Essays on Geis

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In the study of Freng (2001), the factors of racial background as well as ethnic origins have long found an association with criminal conduct. Even from the years that slavery was practiced in the United States, debates and arguments on the inordinate representation of minorities either in conflict or in the custody of one element of the criminal justice system have been proffered as to whether this overrepresentation is the result of bigoted policies being implemented by the authorities or are these instances only proffer that these minorities are genetically inclined towards criminal conduct. In addition, since ethnic ...

Thorsten Sellin was an outstanding criminologist famous for his opposition to the death penalty (Jonson, Myer & Adler, 2011). In particular, he stated that the comparison of statistics from those areas where death penalty was implemented and where it wasn’t practiced showed that it wasn’t in fact effective and didn’t deter people from crime commitment (Hayward, 2010). Another important role that Sellin played in the history of criminology was introduction of the cultural conflict concept, which meant conflict arising between immigrants from one country to another and migrants between different parts of the same country. In ...