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“Some girls come to us beaten half to death. They are so young. They have marks that are worse than anything I have ever endured.” (Mam 166). Throughout the world, traffickers coerce and abduct women and children into the sex trade. Traffickers then trade and sell these women for the use of sexual exploitation (Mace…

Vince ZwillingCriminology 1:00 T/RProfessor CorbinCrime Zones and Reasoning (Poverty, Race, Social Class)Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that attempts to help us understand society and how people interact. As with many other social sciences, sociology employs theories to help understand why people make certain decisions. Theories that help us explain societal trends are…

Aaron McKinney, who was found guilty of the murder of Matthew Shepard, avoided the death penalty. Shepard’s lawyer agreed to a deal proposed by McKinney’s lawyer, which gave Aaron McKinney life imprisonment. McKinney, a 21-year-old drop-out and drug dealer, beat openly gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the prairie. Russell…

When one thinks of police misconduct many not too distant stories might go through our heads. Most adults will remember how they felt when they saw the brutal beating of Rodney King on their local news station, or the outrage they experienced when they heard that the evidence in the OJ Simpson trial had been…

KWMSOCL 4461May 07, 2001The current tone of the criminal justice system, particularly the prosecution phase, emphasizes, “clearing the docket”. While this is true of both civil and criminal courts, it is very much encouraged in criminal matters where the prosecution likely has the upper hand on most, if not all, defendants. As a result, the…

Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a masterpiece mocking communism. Animalism, which represents communism, was a revolution that didn’t work. Animalism was supposed to make life better for the animals but instead their lives got worse. By the end of the story, everything had changed. The government had become corrupt, there was a dictator,…

In a world full of fears, perhaps the worst one a human being should have is that to be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be most feared is the one thathas Anti-Social Personality Disorder or in laymens terms the psychopath. The psychopath is probably themost deviant mind that exists and treatment…

Recognizing, Preventing, Eliminating”As powerful a tool as the Net can be in spreading hate, it can be equally powerful in exposing the hate,” writes Rick Goldberg in an in HateWatch,one of the leading monitors of racist and homophobic activity on the internet. While it is easy to dismiss groups that wage on those of the…

During my presentation last week, I focused on the violent crimes that juveniles commit and how the percentages of offenses have changed over the last fifteen to twenty years. Some of my focus for this presentation dealt with violence within schools- the alarming rates of student on student violence, as well as student on faculty/staff…

Identity theft is a serious crime where a thief obtains your personal information, such as your social security number, to commit fraud. Identity theft has become a growing issue in today ‘s society, especially with today ‘s advanced technology. Research done by Javelin strategy concludes that nearly 12 million Americans have been victims of identity…