Essays on Crime

Street and motorcycle gangs have caused headaches to the law enforcement agencies with various criminal activities and drug dealings in most jurisdictions. The 18th street gang, for instance, has been marked among notorious street gangs in Los Angeles with a high number of robbery incidences linked to them. A police...

Over the years, there has been a significant focus on the racial disparities among individuals that are confined to jails. According to research outcomes, there are indications of increasing number of Black Americans being taken to prison for committing various types of offences (Gramlich 2018). In some instances, the high...

Human trafficking refers to where a person or a group of people controls the others by forcing them into labor, sexual harassment or organ trafficking (Kempadoo et al., 100).   The practice has been on the increase, despite the laws put against owning or forcing other people into activities that they...

Borders represent essential avenues through which sovereign countries interact via immigration and trade. It is crucial for the border authorities to ensure that the security systems around such borders are sufficient and adequate in handling their intended border regulation functions. The resources budgeted to enhance such systems should be proportionate...

In the first half of the last century Hundreds of children painfully died and were buried inhumanely and disrespectfully in Tuam. The discovered bodies of these burials were children under the care of Bon Secours nuns in a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland (O'Reilly 2). While many stories tell divergent perspectives...

The Stand-your-ground Law: An Overview The Stand-your-ground law has varied nomenclature such as line-in-the-sand and no duty to retreat among several others all of which express a particular aspect of legislation involving personal defense. The law justifies a person s attempt or use...

The Issue of Death Penalty in the US The issue of death penalty in the US has given rise to countless debates over the years and remains to be one of the most controversial topics in the country. There are a number of reasons why the opponents of the death penalty...

Racial Profiling Racial profiling is when the law enforcement, the justice system, and groups of people judge certain individuals based on their skin color, skin tone or attitude and they are ever suspecting that they are the ones who have committed crimes. In the US the police officers usually target the...

Different countries deal with criminals in various forms The two main forms of dealing with criminals who have been confirmed guilty are rehabilitation and punishment. Specifically, while the United States of America prefers punishment in dealing with criminals, countries such as Norway depends on rehabilitation method in correcting crimes in the...

Death is a condition where there is permanent ending of life and all biological functions that maintain living organisms. A penalty is a punishment imposed on a person due to the violation of the law. It is a practice which is sanctioned by the government where an individual is subjected...

Bullying is a habitual and often repeated behavior where individuals use a distinctive pattern to coerce, intimidate, abuse, force, and threaten peers verbally, physically, and emotionally over a period of time to aggressively dominate others. The act of bullying is not limited by age, gender, social standings or race. It...

Sampson, Robert J. "Family management and child development: Insights from social disorganization theory." Facts, frameworks, and forecasts. Routledge, 2017. 63-94. Social disorganization theory posits that juvenile delinquency stems from communities that face issues with managing child development factors effectively and thereby suffer from other problems such as child abuse and high...