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Crime
In general, men are far more likely to commit crimes than women. Men constitute 98 percent of those arrested in the United States for rape and over 90 percent of those arrested for homicide. Males...
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Crime
I am not really giving you information as much as a different perspective. As a volunteer on call with the county jail for those who are in crisis, I know that often the lines between ethical and...
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Crime
We cannot know for sure what causes people to commit crimes. It seems likely that poverty is a cause of crime, but it seems wrong to say that poverty is “the” cause of crime. Different people...
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Law and Politics
The culture conflict theory stipulates that human actions in the framework of social interactions are shaped by the conflicts between competing groups. It holds that different groups compete for...
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Crime
There are a number of factors that influence the offender selection system, including type and nature of crime, prior arrests and convictions, and mental status of the offender. How well any given...
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Crime
There are two main reasons why criminal activity drops after young people pass through the period of adolescence. These reasons are connected, but separate. One has to do with the obligations...
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Police
When a police officer or unit receives the call over the police communications system that there has been a report of an armed robbery in progress, the first thing he or she, and his or her...
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Crime
The debate over the legalization of drugs brings up many issues that we have to consider when we think about crime prevention and how aggressively to try to prevent crimes. Let us look at a few of...
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Law and Politics
The current justice system is actually considered by many legal experts to be too draconian, with too much of an emphasis on punishment rather than rehabilitation. The United States currently has...
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Crime
This datum on its own does not really tell us much about the causal connection between poverty and crime that some people think exists. After all, it is not as if people are claiming that every...
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Research
When seeking financial assistance in the form of grants for research projects focusing on crime or criminal justice, the first website one should consult is the National Institute of Justice...
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Social Sciences
It is very hard to decide which noteworthy criminal incidents or activities to include since there have been so many since 1963. I will focus on three criminal activities or trends rather than on...
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Evidence
Hair fiber evidence can be crucial in connecting a particular individual to a crime, such as rape, but it is also the most difficult to process and the most prone to misuse. Strands of human hair...
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Law and Politics
The short answer is yes, there are instances or circumstances when it is appropriate to treat a juvenile who has committed one or more crimes as an adult. The definition of a minor is loosely based...
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Murder
Definitions of spree, serial, and mass murderers can be unreliable. There is no more reliable source of information on these types of crimes than the data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Justice...
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Crime
There are a number of causes of crime, including the breakdown of the family unit, drugs, a psychological belief system that rejects the legitimacy of the rule of law, and psychopathetic tendencies...
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Crime
It is very much in the state's interest to provide educational opporunities to prison inmates. There is a well-established connection between education and most crimes, particularly those commonly...
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Crime
There is something to be said for each of these as the worst kind of crime. First, we can argue that street crime is the worst because it has the greatest physical and emotional impact on its...
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Gender Discrimination
It is not likely that gender discrimination helps to keep female crime rates down by any serious amount. What is more likely is that the sex roles into which we are all socialized help to bring...
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Social Sciences
There are numerous ways that have been suggested for reducing street violence. They tend to break down into two distinct camps. One camp would like to try to increase law enforcement efforts....
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Crime
The idea of Broken Window Syndrome holds that small problems in a given neighborhood, such as broken windows in buildings or cars, will soon lead to other, larger problems. The reason for this is...
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Crime
There is no such thing as a victimless theft. If there were, this would not be an example of such a theft. First of all, local convenience stores are not huge companies that can easily withstand...
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Crime
In order to understand what categories might be used to organize best practices for reducing teen violence, we must look at the causes of that violence. Each type of cause might offer us a...
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Crime
The behavioral/learning theory of criminology holds that people commit crimes because of the way that their environments have influenced them as they have grown up. These environmental factors can...
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Crime
The psychoanalytic theory of criminology holds that people commit crimes for psychological reasons. This theory comes largely from the work of Sigmund Freud. Freud argues that human nature is...
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Crime
If scholarly research finds that these things can help to reduce crime, then the government would need to find ways to promote them so that the likelihood of crime can be reduced. Of course,...
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Crime
We simply do not know for sure what causes a person to commit crimes. We cannot experiment on human beings by doing things like taking people with identical genes and raising them in different...
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Crime
Yes, theories that hold that people can have biological predispositions to crime can be reconciled with the idea of rehabilitation. The reason for this is that biological predispositions are only...
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Crime
Both of these causal explanations have truth to them. It is certainly true that people who commit crimes (and groups whose members are more likely to commit crimes) become negatively labeled. For...
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Crime
Biosocial theorists of crime argue that both of these factors are important in determining whether a person comes to commit crimes. Such theorists argue that people can be genetically predisposed...
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Crime
Crimes reported to the police and total crimes committed in a calendar year will vary based on the reporting method and on definitions. For the purposes of this answer, the FBI's definition of...
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Crime
Biosocial theories of crime are not solely biological. They do also include a social element. The social element is important in explaining why levels of violence are higher in lower class...
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Crime
Structural theorists do not tend to focus much on middle class crime. They tend to discount it, saying that middle class crime is less important than lower class crimes. This is in part because...
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Crime
There could be a number of reasons for this. Let us look at two. First, rural areas have fewer people and lower population densities. This makes it more difficult for gang problems to arise. It...
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Crime
The best way to counteract this assertion would be with a solid and scientifically sound study. First, you would need to define physical and mental abnormality before you go looking at criminals....
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Crime
There are many pieces of evidence that could be used to make this case. Perhaps the most important such evidence is the number of people who are in our prison systems for non-violent drug crimes....
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Crime
There is no one way to answer this question. Some criminals are rational. Some are driven by psychological and emotional factors. Some are a combination. There is no single source of motivation...
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Social Sciences
A social construct is something that has no objective existence outside of what human beings have made of it. It is different from an objective fact that does not need to be defined by human...