Criminology

The United States of America Justice department reports that one in every thirty two Americans adult is incarcerated. The report indicates that close to eight million adults in America are either on parole, incarcerated, or on probation. This indicates that United States has the highest number of prisoners in the world with seven hundred and thirty per one hundred thousand people. It is followed by Russia which has six hundred and eleven per one hundred people. United States population accounts...

The criminology essay is based on the policy of community policing and its effect on the public policy. First, the essay describes community policing looking at several aspects that make it a better policing tactic as compared to traditional policing methods. The essay further suggests that this policy was initiated by the US national assembly and has a minimal constitutional issue. Community policing will greatly change the communitys perceptions towards the law enforcers and see them as partners...

Medical Crime is an illegal action in medical profession which led towards Health Care Fraud and Health Care Abuse. U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has instigated every healthcare crime and fraud very seriously and penalties are too levied thereon for restraining such immoral medical occurrence in future. Part A Health Care Fraud Health Care Fraud is defined as the misrepresentation of factual informationwhichis stated intentionally for means of unfair profit that is gained through medical...

Juvenile delinquency is a term given to young people (juveniles) who commit crimes. Tricia Ellis-Christensen (2010) in her article entitled, What is Juvenile Delinquency defines a juvenile as a person who has not attained the age of majority or a person who has not reached adulthood. The law normally predetermines what is to be referred as the age of majority or adulthood, and this is different among countries (Angela, 2010). The issue of juvenile delinquency has become very common in the society...

Faisal bin Musaid bin Abdul Aziz is born 1904 on Riyadh. He was son of Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, the create of Saudi Arabia. His maternal, Tarfa is member group of leading families spiritual of the Al al-Shaikh. The mother die when he is young. He is raise by maternal grandfather, who teach Koran and the principles of the Islamic religion to him. The education taught affect him in his life. Faisal increase state responsibilities, begin at the age of 13. He is soldier in his fathers army. In the 18,...

Michael J. Lieber in his article Disproportionality minority confinement (DMC) of youth An analysis of state and federal efforts to address the issue seeks to determine through research a number of related questions related to the confinement of racial groups in a variety of secure facilities.  His research is connected to the Federal Formula Grants Program, in particular the DMC component of the program, and the overriding objective is to determine the efficacy of these legislative schemes...

Pre-trial process is the process by which prior investigations are carried out on a suspect after arrest before they are charged with the particular crime.  During this process investigations are carried out to get as much information as possible on the background of the person, so as to determine if they deserve detention or release (Clifford, 2002). The pre-trial process in the United States of America is carried out by the U.S Probation and Pretrial Services System. The department has its...

Computer technology and specially internet, has brought about a great impact on the current aspect of the contemporary society. The book being reviewed deals with one very important aspect of the computer evolution and development The emergency of cyber crime and other activities that are harmful to the society that carried out over the internet.     These activities have continued to increase because of internet and are posing a big challenge to the authorities concerned as far as their...

Any systemic understanding of white collar crime demands an extraordinarily nuanced understanding of procedural issues which attend a variety of white collar criminal investigations and proceedings.  Two of the more hotly debated issues involve whether the American grand jury actually continues to serve valid and ethically defensible public policy objectives and the extant to which parallel proceedings in white collar criminal cases implicate important constitutional rights as a consequence...

The right to counsel is regarded as a fundamental right in the criminal justice system. The right is clearly defined in the provisions of the Sixth Amendments of the American constitution which gives a defendant the legal right to have a counsel during their case trial (Crawford, 2001). Although the Sixth Amendment applies to defendants in federal courts, it is found to apply to state court through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (Crawford, 2001). However, during the case of Miranda...

Cocaine is a white or colorless crystalline alkaloid that is extracted from the leaves of coca plant. Although it is sometimes used as a medicinal compound, it has widely been abused because of its stimulating and euphoric effects. Cocaine occurs either in the form of crack cocaine or cocaine hydrochloride. Both the two forms of cocaine have been abused in the United States and their uses have been criminalized. The abusers of the drug often snort the powdered hydrochloride form of cocaine or...