Criminology Essays

The Psychology Of The Fear Of Crime
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Apr 2017
Introduction: Fear of crime is a very prevalent issue today. Many people in today’s society express anxiety and fear about crime, and about being victimized. The level of fear that a person holds depends on m...

Crime Scene Management: Challenges Faced
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Apr 2017
Introduction: Crime scene management has evolved to meet the challenges of today’s crime scene experts. There have been a lot of changes over the past 75 years, especially in the type of evidence which can no...

Illegal Immigration And Border Security
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Apr 2017
Introduction: Introduction Department of homeland security is one of the reactions of 9/11 attacks on United States of America. It is a cabinet department of federal government of USA. It was formed on November 25,...

The Law Of Civil Forfeiture
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Apr 2017
Introduction: This country has long been accustomed to property seizures used as an instrumentality of a crime and obtained through criminal activity. Such instrumentalities of crime can be referred to as property ...

Overrepresentation Of Ethnic Minorities - Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Apr 2017
Introduction: The overrepresentation of ethnic minorities in the Criminal Justice System looks like this: in 79.6 of arrests in 2009-10 those who were involved classified their ethnicity as white (Race and the CJS,...

Drug Policies And The War On Drugs Criminology Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Apr 2017
Introduction: The War on Drugs is an aggressive drug policy aimed at bringing the fight towards drug suppliers and cartels. It began during Nixon’s term when he escalated America’s problem with drugs as...

The Relationship between Substance abuse and Criminal Behaviour
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Apr 2017
Introduction: Substance abuse in adolescents is a serious problem that can lead to deviant acts that create problems in adulthood. Mental problems that develop from substance abuse and drug issues may be one of the...

The Different Types Of Custodial Sentences
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Apr 2017
Introduction: For this report, I have decided to focus on the effectiveness of the use of non-custodial sentences and to explore how certain types of punishment may be the reason why some criminals re-offend. Ob...

Lone Wolf Terrorism Definitions - Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Apr 2017
Introduction: Lone wolf terrorism and mass killings can be argued to be a global phenomenon today. The definitions incorporated in the literature concerning Lone wolf terrorism do not differ greatly. According to S...

Media Representation Of Elderly And Young Offenders
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Apr 2017
Introduction: The paper presents a fundamental chapter in the thesis by examining the role that media depiction of crime plays within society. It addresses the question by firstly introducing the connections betwee...

Organised Crime Affecting The United Kingdom - Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Apr 2017
Introduction: In order to assess the extent to which organised crime is affecting the UK one must first try to define the term itself. A recent definition by Interpol describes it as “Any group having a corpo...

What is penal welfarism? Garland's theory.
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Mar 2017
Introduction: What is penal welfarism? Evaluate the impact it has had on juvenile justice reform in the UK from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. In order to evaluate the impact of penal welfa...

The Morgan Report 1991: Crime prevention strategies
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Mar 2017
Introduction: The Morgan report of 1991 identified the local authority as being central to the delivery of crime prevention strategy. How successful have local authorities in fact proved to be in implementing this...

Rational Choice Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Mar 2017
Introduction: Critically explore the proposition that individuals freely and rationally choose to commit crime. This essay will critically discuss the proposition that individuals freely and rationally choose to c...

Rehabilitation, Treatment, and the Management of Offenders: Can Punishment Cure?
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Feb 2017
Introduction: Rehabilitation, Treatment, and the Management of Offenders: Can Punishment Cure? Abstract This paper will discuss how the authors of three particular articles, Megan Comfort, Mona Lynch, Kel...

The Impact of Increased Domestic Abuse Rates
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Feb 2017
Introduction: An analysis of the impact of an increasing rate of domestic violence on the women and the responsiveness of the police 2015 INRODUCTION 1.1Background of study According to the United Natio...

The Police and Crime
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Feb 2017
Introduction: History of Criminal Investigation: The investigation of crime involves the study of various facts and findings, with the intention of finding whether an individual is guilty or not, for an offence. T...

Community Policing and Community Safety and Security
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Dec 2016
Introduction: What, if anything, can community policing do to reduce crime and improve community safety and security? Introduction While an original concept of community policing may be found in what is referred t...

Racial Profiling
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Nov 2016
Introduction: Racial Profiling Abstract This manuscript will take an in-depth look at racial profiling. Many studies have been conducted on this type of practice and a few of these studies will be observed. Conc...

Conflict theory
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2016
Introduction: Abstract With the development of the labeling theory, many researchers found experimentation and data collection easier to finding predictors in criminal behavior. Assuming that criminal behavior is...

Zero Tolerance Policing
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2016
Introduction: Within modern society the contemporary debate from the population is, ‘what do we want from our police forces and what is an acceptable level of performance should be in terms of fairness and effec...

How Children of incarcerated parents are affected
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2016
Introduction: How Children of incarcerated parents are affected Abstract More than 1.5 million children had their parents incarcerated by the year 2014 and the number continues to rise. Parental incarceration is l...

Stop and search, and the Human Rights Act
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2016
Introduction: PART A The power of stop and search is a general term used to describe the powers of police or occasionally the officials to search the members of public in a various context without a warrant.[1] Su...

The left realist perspective on crime
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2016
Introduction: This assignment is about how realism define crime,it causes and how these crimes could be prevented.There are numerous crime theories, example labelling theory,life course theory,anomie theory an so ...

Enron and the role of tone at the top in fraud
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2016
Introduction: Research and review the Enron case against the concept of tone at the top. Produce a referenced report and bibliography which demonstrates specifically how the conduct of the senior leadership...