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  1. Criminology Theses and Dissertations

    Theses/Dissertations from 2013. Assessing the Relationship Between Hotspots of Lead and Hotspots of Crime, Kimberly L. Barrett. A Life-Course Approach to Sexual Offending: Examining the Continuity of Juvenile Sexual Offending into Adulthood and Subsequent Patterns of Recidivism, Maude Beaudry-Cyr.

  2. Criminology and Criminal Justice Theses and Dissertations

    The Spatial Variability of Crime: A Review of Methodological Choice, Proposed Models, and Methods for Illustrating the Phenomenon, Matthew D. Spencer. PDF. Community Corrections Officer Decision-Making: An Intersectional Analysis, Amber Leigh Williams Wilson. Theses/Dissertations from 2020 PDF

  3. The Crime and the Criminal: Perceptions of Crime Seriousness

    This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the ACU Student Research, Theses, Projects, and Dissertations at Digital Commons @ ACU. ... Crime in the United States has been and will continue to be a public problem (Saad, 2007). Thus, it is important to know how the public perceives different types of crime.

  4. (PDF) A Review of the Effectiveness of Crime Prevention by Design

    Unpublished PhD Thesis, Un iversity of . Sheffield, UK. ... Crime prevention has been recognised as one of the key national priorities in South Africa since the establishment of the National Crime ...

  5. Criminal Justice Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

    Measuring crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) in shopping centers, Anchalee Roongsittchichai. PDF. The effects of Megan's Law on the reintegration of child sex offenders, Trisha Marie Tenorio. Theses/Dissertations from 2007 PDF. The invisible woman: The lesbian - scared straight, Kathleen Louise Dart. PDF

  6. University of North Dakota UND Scholarly Commons

    0.68% jump in violent crime; a 1% increase in the number of the police force is due to a. 0.48% increase in violent crime, a 1% increase in the Hispanic population is linked to a. 15% reduction in violent crime, and a 1% increase in the non-Hispanic white population. is connected to a 6% decrease in violent crime.

  7. Beyond Policing: The Problem of Crime in America

    Examining What Is: Covid-19, Guns, and the Rise in Hate. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, crime rates were relatively low. As the graph in Figure 1 demonstrates, the rate of violent crime offenses declined from a peak in 1991 of 758.2 per year to 398.5 per year in 2020. 19 The rate of homicide over the same period also dropped significantly, from its highest level in 1991 compared with 2020. 20 ...

  8. Criminal Justice and Criminology Theses

    Race and Anomie: A Comparison of Crime Among Rural Whites and Urban Blacks Based on Social Structural Conditions., Mical Dominique Carter. PDF. Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders Among State and Federal Prison Inmates., John Richard Haggerty. PDF. An Analysis of The Handwriting of Elderly Chinese Subjects., Dongfang Liu. PDF

  9. Criminology and Criminal Justice Dissertations

    The association between crime and place is one of the most empirically supported notions in criminology. However, less is known about whether the internet has impacted the environmental conditions that contribute to crime in physical space. To address this gap, this dissertation examines the intersection of crime, place, and networks in the ...

  10. COVID-19 and crime: Analysis of crime dynamics amidst social ...

    Introduction. Crime is a major public concern in the United States. Gun violence leads to the deaths of 36,000 individuals and the non-fatal injuries of 85,000 others [].Other crime types can produce property damage, trauma for victims, and fractures in community trust [].Across the five major crime categories (personal, property, inchoate, statutory and financial), some rely on regular ...

  11. PDF Youth crime: an investigation into the effectiveness of general re

    A thesis submitted to the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, University of Birmingham UK March 2014 For the degree of Doctorate of Forensic Psychology in Practice (ForenPsyD) ... involved in crime, a 30% reduction (n=16,167) since 2008 (n=53,956); and a 32 % reduction

  12. (PDF) Theories of Crime and Criminal Activities

    Most social problems, particularly violent and antisocial behaviors, result from criminal. actions. Several factors such as inadequate housing, poverty, high levels of social inequality, low. self ...

