Gun Violence Effect on African American Community Introduction The African American community has faced the brunt of the criminal justice system in the aftermath of gun violence. For starters, the violence takes a toll on these communities. The viole Continue Reading...
Gun violence in America has always been a great concern to communities, families and law enforcement officials. But in recent years gun violence has received a great deal more publicity and public concern because of the mass shootings -- particularly Continue Reading...
Gun Control In light of events like Sandy Hood, Columbine, the Charleston church shooting, the on-air shooting of two reports in Virginia and many others, gun control is a topic that has remained a topic that is ever-present in the twenty-four hour Continue Reading...
Gun Laws / Gun Violence Gun violence, gun registration, and mass shootings in the United States -- and to a lesser extent in the United Kingdom -- have caused authorities great concern over the past few years. And these issues have received a great Continue Reading...
Crime On March 9th, 2013, two New York City police officers shot and killed a sixteen-year-old Kimani Gray, and claimed afterward that he had brandished a handgun at them after being told to show his hands (Goodman, 2013). More remarkable than the N Continue Reading...
Crime Rates and Abandoned Buildings The research question will help to focus the study and determine the long-term effects of crime rates and abandoned buildings. It includes: Is there a direct relationship between crime rates and abandoned propert Continue Reading...
Crime scene investigation is a field with rapidly changing tools that seem to evolve almost every day as a result of the changes made in technology. However, even the simplest elements of a crime scene can still inform investigators an epic amount. Continue Reading...
Crime Scene Evidence Laying the Foundation for Crime Scene Evidence In recent decades, significant advances in forensic technology and communications have revolutionized the art of collecting, sharing and using evidence to prosecute and convict acc Continue Reading...
Crime Detection and Prevention It is an unfortunate fact of modern society that crime and criminal activity are part of our world today. This is particularly the case in situations that make an easy target for criminals. Rape and robbery, for exampl Continue Reading...
New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. And it's essentially impossible for a normal, law-abiding citizen to acquire a concealed handgun permit. The result is that the majority of New Yorkers are defenseless against the crim Continue Reading...
A major concern regarding crime today that exists within prisons as well as on the streets is the formation of gangs. "Prison gangs are flourishing across the country. Organized, stealthy and deadly, they are reaching out from their cells to organi Continue Reading...
Because gun suicide success rates are at about 90%, however, those who attempt suicide with a gun are far less likely to be given a second chance or time to reconsider. Success rates for other types of suicide are significantly lower, such as 2% for Continue Reading...
However, this is a common, recurrent theme that has been injected into the public sphere by private interests. As a result, it dominates a substantial amount of discourse in the public sphere, and even people like Griffin and Rostron, who believe th Continue Reading...
difficult buy a gun, a U.S. citizens amendment 8-10 pages length, double spaced, font 12 times roman. MLA standards 8-12 sources, 12-20 citations. Why the U.S. should not ban gun control There is presently much controversy regarding the U.S. And i Continue Reading...
Public Opinion Crime, Criminal Justice, Related Topics Kahan, D. & Braman, D. (2003). More statistics, less persuasion: a cultural theory of gun- 151 (4), 2-37 What is the objective / research question? In this article, the discussion highlig Continue Reading...
Tighter Regulations for Buying Guns The argument essay tighter regulations buying guns proposed. An requirements word file. In the recent past, there have been mass shootings that have taken place in different states within the United States. These Continue Reading...
Speech on Guns Why Everyone Should Support Gun Rights In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting -- a tragedy, in which George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain gunned down the unarmed, 17-year-old student -- the country has put gun rights an Continue Reading...
ownership of guns by the public has been a topic of much needed debates for quite some time now. Various organizations and support groups have been in action for the pro-or anti-views on whether a citizen should be allowed to own and keep a gun at h Continue Reading...
Government Mandated Gun-Free Zones THERE SHOULD BE NO GOVERNMENT MANDATED GUN-FREE ZONES IN PUBLIC SPACE. Banning guns for masses and establishing gun-free zones are one of the most controversial topics in American politics. There are clearly two s Continue Reading...
