Crime

The keyword Crime is tagged in the following 8 articles.

Debating Genetics as a Predictor of Criminal Offending and Sentencing

November 14, 2011 - 2933 words | Law and Justice » Genetics

Since the beginning of criminological research has been an ongoing debate and disagreement regarding the correlation between genetic characteristics and criminal behavior. There have been numerous studies and experiments conducted to help eliminate some of the unknowns... Read Article »

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Genetics Criminology Sociology Law Justice Crime Punishment

The Legacy of International Cooperation at the Nuremberg Trials

October 4, 2011 - 5877 words | History » World War II

On November 21, 1945, Robert H. Jackson, the Chief Prosecutor for the United States of America opened the prosecution’s case against German defendants in Nuremberg, Germany. The war in Europe had ended only six months earlier, many of the buildings in Nuremberg... Read Article »

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World War II Nuremberg War Crimes Nazis Human Rights Soviet Union Germany Great Britain United States France

Dostoevsky's Hegelian Parody in Crime and Punishment

June 15, 2011 - 5266 words | Philosophy » Hegelianism

This project examines the role of the Left Hegelian school of philosophy in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Special attention is given to Georg Hegel's section on “World Historical Individuals” from Philosophy of History and Rodion Raskolnikov... Read Article »

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Hegel Crime And Punishment Russia Dostoevsky Hegelianism

Identity in Conflict: Race and Violent Crime in South Africa in the Context of Contemporary Insurgencies

March 4, 2011 - 8042 words | Political Science » South Africa

Violence undermines an inclusive national identity that considers those of other races, classes and creeds as compatriots, for as Mirowsky and Ross (1983: 238) note, “When other people in one’s life have become a hostile army, social alienation is at its... Read Article »

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South Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Counterinsurgency Identity Crime Race Relations

Crime and Personality: Personality Theory and Criminality Examined

January 31, 2011 - 7323 words | Criminal Justice » Criminology

The search for the criminal personality or super trait has captured both the minds and imaginations of academics and the wider community (Caspi et al., 1994). Partly, this is due to a stubborn aversion to the notion that normal, regular people rape, murder, or molest... Read Article »

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Criminality Personality Theory Criminal Personality Crime And Personality Criminology Psychopathy

President Bush, The Iraq Invasion, and "Enhanced Interrogation"

June 16, 2010 - 2600 words | Political Science » Iraq War

Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote that “to ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”[1] Although this statement was meant towards the civil rights movement, the idea equally applies in other instances, especially in times of war. In March... Read Article »

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U.S. Torture Policy Enhanced Interrogation Iraq War War Crimes International Criminal Court Geneva Convention George W. Bush

Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: Early Intervention and Comprehensiveness as Critical Factors

February 11, 2010 - 3792 words | Criminal Justice » Juvenile Delinquency

Every single person living in the United States today is affected by juvenile Crime. It affects parents, neighbors, teachers, and families. It affects the victims of Crime, the perpetrators, and the bystanders. While delinquency rates have been decreasing, rates... Read Article »

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Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Programs Head Start Home Visitation Nurse Visitation Preventing Crime Delinquency Rate

Perceptions of Heroes and Villains in European Literature

January 12, 2010 - 3532 words | English » Heroes And Villains

It is tempting to classify literary, cinematic, and historical characters into groups. The trouble of course, is that such labels can be misleading at best, and severely subjective and variable. When using terms such as hero, villain, anti-hero, anti-villain, or adventurer... Read Article »

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Villains Heroes Shakespeare Wilkie Collins Dracula Bram Stoker Frankenstein Mary Shelley Dostoyevsky Crime And Punishment Richard II Richard III Raskolnikov The Conformist Alberto Moravi