Criminal law is a division of law that elucidates crimes, describes their nature and defines available punishment for a criminal offense.
These are just a fraction of questions that require answers in order to have a complete understanding of the psychology of serial killers.
One of the major questions explored is the question of motivation that makes teens enter the world of drug dealing and leave it.
The cause and effects of young person offending and the state of Victoria's youth justice system have become a subject of broad debate after a series of violent cases in justice centers.
As the director of the county juvenile court, the research question related to the problem at hand should state as follows: What are cost effective methods of solving the proliferation of violent street gangs in [...]
In the article "The Functions of Crime", Emile Durkheim argues clearly that crime should be treated and analyzed as a normal aspect of a given society.
In order for the rationality of the crimes to be identified and examined, it is important to provide an overview of the violent offenses that made Paul Bernardo one of the most infamous serial killers [...]
Theories that explain the occurrence of crime in society have been developed to shed light on the increasing cases of criminal behavior. According to Agnew, crime is the outcome of the difficulties that an individual [...]
This brochure will outline some basic notions of risk management and assessment and crime and victimization prevention; additionally, it will provide the reader with some basic strategies of daily risk management and include sources for [...]
Over the centuries, the society has taken steps to respond to this vice that threatens the moral fabric of the society. Becker sought to discover the consequences that the application of the label of deviant [...]
One of the core ideas expressed by Chesney-Lind is that girls are highly susceptible to abuse and violent treatment. At the same time, scholars note that girls do not view delinquency as the "rejection of [...]
The general premise for most of these theories is that social factors have a great influence in the development of antisocial and criminal traits. The biosocial theory incorporates interdisciplinary information to a solitary and rational [...]
In addition, pure RCT may be insufficient for explaining nuances associated with the psychological and social profiles of the offenders. In particular, the traditional RCT faces problems explaining violent crime and irrational risk and reward [...]
In criminal justice, the instrumental theory is based on the idea that criminal justice and criminology is one of the main tools which help to control the poor.
This paper aims at discussing the evolution, relationship to criminal activities, and the effects of the gang's illegal activities on the communities in which they operate, among other activities of the Latin Kings.
The school makes demands of control, discipline, and accountability which are difficult for the low self-control student to meet, and, for this reason, early school leaving is a result of low self-control, not a cause [...]
As a result, unsolved cases usually remain unaddressed, which is partially the causality of the lack of tools that could potentially connect the circumstances, victims, and patterns. Technological advancements and innovative cooperation are two of [...]
Considering the murders of people by Theodore Bundy, the problem may be discussed from biological and psychological perspectives as all murders may be characterized by the "trait theory", which is going to be characterized by [...]
The murder was the result of an "unconventional" love triangle in which the victim was murdered because she posed a threat to the attacker. On the other hand, active precipitation happens when the victim exhibits [...]
This essay offers a brief discussion of how the abuse of illegal drugs is related to both crime and violence. It is prudent to mention that drug and violence have been noted to be closely [...]
Modern scholars have been interested in a wide range of attributes that have the potential to influence their behaviors, such as the chemicals found in the brain and neurotransmitters.
The paper concentrates on the history of the introduction of the social learning theory to science, its evolution over the years, and its possible application to the analysis of a recent criminal event.
One of the most important components of the criminal justice system is a code of ethics, which governs the behavior and conduct of professionals working within the system.
The present paper aims to examine the links between gender and crime through an analysis of a sexual assault case. Identification of crime patterns is a valuable tool to guide criminologists as it helps them [...]
At the time, the police noted that Denyer was with his girlfriend. The letter claimed that Denyer knows his whereabouts, and that he was planning to break out of prison to kill him.
However, poverty may be regarded as the most substantial cause of the majority of crimes as it indirectly leads to non-compliance with the law in multiple ways.
After reading the article, it is notable that there are awesome highlights explaining the history, development, and evolution of crime in the society.
The middle class norms place a high evaluation on the cultivation and possession of skills and on the tangible achievements which are presumed to witness the possession of skills and the application of effort.
Thus, crime is now seen as a consequence of a complex decision-making process which considers the individual's cognitive abilities and the social and economic environment.
