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Gun Control Laws, 1990.
This paper discusses gun control laws: Firearms, accessibility by the general public, the rising rate of armed robberies, aggravated assault and homicides, gun control solutions and pro and con.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 92.95
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""A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security o a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." -- Second Amendment to the Constitution
The words of the Second Amendment, written two centuries ago, lie close to the heart of one of the most divisive issues in contemporary American public life: gun control. On the one hand, gunfire claims a constant, daily toll of American lives, from suicide and accidents even more than from violent crime. Every year or so, a mass murderer, often armed with one or more semiautomatic military-type assault weapons, mows down a dozen or so victims. On the other hand, gun ownership is a core value to millions of Americans, and perhaps a majority of all American ... "
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The Crime of Homicide, 2004.
An insight into the concepts of reality versus perception in homicide.
4,138 words (approx. 16.6 pages), 23 sources, MLA, AU$ 160.95
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This paper examines how homicide is of interest not only because of its severity, but also because it is a fairly reliable barometer of all violent crime. It looks at how news media accounts of homicides can affect the public's perception of the importance of issues and how criminologists have long tried to understand the variables that lead to an individual committing an act of homicide. It discusses how homicide is primarily a problem plaguing minority communities and how research has shown that it is probably poverty, unemployment, and social stresses, not race that increases the risk of homicide. It recognizes that homicide in society is a reality and proposes the implementation of effective strategies or policies that should be analyzed and thought through in order to help in alleviating the act of homicide.
Outline
Introduction
Homicide Defined
Perception of Murder Rates
Homicide Rates According to Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
Theories of Homicide
Implementing a Plan for Public Policy
References
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"News media accounts of homicides can affect the public's perception of the importance of issues. They can also influence the public's perception of risks, fears of personal safety, satisfaction with law enforcement, and trust of others. These concerns, in turn, can have far reaching consequences with regards to personal and political actions and considerations in how resources are utilized in the prevention and control of homicides (Sorenson, Manz, & Berk, 1998). Observing violence in the media can also have negative effects. Sidney Callahan, from the Commonweal Foundation, states that "Violent images on TV or in the movies have inspired people to set spouses on fire in their beds, lie down in the middle of highways, extort money by placing bombs in airplanes, rape people in particularly disgusting ways, and who knows how many other kinds of shootings and assaults" (Callahan, 1996)."
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Homicide and Capital Punishment, 2005.
A look at homicide trends and capital punishment in the U.S.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, AU$ 77.95
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This paper examines how homicide has largely decreased in USA but with escalation and concentration after the late 1980s in Black youth gang homicide. The paper also looks at the death penalty controversy (DPInfo Centre) and the implications of those under 17 on death row and the later trial of offenders having committed homicide when minors.
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"A review of statistics compiled by the United States Department of Justice can point to the poverty of capital punishment as a deterrent to homicide, according to various kinds of homicide, victims, and especially, rates assessed between the early or mid-1970s and 2002. A statistical analysis of national homicide compiled since 1976, in contrast with much popular opinion, shows decreases in kinds of homicide and circumstances, including drops in what many may assume to have increased, in recent years. (Fox & Zawitz:2003) National homicide statistics are compiled most consistently, and can serve as a barometer for other crimes of violence, given that relatively few homicides are premeditated and are more often due to felonies or cases of accident. "
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Homicide under Control, 2005.
This paper is an analysis of changing homicide rates in light of changing social trends based on the routine activities approach.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 90.95
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This paper uses data from both uniform police reports and from victim surveys to analyze homicide rates in Canada. The author points out three policy recommendations. The paper demonstrates that the routine activities approach can be used adequately with homicide statistics.
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"The media through sensationalized coverage of recent murders in Canada have led a large proportion of the public to believe that homicides are escalating sharply. Murders involving children such as Holly Jones and Cecilia Zhang especially have contributed to the perception of an increase in homicide rates. However, the public would be surprised to discover that there has been a marked decline in the national rate for homicide which, in fact, currently has reached its lowest level since 1967 (Dauvergne, 2003). The rates of stalking and assault also have corresponded to the reduced homicide rate, but in general homicide is unrelated to other crimes."
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Vehicular Homicide Convictions, 2004.
Study of the disparity in sentencing guidelines for DUI (driving under the influence) vehicular homicide.
23,551 words (approx. 94.2 pages), 87 sources, APA, AU$ 363.95
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This study looks at the problem of disparity in sentencing guidelines when it comes to DUI vehicular homicide. The study examines this disparity, as well as the sentencing disparity that exists with other types of crime. The paper contends that, while race is a significant reason for the disparity, it is not the only reason. A look at the various causes for sentencing disparity and how the injustice might be corrected is also the subject of this study.
