Criminology

Narco terrorism was a term first used by the President Fernando B.Terry of Peru in the year 1983 when he was addressing his anti-narcotic policemen.  Generally this term is used to refer to the violent and intimidating manner in which the narcotic traffickers influence their policies in their respective government. In a nutshell it is the way the narcotic traffickers force the law enforcers and the society at large to flaunt laws in their favor failure to which misfortunes such as family kidnappings,...

Component 1 Topic Selection Juvenile delinquency is ubiquitous in our society. Youths between the ages of 13-17, who make-up approximately 6 percent of the population, were involved in 17 percent of all arrests and 15 percent of all Violent Crime Index arrests (OJJDP, 2010). Although deterrence-based policies are ever-increasing in the juvenile justice system, many policymakers remain devoted to rehabilitating youths. One such means in doing this is to divert youths away from they system using a...

Crime Script Any crime that takes place firstly occurs in the mind of the involved criminal. What is crucial to a crime are the persons compulsions and motivations for the crime. Crimes are rarely entirely causeless, or committed just for the pleasure of it. There are typically various aspects related to crimes, such as attempts to profit financially, derive thrills, as in rape, or vengeance against an enemy. Hence, understanding the minds of criminals is the prerequisite to any discussion on crimes....

The Study of Crime It is interesting to analyze the conflicts between theories that explain deviant behavior.  At the end of the day, law enforcement agencies must concern themselves with the fact that a crime took place, rather than reasons why criminals acted the way they did.  Still, these theories remain essential in the development of public policies to control crime.     According to the cultural transmission theory, all kinds of behaviors, including deviant behavior,...

The criminal justice system, as well as the general public, is faced by a major challenge concerning the way it should handle various cases of fatal medical error.  Each and every nation seeks to minimize the rate of death from fatal medical errors however, differences in the justice system guide those endeavors to different trajectories. The issue of fatal medical errors divides society into two major groups those who propose and those who oppose criminalization of medical errors.  This...