Essays on Crime

Governmental authorities and global organizations such as UNICEF have set a specified legal marriageable age. Usually, this age bracket lies within what is referred to as the age of sexual consent (in many countries, eighteen-year-old citizens are considered to be ready for marriage). Although various societies have their own perceptions...

Mass shootings have become an alarming trend in the United States. There have been mass shootings in schools, movie theatres, shopping centers, and public places leading to several deaths and injuries. Today, mass shootings have been on the rise with innocent people being shot and killed making it a challenge...

The issue of bullying has gained much attention nationally following the association of teen suicide with cyberbullying and school bullying prevalence. A study by Jankauskiene et al. which involving 1162 pupils from 6th to 11th grade found out that 56.5% of learners were associated with bullying, 16.3% were bullies and...

Child Abuse: A Devastating Social Problem Child abuse has become a common social problem in our societies. Millions of children suffer maltreatment and neglect at a tender age before they reach the age of 18 years. Child abuse is the physical harm, emotional, or sexual maltreatment. It can be in form...

In the modern world, students have a dizzying collection of career paths that were not available in the past generations. Every graduating student faces an overwhelming range of possibilities that lie before them after completion of their campus studies. The circumstances that come with the achievement can be stressful and...

The Benefits of Technology The development and growth of technology are considered to be the best thing to ever happen in the global world, due to the many benefits it brought to its users. Through technology, people can communicate with one another regardless of where they are around the globe. Technology...

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...

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...

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...

Introduction: Over the last decades, cyberbullying has rapidly increased all over the world. Cyberbullying is the use of the internet and other electronic communication devices to spread hateful information about another individual. The most affected groups include the youths, bisexuals, gays, disabled individual and the socially isolated persons. The bullying may...

In the article, Prisons that empower: Neo-liberal governance in Canadian women’s prisons by Kelly Hannah Moffatt there is a lot of information that coincides with the criminology theory. According to the biosocial theory on criminology, it is indicated that in most cases people tend to engage in crime because of...

Very few people accept to be associated with the wrongdoers, in fact, most of them avoid associating with suspected wrongdoers even before they are convicted of their crimes. Jeffrey Toobin in The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row attempts to give an account of a 20-year-old Black American lawyer, Stevenson,...