Statement of Problem and Hypotheses
Purpose of the Study
Importance of the Study
Scope of the Study
Rationale of the Study
Introduction to the Literature Review
History of Sentencing
Types of Sentencing
Sentencing Guidelines for DUI Homicides
Factors that Influence a Judges Decision
A History of DUI Laws/Legislation
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"This has become a serious problem for many minority individuals, since many who have been sentenced are insisting that the guidelines under which they have been sentenced are unfair. Literature on this subject, which will be reviewed in Chapter Two, appears to indicate that some disparity may exist, and this is worrying for minority individuals, due to the fact that they are aware that, if they are arrested for DUI vehicular homicide, they will likely be punished more severely than those that are of the Caucasian race."
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Homicide, 2004.
This paper discusses homicide in the United States.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 69.95
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This paper analyzes the decline in the homicide rate in the United States and summarizes arguments that support the decline. The author points out implications for policy planning. The paper includes theoretical explanations.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the phenomenon of a decline in the homicide rate in the United States. The research will summarize various arguments that explain this decline and discuss the theoretical perspectives that support the explanation."
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Corporate Crime and Homicide, 2006.
A review of white collar crime and various explanations of homicide.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 129.95
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This paper is comprised of two parts. The first evaluates and discusses the following statement: some judges give light sentences to white-collar offenders because they feel that these offenders have already suffered from the publicity surrounding their conviction and because their employment prospects have suffered? The second essay examines the macro-sociological and micro-sociological explanations of homicide with reference to the strain theory. These two approaches, the macro-sociological and the micro-sociological are not mutually exclusive and the complement one another.
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Homicide Laws, 2002.
A comparison between the Balckstone laws and the laws against homicide in America.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 51.95
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This paper compares Blackstone's laws to the USA RCW in terms of homicide.
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Medico-Legal System and Concealed Homicide, 2004.
Examine the medico-legal system in relation to concealed homicide in the United Kingdom.
6,750 words (approx. 27.0 pages), 17 sources, MLA, AU$ 348.95
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This paper investigates the medico-legal system in the United Kingdom in relation to the phenomenon of concealed homicide. The paper focuses primarily on England and Wales and concludes that deficiencies in the system facilitate concealment of murder.
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"This study investigates the implications in relation to the phenomenon of concealed homicide of medico-legal system in the United Kingdom, with a primary focus on England and Wales. The term concealed homicide as the term is used in this study refers to a death resulting from an unlawful action wherein the actual circumstances of the death are concealed to..."
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Homicide, 2006.
An extensive discussion on homicide in America.
1,776 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 83.95
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This paper begins with a brief two hundred year history of homicide. It continues to discuss the sociology of victims and perpetrators exploring race, age and gender. It also expands on various motivations for murder and monitors, through stated statistics, patterns of considered motivations through history. In conclusion, grief and methods for coping with grief are discussed.
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"Total homicide rates fluctuated during the 1981-1998 period, however, intimate partner homicide rates decreased steadily during this time frame, and among certain sub-populations, the decrease has been substantial (Paulozzi pp).
These decreases are temporally associated with the introduction of social programs and legal measures to curb intimate partner violence, but a causal relationship has not been established (Paulozzi pp). Moreover, no confirmed explanation exists for the greater decrease in rates among males compared with rates among females (Paulozzi pp). The differences in intimate partner homicide rates by race indicate that economic, social, and cultural factors are involved (Paulozzi pp). It was also found that community population size and state demonstrates that regional sociocultural differences might be involved, while access to firearms might be a key factor in both male and female intimate partner homicides (Paulozzi pp)."
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Neonatal Homicide, 2008.
Examines the phenomenon of crimes against neonates including risk factors, medications, age range, and culture.
1,135 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 57.95
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This paper reports that homicide is the fifteenth leading cause of death during the first year of life in the United States. Neonates and infants are the most vulnerable of all crime victims in the United States and worldwide. The author reviews many contributing maternal factors to neonatal death such as age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, marital status, drug use by the mother during pregnancy and birth weight of the neonate. The paper concludes that information, education and better prenatal and maternal care can help prevent these crimes.
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"Types of crimes vary in neonate abuse. The Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) found during the period 2001 through 2003, 1,404 simple assaults committed against infants were reported by law enforcement agencies. Second was aggravated assault, with 1,023 being committed against infants. The typical infant abuser is a white male in his mid- to late twenties. The offender is more likely to be female; however, if more than one infant victim is involved."
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Domestic Homicide in South Carolina, 2004.
An examination of the problem of the levels of lethal violence against women, focusing on Berkeley County, South Carolina.
1,356 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 66.95
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This paper discusses how domestic violence is a problem due to its magnitude and because of its enduring implications. It examines how abuse does not stop with a single generation and how, sometimes, it rises to what must be seen as almost epidemic levels in a community, such as it has in South Carolina in the past few years. It looks at the definition of domestic violence and provides an overview of some of the key statistics involving domestic violence against women, as well as potential solutions to the problem.
