

The writer discusses McCarthyism and its part in the Red Scare in America in the 1950s. There are three sources listed in the bibl...

Analysis of the Salem Witch Trials

Investigating this question, Pestana offers excerpts from the works of four historians who have contrasting opinions. These four h...

U.S. Civil Liberties, the 'Red' Scare, and the Cold War

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

Asset Allocation and Stochastic Optimization

approaching, being one that that is more dynamic and flexible, suitable as a tool for analyzing decision problems under uncertaint...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...