The book "Criminology: the Core" by Larry Siegel is the authors investigation of the problems connected with committing the crime and, which is most important, the theoretical aspects of committing a crime.
The use of sexual assault as a weapon of war in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, with about 500,000 and 60,000 rapes committed respectively, is a monument to the world.
It is possible to conclude that white collar offenders are usually well off and have certain status in the society. On balance, it is necessary to note that demographic and psychological characteristics of white collar [...]
The crime and its implications has to be made understood to each and every citizen of the nation right from the stage he or she starts getting the feel of the society and things that [...]
The image of the American Dream and the Strain Theory works in reverse as well: if a person fails to possess lots of quantifiable treasure, then the social order will consider him as a disappointment.
According to Cullen, Agnew, and Wilcox, this term describes the emergence of crime as a logical factor, which is manifested in those communities that are unstable or disorganized. While evaluating this crime from a theoretical [...]
That is why, for the effective investigation, it is important to take all the necessary crime scene processing measures correctly, and the role of the first responding officer is particularly significant.
The capitalistic economic system fosters most of the global crimes by encouraging the exploitation of one group by another and promoting the self-interest of the individuals who engage in these forms of crime.
Employment tends to increase the social capital of individuals, what is usually referred to as the networks of shared norms and values, which augments the access to the much-needed necessities.
These criminals have been exposed to unfavorable conditions in their lives such as violence and poverty and turn to criminal behavior as a coping mechanism.
Therefore, it is vital to reinforce the legal measures against child abuse, including the enhancement of legal repercussions for the perpetrators of the specified type of crime.
Another example of a crime happening due to the criminal's psychological strain is a robbery of an affluent individual by a person unable to satisfy their desire for status and wealth in other ways.
It can be argued that one of the most prominent applications of the labeling theory is racial profiling, which also accounts for the oversaturation of African Americans in crime and criminal justice system.
This theory states that "crime occurs when there are not enough legitimate opportunities for people to achieve the success goals imposed by the society".
The level of accuracy that the data collected holds cannot be 100%; there is a level of error that affects the reliability of the data collected.
However, the majority of gang rape incidents go unreported, and this may subject the authorities to believe that it is not a serious problem at all.
The aim of this paper is to define the role of psychology in the criminal justice field and consider the basic theories that explain criminal behavior.
Genetic influences refer to the blueprints for behavior that are contained in a person's chromosomes. It is theoretically possible for a person to carry genes that influence behavior; the behavior they express would be the [...]
This paper argues that such a measure is vital and has significant benefits for society; it analyzes punishment from the sociological point of view and the perspective of an individual, referring to Kerman's work.
A serial killer may recognize the law as a deterrent to his or her activities, but not internalize the significance of the ban due to incomplete moral development.
The main idea of the theory is that social bonds are the most significant factors that can prevent individuals from engaging in unlawful activities.
In the study of criminology, the questions of why, how, and when are important to the understanding of the causation factors of crime.
The USA's inmate population is the largest in the world. Is it the prison departments, the society, or the inmates themselves?
According to the college administrators' records, crimes in campuses were minimal in the 19th century and in the early 20th century.
As such, it follows suit that crime, and to be specific street crime, must be analyzed in the context of how it is related to the society as a whole but not in isolation5.
Massachusetts is one of the communities that have managed to apply this theory to improve security in their streets. One of the key things to note when implementing this theory in such a location is [...]
The feeling of dehumanization in the prisons is also contributed by overcrowding, strip searches, and degradation of the prisoners by the prison officers.
Speaking of early biological theories, many of them assumed that crimes were caused because of the forces that were beyond the individuals' control.
Besides, these theories correlate with one of the latest versions, according to which the murder of JFK was a conspiracy of the CIA and mafia members, including Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald.
The main goal of my work is to build evidence that the number of criminals is not proportional to the severity of the crime and that despite a large number of crimes, not all of [...]
In order to better understand their practices and attempt to put a stop to their actions prematurely, there was a need for proper classification and consequent analysis.
In the context of law enforcement, the former generally refers to the process of police examining the suspect's property. One police procedure that relates to a search is the process of obtaining a search warrant.
This statement in no way absolves the perpetrator of responsibility for the actions committed but describes that the decisions taken are often motivated by the unconscious part of the personality or the presence of mental [...]