Outline
Identification and Definition of the Problem
Possible Solutions
Most Cost-Beneficial Solution
Implementation and Evaluation of Results
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"Clearly something must be done to improve the chances of women avoiding domestic violence and surviving its potentially lethal affects. Perhaps the most important step that can be taken is to provide more shelters for women seeking to escape violent relationships. One of the hallmarks of violent domestic relationships is that they have become isolated (intentionally by their partners) from their families and friends and even when they decide to make a break from the relationship they often cannot do so because they have no practical means of escape."
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Justifiable Homicide, 2002.
Examines the theme of justice in Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles".
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 80.95
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Examines theme of justice in Susan Glaspell's play 'TRIFLES." Action and setting of the one-act play. Plot of investigation of a farmer's murder. Wife as the husband killer. All male legal system. Theme of abused wife who kills her abusive husband and how the women of the play decide the murder was justifiable.
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"This research examines the theme of justifiable homicide as the experience of finding justice in Susan Glaspell's one-act play Trifles. The research will set forth the pattern of ideas in the work and then discuss the means by which it illustrates the emergence of justice.
The action of Trifles takes place in the winter of 1916 and is confined to the kitchen of a farmer's wife. It takes place in the aftermath of the peculiar strangling death of the farmer. The wife of the sheriff, Mrs. Peters, and a friend of hers, Mrs. Hale, whose husband discovered the body, are gathering personal things for the farmer's wife, who is being held in jail. While Sheriff Peters, the county attorney, and Mr. Hale set about looking through the house and barn to search for evidence that might be useful in a trial, the women busy themselves in the ..."
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Juvenile Homicide, 1995.
Examines the reasons for the increase in murder by youth, guns, statistics, types of murders, socioeconomics, ethnicity and family violence.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 115.95
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"Juveniles commit murder at an alarming rate in the United
States. Typically, the victims are other juveniles. Consequently, whereas the thoughts of young people in generations past centered on proms, college, or sports, today's youth are preoccupied with personal safety, particularly in high-crime, urban areas.
The threat of homicide is especially prevalent for young males. According to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Center for Disease Control, the leading cause of death in young males is homicides. The United States is the most violent country in the world. Compare death rates for males between the ages of 15-24 years of 2 homicides per 100,000 persons in France or 5 homicides per 100,000 persons in Scotland to 22 homicides per 100,000 persons in the United States (U.S. Congress, 1992 ..."
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"Homicide" ( Martin Daly & Margo Wilson ), 1997.
Critical review of 1988 work on social, psychological & evolutionary factors of murder.
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"Martin Daly and Margo Wilson's Homicide is a lengthy, scholarly examination of the topic of people killing each other. As the authors state in their introductory remarks,
Killing one's antagonist is the ultimate conflict resolution technique, and our ancestors discovered it long before they were people. Homicide is a life-and-death issue to the protagonists, of course, but it is also profoundly interesting to those not immediately involved (p. ix).
The justification for writing the present volume is to conduct and "exercise in 'evolutionary psychology': the attempt to understand normal social motives as products of the process of evolution by natural selection" (p. ix).
According to the authors, their specialization in the area of homicide is the result of some eight years of research into.."
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Justifying Homicide, 2004.
A discussion of the self-defense plea and some of its applications, as well as a discussion of the current self-defense laws in Tennessee.
1,813 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 85.95
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Self-defense may sound self-explanatory, but it can, in fact, be very complicated. This is used as a justification in many cases, but it seldom works because of the misunderstandings about the laws. This paper discusses the current self-defense law and related laws in Tennessee, as well as the duty-to-retreat law and the castle law.
Table of Contents
1. Description of Self-Defense
2. Moral Dilemmas in Self-Defense
3. Self-Defense
4. Defense of Third Person
5. Protection of Life or Health
6. Protection of Property
7. Protection of Third Person?s Property
8. Use of Device to Protect Property
9. Conclusion
10. References
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"Self-defense is usually not considered to be an actual defense to homicide or assault, but is seen as a justification of one's actions that were said to have caused serious bodily harm or death (Uniacke 1994:30). Joel Samaha (2005) defines justification as when the 'defendants accept responsibility for their actions but claim what they did was right under the circumstances'; (Samaha 2005:191). The basic principle of self-defense states that the defendant must have believed that he or she was facing the possibility of extreme bodily harm or death. Although killing is not morally permissive, the justification of self-defense is often accepted in courts when there is reasonable evidence to prove that the defendant acted in true self-defense and not in a preemptive attack or vengeful attack. A preemptive attack is one that is carried out by defendant who does not truly believe that he or she is about to be harmed or killed, but is acting to prevent the possibility of a future attack (Samaha 2005:192-193). Philip E. Devine describes self-defense as being the means in which a defendant 'incapacitates'; (Devine 1978:151) an attacker without the intention or sole purpose of killing the attacker."
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