Criminology

Inside Out Fifty Years Behind the Walls of New Jerseys Trenton State Prison is a book written by veteran prison guard Harry Camisa and his co-writer Jim Franklin. It was first published in 2003, a year after Camisa retired from the employ of New Jersey Department of Corrections. It chronicles the fifty years of Camisas life as first a prison guard then a teacher in Trenton. In those years of service, Camisa encountered the many infamous characters that were detained in the prison. He also experienced...

Alcohol abuse in the disciplined forces is common in federal and state departments across the country. But due to the sensitivity of the information it has been difficult for the public to scrutinize and estimate the impact it has on the police force. The police are custodians of law and order, they interact with citizens everyday and are expected to root out any vices within. Their sobriety is therefore paramount to the effective discharge of duties. This paper will look at the extent of alcohol...

April 26, 1995 United States , petitioner Lopez, Jr. , respondent, concealed firearm in high school Procedural History Respondent Alfonso Lopez, Jr. was arrested and charged under Texan law with firearm possession on school premises.  The next day, the state charges were dismissed after federal agents charged respondent by complaint for violation of the Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990.  Following indictment by a federal grand jury, respondent moved to dismiss the indictment, but the...

Special courts like drug courts are given the task of handling cases involving offenders who are drug users. This is done through intensive legal supervision, case managing mandatory drug abuse treatment as well as drug testing. When the participants go through the program successfully, they can have their charges dropped, their sentencing reduced or set aside. These programs in the drug courts help the participants to rebuild their lives and become law-abiding citizens. There is also provision...

Social learning theory is based on a theory of deviant criminal and conforming behavior. It looks into the causes of criminal behavior while social structure deals with the environment in which the behavior occurs. The purpose of this paper is to discuss social structure, socioeconomic structure in the United States, social organization, concentric zone theory, ecological theory, strain theory, anomies, and cultural deviance and how they contribute to the social structure theory. Social Structure Social...

Introduction Even though Tony Blair and George Bush did their best to legitimize the invasion of Iraq, one message that was clearly spelt out is the West has an insatiable appetite for oil and theyll go to all lengths to satisfy it. America is currently trying to reduce its dependence on Middle East oil but achieving this feat might take decades. The Arab oil embargo imposed on the US in 1973 exposed their Achilles heel and the current foreign policy in the Middle East is indicative of the lengths...

Michael Chossudovsky insists Al Qaeda is a U.S. backed intelligence asset that had no involvement in the 911 terrorist attack in America and whose existence was in fact used by the Bush administration to launch and justify the military offense against Afghanistan and Iraq (Garduce, 2006). In my opinion, Al Qaeda staged the 911 attacks as retaliation for the perceived atrocities committed by the West against Muslims. To start with, Al Qaeda is a radical terrorist group that emphasizes religious ideologies...

Sex crime is increasing at an alarming rate. Due to this increase, different States and countries have enacted laws that govern human sexual behavior which individuals need to observe. Those who break these laws are referred to as the sex offenders and are held liable for prosecution. These laws vary from place to place and they prohibit sexual abuse and practices that the government considers to be against the society norms (Henton, 2010). They are intended to protect the community from further...

The social, economic and political dynamics of worlds demography has greatly impacted on every aspect of human life. Increase in population for instance has strained the available resources to an extent of depletion. The provision of social amenities such as security and safety services to the people has therefore become a challenge to many authorities in the world. Moreover, the population increase is characterized by increase in societal ills such as high crime rates, increased insecurity as well...

School teachers visits help reign on children delinquency. Crime and criminal justice remains an important segment of society. In recent times, child delinquency has emerged as an issue area affecting society. Due to the belief that the young generation is the backbone of society, it is necessary that steps are taken to ensure the group develops as envisaged. Literature review The Nurse Home Visitation Program which was partially sponsored by NIMH presents a twenty year old approach in which case...

Hayes, G  Sedra, M 2001, Afghanistan Transition after Threat, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canada. This book talks about the different challenges that are faced by Afghanistan, focusing on the period after the American occupation, the ouster of the Taliban regime, and the establishment of the transitional government. This work is a compilation of different papers which discusses in detail the problems that the transitional government is facing including economic challenges on Afghanistans...

Crimes can cost communities a lotnot just in property and money but also in increasing fear, increasing the risk of stigma and impacting the local services especially to already underprivileged communities that result to lowering the quality of life. Property damages and loss from different types of crimes such as property crime, violent crime, white collar crime and internet crime also impose major costsfinancial, physical, emotional and psychological.  These negative effects of violent crimes...