Criminal Law

First, the chapter differentiates between criminology which proposes theories that explain the behaviors of criminals, and crime science, which evaluates why individuals engage in criminal activities in certain circumstances.

Juvenile delinquency is an antisocial behavior in the criminal justice that involves participation in the illegal activities and actions by the minors or by individuals who are below the statutory age of minority.

Research question: Can the family structure of a community propagate criminal behavior in the middle of children thus leading to criminality in their adult stages of life...

This proposal builds on the work of a group formed with participation from members of the Community Action Team, local high school students, parents, teachers, and other...

The main purpose of crime scene reconstruction is to obtain enough information of particular events that lead to commission of a crime using physical evidence, deductive...

You may think that everything you watch on the television news and movies about serial killers is the ultimate truth, but there is more you do not know about the actual serial killers.

Gangs and members share the same ideology in order to be in the same picture. Self-worth and belonging have been part of the society where people want to get recognition and appreciation from the rest of the community.

Rape is perhaps the most heinous crime that can be committed against an individual. Rape cases are not so common in the media, probably because many of them go unreported. Additionally, there are no clear limits by which rape is defined.

The term incarceration, under the criminal justice system, denotes the act of apprehending and placing a person in prison. Today, the unprecedented rise in the rate of incarceration in the United States...

Digital crime is a crime related to a computer, and it has been on a consistent rise over time. Numerous questions and discussions have been formulated to try and explain...

The United States of America is known to have one of the highest populations of felons within bars and critics have time and again mentioned that the country's criminal justice system is bent on taking criminals...

The paper will explain how the criminal process operates especially in the federal system. The state systems vary slightly on handling the criminal cases and the court proceedings.

In the criminal justice field, correction, correctional, and corrections are umbrella terms that are used to describe a variety of functionalities that are typically carried out by governmental agencies.

Many of the first street gangs in the United States were formed in the belief that there is strength in numbers which will allow members to defend themselves in case of any problem.

Grand Larceny can be identified as one of the categories of larceny that applies to items of higher value. Grand Larceny differs from one state to another. Every state ha...

Robert Pickton, a former millionaire faced his serial murder conviction in the year 2007. The convict faced the charges in the second-degree level after killing six women.

The principle of Universality Principle and Jurisdiction has been classically defined as the legal principle that requires a state to submit criminal proceedings with respect to certain crimes irrespective of the location of the crime...

A guilty plea is an acceptance by the accused of criminal charges. A pre-trial negotiation between the prosecutor and the defendant whereby, the accused agrees to plead guilty to a reduced charge in order to receive...

Delinquency and crime are perceived to be linked to a certain personality trait. The two general ways crime is related to personality include the following. First, one commits crime because they possess a trait that is conducive to crime.