Criminal Law

Article VII governs the procedure for the introduction of any form of opinion and the testimony of an expert during the trial process. Both an expert and a lay have a chance of testifying to their opinions...

The rise in the number of street children in all cities across the world has raised alarms on the plight of these innocent young ones. The street houses three types of children, the street living children, street working children...

Since the 1980s, there has been a propagation of youth gangs across the states of the United States of America which have powered the publics' fear and amplified their erroneous beliefs about youth gangs.

The author begins the article with an elaboration of the paradigm shift of focus in the study of criminal behavior from the study of direct causes to the link between childhood experiences and teenage delinquency.

According to the business dictionary, a government is described as, A group of people that rules a community or entity. It sets and oversees public policy in addition to...

This essay aims to highlight the role of the theory of governmentality in the workings of criminology and how it has affected the reward and punishment system. Crime is...

Law on criminal activities has been changing to accommodate the new and emerging human rights, but some issues have come up. As the author of the article, Jeff Jacoby states, during the era of Boston Puritan forefathers...

The hypothesis of this study was to examine whether having friends who display specialization in specific deliquescence acts about other offensive types would predict an individual's tendency...

Rape could be defined as an assault involving use of sex without clear consent of one party. It may also involve physical penetration by use of hands, fingers or objects...

The article by Sanchez and Tran (2015), presents a classical case of parricide, and exhibits how social decadence has taken root in the contemporary American society. Acc...

The legal system according to Chambliss has devoted most of its criminal-legal effort towards processing and sanctioning of people that have the least possibility of bein...

The capitalist system can be classified as the cause of street gangs in the modern American. Street gangs develop because people want to be part of something they share.

Travis Hirschi's theory of social bond has dominated the world in the last few decades. His impact on contemporary society is undiminished and will last for years.

In different historical eras, theories have been developed to unmask the reasons as to why a person becomes a criminal man. Notably, each era has elicited different observations and explanations (theories)..

Every government and institutions dealing with humanitarian affairs have their specified laws that ensures efficient, orderly and smooth learning of the basic and tertiary life with its composition.

I believe the two standards that the jurisdiction uses to determine the occurrence of rape case are the right standards. The first standard Force requiring some act in addition to the physical effort...

Nothing in this world gives someone the audacity to take someone's right to live. Murder is a crime that can never be tolerated at any circumstance. If one is found guilty of murder he must undergo the state's penalties...

Over the years, the cost incurred by capital punishment cases has exceeded that incurred in non-capital cases. Capital cases have been shown to cost at least twice as much as non-capital ones.

Gun controls are government laws and policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, possession and use of firearms. Guns have been a larger advance in war technology as it...