Criminal defined
By: Jerry Curtis
The word "criminal" can be defined on three levels: (1) a person who commits a crime, (2) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense, and (3) a person considered as a lawbreaker under subjective notions of "criminal behavior." The first two...
How values are linked to crime
By: Susan Overbey
The poverty of values has a great deal to do with the spike in crime in recent years. Values guide our behaviors and our decisions. Therefore, a good solid value system is crucial and to deviate from that is detrimental not only to the individual...
How people become criminals
By: Joseph Malek
About two thousand years ago Jesus Christ walked the Earth and was of the opinion that all human beings were sinners. I myself wonder if there are any living people today that have not violated one or more of God's "Ten Commandments."The question here...
Crime: Shared responsibility vs individual responsibility
By: Kubla Khan
Crime is a relatively new invention. For most of human existence, we have lived in tribes which were governed by cultural beliefs of moral and immoral behavior. A culture is a set of teachings passed on through the generations. In the tribal setting, culture is...
Why people use drugs and alcohol as a means of escaping reality
By: Ann E. Smith
Drug and alcohol abuse are often not understood. Why do people engage in self-destructive behavior around substances? Why do they drink again when it is clearly destroying their lives?Well, the main reason that people turn to alcohol and drugs is that it is a...
By: Janet Grischy
Not everyone is, but the majority of people are loyal to their family. It may be genetic, it may be habit, but the loyalty is there. Similarly, however much someone may dislike their boss, there is still loyalty to work itself, and a sense of...
Overcrowded prisons: Analysis and solutions
By: Tara Rijon
A federal judge recently ordered the state of California to reduce their prison inmate population by 57,000. That would require a release of nearly one third of the inmates currently incarcerated. As of December 31, 2007 there were 2,293,157 people incarcerated throughout...
Organized crime vs individual crime
By: Matthew Pownall
One can not be involved in organized crime without first being an individual with a criminal mind. Organized crime would not exist if it were not for the individual criminal mind coming together with another and so forth. To have a criminal mind then the...
The role of the criminologist
By: Olivia Kay
Do you find yourself asking the question "why?" frequently? Do you like to search for answers, make connections, and uncover the truth? If so, a career in criminology may intrigue you. Give me a moment to tell you exactly what a criminologist does.Criminologists...
Organized crime vs individual crime
By: James Fitzgerald
"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." Al Capone"Behind every great fortune, there is a crime." Charles Lucky' LucianoTwenty years as a policeman is bound to blur the edges of...

 

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