  13. (PDF) Crime: A Conceptual Understanding

    Crime is a public wrong. It is an act of offense which violates. the law of the state and is strongly disapproved by the socie-. ty. Crime is defined as acts or omissions forbidden by law that ...

  14. Full article: Crime and society

    The crucial social and social psychological aspects of crime, which include personal attitudes as well as the broader societal context. The investigation and management of crime. This increasingly includes careful consideration of the forms that crime is taking in contemporary society. The aftermath of crime, both for those who are convicted as ...

  15. PDF Media Effects on Crime and Crime Style

    Keywords: Violent crime, media violence, meta-analysis, aggression, US-Mexico border, traffickers. 2 of 23 A substantial and important portion of criminal justice research is concerned with environmental, situational, or systemic factors that cause, or are likely to cause, criminal behavior. As part of this rich literature, the role that media ...

  16. PDF Incidence of Crimes and Effectiveness of Interventions in the ...

    • Enhancing the capacity of criminal justice agencies to prevent crime and reoffending. Urban crime prevention strategies include both social crime prevention and situational crime prevention policies. Social crime prevention measures are those which deal with the fundamental causes of crime or the criminogenic factors of crime.

  17. PDF An Analysis of Crime Prevention As a Core Function of The South African

    Irene Theron, who edited this thesis. Lastly, I want to thank my wife, Grace Vuma, my daughter Naledi Vuma and my ... crime disorder and the fear of crime 80 3.5.1.1 Increasing the size of the police and random patrols 80 3.5.1.2 Rapid response to calls and generally applied follow-up investigations 82 ...

  18. 222 Top-Notch Criminal Justice Thesis Topics in 2023

    Tip-Top Criminological Research Topics. The role of mental health in any criminal behaviour. How protests and demonstrations amount to illegal activities. The implication of religious beliefs on committing a crime. How social class is a critical player in the crime.

  19. 607 Crime Essay Topics & Samples

    607 Crime Essay Topic Ideas & Examples. Updated: Mar 2nd, 2024. 31 min. When writing a research paper about criminology or law, you have to consider your topic carefully. Our team came up with 465 titles, along with some crime essay examples to assist you in your assignment. We will write.

  20. 256 Research Topics on Criminal Justice & Criminology

    Criminology Topics on Types of Crime. Campus crime: the most common crimes on college campuses and ways of preventing them. Child abuse: types, prevalence, risk groups, ways of detection and prevention. Cybercrime: cyber fraud, defamation, hacking, bullying, phishing. Domestic violence: gender, ways of detection and prevention, activism.

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    Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which the Philippine government (via mechanisms such as legal system) can ultimately prescribe a conviction. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example: breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as "offences" or as "infractions".

  22. Essay about Crime

    Crime. In general the definition of a crime is an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act. Crime refers to many types of misconduct forbidden by law. Crimes include such things as murder, stealing a car, resisting arrest, possession or dealing of illegal drugs, being nude in public , drunk driving, and bank robbery.

  23. (PDF) Crime Mapping Approach for Crime Pattern Identification: A

    Crime Mapping Approach for Crime Pattern Identification: A Prototype for the Province of Cavite is a research paper that proposes a GIS-based method to analyze and visualize crime incidents in ...

  24. Dissertation Defense: "Essays in the Economics of Crime and Health

    Speaker. Michael Topper, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara. Biography. Michael Topper is an applied microeconomist with a particular interest in the economics of crime. His first paper, The Effects of Fraternity Moratoriums on Alcohol Offenses and Sexual Assaults is published in the Journal of Human Resources.

  25. True crime: My cousin was murdered. I spent years working toward

    True crime as we know it today is the land of sleuths, both professional and amateur—from the older shows my mom used to watch on A&E to their modern heirs like Making a Murder and The Jinx ...

  26. The Urban Violent Crime Spike Is Real

    So the repairman was their eyes. California ranks 17th in national violent crime rates, with a 6.1% increase in reported violent crimes and a 6.2% increase in property crime from 2021 to 2024. California is very large and varies widely in density and crime propensity of the population.