Essays on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice

An expert witness is an individual with training, knowledge and experience that assists the judge or the jury to understand the evidence or the scientific, technical and specialized facts regarding the case. Additionally, experts are often questioned about their opinion which they developed based on...

Self-restraint in the society is paramount among its members. Mistakes committed by members of the society are punishable as either criminal activities or some are taken as light mistakes. When a member of the society commits a criminal activity he or she is subjected to...

Introduction Over about more than a decade, Cook County, Illinois held the first juvenile court system in 1899. Prior to the juvenile court system children were seen as “miniature adults” causing them to be tried and punished as adults were. However, improvements in the understanding...

It was early on the Sunday morning of August 17, 1971, when the Stanford Study Experiment first commenced. A college student was confused as he heard sirens blaring and a police officer placed him under arrest and drove him towards Stanford University. The “prison” made...

As humans by nature we are social creatures. We form groups and become part of several distinct groups throughout the course of our lives. One very particular group that plays one of the most important roles in our lives are our primary groups, this includes...

Recognizing the critical element of the recovery of young people through the preservation of their privacy, the public are now interested to seek more information about juvenile crime and violence, state authorities, school officials, the public and victims. A growing amount of States are satisfying...

Every young black male I grew up with played some kind of recreational sport at the local recreation center at one point in their life. Sport was an outlet for us to express ourselves, hangout with people who had similar interests, focus our attention on...

Juveniles and their involvement with the criminal justice system have become an important issue in our modern-day society. Formerly incarcerated youth are at a high risk of recidivism, in fact, over half are re-incarcerated within three years of release. To combat against the high rates...

Should juveniles be tried as adults? Living in this complex and hectic world, it is plausible for crimes to happen at any time and anywhere. By and large, it is possible that people at all ages can commit crime, and every country has their own...

The first juvenile court in the United States did not open until 1899. Prior to then, children over seven years old that broke the law were sent to adult prisons. There is a juvenile justice system now but there are still a lot of juveniles...

Twenty billion dollars. This is the amount of money we once paid annually for prisons. That may sound like an absurd amount, but what’s even crazier is the fact that this amount has quadrupled since 1980. Since the cost of prison is a cause and...

Thesis statement: stricter gun control laws should be enacted and implemented in the United States to solve the problem of mass shootings and reduce crime within its borders. Background Do people involved with mass violence suffer from mental illness, or are our gun laws being...

Introduction to Crime and Punishment A crime can be portrayed as a corrupt demonstration that deserves of the state or some other specialists. In customary criminal law, crime had an all-inclusive acknowledged definition in spite of today, where there are variable definitions in regards to...

Homicide has been categorized among the leading non-medical causes of death in the United States. Each day, an average of thirteen kids ranging from the age of ten to nineteen years gets killed by gunfire, while the highest percentage of such children get injured in...

Introduction Gun control has been a topic of debate for almost a century due to the increase in gun violence. There has been an outcry from the public to political officials to place limitations on citizens’ rights to own guns. These limitations force anybody who...

Different types of guns are some weapons that are allowed by the government to help increase the protection of an individual or groups of people. Despite the positive intention that people have towards the possession of guns in society, other people tend to misuse the...

Since childhood, we start listening to murmurs about an atrocious crime that took place and it’s associated with people questioning themselves how a human being can do such a horrible crime where suddenly, death penalty becomes one of their demands and wishes. Death penalty to...

The purpose of a criminal justice system is to reprimand those who have broken the law while maintaining societal order. However, nothing manufactured by humans is without flaw. There have been countless instances of corruption in the criminal justice system, which have drastically altered the...

Chris Watts was a father of two little girls ages 4 and 3 he also had a wife who was pregnant with their third child. His wife was a YouTube blogger; everyone saw the Watts as the perfect happy couple. But the happy façade could...