Essays on Crime Page 65

On a windy winter night in 1932, a kidnapper crept onto the estate of Charles A. Lindbergh, climbed a homemade ladder, placed a ransom note on the window, and left with the baby of the most famous man in the world. The ransom was paid, but the child was found months later, dead in the…

“After all I have done to keep clean,” she sobbed, “this is too much!  I know I am a monster in the sight of men; there is blood on my hands. I’ve looted and cursed and killed and diced and drunk, till my very heart is calloused. My only consolation, the one thing to keep…

A Class of Community Supervision, on ISP. Mr. Jim Paul, an Officer of the New Jersey State Intensive Supervision Program (ISP), presentations to the class was very, very informative and detailed to the entire class. During his lecture, he stressed very forcefully the importance of the Intensive Supervision Program, and this program’s better treatment in…

Abstract Psychopathy and bi-polar behaviors are linked to brain and cognitive dysfunctions. Such behaviors are also associated with delinquency and criminality in general. Amongst children in particular, such traits are identifiable from a young age. The purpose of this paper will be to explore the biological and psychological traits of delinquent offenders with mental illnesses…

What is femicide? In the Caribbean and Latin America, the killing of young girls and women has intensified in the past few years. Since the early 1990s, the killing of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has drawn a lot of attention since such cases affect all countries in the region. According to the UNFPA paper,…

In our violent world today, the ability to protect ourselves is an important factor in our lives. Police cannot be everywhere at once and that is the reason almost all state legislatures have incorporated some kind of self-defense statute for their state. The ability to use deadly force for self-defense has saved many innocent lives…

Upon arriving at a crime scene, officers and detectives aim to collect clues that aid in identifying the culprit and comprehending the motive behind the crime. This investigation centers on two categories of evidence: direct evidence, deemed more crucial and substantial; and circumstantial evidence, which while not as robust, still plays a role in constructing…

Is a government justified in limiting the access of consenting adults to pornographic materials? Censorship laws seek to limit access to pornographic materials but preventing their distribution, sale, or exhibition. Censorship laws can also prohibit the production of pornography or even its possession Commission Reports on Pornography The 1970 Commission Had an explicit anticensorship stance….

Stable and successful government can only function by a system that implements laws reflecting the kind of society they want to be. To do this, punishment for breaking laws must be structured in a way that aims to decrease crime, whether it is by reforming how individuals act or physically restraining those that break the…

            With the increasing interest of the Spanish empire to pursue more territories and further their cause of spreading Christianity to the other regions, they had initiated the strategy for exploration and conquest of the New World. It is through this that the Spanish empire paved the way not only in providing changes in the…