Essays on Crime

The research attempts to examine whether playing violent video games results to corresponding aggressive behavior on children. While the number of American children playing video games has significantly increased, research show that there is need for concern since majority of video games played are violent. The hypothesis of the study...

Mendez-Baldwin, M.,  Cirillo, K., Ferrigno, M "  Argento, V. (2015). An Examination of Cyber-bullying and Social Media Use in Teens: Prevalence, Attitudes and Behaviors. Journal of Bullying and Social Aggression 1 (1). Retrieved from http://sites.tamuc.edu/bullyingjournal/article/cyber-bullying-among-teens/ The Research Article, An Examination of Cyber-bullying and Social Media Use in Teens: Prevalence, Attitudes, and...

Competency to stand trial entails an individual’s mental ability to stand trial by understanding the character alongside consequences of the trial and can assist in her or his defense, whereas legal insanity refers to an individual’s mental incapacity or illness to the extent that the law recognizes the individual to...

Competency to stand trial entails an individual’s mental ability to stand trial by understanding the character alongside consequences of the trial and can assist in her or his defense, whereas legal insanity refers to an individual’s mental incapacity or illness to the extent that the law recognizes the individual to...

Alcoholic Drinks and Social Interactions Alcoholic drinks are growing in fame and their use has become increasingly important in all social settings. They have been used to grace occasions that are casual to even the most formal social events. With the increase in the use of alcoholic drinks so has the...

This research was carried out due to research work that examined the issue of domestic violence in terms of qualitative and quantitative teachings. A literature review was conducted to determine the psychotype of the victims of their partners , why they tolerate tyrants and what motivates them when choosing such...

Bullying Bullying is a term that refers to the behavior of a person to another where one person is regularly and intentionally harassing and harming another person. Bullying takes many different forms such as verbal, physical, and indirect/relational and also can take place on different platforms. In the past, harassment was...

Psychology can be referred to as the science of mind, as well as, behavior. It is important to note that these include the thoughts and any type of both conscious and unconscious phenomena (Anderson 1985). As an academic discipline, psychology seeks to understand the various properties of the brain and...

Individuals with Personality Disorders Individuals with personality disorders (PDs) exhibit feelings, thoughts and behaviours that contradict with established societal norms and cultural expectations (Edition, 2013; Aggarwal, 2013). The UK National Offender Management Service (NOMS) outlines three conditions for PD to be present. First PDs are problematic – they cause people to...

Stockholm syndrome is a form of psychological illness which causes an hostage to develop feelings towards his/her captors. The term traces its history back in 1973 when Jan-Erik Olsson took four bank operators as his captives during a failed bank robbery (Adorjan et al., 2012). Upon the release of the...

 There are multiple theories and philosophies concerning how best to handle juvenile offenders. The primary goal in all of them is the same: to prevent recidivism and incorporate the juvenile offender back into society as productive, well-adjusted citizens. It is of value then to examine the various methodologies currently being...

A serial killer is typically a person who kills three or more human beings normally under pressure of unusual psychological enjoyment with the killing taking place over more than a month and including a significant period between them. The importance of this topic is to give us an understanding of...