Criminology

Introduction In Britain, criminology arose so indecisively and fitfully that its history can not be purveyed easily in a coherent manner. Hermann Mannheims forty year old account of its loosely connected stages remains as serviceable as any (Maguire et al, 2007). Maguire, (2007) postulates that statistics can not merely be simplified as tables, formulae, sets of techniques or numbers. On the contrary, statistics is an approach that enables the analyst to understand the world and how it operates....

Death penalty also referred to as capital punishment is a form of punishment that is applicable to any person found guilty of a capital offence. Capital offences include murder, attempted murder, and robbery with violence and treason. For many years there has been a looming debate on whether death penalty should be abolished. Many are of the argument that it should be done away with as it is not only unfair but also inhuman. On the other hand an equally big number believes that the only way that...

Whenever a person is charged with an offence and found guilty by a court of law, they are usually sentenced to particular punishment. The most common form of punishment in many judicial systems is imprisonment. A prison or a jail is a correctional facility where people accused of crimes are confined. The main aim of prisons is to rehabilitate or correct inmates so that they may become good and trustworthy members of the society (Andres, A.  Valerie, J. 2010). However some analysts have on more...

Race, Drugs, and Policing Understanding Disparities in Drug Delivery Arrests By Katherine Beckett, Kris Nyrop, and Lori Pfingst This article was written to make the reader understand where the racial disparities in the drug arrest and drug use are coming from.  There are many forms of research that have been done to help clear this up.  Some of the type of research that was done was The Data Source and Research, The Seattle Needle Exchange Program, Public Drug Treatment Admission Data...

Although plea bargaining has long functioned as one of the fundamental features of the American criminal justice system for more than one hundred years HYPERLINK httpwww.questiaschool.comPM.qstaod5001761425(Gorr, 2000, p. 129), a review of the effects and recent high-profile criminal cases demonstrates why this type of prosecutorial discretion ought to be abolished in order to ensure a more just type of criminal justice system.  Historically, plea bargaining was devised and implemented based...

In the world today, one of the major institution termed as hostile to the society is the police industry. Police regarded as people who are used by the government or other relevant authorities in denying the public certain freedoms, for example, freedom of expression and freedom of association. Whereas it is true that sometimes police act unfairly or ruthlessly their role in the society is important and cannot be replaced. However, they should improve their approach towards the public thus nurture...

Question 1 What are the major causes of child prostitution in the Philippines based on the video One of the five parts of the documentary video is focused on the problem of child prostitution in the Philippines. Aptly titled as Philippines Angels of the Night, the documentary follows the lives of three children, ages between 11 to 13, who are forced into the practice of prostitution at very young ages. There are several reasons behind these child molestations. The movie highlights how poverty,...

Critical infrastructure within a State includes those facilities that are useful to both the public and the private sector. Such facilities include telecommunication systems, banking facilities, water supply facilities, transport networks, electrical power plants, oil and gas stores, hospitals, schools and administration offices. Others which have special consideration include security systems and media house. In case such critical infrastructure rare destroyed there are huge loses that are incurred....

The sneak and peek warrant was incorporated into the United States legislation as a section of the Patriot Act in 2001. The main aim for the enactment of the legislation was to curb terrorist activities and prevent them from taking place within the jurisdictions of the United States. Sneak and peek gave law enforcement officers the power to search private residential areas and business premises without prior notification or with delayed notification to ensure that the suspect cannot interfere with...

This paper examines defines the concept of justice in the context of the American criminal justice system. It also evaluates the costs associated with criminal justice and the benefits that citizens experience as a result of state expenditures for the justice system by performing a literature on studies that have performed cost-benefit analysis on particular aspects of criminal justice. The paper showed that the cost of crime is escalating in the United States and some criminal justice policies...

The number of imprisoned individuals with mental disabilities has continued to rise steadily in the past few decades. This has almost make prisons some of the biggest providers of mental health especially in America. The problem is that the prisons are not equipped to deal competently with the case of mentally challenged persons. This problem has worsened so much today that people who are mentally ill are being executed on conviction.  But this should not be the case mentally ill convicts should...

The various components of the criminal justice system like the courts, police force, homeland security, corrections etc. face several challenges. Issues with regard to the police force are very prominent and have an immense bearing on the effectiveness of the system. Police ethics is particularly important as it helps police officers to decide during the dilemma situations they frequently encounter in their course of their job. The public image of the police is also improved when they act in accordance...