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Social Organization Theory and Crime Causation

of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...

Marxist Viewpoint on Rational Choice

theories that serve to establish a basis upon which law enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for it...

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...

A Criminology Overview

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

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...

Crime and Parental Responsibility

According to the National Crime Prevention Council (1999) soaring prison costs are exceeding investments in higher education, and...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Motivation of Raskolnikov's in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

In 5 pages this paper examines what motivated Raskolnikov's 'crime' in Crime and Punishment. There is 1 source cited in the bibli...

Quality of Life, Delinquency, and Crime

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

Canada and Crime

In five pages Canada's crime is examined in terms of types and includes discussion of such theories as crime ecology, differential...

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...

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...

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...

Crime Fear and Gender

In eleven pages this research paper assesses crime based upon gender and the phenomenon of crime fear. Six sources are cited in t...

Federal Level Crime Prevention

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

China and Crime

with the long iron rod that completed the stations armory. Not more than an hour later, he had been killed by a shotgun bullet fi...

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...

Planning an Attack on Organized Crime

more importantly, there is a great bond between the men who run these "families." Once a male is born into one, the chances are gr...

3 Criminology Questions

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

Differential Association Theory of Sutherland and Rape

stigma attached to elements of their personal development may find that no matter how they work to dispel this stigma, some of the...

Crime Detection in the Works of John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, and Agatha Christie

In five pages this paper examines detective crime fiction and how the readers are engaged in the detection of the crime in Carr's ...

Crime, Punishment, and Jesus of Nazareth

In four pages this essay examines whether or not Jesus did in fact commit any crimes within the context of the Roman system of law...

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...

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...

Social Theory Application in the Polly Klaas Murder Case

The sociological reasons for committing crimes are considered in this paper consisting seven pages with the emphasis on Polly Klaa...

Success Evaluation of Juvenile Crimes and Tough Punishment

A research paper consisting of eight pages considers juvenile crime statistics in an assessment of whether or not getting tough on...