How Community Policing Promotes Social Justice Introduction As Howell (2010) points out, youths “join gangs for protection, enjoyment, respect, money, or because a friend is in a gang” (p. 1). In the city of Cincinnati, gang activity amon Continue Reading...
Stalking Victimization in the United States Crime Victimization It wasn't until Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by Robert John Bardo in 1989 that the word 'stalking' began to take on a new meaning in popular culture, one associated with the pursuit of Continue Reading...
Compare and Contrast the Current Dominant Approaches to Crime Prevention Introduction Given the diverse definitions of crime prevention, Schneider looks at it from the consequences approach. He defines it as a program or strategy that serves the purp Continue Reading...
Crime "Getting tough" on crime became a popular notion in 1970's America. Since that time, America has increasingly jailed/imprisoned offenders at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. Though some people strongly believe in "getting tough," th Continue Reading...
Media Bias in Crime Reporting In what ways do the media construct crime images? In general, the media have tremendous power to influence public thought and opinion, such as by the choice of stories to report as well as by the specific manner in whi Continue Reading...
Philosophies of Punishment Restorative justice is a philosophy of punishment which does not neatly fit into conventional categories of retribution or rehabilitation. Rather than focusing solely on the victim or the criminal, it attempts to restore Continue Reading...
Reparations for Black Communities: Education as a PlatformIntroductionThe concept that we all have an equal chance to earn the kind of riches that gives meaning to the Declaration of Independences bold phrase liberty, life, and the pursuit of happine Continue Reading...
Criminal Minds The constant battle with violent crime is a perplexing problem for those designated to solve these types of problems. This frustrating cycle of failure and success seems to adopt the mantra, "one step forward, two steps back" in its p Continue Reading...
school uniforms within a school system. Ideas such as school discipline, student behavior, and academic achievement are discussed along with examples of why different schools have implemented student use of uniforms. Various viewpoints are presented Continue Reading...
Razumikhin Serves as Raskolonikov's Foil In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment; However, There Are Other Foils Present In The Book Differences between seeing life Raskolinokov's view Razmumikhin's view How each man describes each other Si Continue Reading...
GSS codebook or GSS variable search as a reference following is the list of 5 potential topics I would like to explore for the research project: Drug use and addiction, Corporal Punishment, Mental Health, Old People and In this section 5 indepe Continue Reading...
Gender Issues in Education Today The objective of this study is to examine gender issues in education today and to discuss its impacts or potential impacts on individuals and society. This study will examine how this issue has been addressed by phil Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1.The Psychological Profile of Arsonists: Unpacking the Motivations Behind Fire-Setting: This essay would explore the different psychological factors that can lead an individual to commit arson. It would Continue Reading...
Crime's Ramifications Clearly Essentially, conflict criminology is the theory that crime is virtually inevitable in a capitalist society. Because there needs to be have-nots in order for there to be those considered as haves, the have nots will ine Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Psychological Profile of Arsonists: Explore the psychological motivations behind arson, including case studies and expert analysis on what drives individuals to commit this crime. 2. Arson in Urb Continue Reading...
military practices based on the concept of insubordination. The paper will incorporate various examples from real life situations and military cases that the world history has witnessed so far in order to highlight the right as well as the inaccurat Continue Reading...
Crime Data Sources in the United States The collection of crime data in the United States is carried out through different approaches including Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System, which also act as the two primary Continue Reading...
Education Advocacy Issues Massive institutional racism and structural inequalities still exist in the United States, especially in housing, public education and the criminal justice system in inner city areas. In every urban area, the quality of edu Continue Reading...
Crime Rates by Regions The FBI document the crimes that are experienced across the U.S.A. By recording and tabulating the crimes bot only by the number of people arrested but more significantly by the number of arrests that are made and the type of Continue Reading...
Crime The current designation of the major categories of crime in the U.S. can be traced to England following the Norman Conquest in 1066. Prior to this period the Church was the primary regulator of morality, but over time the Church began to lose Continue Reading...