Between the articles of violence and the observations about the extent of injustice in the American prison system, there is a high level of injustice instigated by the U.S.government to the African Americans.
There is a number of theoretical perspectives aimed at explaining what stands behind rape, that is, how rape is reinforced by, why it is more widespread in specific concepts, and what a rapist's motivations for [...]
These activities include the formation of a criminal attitude of the personality, the formation of a criminal motive, the personality of a criminal and a victim, and other means.
This article would help me demonstrate the importance of a complex approach to any problem that has to be solved by the government through the example of sex crimes. I would use this research for [...]
Therefore, deterrence is meant to ensure that punishments are so harsh that members of the public will fear committing a crime that will lead them to the same punishment.
Hallsworth and Silverstone argues that although there have been a lot of violence, the main source is not quite clear and people live by speculations that the violence is linked to the emergence of a [...]
The strict logic of the era of classicism, presented in the works of Cesare Beccaria, speaks of the full responsibility of a person for his misdeeds.
Answer: the examples of the early psychological and psychiatric theories trying to explain criminality are the trait theory, the moral development theory and the cognitive information-processing theory.
Agnew's general strain hypothesis was an advancement of the strain theory since sought to "expand the strain theory by pointing to new categories of strain including the loss of positive stimuli, the presentation of negative [...]
The form of management adopted by an organization, whether legal or unlawful, is determined by the nature of its activities the management experience of its officials."A patron-client organization is a group of criminal patron's who [...]
The article claims that both the environment and the person's experiences contribute to the development of serial killer tendencies. It has been noted that the lack of continuity in serial killing is due to a [...]
The move to embrace the novel technology has led to the emergence of a new form of crime and behavior referred to as "hacking". Today, the term is used to refer to individuals engaged in [...]
First and foremost, one should note that one of the most typical ethical concerns in the relevant field is the cases of discrimination on the ground of the national origin.
That is why this paper's objective is to explore different views on how the factors of race and culture can influence the violent and criminal behavior in people, to analyze the evident correlations between the [...]
The idea that criminal and offending behavior stands in the correlation with the genetic features of the offender is not a novelty of our time.
To my firm belief, utilitarian ethical system is more advantageous than the systems proposed by libertarianism and determinism since it accepts human nature and puts the general safety above the individual good.
This is further worsened by the fact that the number of offenders to be monitored after being released is often higher than the number of officers tasked with the responsibility of following up on them.
It is imperative to note that some of these theories are swallowed up in the initial five, and so for the purposes of this paper, only the fundamental aspects of these theories will be discussed.
The generalisation about the people who commit crime indicates flaws in the processes of thinking and possible outcomes. It appears that the society chooses to pay attention to crime committed by specific groups, such as [...]
At the center of this analysis is the role of socialization in explaining crime and the legal definitions of crime as a misdemeanor and a felony.
This paper draws the theories discussed herein from a radical orientation; they include radical, feminist and critical criminology theories and present principles that alter the existing and traditional views on the development of criminal behaviour [...]
Knight notes that murders by homosexuals are very common and most of the times they involve both sexes, either as the victims or the assailants.
The majority of homicide victimization of the whites is done through poison followed by arson and lastly guns. Although the majority of homicides committed are intra-racial, special focus is usually given by juries in inter-racial [...]
The Sox Act was introduced by congress after a near collapse of the stock market in the 1990s. This was a more elaborate piece of legislation as it increased the maximum sentencing period to 20 [...]
A criminal case involves the breaking of a law that governs the whole state unlike the civil case where the law broken is only applicable to the subjects in the conflict.
The present paper aims at assessing the unique needs of juvenile offenders with mental illnesses in comparison with their adult counterparts and identifying effective strategies for their rehabilitation. The general requirement that applies to both [...]
There are no relatives in the area that can provide temporary housing, and Simon will have a portion of his wages garnished to pay the $18,000 debt of child support. In North Carolina, there are [...]
The study will be based on the mixed research method and, the rate of successful participants in the program as well as particular attitudes and ideas of inmates concerning the program.
Activities that are perceived to go against the expectations of society are branded crimes and anybody who commits them is punished.