5 ounces of steel in them. The bill did not pass, but eventually a compromise bill went through requiring all handguns to have at least 3.7 ounces of steel. No completely plastic gun has ever been produced, although guns with a plastic frame are popu Continue Reading...
Institutionalized Violence On the other hand, it does not make sense to focus so much on the availability of firearms, simply because most violent crimes involving firearms are committed with illegal firearms and not legally owned and possessed we Continue Reading...
Evolution of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 Most Americans regard the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 as the most comprehensive and far-reaching anti-crime bill in the country's history. The Act, whic Continue Reading...
4. Do some police departments still engage in the "aggressive preventative patrol" strategies that led to the urban riots of the 1960s and the publishing of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report? Are there any similarities or differences between those Continue Reading...
Mandatory Sentencing Public policy, crime, and criminal justice Mandatory Sentencing: Case Study Critique The prime grounds of mandatory sentencing laws are utilitarian. The laws come with long prison sentences for recidivists, drug dealers and is Continue Reading...
But, even though we have the Brady Bill, homicides keep going up. Critics of the Brady Bill suggest that this means that the Brady Bill doesn't work and we ought to get rid of it. However, what it really means is that we need to do even more to stre Continue Reading...
Dark figure of crime is a term employed by criminologists and sociologists to describe the amount of unreported or undiscovered crime (Maguire & Reiner, 2007, p. 129). The notion of a dark figure undetected by standard crime reporting system cast Continue Reading...
Dark Figure of Crime The amount of crime in society gets known when it is reported to the police, through public response to victim surveys and studies of offenders who admit committing crime, and when transmitted to other agencies, such as hospital Continue Reading...
Organized Crime Reduction Strategy There is no doubt whatsoever that transnational organized crime groups are a threat to not only the security of the countries in which they operate, but also global security in general. Often operating in well-orga Continue Reading...
International Crime, Terrorism, And Organized Crime Trends Comparing contrasting topics international crime, terrorism, organized crime trends This research has confirmed the possibility of close correlation between money laundering activities, Isl Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice System Program REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE AND CRIME The Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction Program More popularly known as Project Safe Neighborhoods or PSN, this Program was conceived and designed to create safer neighborhoods by re Continue Reading...
HOUSTON REFORMHouston ReformIn Houston, Texas, violent crimes rates have spiked in recent times. The relevance of deploying strategies meant to rein in the escalating rates of violent crimes cannot be overstated. This way, the safety and wellbeing of Continue Reading...
Federal and State Legislation Domestic Violence Legislation at the Federal and State Level Domestic violence is considered any violent act taken against someone involved in an intimate or family relationship (Eulich, 2013). It is a serious problem Continue Reading...
GUN LAW PROPOSAL 2Gun Law Proposal: The No Mercy BillIntroductionGun control and various efforts to rein in gun-related violence deaths continue to be rather emotional and contentious issues. For this reason, no meaningful progress has been made to c Continue Reading...
ECONOMICS of GUN VIOLENCE Ethical Analysis and CDC Utilitarianism Theory and CDC The Founding fathers of the U.S. were of the belief that keeping arms was important for the dignity and character of the free people and they wrote the 2nd amendment Continue Reading...
Crime Delinquency Teenagers Adolescent Terror Virtually no one can deny that there is a definite, tangible link between adolescence and crime. Anyone not familiar with this subject would be hard pressed to dispute the eminent statistical data that Continue Reading...
Introduction The Violence Policy Center (2020) notes that African Americans are only 13% of the US population yet they represent more than half of all American homicides; but what is worse is that 87% of African American homicides are killed by guns. Continue Reading...
Worldwide Firearm Homicide Rates in 20141. Global Perspective Fact 1: The U.S. has one of the highest firearm-related homicide rates among developed countries (Aizenman, 2023). Fact 2: In 2016, the U.S. gun death rate was 10.6 per 100,000 people, sig Continue Reading...
CRIME VICTIMS Crime Victims: An IntroductionThe particular problems faced by persons who experience hare crime are broadly characterized by the trauma and fear they go through resulting from the crime (Reilich & Chermak, n.a.). The fear of visiting o Continue Reading...
