Operation Identification Many individual factors are important in fighting crime from a preventative standpoint. One of these factors is property identification programs. An example of a property identification program is Operation Identification. Operation Identification is a nationally reco...

Crime in America Every year half a million college students are targets of bias-driven slurs or physical assaults. Every day at least one hate crime occurs on a college campus. Every minute a college student somewhere sees or hears racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise biased words or im...

A 1997 study revealed that over three hundred innocent people are "sitting" on death row. Of these individuals, twenty will actually be executed. Innocent people are being murdered in our criminal justice system. Simply put by Professor Nathanson of the University of California, " ...

As time goes by, the wave of criminality soars more and more. In consequence, prisons were created in order to equilibrate our crime-ridden society. But actually prisons "have traditionally been expected to perform a Jekyll and Hyde function for society", as Bans Mattick, director of the C...

Many Americans today still feel that capital punishment is a fair and necessary method of punishing their most violent criminals. One argument for the death penalty is the deterrent effect. In a 1985 study, published by economist Stephen K. Layson at the University of North Carolina, he found that e...

This is the age of the white-collar crime. A time when the words thief and businessmen go hand in hand. The recent events of Enron and their accounting firm Anderson Accounting has made this type of crime come to the forefront. White-collar criminals don't get their hands dirty in their work; they u...

Identification fraud is a crime that is committed frequently by persons under the age of 21. This fraud has been rapidly increasing over the past decade due to the growth advancing in technology. Being under the age of 21, I have seen the possession and use of Fake Identification Cards (fake id&apos...

Over the past decade the issue of gun control has been a hot topic. The ability to own a gun is considered by some a birthright of Americans. However, with crime rates involving handguns rising each day it has become quite clear. Handgun laws must become more stricter in order to reduce homic...

To ensure a free society, our forefathers granted us the universal right to free speech. This meant that anyone could be scrutinized, if the information was true, by the media. The LAPD officers who beat Rodney King were scrutinized; Richard Nixon was scrutinized; even Jerry Springer has been scru...

Deviances are considered to be a part of society that have went against the rules of the so-called "norms". Deviance can also be called abnormality. A University professor named David Gale had society turn around him and consider him a deviant after they found his work Colleague, Constance...

Today was just like any other day in a small college town named Laramie with a population of 27,000 people. The University of Wyoming is about the only thing happening tonight on this cool evening in October. At a local bar near the campus is where you probably could find most of the young adults in...

Crime and Violence in television has been an issue since the beginning of popular media. Many people think that a lot of Crime and Violence go hand in hand with shows and movies seen on television. The section of the paper will discuss TV violence and how it effects young viewers.American children...

There is no hiding the fact that guns are everywhere; almost every time some one turns on the news or reads a paper there is something about a shooting. This may be a homicide or just a plain accident. Either way, the media make the issues surrounding guns always look so bad. They seldom mention the...

Capital Punishment- A Matter of Life and Death Capital Punishment: the penalty of death for the commission of a crime When turning on the television, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, we are bombarded with news of arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and other such tragedie...

In the world we live in today, we don't associate gang members having authoritative control; however, "Gang Leader for a Day" by Sudhir Venkatesh portrays how business oriented and organized gang members can be. Sudhir Venkatesh, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, is doi...

In recent years, tragedies have been visited upon schools across the country. From Kentucky to Oregon to Colorado, the notion of schools as safe havens has been shattered by the sound of gunfire. These acts are not limited to any geographic regions or family backgrounds, nor do they have a single ...

A twelve-year-old boy named Lionel Tate was charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of a six-year-old playmate. Tate was imitating wrestling moves that he saw on television when the girl was killed (The Associated Press). This boy was just playing with a friend when this accident ...

PERSONAL STATEMENT University has always appealed to me because of the wealth of experience it has to offer as a student. I am interested in studying Psychology and Criminology; this is because I am fascinated by topics like why/what people commit crime, what makes people unique and how diff...

Causes and Effects of Juvenile Crime One of the biggest problems that the United States is faced with in the present day is juvenile crime. Juvenile crime does not only affect the individuals who commit the crime, it also affects the victim of the crime. This also affects the juvenile in their...

Capital PunishmentImagine a man who commits a murder once, is given a fifteen year jail sentence and is returned to the streets where he kills again. He is imprisoned again only to be released. This could happen because one in every ten death row inmates has been convicted of murder at least once ...

Capital PunishmentImagine a man who commits a murder once, is given a fifteen year jail sentence and is returned to the streets where he kills again. He is imprisoned again only to be released. This could happen because one in every ten death row inmates has been convicted of murder at least once ...

Abortion Over the Past 18 years America has seen 27 million abortions but some are still asking if this is moral and should we allow such procedures to take place? Do we have the right to tell someone they must have a baby? Should we have the power to shape ones destiny and destroy a mature l...

Leading publications blame criminal behavior on innumerable causes. The most publicly known of these causes is the social environment. In reality there is a completely separate series of causes that nobody speaks of ordinarily because there are less complicated things to pass the blame onto. The ex...

Do you know how to remain safe on campus? There has been a rise in campus crime over the years due the increased dorm population, according to Maj. Susan Norred, assistant director of safety and security for the University Police Department. Norred, a police officer for approximately 17 ye...

Yes, all Michigan high schools should require metal detectors. This is because metal detectors create a safe and secure environment. Metal detectors make an environment safe and secure by catching people that are trying to bring weapons in the school, and also by discouraging them from thinking...