Essays on Crime

Car Robbery in Oakland, California Car robbery has emerged and become a serious problem in Oakland, California. In recent years there have been several claims from car owners that there is increased number of car thefts even from their parking areas. It has become such rampant to the extent that robbers...

There are various calamities which most of the countries undergo through as far as disaster management is a concern. Some of these calamities include fire, floods, malnutrition, diseases outbreak and accidents. However, in this paper, we will outline how the fire outbreak has dramatically affected the United States society in...

Witness identification is both the most common source of evidence in criminal cases and the highest cause of innocent convictions. Witness identification is an important source of evidence. The justice system has relied on it over the years as its primary source of evidence. Throughout its history, rules on witness...

Big data is the availability of data and metadata concerning virtually every object in existence in the world at the moment. When the information relates mere objects, the privacy may not be of much concern. However, with more information captured relating to individuals and organizations, the stakes-placed on the sensitivity...

Obtaining a truthful confession from a suspect during an interrogation requires intelligence and certain interviewing tactics. In past, the police could utilize coercive approaches to receive information such as torture and aggressive questioning. However, recently, the methods that the officers employ has become more intelligence-based since they gather data and...

Police brutality is one of the pressing issues in our society. The issue of holding law enforcement agencies and personnel responsible to the community they took an oath to serve has been a recurrent matter since the establishment of the first local police in the United States. During the initial...

According to the latest research in the United Kingdom by the Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW), people residing in high-end residential areas have been beneficiaries of the crime rate falling in Britain compared to those living in poorer establishments or regions (Crime and Justice - Office for National...

According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, a homicide entails the lawful or unlawful killing of a person or persons whereby the individual or individuals are killed at the same place and time. In the Simon Gittany murder case, the prosecution argued and proved that Simon was the one who...

Rape culture is a phrase that was made in the United States by feminists in the 1970s. It refers to how society holds the victims of sexual harassment accountable and support male sexual violence. The term has numerous definitions and its role in everyday life. The rape culture is created...

The criminal activities and the punishments accorded to the perpetrators of the crime offer some of the most compelling signals of racial discrimination both in the 20th and 21st century and even earlier.   In the early years, judicial bigotry, lynching, chain-gang approach to penal practices were common events, especially in...

The Origins of Social Control The subjects utilized in the story "The Origins of Social Control" in the book "Policing the crisis" by Hall et al. (2013) are from a different race, social class, age, gender as well as sexuality. This is because the role of the departments under discussion are...

In essence, Public order crimes are those actions which are non-conforming to general concepts of moral values and social conduct within the society. A moral value refers to the usually acknowledged model of what is viewed as good and what is bad. As such, public order crimes are broadly perceived...