1. Gang Violence
Violence in schools around the nation is a serious problem. It includes gang activity, theft, bullying and the use of guns and other weapons. The total number of crimes committed in public schools has risen to close three million each year. About 9 percent of all students are victimized at least ...
How do you combat juvenile delinquency when psychologists believe "much of the delinquency grows out of the adolescents need to rebel against the restrictions of the adult world?" You can't dispose of adults. So why not eliminate adult restrictions? Yet, restrictions are imposed to offer to offer...
Lately there have been many argumentations on whether we should legalize drug or not. Dershowits suggests that we should decriminalize drug for hard-core addicts in the medical settings. However Rangle says we should stop thinking about legalization since we will have many issues if we legalize dr...
Deviant Behavior A person would be considered to be acting deviantly in society if they are violating what the significant social norm in that particular culture is. What causes humans to act certain ways is a disputed topic among researchers for some time now. There are three types of researchers...
"The Reality of the Prison Walls; Fair or Unfair?" The story "Past Present" by Jimmy Santiago Baca is a story of the prison system and the unfairness that he had seen during his time in there. The prison system to him is considered "unjustified". They have caused him to become a person that he d...
Crimes are now easier to commit Crimes are easier to commit in this day and age. Criminals have no sense of rehabilation anymore, because now all that seems to happen to them when they commit a crime is a slap on the wrist and sent back out into society. I believe that in this time in the judi...
It is designed with four primary objectives : (1) to develop detailed information about victims and what the outcome of crime was, (2) to estimate the members and types of crime not reported, (3) to provide measures of selected crimes, (4) to compare over time and types of areas. ...
Prison has never been an effective measure of crime control. According to the Oxford dictionary, prison is defined as "A building to which people are legally committed as a punishment for a crime or while awaiting trial." This definition displays in clear view the problem society has with the reason...
Gun control as a Canadian social issue Gun Control is an important issue to Canadians in today"'s society. Canada has both provincial and federal legislation that restricts the sale, purchase, and use of different kinds of firearms. The United States, on the other hand, do not have federal or state bills restricting the possession or use of firearms, only local laws exist there. A firearm consists of any barreled weapon from which a shot, bullet or other missile can be fired and that is capable of causing serious bodily harm or death. Society"'s concerns about protection from vi...
