Crime and punishment in modern society
Description Students are required to complete two essays of 1,250 words each. You must submit an electronic file containing both pieces of work to turnitin by the hand in date of Friday 5th April 2019. Choose two from the following: How have Marxist ideas been applied to understandings of crime and punishment? What are the […]
Criminal Law: Crime & justice in urban study
Scholars and social justice advocates have argued that NYPD’s use (or misuse) of broken windows policing created more problems than it solved in high-crime communities through aggressive policing and massive arrests of low-level offenders. Between 1980 and 2013, for example, there was a 190% increase in misdemeanor arrests. In 2017, City Council enacted the Criminal […]
Are Police Effective In Controlling Crime
The final paper, which is due in Module 8, will account for 30% of your grade. You will write a 15–20 page paper, typed in double-space, on a major aspect of the criminal justice process. This paper will build on your annotated bibliography, which is due in Module 4. Due to the size and nature […]
The explaination of Crime
1. What is “Crime”? How can we best understand it? 2. How should crime be measured and assessed? 3. Use the logic in your conceptual and operational definitions above to construct a mathematical formula for computing a county’s crime score. This will be your crime metric. It must reflect, as accurately as possible your conceptual […]
Sociology of Crime: CCJ 2007/CJ27 Assessment 1: Weekly Review of
Overview In lieu of a final exam, we have chosen to include one reading each week of the trimester for you to engage with and answer weekly guided questions. We have divided this assessment into two parts, with corresponding due dates above. The reasons for this are to allow you to receive feedback on some […]
Thinking About Crime: What are your general thoughts about why people
Write a brief (3-5 page) essay discussing your views on the causes of crime. In your essay you should address the following: 1. What are your general thoughts about why people break the law? 2. Do you think that crime is primarily caused by individual characteristics or by social factors? Be specific. 3. What events […]
Organized Crime / Gangs –mafia, motorcycle gangs, Russian mafia,
Assignment Instructions The Outline & Annotated Bibliography Assignment is the first step towards writing your final paper. It is designed to help you to identify a topic and research question and to help you to gather appropriate resources that will be used in writing your final paper. For this assignment, you will need to […]
Property Crime and Typologies Performance Task
Your task as the District Attorney is to determine what charges, if any, and the penalties (refer to Penalty Sheet in the Document Library) for such charges, for all three individuals involved in this incident. You should base your answer on an understanding of the definitions by reviewing the Criminal Code for the State of […]
Criminal Justice: Effectiveness of crime analysis
Article Dissection: The goal of this exercise is to develop your skills for taking apart a research article. Select a research article published in a peer reviewed social science journal in the past 10 years. Prepare a smartly written report of no more than three pages, single-spaced, that attends to each of the following elements: […]
Violence and Drugs – the Intersection of Terror and Crime
Assignment #1 Violence and Drugs – the Intersection of Terror and Crime Historically, we have long considered organized crime and terrorism to be two distinct activities – one seeks to profit from the existing political system; the other seeks to change it. Accordingly, while each form of organization may employ violence there was thought to […]