these little slivers of plastic provide commerce at the swipe of a wrist, but every time that card is swiped, the time, date, location, value, and often the items of a purchase are recorded several times over, by banks, credit card companies, supers Continue Reading...
The fear of adolescents and young adults is also being driven by the media's choice to sensationalize events that are actually very isolated in their number, and occurrence. CONCLUSION As Canada continues to grow and its focus on crime continues t Continue Reading...
(Kilgore; Mede, 64) Of course as a program approaches the end, much interaction have concentrated around how to return to the home environment and foster relationships with positive influences and make positive selections. Boot camps unquestionably Continue Reading...
Labeling, Life Chances, And Adult Crime Jon Gunnar Bernburg and Marvin D. Krohn build on a body of criminology research related to labeling theory in their report entitled "Labeling, Life Chances, and Adult Crime: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Continue Reading...
Reducing Prison Overcrowding Prison overcrowding is an unsettling national problem to the United States and Canada. The United States has the biggest prison population in the world and Canada's is the fourth. The race for limited resources has been Continue Reading...
Individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder frequently lack empathy, tend to be manipulative and impulsive. Those traits positively correlate those individuals to commit violent crime such as felony assault. Even though it is said that Antisoci Continue Reading...
Torture The use of non-lethal torture in interrogating possible criminals has always been an area of debate. It wasn't hot topic when the terrorist activities were kept at a down low in the nineties. However, following nine eleven and the surge of t Continue Reading...
Organized Crime It may not seem that Southern California would be a hotbed for Russian-led organized crime, but it has become so over the past two decades. Russia, after the fall of the Soviet Union, was eager to embrace capitalism, but this did not Continue Reading...
..This perspective is from the U.S.A.; in Europe, violence in school and the concern about violence may not be at similar levels, but it is undoubtedly a topic of major concern (Smith, 2003, p. 1). This article also makes the important point that sc Continue Reading...
3 for robbery, 244.0 for assault, 367.7 for burglary, 1,617.7 for larceny theft and 213.3 for vehicle theft In 2005: 4.5 for murder, 18.9 for rape, 182.7 for robbery, 239.7 for assault, 351.3 for burglary, 1,569.6 for larceny theft and 185.6 for veh Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime: Identifying Valid Deterrents for White Collar Criminals Recent studies suggest that white collar crime is on the rise (Chayet, Waring & Weisburg, 2001; Recine, 2002). Many stereotypical beliefs regarding white collar criminal Continue Reading...
real, biological causes of crime in the criminal mind. It gave me insight into the many different genetic and biological problems that can lead to criminality. I also learned that there are many more causes than I had thought, such as vitamin defici Continue Reading...
Criminological Theories and Their Application Character History Nikita Voronov was born in Omsk, Russia in 1977 to a 17-year-old mother named Natasha Voronov. She had gotten pregnant with him after dating a man for one month, another Russian male w Continue Reading...
Role of Discretion in Law Enforcement Human civilization has always been defined by the establishment of ethical codes, laws which individuals must obey for the greater good of society, and for every rule that mankind has devised there have been tho Continue Reading...
By the 1980s, theories had begun to swing the other way again, with doubts being cast on the relevance of aggregate social strain theories (Bernard 1987). Even social strain theorists were finding new and more individualistic and specific features w Continue Reading...
The policy and the systematic or widespread characteristics are the essential elements in proving that there was knowledge and that the act was coordinated by the central authority or by a certain authority. Finally, the last additional issue is th Continue Reading...
Another case illustrates how important proper investigation can be to the outcome of a case. Various authors cite the case of a fire in a home that killed two children. The children's mother had left them in the care of her boyfriend, who left them Continue Reading...
However, the numbers used to report murder rates only tell us the number of crimes that have occurred. They tell us nothing about crimes that were never committed because of fear of the death penalty. The conundrum is that there is no realistic way Continue Reading...
Student's Responsibilities in School Safety Simple everyday actions are effective in reduction of school crime. (Annual Report on School Safety, 1998) Those actions are: Behave Responsibly: Students can resolve problems and disputes in a non-viol Continue Reading...
