Larceny

When dealing with small town police departments, many issues tend to arise when comparing the problems faced in a small town to an urban environment (Johnson, 2000). Some factors that small-town areas face include budget constraints, response time difficulties, and community relations (Gordner, 2006). These issues greatly affect rural areas due to a high poverty rates, low unemployment, and detrimental funding issues (Gordner, 2006). These problems cause small-town police departments to have…

Running head: MALCOLM X ? Malcolm X is known as one of the most influential African American speakers of the 20th century. Malcolm X was a courageous advocate for the civil rights of African Americans and a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. He was responsible for spreading the Islam faith within black communities and increasing the self-esteem of Africans Americans by reconnecting them to their African…

The Hillside Stranglers fall under several themes of violence from class, like containment, instrumentality of violence, social influence, and psychopath, which they will now be analyzed under. I think it also important to note their upbringing and how familial influence could have played a role, through genes or environment. Firstly, in terms of containment it is not enough to say that all these atrocities took place in the Los Angeles area, but the bodies were all disposed in locations…

The UCR Program collects statistics on violent crime, murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and property crime like burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. The FBI, which administers the program, periodically releases the crime statistics to the public. UCR crime statistics are used in many ways and serve many purposes. They provide law enforcement with data for use in…

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) are two major sources of crime statistics commonly used in the United States (Sources of Crime Data: Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System, n.d.). Crime statistics is a complex process because it must revel accurate information when reporting the incidences of crime in society (Criminal Statistics, 1998). Crime statistics first took shape in France around 1827. It is now…

1. “In legal parlance, criminal homicide means ‘the causing of the death of another person without legal justification of excuse” (Schmallenger, 2015, p. 242-243). Patterns of homicide are made more complicated by the differing definitions of various types of murder between jurisdictions. Some categorize homicide based on premeditation or malice aforethought, crimes of passion, or accident. The various degrees of murder; first-degree (premeditated), second degree (crime of passion), and…

Merton’s Strain Theory Merton’s Strain Theory is widely used throughout the criminal justice system. This theory puts an emphasis on mainly the poor and the lower class people in society. In this theory, people feel strained because they cannot meet the criteria that is considered the “American Dream” which entails being successful in life. Due to this strain, people tend to commit criminal acts in order to gain wealth in life. Programs such as Job Corps can help these lower class citizens to…

concrete testing companies for more than 20 years. Vidyasagar Reddy Kancharla, a professional engineer, owner, president and chief executive officer of Testwell Laboratories, Inc.; was indicted on October 30th, 2008 of enterprise corruption, grand larceny, scheme to defraud, offering false instruments for filing and falsification of business records. The indictment also names Vincent Barone, a professional engineer and Vice President as well as Alfred Caruso, director of concrete and masonry…

With the resurgent interest in Irish Nationalism and subsequent Literary revival, many artists were encouraged to create works that were separate and distinct from all things English. This newly found undertaking was to draw upon the opulent and fertile tapestry of Irish history. As Synge prefaced in The Playboy of the Western World, “in countries where the imagination of the people, and the language that they use, is rich and living, it is possible for a writer to be rich and copious in his…

Hollywood motion pictures often display their historical moments in appealing ways. The latest Batman movie, the dark knight (2008), directed by the one and only Christopher Nolan, is a perfect example of that. Like many superhero movies, it has a hero and an anti-hero. Featuring Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman who is the hero and Heath Ledger as the Joker who played the anti-hero. The Joker’s main purpose is to bring chaos to the people of Gotham city, so Batman must come to terms with one…