In January of 2003, The American Journal of Sociology published an article written by Eric P. Baumer, Steven F. Messner, and Richard Rosenfeld, titled, "Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis." In this article the authors research how social issues and...
Official criminal statistics have informed sociological thought for many years. It forms the basis for much sociological theory because the statistics are so easy to manage and provide a full picture. ... They also benefit sociology because the methods they use to collect the data are scientific and scientific research is more likely to receive external funding. ...
Crime is spreading all over the world these days and is getting worse and worse by the year. Many scientists have a lot of different theories of why criminals commit these crimes; these scientists are called criminologists. Some of their theories include Biological theories where they believe that ...
School violence has been a very controversial and serious issue in America over the past decade. Perhaps the most shocking, however, was the shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Co, where two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Clebold killed 12 classmates. Michael Moore, an activist filmmake...
Introduction John Lott holds a PhD in Economics and teaches criminal deterrence, law and economics at the University of Chicago. Lott is a well-respected author, having published over seventy articles in academic journals. In his first book More Guns, Less Crime, Lott discusses the relationship b...
