Essays on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice

In the academic journal “Behavioral Sciences and the Law,” John Douglas, Robert Ressler, Ann Burgess, and Carol Hartman collectively wrote an article about criminal profiling and how the process is generated. The FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit has been working with different agencies with different jurisdictions...

Psychologist play a major role in society. They work in hospitals, treatment centers, behavioral centers, outpatient health centers, courts, jails, and detention centers. They watch for changes in their patient’s behavior, attitude, and mood. These medical professional documents whether the changes in the client’s behavior...

Dowden, Bennell & Bloomfield believe that offender profiling is a process by which an offender’s behavioural, socio-demographic and personality characteristics are predicted on the basis of crime scene evidence. Baker & Napier also suggested the purpose of offender profiling as investigative method used by FBI...

The Prison Officer The prison officer responsibilities are many; they act as security of the prison. This involves supervision of CCTV or prisoners directly, care of prisoner’s property, they write reports and the one where I will focus my attention is the performance of rehabilitation...

Behavioral analysis is the study of human behavior applying human characteristics to psychological traits mainly focusing on why this person did this crime and what made him or her do it. I took interest in profiling because of two tv shows and a movie called...

This essay is going to discuss and conclude whether it is possible to predict the behaviour of a sex murderer. Although there is no sure-fire way or signs that can definitively say who may be or become a sex murderer, there are certain characteristics and...

As we address the public health and safety concerns two subjects are spoken about in this paper. The two concerns are the sobriety checkpoints that focus on the drinking age and the random drug testing for public employees and high school students. Many states have...

Near Paris, Texas, Charla Roberts lived with her family and went to school like any normal child growing up. Around the time she was ten-years-old, she played a prank on one of her classmates at her public elementary school and pulled down his pants. She...

Imagine your middle school self, a pubescent young teen. Your trying to meet the love of your life and you think you’ve found the one. You approach the woman of your dreams, make conversation and things are going well. You try to escalate the conversation...

In the correctional system there are many policies and practices that are effected personally, politically, socially, and culturally. In this paper I will be stated how policies and practices have effected each one’s experiences. Megan’s Law was a policy put into place because of her...

In this essay, I will be evaluating the current laws and legislations that have been put in place by the criminal justice system in responses to sex offenders. I will briefly define what a sex offender is, what derives people to become one and how...

Various stakeholders within the prison system play a very important role in the problem of prison violence. Prison guards interact with the inmates on a daily basis and they play a vital role in what happens within the prisons. As an internal, stakeholder if the...

The topical area is the correctional facilities and specifically the prison facilities in the U.S. the research paper will focus on the problem of violence in prison, its causes, and the role that various stakeholders within the prison facilities play in fueling the problem and...

Background Violence between prisoners has been an underlying and worrying problem in prisons. It can cause a considerable amount of harm – both physical and psychological (HM Prison and Probation Service, 2018). Many prisoners are regularly assaulted both physically and sexually, threatened or harassed. The...

 People, on average, lie two to three times for every 10 minutes of conversation (Smith). In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Christoher Boone has a difficult time with lies. From sarcastic comments to a complex web of lies,...

There are many things that the United States of America does exceptionally well. This does not mean that it does not have its fair share of weaknesses to improve upon, however. To understate in this example, America’s history with race relations is a long and...

Serial killers are defined as people who kill at least three people and can keep happening for years until the killer is caught. Serial killers, Clare S.Allely says, murder their victims separately and over a period of time, with a cooling-off period between murders (Allely)....

The case of Robert Pickton was a horrifying, disturbing event that left a lasting impact on all of Canada. Pickton was a notorious serial killer, convicted on six charges for the murders of up to twenty-six different women. Pickton had grown up and worked on...

Serial Killers are some of the most terrifying people to exist, from their terrible acts of harassment to killings. Richard Ramirez is rated one of the worst serial killers there is, to be defined as a serial killer you have to kill more than three...