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The book The Green Mile, written by Stephen King, is about a prison guard who works on death row of the Tennessee State Penitentiary. Paul Combed has his work cut out for him every day with this Job due to the behavior of the prisoners as well as the immaturity of one of his guards,…

Introduction The topic of my thesis, I chose the issue of non-cooperative economic games, specifically the so-called “Prisoner’s Dilemma”. Game theory falls in microeconomics and therefore mainly in the economic analysis. It gives us an analysis of the way in which two or more entities interact, choose strategies that simultaneously influence each actor. The greatest…

Over the last few years reality based crime shows have appeared on many television networks. These shows depict actual investigations of crimes as they have unfolded. While reporting crime is nothing new in the media circuit, reality shows like The First 48, Crime 360 and Cold Case files are getting high ratings. Although the ratings…

Introduction Forensic accountants are professionals who provide litigation support and act as expert witnesses. They are financial investigators and detectives who audit and investigate financial reporting documents to determine their accuracy. Their work is often related to legal actions that are either anticipated or ongoing. When it comes to criminal and civil cases, including pretrial…

Crime must be punished, but the methods as to how to punish crime can prove to deliver very different results. Randall Collins says in his book the Sociological Insight that the modern punishment of crime characterized by courtrooms has a ritualistic purpose for the non-deviants of a society rather than for the offenders (1992). Collins…

In the movie, The Adjustment Bureau, which is based on the book by Philip K. Dick, two strangers are brought together by the universe’s will or what some might call fate. The film surprised me and ultimately won me over with its profound exploration of our existence, the concept of free will, and the influence…

In crime prevention, punishment in varying forms and degrees are implemented with the impression that such actions are a social and moral deterrent to criminal behavior which will thereby limit violence in a society. In the last 20 years, several approaches were advanced in an effort to provide behavioral modification to a multi-disciplinary approach that…

1. The United States Supreme Court has held that normally, a police seizure of either evidence of a crime in a constitutionally protected area or a possible criminal defendant must be based on probable cause e. g. , Illinois v. Gates 1983. Furthermore, the Court has repeatedly stated that a government search or seizure on…

After reading Macbeth, I watched videos of two very different adaptations of Shakespeare’s play, a BBC theatre production and a low budget movie. The BBC production was filmed on stage, was traditional and true to the play, the movie, “Macbeth on the Estate” was a modern interpretation along the lines of the recent film “William…

1. What is the NIBIN? NIBIN is the National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network that was created by the FBI and the ATF in 1999. 2. What is rifling? What two types of markings does this produce? Rifling is when each gun is given spiral grooves by the manufacturer. The spiral grooves are cut into the…