Criminology

The police interact with the community and their major role is to enforce law, maintain order, detect crimes and apprehend criminals. The behavior of the police in this interaction is greatly influenced by their seniors in rank. Police expose different methodologies when it comes to arresting, community policing, citation issuing and use of force. Most of the time, the public has gauged the police behavior as wanting, leading to outcries for police reforms. Nevertheless, police reforms have been...

There are so many areas involving criminology.  Crimes, ages, strengths, strategies, and even capitalism are all a few of the key aspects related to criminology.  This paper will briefly discuss several of these topics as they relate to specific areas in criminology.  The first topic that will be discussed is the Marxist theories as they relate to crime.  Although some of his theories are questionable and not always agreed with, he did contribute a great deal to the field of...

I believe that ones environment has deep and heavy impacts on who a person is and how he acts in his everyday life. For example, if one grew up surrounded by terrible conditions and had never even experienced any other kind of world, one would learn to only think and act as a reaction to these conditions without ever knowing that there is a better way to live. Of course the opposite is also true if one has never been exposed to bad conditions, one would not be able to imagine a difficult life and...

Howard N. Snyders article on criminal justice which specifically goes by the title Is Suicide More Common Inside or Outside Juvenile Facilities is a quantitative and comparative inquiry that seeks to shed light into the likelihood of youth offenders committing suicide under two distinct circumstances i.e., (a) while they are in the custody of juvenile detention facilities or (b) when they are left to be on their own, outside  as it were  of such detention facilities. Snyders inquiry, which...

In the year 1949, the medical examiners assumed the obligation of investigating deaths of people whose corpses are to be burnt up (cremated). This role was assumed from Police Department. Through the years, the job description and roles of the medical examiner has greatly transformed to cope with the fast changing world and rapidly increasing level of criminal murder in the United States. Medical examiners are a very essential part of public health. This is because they are public health partners...

I. Describe the purposes of criminal law There are some criminologists who believe that criminal law functions in relation to the legal requirements that the society has and also because it needs maintenance and promotion of social values (Gaines and Miller, 2010). Describe the two main functions of criminal law Criminal law has a legal and a social function. Its legal function is to maintain an orderly society by safeguarding its citizens from criminal harm. On the other hand the social function...

Introduction This interviews major themes are victims rights, victim assistance, mental health issues, substance useabuse, and Rape in America. The interview is with Dr. Dean Kilpatrick who is an authority on these subjects. Analyzing the Interview This interview starts primarily with a discussion about PAR, People Against War, with the founding member Dr. Dean Kilpatrick explaining how and why it started and how it contributed overall to the benefit of the rape victims. Dr. Dean in this article...

Community policing is an organizational tactic and the individual attitude that enhances collaboration between law enforcers and members of the society and furthers practical crime solving in conjunction with public sector agencies and local organizations. The goal is to minimize crime and fear of crime, ensure development in the neighborhoods and develop good public attitude towards the police. It therefore, requires great accountability by law enforcers, involving community members in making decisions...

Since centuries, experts have been putting efforts to propose the factors of devilish behaviors of individuals that resulted in the development of the field of criminology. In this field, two different groups of people propose diverse causes of occurrences of crimes in the society. In specific, it is observation that one group advocates the notion that people are themselves the cause of evil actions and crimes in the society, and they (Twiss, pp. 23-25) take the example of Hitler and several others...

Department of defense remains the greatest repository of federal resources for responding to the terrorist attack. The Department of defense has the capability to collect and analyze intelligence. Homeland security department has two central objectives. These objectives are, to assess knowledge in homeland defense domains which are critical (homeland security technology, mass destruction weapons, terrorism, security and intelligence) and to expand participants ways of thinking by analyzing and communicating...

In the treatise On Liberty, Mill opens his essay with a critique against the tyranny of the majority. According to him, the authority of the government must be controlled by the liberty of the citizens. If the government authority is without limit, then it is a breeding ground for tyranny. To prevent his, Mill proposes two mechanisms of control 1) to define the rights belonging to citizens, and 2) the creation of constitutional checks by which the assent of the community would represent its interests....

Death penalty is a social justice issue and has remained one for over 4000 years. Today, some countries oppose it while others use it to deter criminal activities in the society. Whether it is a deterrent or not will be studied by the paper. This paper examines death penalty as a social justice issue. Moreover, it applies Immanuel Kants theory of ethics to explain capital punishment in the light of value judgment. It also gives a review of studies relevant to death penalty and Kants theory respectively....