The old west and the days of prohibition perhaps were dramatized back when we were kids when we would play Cowboys and Indians or Cops and Robbers. But, today the drama is much more serious and the issues about handguns can be debated until both political parties declare war on each other. In what h...

Computer crime is a crime of fresh history. This crime affects all of us. People who are involved in this crime are looked at differently than people guilty of any other crime. This public offence is one which , in a very strange way, forces the accused to be looked at with respect, nobility, and i...

Capital Punishment Introduction: Think for a moment about the fall into sin. Think about the people in Noah's day. Sodom and Gomorrah. What is the punishment inflicted upon all of them by God? Death. The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the first and harshest penalty for ...

It is quite normal for young children and teenagers to form peer groups. But when they go unsupervised and start engaging in criminal acts, that peer group becomes a "gang". A gang is an informal body of friends. They are peer groups who are socialized by the streets rather than by conv...

In our day and age, we cannot live without money. People need money to purchase material items, food to survive, and even entertainment. One can argue that money is what makes this world go around. Although money can seem to make one happy, there are also very negative consequences when one develops...

On April 19, 1995, a cold-blooded killer drove up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and left his rented Ryder truck parked outside. But this was not just another rental truck; it was loaded with 4,800-pounds of a fertilizer and fuel oil bomb. This bomb was to event...

Privacy – Who Is In Control? I believe law enforcement should do a better job of protecting private information from abuse. Law enforcement tells us they are tracking down more criminals with surveillance. Since the introduction of surveillance techniques the crime rate has not dropped. ...

America's Role In the Next Century As one of the most powerful and productive nations on earth today, America has many goals to persue in the next century. A few of these goals would be better employment status, less school violence, and more emphasison education. Presently, people of the...

In American History X the skinheads gather around an older man Cameron Alexander, a "white power" writer and recruiter of youthful neo-Nazis. His rhetoric of race reduces all the social problems in America to one thing-minorities. The trouble is, complex social problems never have one s...

The answer to this question is astounding: the U.S. incarcerates 25% of the world's prison population with only 7% of the world's population. This is a disturbing anamoly in the history of the world. Never before has a country been able to incarcerate so many people at such a high rate, ...

Why does the United States, the Super Power of the free world, find it necessary to continue executing prisoners who have committed the most heinous of crimes when the majority of the industrialized world have abolished Capital Punishment? Most industrialized nations have begun a trend to confine...

Thou shall not kill. To the normal person this might just sound like another quote your grandfather would say but to the more enlightened they will notice this to be out from the bible. It is one of the 10 commandments. Although you might ask in a society that no longer bases its rules and regulatio...

Popular culture has shaped peoples views on institutions. The media's exposure to the public is well needed due to the simple fact that only small percentage of people deal with the justice system. 'Hurricane' by bob Dylan a 1970's protest song condemning the Justice system for ...

Should Drug Use Be Decriminalized? "Nadelmann argues that the present policy [on drugs] does not work and that it is counterproductive. Legalization, he contends, would stop much of the disease, violence, and crime associated with illegal drugs." Nadelmann then continues with his idea...

Death Penalty The subject of the death penalty is one of the most controversial subjects today. Whenever the death penalty, also known as capital punishment, comes up, extremists from both sides begin to express their opinions. One side is pro-death penalty, while the other side says there's a p...

The Use of Computers in Law Enforcement A person living in today's world can't help but notice that most all businesses use computers. These businesses use computers to do many things, but it seems to me that most computer activities in the business world are for three main reasons: (...

Identity Theft Near You During the first half of 1999, Michael Allen Stonehouse walked into Bank One in Lakewood, Colorado and walked out of the bank with a $5000 loan. Approximately one month later he walked into another Bank One branch and this time he walked away with a new $10,000 loan. ...

In the pass 25 years, the migration of gangs have been a big problem in the United States and all over the world. 190 larger cities with the population of more than one hundred thousand and 555 smaller cities said they have notice some gang migration in there city in the pass 5 years. The reason why...

The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases Throughout history, minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal justice system, particularly in cases where the possible outcome is death. In early America, blacks were lynched for the slightest violation of informal laws and man...

Introduction It has been more than 50 years since the last person in Canada was executed, but a recent public opinion poll advocates that Canadians are becoming more supportive of the return to capital punishment. The ongoing debate even suggested that murderers should be given a rope to hang thems...

Serial Killers Did you know the United States produces more serial killers than any other country? Up to 85% of the worlds serial killers are found in America. In the past decade, the elusive creature known as the serial killer has captured the attention of the American culture. Three things...

The chief argument by the US not to ratify the Rome Statute is the endangerment of its troops as the primary contributor to peacekeeping-peacebuilding operations worldwide. An underlying preoccupation to this postulate is the ever-present American concern not to be allowed to exercise its own jurisd...

"Anotha sucka dead, L.A. Times front page." This is a quote from a well known rapper, Easy-E, of the grout NWA. He often claimed to be a gang member from the city of Compton. He had a history of being a drug dealer also. Easy-E and the rest of his group let the world know what a gang me...

The Aztec Socitey: A certain way to live (Laws and ways of the Aztec community) "Aztec justice was swift and generally inforgiveing, for crimes were dangerous to a balanced world." (Boone, 117) Crime: The people that wandered from the morally right ways were cast out of the Aztec Soci...

GUN CONTROLGun Control can be called the 'acid test' of liberalism. All true liberals must favor stricter gun controls. After all, doesn't the United States have the most heavily armed population on the earth? Are we not the world's most violent people? Surely these facts must be at least casu...