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Gun Control and laws regulating this issue in the United States have been a controversial topic of debate for more than a decade. Since the inception of extreme gun control laws during the end of the 1980's, the debate…

Abstract We are all guilty of judging others based on a wide range of traits we perceive in them. In so doing, we end up attaching (wrongly) certain traits to such individuals. In this text, I concern myself with stereotyping, its meaning, and the effects it has on those who experience it.

Immigration is the act of relocating to another country or region, whether temporarily or permanently.

Comparative criminology is an area of study in criminology that examines the social trends of crimes across different cultures in order to identify the similarities and differences in crime patterns.

Perhaps one of the most controversial aspects about the American criminal justice system today is the fact that the United States is the only Western nation that still uses capital punishment as a "sentence of last…

When the news of a new serial killer rocks the country, our first reaction is that of confusion accompanied by the question: Why would they do this? In most cases, the answer remains highly elusive and the question goes…

The Role of the Police in Combating Organized Crime

The government creates laws and regulations in which officials see are suitable for citizens to abide by. The formation of such official customs serves to protect the interests of the people, state, and government.

The sociological theory examined within this paper is functionalism, which is one of the most widely used and longstanding sociological theories. Essentially, this theory offers the viewpoint that society functions as a series of social systems that attempt to reach a point of stasis. One of the most influential aspects of this theory applied to Canadian youth crime is the YCJA.

Cohen, Kluegel, and Land in their article Social inequality and predatory criminal victimization: An exposition and test of a formal theory adopts the interpretation of five factors in association with criminal victimization risks. Guardianship has direct, proportional relationship to the income levels. The book notes that the presence of anomie state within the society is the main cause of crime. Cohen et al describe the main cause of crime as the social inequality within the community. Both articles (Social inequality and predatory criminal victimization: An exposition and test of a formal theory. Both articles view crime as a social problem facing the contemporary communities. The articles also have a similar view on the fact that crime society should face crime as a unit since it affects everyone in the context of the community.