Criminology Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

According to Law

Crime is identified as one of the most tough and serious issues of the world and humanity for so many years. Criminal law doles out the crucial responsibility for intended and premeditated unnecessary actions that are against the law. More often than not, the law supposes that people can merely control themselves on some cases wherein they should think first about their actions in a different way based on the probable behavior like self-control. Hence, self control has imperative inferences for the consideration of different behaviors that lead to criminal demeanor and outset of apt penalty. The strength of will ...

Criminal Law

Introduction
This paper looks at the claim by Cullen and Gilbert (1982) that “Rehabilitation should be the major goal of any correctional system” (p. 5) and seeks to determine if rehabilitation is the most efficient method to attenuate crime. From the onset of the 20th century, efforts to combat crime have seen a rise in the implementation of rehabilitation as a preferred philosophy or methodology enacted by the justice system in order to reduce this societal challenge. The treatment of criminals was perceived as both efficient in terms of crime prevention and also the treatment of offenders was considered a more ...

The rational choice theory is of the opinion that an individual acts by weighing the costs and benefits brought about by an action at the end through the use of personal advantage. As far as crime is concerned, the theory assumes that the rational decisions made by criminals to engage in any crime are made through the revision of all outcomes and possibilities. The outcomes depend on the benefits the criminals get by committing these crimes. Criminals do however consider the consequences of their actions, such as imprisonment and tread with care in the process of committing a crime. The ...

Torio S. James

Saint Leo University
The Problem
The last two decades left the United States of America’s detention centers flooded with juvenile offenders. The rate at which juveniles get themselves in detention facilities for rehabilitation is at its peak demanding attention from the justice system of the country. Statistics show that the young people are perpetrators of violent crimes inclusive of murder, rape, armed robbery and several other crimes more than ever before. Further studies accentuate that the greater percentage of inmates in jails currently throughout the US comprises inmates in the age bracket of 17 and 21 ...

Part a

The modern criminology seems to be stemmed from the amalgamation of the two different schools of thoughts namely classical school originating in the 18th century and the positivist school beginning in the 19th century. It is therefore, necessary to analyze both school of thoughts with respect to crimes and criminals to know the similarities and difference shared by both school of thoughts.
It was a general trend before the 18th century to explain every phenomenon in religious context or in the context of spiritual nature. However, the 18th century gave a new world view to the people because of the ...

Introduction

The three areas of peacemaking areas in criminology are religion, critical and feminism. Fundamental rationalization of criminology is that basic reaction to crime does not bring better understanding of problem solving. Criminology offers the context that crime is due to problems that people suffer like poverty, alienation, abuse among other reasons.
Criminology holds the stand that crime perpetuates itself through policies and social control programs that are repressive (Downes, 2011). These incorporate methods that ensure that solutions for crimes are implemented in the society. In different ways, this reduces violence and crime in general.
It is a more ...

Module #3

Module #3
According to Exum (2002), there is research evidence that will show that that alcohol causes an impairment on the ability of the drinker to understand the consequences of aggression. At the same time, some of the offenders who have been provoked can lead to anger that may increase the probability of aggressive response. In the study of the author of alcohol and aggression, it was shown that intoxication fosters violent behavior when participants were angered (Exum, 2002, p.936). Towards the end of the study, it was revealed that alcohol and anger and enhances the violent decision ...

Initiation of substance abuse by schoolchildren

Introduction
Criminology theories pivot on the premise of understanding human behavior under certain circumstances that culminate in criminal acts. The social aspects surrounding an individual often create a situation that forces the subject to try out illegal options. Criminology theories provide insights into these social aspects and allow law enforcement agencies to form countermeasures to prevent crime.

This theory contends that an individual’s actions depend on the type of associations in society. The concept of this theory is that if a subject has reasonable levels of education, a steady job, a family, and association with a religious institution, ...

Module #4

Module #4
The cause of criminal behavior can be attributed under two theories namely, the Positivist and Classical. Under the Positivist theory, it can be referred to the deviant behavior of every human being is based on the one’s genetic composition. The intrinsic evil qualities of every individual will force him or her to give in to the criminal behavior. The logical explanation for this theory is that the criminal mind has a close connection to the biosocial perspective which includes the physiological and biological traits acquired by birth. On the other hand, the theory under the Positive ...

