Crime

Within my group for our aim my partner and I have decided choose the crime scene genre with a two to three minute opening title sequence option on video.Our target…

Since the early 19th century the victim of crime had a limited and largely passive role in the criminal justice system. The rise in intellectual preoccupation with victimology has been…

Psychologists throughout the years have come up with many different theories about crime, and why criminals commit illegal acts. Many different aspects are looked at, covering a lot of the…

The area of criminology, which I have chosen to write about, from the choice given within this essay title, is that of ‘Left realism’, so we will be evaluating the…

Instead of a hacker/cracker dichotomy, they give more emphasis to a spectrum of deferent categories, such as white hat, grey hat, black hat and script kiddies. World Of Hacking Hacking…

African-American organized crime, although present, has not maintained a true record of its existence. The amount of information that is known is relatively small but informative. These organization are believed…

Gun crime is an offence that is increasingly becoming a primary concern for the criminal justice system in this country. Gun crime has gradually increased over the past thirty years…

There is continuous debate on the effectiveness of media reporting with regards to informing the public about crime. The media have motive, methods by, which they distort information, and evidence…

Derived from the Latin term, plagiare (meaning to steal), plagiarism would in laymen’s terms mean stealing someone else’s work and portraying it as your own. Although it is looked upon…

In this essay I am going to discuss the rate of imprisonment in England and Wales compared to the rest of Europe and the effect sentencing practices in England and…

The hot debated topic in the informative age is computer crime. These crimes are committed with the help of computers which wreak havoc and completely paralyse the economy. These crimes…

In February 1994, Fred West was charged with the murder of his daughter Heather West; however, what followed in the months of March and April newspapers began to report the…

It should be noted that the trend before the new ales were introduced was a reduction in crime. The table below shows the trend in crime in the United Kingdom…

Cyber crime is the latest and perhaps the most complicated problem in the cyber world. The term “Cyber Crime” has nowhere been defined in any statute or Act passed or…

In this Unit of Crime and Mystery we have been reading The Speckled band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which is mystery. We also watched the film “Let Him Have…

The Victorians were very xenophobic in the way in which they regarded criminals. It was also very stereotypical, believing that all criminals ‘were reluctant to do an honest day’s work…

Youth crime In youth crime there are patterns and trends in youth crime. The ethnicity is in 2007-8 black young people made up 3% of the general 10-17 population but…

After reviewing the two essays on youth crime “Children as the Enemy” by Peter Elikann and “The Crackdown on kids by Annette Fuentes, the latter, which is based on the…

A geographical hazard is usually considered to be a threat on either people or property, posed by nature. It is the risk that something or someone could be put in…

As in other areas of sociology, criminological studies have traditionally ignored half the population. An example of this is the account of social order and anomie. Merton (1930) argued that…