Crime and Its Impact on Youth Crime impacts children differently than it does adults. This paper examines the differences and the reasons children are affected uniquely by crime. It looks in particularly at the multiple theories that can be used to Continue Reading...
Crime: Over the past 3 decades, crime has continued to be a major issue that has attracted huge public concern characterized with discussion and action that are usually unbalanced and not likely to lessen crime rates. The public concern has also bee Continue Reading...
Education and Bullying -- Argumentative Research Paper Bullying and Education Education and Bullying Argumentative Research Paper The purpose of the research in this work is to answer the question, "Does bullying effect an individual's education? Continue Reading...
Education and Race Sociological perspective on Education with Regards to Race Race relations in the United States have seemingly gotten better over the past five decades due to the efforts of civil rights legislation and a public that is more attun Continue Reading...
Crime and Violence: Cultural Beliefs and Biases Religion and Stereotyping Diverse sociocultural customs promote diverse forms of aggression; e.g., the conventional idea that males are authorized, by nature, to discipline or control females renders Continue Reading...
Crimes: Attitudes and Perceptions This study was intended to provide insights into the attitudes and perceptions about crime in the local area. The study focused on the 18 to 25-year-old age group as compared to a 50 to 75-year-old age group. There Continue Reading...
Crime Americans have always been worried about crime, and a recent poll cited crime as the single most pressing concern that Americans have, even above issues that likely affect their quality of life more, such as education and the state of the econ Continue Reading...
In a recently-conducted survey, the following 10 metropolitan cities had low to very low crime rates: Scottsdale (AZ), Plano (TX), Virginia Beach (VA), Fremont (CA), Honolulu (HI), San Jose (CA), Anaheim (CA), Fort Wayne (in), Santa Ana (CA), and Ga Continue Reading...
Crime and Aileen Wuornos Criminal theories based on biological, psychological, sociological, and socio-psychological factors have been constructed in an attempt to better identify the causes of crime and what drives an individual to behave in a dev Continue Reading...
The first pitfall is that soft factors such as culture are very hard to quantify and thus difficult to pin down in the type of quantitative research currently in vogue in the field of social sciences. There will have to be more qualitative research Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behavior Three broad theoretical models of criminal behavior have historically prevailed. These models include psychological models of criminality, sociological models of criminality, and biol Continue Reading...
Organized Crime uses Poverty to Facilitate Human Trafficking Clandestine Partnerships: The Link Between Human Trafficking and Organized Crime in Metropolitan Atlanta The author had several research questions: 1)What proportion of the specified hum Continue Reading...
Gang Prevention As education levels go down, gang-related crimes rise. There are more organized gangs in the lower income inner cities than in the surrounding, more affluent suburbs. This is mostly due to and highly correlated with the socio-economi Continue Reading...
Juvenile Crime Issues in the Criminal Justice System Similar to the concept of childhood, the legal idea of the juvenile justice system or status is relatively new. In the United States, the juvenile court system was established approximately 200 ye Continue Reading...
Categories of White Collar Crime Categories of White-Collar Crime: White-collar legislation Best way to re-coup losses Occupational crimes vs. vocational crimes comparison Elements of political white-collar crime The increase in white collar fi Continue Reading...
Ethical Considerations in Computer Crimes The study is based on the topic of ethical consideration in computer crimes. The rapid expansion of computer technology has resulted in an extremely sensitive issue of computer crimes. The ethical standards Continue Reading...
history of crime measurement as well as the major strengths and limitations of current measurement techniques. I have also included the discussion regarding the importance of crime measurement in criminology. In the end, I have put emphasis on the n Continue Reading...
Community Safety and Crime Reduction: An Evaluation of the Role of New Technology Recent technological advances have effectively changed the way we conduct business, secure our borders, fight our wars, diagnose diseases, etc. Indeed, thanks to advan Continue Reading...
While he was a charitable and charming as well powerful and vicious individual, Al Capone became an iconic character of the successful American gangster (Rosenberg, par, 1). Generally, Al Capone's involvement in criminal activities was fueled by the Continue Reading...
