Essays on Crime

Everyone dreams for that time when the elections will be of integrity, free and fair. There has been a lot of debate whether the voter ID laws are the solution or not. All Americans can freely acquire the photo IDs even though some may get it easier than others depending...

Life involves a process and not an event. The fact remains that whatever a child learns from the tender age plays a significant role in determining the direction of behavior one grows in.  During the life of the child, parents cannot be considered as the only stakeholders in their life. ...

The social reaction or labelling theory focuses on the negative linguistic characterisation or tendency embraced by a majority group to a minority group based on the deviance from social norms. According to the theory, self-identity, as well as the behaviours of individuals, may be influenced or determined by the perspective...

Texas Death Penalty: Controversies and Considerations Texas has been using the legal death penalty for capital offenses for a very long time, executing a lot of people compared to the other states in the United States of America. Texas should cease using the death penalty in cases that are contradicting or...

The Term Probable Cause The term probable cause is the information which police uses to arrest or search criminal suspects. The clause is derived from the 4th amendment of the American constitution that protects peoples and property. However, persons are checked if they are suspected of having committed an offense. Anticipated Changes...

The actions of Officer Jones The actions that Officer Jones portrayed are unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the American Constitution sets the constraints on warrantless searches, stating that the rights of individuals to remain secured within their houses shall not be violated, and that no warrants shall...

Upon examining the court’s decision as it relates to cell phone searches incident to arrest, I agree with it. I understand that cell phones contain private information about individuals and they have the rights to hold such information. However, there are situations whereby, it is critical for the police to...

The Decline of Death Sentences in the United States The leveling of death sentences by American courts is not a secret. However, there has been a decline in the number of jurisdictions imposing death penalties in the recent past. Despite the decline, Texas still leads the country's executions. Texas is estimated...

Human security- is the human fundamental freedom from fear and want. Examples are food security and health security. Securitization- is the process of transforming issues into matters of security. For example, political issues becoming a security threat. Critical security studies- these are the realist, liberal and Peace studies for example study on...

The use of force to capture an offender by a law enforcement officer correlates to the offender’s willingness to surrender. There are no universally acceptable standards on the subject matter. When left uncheck, an offender’s rights are prone to abuse. The amount of force used is determined by the officers’...

Sexual abuse can take different forms that range from voyeurism, fondling, and exhibition to sexual intercourse, involvement in prostitution and pornography (Postmus, 2012). The behavior is abusive if it entails lack of consent of both the participants. In colleges, the issue of sexual assault has become a crisis that has to...

Around nineteen kids lose their lives every day in America due to guns (Ingraham, 2017). Most recently on March 20, an armed student before taken down by the school resource officer shot two others at Great Mills High School. One of the students, Jaelynn Willey, who was sixteen years old,...