Murder Research Proposals Samples For Students

Introduction

The issue of gender of the criminal offenders has been subjected to various researches. The highlight on gender scrutinizes how female offenders are treated against the male offenders when they committed murder, one of the most serious crimes across societies. Generally, most studies observe that female offenders are sentenced to lesser punishments than the male offenders. According to Hedderman and Dowds (1997, p. 8), women receive less harsh treatment that the male offenders. However, some studies contradict these gender generalizations. For instance, Kennedy (2005, p. 21), affirmed that when women commit a serious offense such as murder, which are ...

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to determine the deterrent effect of the death penalty or capital punishment in the commission of future crimes. Most of the criminal experts believe that the justification for the imposition of the death penalty against criminals should be for retributive grounds and to make the criminals suffer the consequences of their actions. Thus, when a person kills another, the retributive effect of capital punishment or the death penalty is take the life of the murderer (Radelet & Akers, 1996). The main reason for the imposition of the death penalty is to discourage the murderers to ...

Social attitude to abortion is primarily defined by moral norms and traditions of society, living conditions. In recent decades, abortion has become one of the most intensely and diversely debated issues of the moral theory. Defenders of abortion rights and their opponents do not agree among themselves even in the terminology of the dispute. Opponents argue that the problem here is the following: whether or not the embryos should not be killed, like other human beings. Advocates believe the central question here is whether it is possible to force a woman to bear an unwanted fetus even at the cost ...

Capital Punishment, also has the name, death penalty, is a legal procedure in which an individual faces a death sentence as punishment for his or her crime. The crimes under capital punishments arise from penal codes of respective countries. Each nation has a defined penal code system, normally enshrined in the constitution. The use of death penalty as a form of punishing the most dreadful of crimes dates back to the Roman times. For instance, beheading was common practice for punishing murderers and deserters during war. However, as several countries settled into the nations we know today, death penalty gradually reduced, and diminished ...

Do offenders show less empathy than non-offenders?

Different people show different emotions towards different things in society. The level of this emotion of empathy differs from one person to another. In an argument by Davis (1994) human beings are created in way that they show emotion on every aspect of the environment. The author further argues that what differs is the rate at which this empathy is expressed. For instance, it is a general assumption that women show a greater depth of empathy compared to women, women have deeper and much sensitive emotions. These differences are attributed to the psychological strength and capabilities of an individual. & (2009) argue ...

Introduction

How does the factor of gender impact the concept of violent offending?
One of the most commonly held notions is that males have a higher propensity to commit violent crimes compared to women. This holding is one of the most widely held concepts in the area of criminology. However, there is a growing debate as to the scope of the “gender gap” in terms of violent offending has shifted in recent years. A number of commentators hold that the gap is described in terms of its stability; others proffer that there is an observable closing of the gap, particularly ...

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Introduction

Criminal justice system issues are studied nowadays and will be studied until humankind exists. The point is that such issues are rather controversial. Some people state that we are only humans and we are not allowed to judge others. On the other hand, there are those who are always unsatisfied with verdicts and state that sentences should be stricter. I am studying the issue of capital punishment for juveniles. In my opinion, this issue is significant to study because there are many discussions on this topic. There are those who state that juveniles should not be punished so strict. ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes this criminal ...

That fateful night and how one abused man could be responsible for such a heinous crime

One late night in November of 1959, two peopled murdered a family of four in a small Kansas town. It was a robbery and although they could have left right away with the small change in their pockets, the family died. Discovering who actually pulled the trigger was a shock to many. It was not Richard Eugene Hickock, a pedophile and rapist, who ran through the house killing each victim one by one. It was the one who appeared gentle and shy; the rather artistic one who snapped in the last few minutes of the robbery. Someone whom even Truman Capote was sympathetic towards. ...

Summary of the Jurisdiction of the Proposed Criminal Prevention Initiative

The chosen jurisdiction in this case was the city of Detroit in Michigan, United States. Among all the states and territories of the United States, the city of Detroit simply had the highest incidence of violent crimes per capita. The table below summarizes key crime-related findings on the said jurisdiction. It covers the following metrics for a more detailed analysis and interpretation: population, number of reported cases of violent crime, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, rape, assault, and burglary. The said raw data came from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI, 2014) report on crime in the United ...

Corporal punishment is considered inflicting of physical pain upon a prisoner as a punishment for violation of a prison rule or regulation. Such forms of conduct include, but are not limited to whipping, cold shower, electrical shocking devices and suspension from cell bars by handcuffs. The use of solitary imprisonment as a system of punishing violations of prison discipline is not included within corporal punishment definition. Most states have no statutes that specifically forbid the use of corporal punishment. Other states, however, prohibit corporal punishment in detention facilities by the statue.
The use of corporal punishment to reinforce prison ...

Research Questions

When did gun control legislation first become law?
What are past gun control efforts?
What have been the results on crime from past gun control legislation?
What are current gun control laws?
What are proposed gun control laws?
What is the controversy surrounding gun control?
In order to have a discussion concerning the criminal use of firearms, a definition of the terms used in gun restrictions is needed. The interpretation used in a report submitted by legislative attorney Vivian Chu to Congress addressed the prohibition of the possession, transfer, or manufacture of firearms (Chu, 2013); this is the definition ...

Introduction

When it comes to sensitive issues that constantly divides the public even at the present, the topic regarding the death penalty would often spring to mind. This form of punishment was originally meant for those who have committed the highest form of treason known to man, but now became a socio-political issue that now raises the ire of many due to its somewhat “barbaric” notions. Opponents to the use of the death penalty indicate that it is a violation to moral and social stands, violating a man’s right to life. Supporters, on the other hand, highlight that its presence helps reduce ...

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Returning to prison for paroled inmates: Introduction

The prison population in the United has steadily risen over the past three decades. Since 2008, the prison population has slowly been decreasing; however, as of 2012, there were still more than 2 million confined in US jails and prisons. The report of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) aver that since 1990, more than 590,000 convicts are discharged yearly from the correctional system in the Federal and state jurisdictions, and more than 5 million former inmates are under community based monitoring programs. It is expected that upon release from prison or community based programs, these will ...

Several states across America are proposing that school employees should be allowed to carry concealed weapons at school. This was prompted by the Sandy Hook mass murder. Twenty first-graders and six adult staff members were killed in mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the quiet village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. Adam Lanza, the man behind what is now considered the second deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history, was reported to have killed his mother at their Newtown home before driving to the school. Despite the upgraded security protocol ...

Introduction

The topic that was chosen for this research study is the death penalty. The occurrence of heinous crimes and rise in the criminality rate supports the restoration of death penalty. Many of the death penalty advocates believe that is a legitimate sanction against murderers for retributive purposes. The more compelling reason to restore the death penalty is the positive claims on its deterrent effect to future crimes. Thus, the punishment can be regarded as a lawful discipline to discourage hardened criminals from their wrongdoings.
This topic was chosen because there are several countries around the globe which questioned the legitimacy ...

Long known as one of the most deadliest cities in the United States, Baltimore’s crime rate decreased over throughout 2007, 2008 and 2009 but the city has long been known as a bastion for overall crime. In 2013, Baltimore experienced a jump in homicide rates of 7.3 percent, which was one of the highest levels in the nation surpassing Detroit, New Orleans, Cleveland and Oakland (Reuter, 2014). The goal of this paper is to determine why Baltimore has such a high rate of crime compared to other cities in the United States. In order to determine this demographics, the weather, the ...