Blau and Blau believe that this fact provides one more piece of evidence in favor of their central proposition that "racial socioeconomic inequalities are a major source of much criminal violence. There is a stereotype that poor class youth are the Continue Reading...
Laws and Legal Limitations in the United States Have Affected the Use of Coercive Interrogation Techniques After the 9/11 attacks, the United States' government abandoned its policy going against torture. Many professionals devised the move like th Continue Reading...
The basic elements of documentary are taken from the events in the story (Nicols, 26-35). The historical facts are narrated such that there are often flash backs to the events as a connection develops to a past event. There is greater degree of dram Continue Reading...
Forensics Scenario Discussion From the onset, it is important to note that in criminal investigations, one type of evidence commonly encountered is hair evidence (Oien, 2009). As Oien further points out, "during the course of the normal hair-growth Continue Reading...
1992 Washington Heights riots were the culmination of a series of abuses that law enforcement officers had performed in the area. The case of Michael O'Keefe's shooting of Jose "Kiko" Garcia generated much controversy and influenced people in the are Continue Reading...
Chicago Outfit is one of the most well-known organized crime organizations in the United States. Among some of the Chicago Outfits most notorious members are Giacomo "Big Jim" Colosimo, Giovanni "Papa Johnny" Torrio, and Al Capone. The Chicago Outfit Continue Reading...
Death Penalty: An on-going Debate on Ethics and Morality The topic examined in this assignment was the death penalty. In this country, this issue is one of constant debate, as it exists in half the country (roughly), but not in the other half. The Continue Reading...
Washington D.C. Police Department Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Washington D.C. is the nation's capital, and thus holds a special responsibility in terms of providing the ultimate image of safety and enforcement of American ideals. Continue Reading...
Crime and Intelligence Analysis The Roles of Crime Analysis and Intelligence Analysis in the Future of Policing and Homeland Security The state of this country after the September 11 attacks was of utter shock and disbelief at what had taken place Continue Reading...
Human Trafficking: Causes and Motivating Forces There's no doubt that human trafficking is one of the saddest evils of our day: "On the worldwide black market, the third most profitable commodity after illegal weapons and drugs is human flesh: wome Continue Reading...
Wrongful Convictions Based on Eyewitness Accounts Imagine if you will this hypothetical scenario -- you are walking to your car in a parking garage after a long day at work. You are tired and thinking of what is waiting for you on your desk tomorrow Continue Reading...
1).This study reports that it is important to weigh both "...legal and extralegal factors" in the attempt to understand police misconduct. Furthermore, "...implications for issues of racial and ethnic stereotyping..." must be given consideration in i Continue Reading...
According to case law, "an infamous crime against nature" is sodomy (Yoshino, 2002). We can see here, again, a modern shift from common law with the inclusion of sodomy as a possible element of felony assault. Over the course of time, Idaho lawmaker Continue Reading...
(Prins, Fire-Raising) The increase in juvenile crime related arson is particularly troubling. One theory suggest that undiagnosed and untreated conduct disorder in early childhood may be the progenitors in the creation of an arsonist: From a diagn Continue Reading...
With the clear decline of crime-related activities in New York City, it can be easily inferred that unemployment rate started to decline also. This is based in the regression analysis from a different study that shows that as the trend in property Continue Reading...
From all neighborhoods the answers were the same, that when police, residents and merchants worked together, crime was reduced. It was also recognized that there was room for improvement in Seattle's community policing efforts. First, it was stated Continue Reading...
This will also lead to the finding on whether the kind of offense committed translates to a lengthier sentence on imprisonment and in effect, on the likelihood that the ex-convict will commit the same or a different kind of offense again. Lastly, th Continue Reading...
theory development as the chapter title notes, but it gave me more than that. Chapter two opened up my eyes to statistics, and this chapter opened up my eyes to what the author calls the "fundamental assumptions of criminal theory." We read about cr Continue Reading...
Drives Punitive Beliefs Brian K. Payne, Randy R. Gainey, Ruth A. Triplett, and Mona J.E. Danner present a sociological examination of punitive beliefs in the United States in their article "What Drives Punitive Beliefs? Demographic Characteristics Continue Reading...