Victim-blaming can have life-long consequences on the lives of crime victims, highlighting the need to stop the media's scrutiny of the victims and focus on those really responsible for the crime instead.
According to Freud's theory, the "it" component incorporates the biologic, or intrinsic, elements of one's personality, whereas the "ego" constituent of one's personality implies a combination of the influences of the society and the intrinsic [...]
In this theory, the level of self control exercised by individuals in the presence of a strong or a weak incentive to commit a crime explains why some people commit crimes while others do not.
An analysis of the experiment reveals that the fake prison environment managed to evoke emotions and feelings in the prisoners, the prison warden, and even Zimbardo who played the warden.
Some played the role of prisoners and others that of prison guards in a situation formed to suggest a sense of the psychology of custody.
Nevertheless, despite the fact that in his book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people turn evil, Zimbardo strived to undermine the soundness of a dispositional outlook on the subject matter, while providing readers with [...]
The purposes of the report are thus to analyze the statistical data by the UK Home Office, to compare rates dynamics regarding various crime types, and make respective conclusions that would help in either confirming [...]
Many of the people who are not in favor of such an act believe that hanging a person till death is not the only solution, so I say question them "what could be the other [...]
There is a relationship between street gangs and prison gangs as well as the behavior of individuals and the gangs. And in this way the gangs are able to recruit the unsuspecting kids.
The conflict theory differs from the biological theory in the sense that it does not locate the criminals in the society but instead, it identifies the major cause of criminal and deviant behavior in the [...]
Thus it is anchored on the notion that criminal law exists for the purpose of deterring public wrongs in doing so the theory is emphatic that criminal conviction stands as long as the defendant has [...]
However, his theory was important in that, it gave a challenge to the idea of criminals being wicked or as having chosen to be engaging in criminal acts.
The next will extrapolate on several measures that should be undertaken at both individuals and institutional level to ensure that personal information is always safe and out of reach from criminals.
In the Information age where a person has access to more knowledge about the folly of being involved in criminal activities and the negative impact of having a prison record, it is a mystery why [...]
On the other hand, if the crime rate is low in a country, the government need not spend so much on the salaries of policemen and the same money can be utilized to make sure [...]
Satisfaction of rehabilitation costs, salaries, and payment of the government officials and employees involved in the operations and activities related to the war on drugs have been included in the estimation of the cost of [...]
The present paper is designed to use the subculture approach that belongs to the array of ecological theories to explain the emergence of crime in Boyle Heights, composed mostly of citizens of Latino cultural background.
The decorum of the society was usually controlled by a federal body of the state, and the laws used to be abided by by all the people residing in the society.
Moreover, feminist scholarship has recently begun to examine serial murder as "sexual terrorism" or as a perpetuation of gynocide, the systematic crippling, raping and/or killing of women by men.
In the absence of a parental figure, these children should be placed into orphanages rather than being left out on the street and get exposed to the whole array of factors described in the general [...]
The article published in the Epoch Times, titled "23 Members of Chicago Street Gang Face Federal Charges," tells about the members of the Goonie gang, which used lethal violence in order to instill an atmosphere [...]
Breetzke and Cohn, for instance, apply the theory to burglaries in the gated communities of South Africa which became popular in the region due to the rising rates of violence and crime.
The four witnesses that gave statements are Clifford Tonell, the owner of the store, Bo Foot, the security guard, Andrea Sianturi, the store employee, and Susan Bunion, a criminal justice instructor who was making purchases [...]
In criminology, there are numerous theories to identify the predictors of violence and assaults to help solve and moderate the crimes occurring on campus.
The basic principle of this strategy is that shaming is designed not just to condemn a guilty person but also to take specific measures to correct the current situation and prevent crimes in the future.
As relates to this theory, the root of the problem is that people will never be the same, enjoy the same comforts or love from other people. This is a character that is grown from [...]
For example, the theory states that in the US, individuals are likely to engage in crimes to pursue monetary gain because the government promotes monetary success while not stressing the significance of legitimate ways for [...]
The argument escalated to the point, where a passenger went out of the car and used a deadly weapon on the man.
Despite researchers' attempts to argue the effectiveness of Sutherland's controversial approach to discussing the definition of white-collar crime based on status and occupation, they have found out that other factors are irrelevant.
