Capital Punishment is the infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrong doings. Methods of execution have included such practices as stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, and beheading. Today capital punish...
Online Piracy The issue of 'online piracy' also well known as 'file sharing' of material copyrighted has captured much attention in recent years by Australians. Online piracy is a topic that has continual heated debates, which has attracted global attention. As harmless as online piracy...
Lastly the lead actor, who desperately tries his entire life not to fall victim to the game and by almost mere chance or a stroke of luck, is the only one who makes it out safe but not without the price of lost friends and emotional distress. ...
Women are traditionally thought of as loving, caring and nurturing people. But the battle for gender equality, coupled with a media outbreak of violent women on television and the movie screen, has increased the popularity and acceptance of women and crime. Over the past century, female violence ...
Transnational crime has been rising steadily as the world transitions more and more towards globalization. The term "transnational" refers to crimes that are not only international (crimes that cross borders between countries), but crimes that by their nature encompass cross-border transference as a...
Valerie Wright, a research analyst at The Sentencing Project, claims that the "One problem with deterrence theory is that it assumes that human beings are rational actors who consider the consequences of their behavior before deciding to commit a crime; however, this is often not the case....
New Zealand has the second highest incarceration rate in the OECD - 203 per 100,000 of the total population; only the USA is higher. "Though forming just 12.5% of the general population aged 15 and over, 42% of all criminal apprehensions involve a person identifying as Maori, as do 50% of all persons in prison." The following factors: A racially biased judicial system, the effect of populist lobby groups, the politicization of crime, media centered on crime and Neo liberalism can be found culpable for the current punitive trends and the overrepresentation of ethnic minorities in the New Z...
Without professional actors in place to bring about a fair, definitive resolution one can argue that what Christie suggests is counterproductive and could lead to further delays and continued class segmentation of society. ...
When it comes to breaking the law, a criminal may have many different reasons for doing so. Some may feel as if a loss of sense of attachment isn't a legitimate reason for murdering someone. That same someone may feel like it is an understandable reason for someone to kidnap an innocent child. We...
Abstract The O.J Simpson trial is known in history for being the 'trial of the century'. In the early 1990's, an all American hero turned brutal murderer overnight. This case contained elements of what fueled America's obsession: fame, fortune, betrayal, and murder. The public had a lot to sa...