Essays on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice

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Biography of Famous Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan

2 pages / 1106 words

Andrew was the youngest of four children to Mary Anne Schillaci Modesto Cunanan. He grew up very intelligent and constantly praised, by his father, and being given anything he wanted (Andrew Cunanan Biography, n.d.). His brother even stated to ABC News that “He was my...

Biography Criminal Behavior Serial Killer

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Aileen Wuornos’s Seven Murders

2 pages / 855 words

Serial Killers are an entirely special breed of people and there is some controversy about if they can benefit from rehabilitation and be placed back into society. Their killings are violent, and sadistic, and have a general lack of empathy for their victims. These types...

Criminal Behavior Psychopaths Serial Killer

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Aileen Wuornos: Story of One Killer

2 pages / 760 words

A serial killer is a person normally known to murder three or more individuals for no apparent motive due to their abnormal psychological satisfaction. As learned, a serial killer is an individual who puts “special efforts to elude detection” and “may continue to kill for...

Criminal Behavior Serial Killer

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Examining Crime Preventative Strategy of Cocooning Through Rational Choice Theory

4 pages / 1741 words

Introduction It has been deduced that crime prevention is an ever-emerging area of criminological research and practice, whereby the efficacy of such strategies determine the quality of everyday living amongst individuals. Cocooning is a domestic burglary prevention strategy which involves visits from police officers to...

Rational Choice Theory

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Rational Choice Theory and The Effects of Illegal Immigrants on Crime

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The rational choice hypothesis is portrayed as the conviction that guilty criminals take an interest in illegal behaviors with information on the law and plausibility of apprehension. They measure the favorable circumstances and inconveniences before they participate in criminal conduct and if they feel that...

Criminal Behavior Illegal Immigration Rational Choice Theory

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Rational Choice and Decision Making Theories to Explain Criminal Behavior

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Theory is an explanation, a model or a framework for understanding events or processes. This in turn helps the criminal justice system begin to understand not just why people commit crime but also who commits crime and how offenders stop offending. As stated by Cornish...

Criminal Behavior Rational Choice Theory

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The Relationship Between Psychopathy and Criminal Behaviour

5 pages / 2255 words

This essay shall focus solely on the relationship between psychopathy and criminal behaviour. To begin with, the essay shall offer a clear definition of psychopathy and its tendencies along with its prevalence and the way it is assessed. Next, the Attachment and Arousal theories of...

Attachment Theory Criminal Behavior Psychopaths

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The Use of Routine Activities Theory and Psychopathy to Explain Criminal Behavior

5 pages / 2411 words

Introduction Theories which explore crimes from the perspective of offenders are of crucial importance in the field of criminology. The application of such theories to criminal events helps us identify key contributing factors that can explain the criminal behavior and have significant policy implications. For...

Criminal Behavior Psychopaths

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Psychological Analysis of John Wayne Gacy Using Trait Theories

5 pages / 2049 words

Introduction John Wayne Gacy was active between 1972 and 1978, He was a murderer/rapist with 33 known homicide victims all identified as young men and boys between the ages of 14 – 21. While Gacy was not slaughtering people, he was an outgoing neighbour every...

Criminal Behavior John Wayne Serial Killer

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The Killer Clown: Psychopathic Traits of John Wayne Gacy

6 pages / 2636 words

“Psychopathy is a clinical construct characterized by a core set of affective, interpersonal, lifestyle, and antisocial features”. Psychopathic individuals tend to be insensitive, lack empathy for others, and display little guilt or remorse for their actions. Psychopaths often inflict physical damage to strangers or even...

Criminal Behavior John Wayne Serial Killer

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John Wayne Gacy: Becoming a Cold-hearted Killer

2 pages / 930 words

Introduction It was a brisk December afternoon in Cook County, Illinois, and everything seemed to be going well. Children were out of school, celebrating the holidays, while parents were out and about making a final mad dash for Christmas gifts. The year was 1978, and...

Criminal Behavior John Wayne Serial Killer

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Analysis of John Wayne Gacy’s Crimes Through Criminological Theories

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John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer better known as Pogo The Clown. At a young age, he lived through an abusive childhood that molded him into the likable clown everyone appeared to enjoy but little to be known about the devil himself behind the costume....

Criminal Behavior John Wayne Serial Killer

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John Wayne Gacy: The Role of Childhood in Becoming a Serial Killer

1 page / 496 words

The factors of a person’s past can influence the way they will succeed or fail in the future. For example, John Wayne Gacy had a horrible childhood and from those experiences became one of the deadliest serial killers. The terrible early life he went through...

Criminal Behavior John Wayne Serial Killer

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Overview of Intelligence LED Policing (ilp)

6 pages / 2669 words

The intelligence and vetting of everyday society in the UK is on the rise especially within the policing tactic now being called Intelligence Led Policing (ILP) (Ratcliffe 2002, 53-66). Whilst this is being considered a new method of policing and in some ways remains true,...

Criminal Procedure Police

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No One is Born a Criminal, They Are Made

3 pages / 1170 words

You wake up excited, thrilled. All your hard work is finally going to pay off. The year’s of studying, staying up late, exams and stress is finally going to be worthwhile. Today is the day you’ve been waiting for. There’s nothing holding you back, so...

Criminal Behavior Criminal Psychology Nature Versus Nurture

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The Effectiveness of Rehabilitation Vs Harsh Punishment

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The question of the effectiveness of rehabilitation vs harsh punishment has been widely debated. While dealing with the crime. There are lots of debates that follow the topic of what is more suitable for the inmates’ punishment or rehabilitation because both the concepts are apart...

Criminal Justice Punishment

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How The Pros of Private Prisons Outweigh Its Cons

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The debate over private prisons is highly controversial, and most of the opposition is due to transparency, but private prisons offer the government the ability to transfer certain prisoners out of government run public prisons to reduce overcrowding, reduce cost, and provide greater flexibility in...

Prison

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Exclusionary Rule in The American Criminal Justice System

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The grand controversy behind the “fruits of the forbidden tree” doctrine is whether or not legally damning evidence – obtained illegally should be admissible in the court of law. The idea – also known as the evidence exclusionary law – centres around the belief that...

American Criminal Justice System Court Criminal Justice

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Pros and Cons of Private Prisons in Comparison to The Public Ones

4 pages / 1865 words

Case Currently throughout England and Wales, there is a total of 117 prisons. 104 of those are owned publically, the remaining 13, owned privately. The aim of this case study is to determine whether punishment should remain a government duty. To do this, the study...

Prison