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Certainly, some types of behavioral issues are functions of immaturity or of stages of development and personality or identity experimentation. However, bona fide delinquency issues should not be excused as features of personality, largely because doing so undermines the development of personal responsibility and the realization that negative behaviors have negative consequences.
Which represents the greatest threat to society: multiple murder, workplace violence, or violent bias crimes?
It is difficult to compare the three types of crimes by listing them in order because so much depends on context. For example, violent bias crimes could include multiple murders. In general, multiple murders are relatively rare outside of environments where criminality is already at issue, such as in connection with organize crime and criminal gang rivalries. Workplace violence is comparatively rare when it comes to serious crimes such as murder but much more common if one considers other lesser forms of violence such as physical intimidation of individual workers by others. Bias crimes are extremely serious to the quality of society, especially if they are not strictly and appropriately addressed by the authorities. Where bias crimes involve violence, they can completely...
Therefore, I would consider violent bias crimes to be the most serious of the three choices in many circumstances and contexts.
Even without violence, systemic bias in society is tremendously detrimental to the entire community because it destroys the shared sense of community that is a prerequisite for harmonious interrelations among and between the many different racial, ethnic, and cultural groups that are comprised by the society. Particularly in the United States, permitting rampant bias along any of those lines fundamentally conflicts with our most important defining principles of law and justice, especially the concept or equal protection.
Meanwhile, any widespread bias in society also greatly increases the relative risk of violence related to racial and ethnic tensions. Those tensions always hold the potential for erupting into acute violence spontaneously in response to specific events or circumstances. Finally, there is also a strong argument that rampant bias and violent bias crimes are more threatening to society than crimes such as multiple murders or workplace violence simply because violent bias crimes can include both of those types of crimes.
I have done research for school projects, using academic databases and online searches. In middle school and high school, we learned how to conduct research. Teachers taught us various tools and techniques they preferred, which helped me to develop my own style. The methods I use for research vary depending on the type of assignment. For a shorter paper, I might do the research on the fly. Longer and more
Despite the fact that the field of forensic psychology was formally recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) as a "subset" in 2001 (Salfati, 2009), aspects of this science have influenced law enforcement long before that. One of the most salient ways it does so is in terms of interviewing people for certain positions -- whether they be formal positions such as an appointment to a law enforcement position or
One significant drawback of criminal profiling is the wide variation of results among profilers. Factors that affect this variation includes the difference in investigative background among profilers, which necessarily influences the profiling being done. The prove inconsistency among profiler results demonstrates a basic lack of validity (Young, 2006, p. 22). Godwin (2002, p. 8) also notes that profiling serial murders generally lack a rigorous examination of existing data and contributing
Research Question: When do police interrogation techniques lead to false confessions/false witness testimony, and how can false confessions be prevented? Annotation1 Reference: Forrest, K.D., Wadkins, T.A. & Larson, B.A. (2006). Suspect personality, police interrogations, and false confessions: Maybe it is not just the situation. Personality and Individual Differences 40(3): 621-628. Annotation: The authors empirically test the hypothesis that there are personality traits that might be associated with false confessions. The authors recognize that
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Research Question DevelopmentCriminal psychology is one of the most exciting fields in the social sciences, partly because of the potential to make a difference in public policy and the criminal justice system. A criminal psychologist provides important information about things like why individuals make choices that lead to criminal behavior, or how a program can better help inmates readapt to their communities. Criminal psychologists can also show how eyewitness testimony