Revised: March 8, 2014

Controlling other People’s Children
The juvenile justice system was founded and developed in the nineteenth century by reformers whose general belief was that juveniles were less likely to commit crimes than adults, and if they did commit crimes, they were more amenable than adult criminals to corrective, rehabilitating treatment. However, they attributed these qualities of greater innocence and higher potential rehabilitation to relatively affluent white youth. They denied the existence of these same qualities in the economically disadvantaged and non-White and immigrant segments of the population. Those nineteenth-century racial attitudes still affect our juvenile justice system.
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Introduction

While many certainly agree that white collar crime presents serious legal issues the sociological implications, regarding deviant behavior, is not always obvious. No discussion inspires a proper balance for analysis without a relevant definition of our terms. According to a ‘Sociology’ glossary, published by the McGraw-Hill Higher Education (2014) group deviance is defined as “Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.” The same glossary defines the concept or theory ‘anomie’ as a Durkheim term for “the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective” (“Sociology Glossary,” 2014). In an effort ...

The movie “Monster” leaves a viewer with the controversial thoughts about the focus of the film. On one hand – it is more than obvious that Aileen Wuornos, the former prostitute, has been justly condemned to the death sentence, taking to the consideration all the murders she has committed. On the other hand – Aileen Wuornos’s conscious has been harmfully injured after being repeatedly raped by her father’s friend. This so – called “event” has marked the beginning of her hate towards men. The catalyst, which has led to much deeper mental disorder and to murders as a disclosure of ...

Charles J. Keech has been in prison for thirty-three years. He was initially convicted for two counts of first degree murder, which were committed in Jacksonville—although he was not the one who committed the murders themselves. He and a group of three other men were committing a burglary in Jacksonville when the stabbings occurred, and as a result of the realities of the American penal code, Keech was tried and convicted of these two murders. His first chance for parole is not until August 17, 2034, but he is scheduled to see the parole examiner in February of ...

The case of Meredith Kercher’s murder in Perugia, Italy became a very sensationalist story due to the involvement of an American young woman, Amanda Knox, who represented both America’s sweetheart, being young and beautiful, and Italy’s black widow, due to her associations with sexual promiscuity and drugs. While no clear evidence was ever found to ink her and her Italian boyfriend to the murder, they were imprisoned, together with a Black man, Rudy Guede, whose drug-related activities quickly turned the media against him. In this high-profile case, the issues of privilege and diversity had a great ...

Originally George John Beto, also known in the Texas criminal justice system as “Walking George” for his common practice of arriving by foot, unannounced at Texas penitentiaries to perform inspections, served as the director of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDOC) from 1962 to 1972. Beto did not originally plan to work in criminal justice, having studied to be priest in college and being ordained as a minister shortly after graduation; he first became familiar with Texas’ correctional system when he was asked to serve on the Texas Prison Board (TPB) in 1953. At that time he was teaching ...

The strain theory is the theory that best describes why people commit crime because it provides the most logical rationale compared to the other theories of crime. According to this theory, negative emotions including anger and frustration arise from strains and stress. Although the other theories of crime have valid explanations, none of them seem as logical as the Strain Theory.
According to the Strain Theory, the reaction to negative emotions caused by a strain or stress leads some individuals to engage in criminal behavior. Individuals commit crime to reduce the strain or stress. A strain or stress occurs ...

Q.1
The five basic assumptions of positivism in law are realism, objectivity, scientific evidence, and ultimate proof is unattainable. The realism operates in order to impress investigators to face the reality without letting their emotions cloud their judgments. The objectivity wants them to focus on objectives without getting hurt from the presence of obstacles and problems in the way of solving the crime. The good investigator always follows the evidence because it does not lie, but people do in order to hide their wrongdoings. The final assumption argues that ultimate proof is not possible to be found, and ...

Mixed Methods Strategies Design Methods

A researcher aiming at using the mixed method strategy to research faces a number of challenges. One major challenge is that the field or topic under study may have scarce data that may be difficult to collect. According to Onwuegbuzie and Leech (200%), such a circumstance would deter the attempt. Even if the data were available, comparability would be a problem in the social and behavioral sciences. Due to the complexity of a mixed method strategy, it demands profound skills and command on the part of the researcher in order to be able to determine the level of interchange between the two.

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