Firearms may be one of the most important inventions that mankind has ever invented.   Over the course of history mankind has depended on firearms to assist him in obtaining food and providing protection.   Gunpowder, a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate was invented in the 9th century and firearms in the 12th century in China.  These two inventions later spread to the Middle East, Europe and ultimately America with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492.  When studying the...

The concepts of substance abuse designate drug abuse, which refers to the maladaptive form of use of a substance that is not dependent (Jordan, 2000, p.201). Addiction refers to a recurrently deteriorating disorder that originates in the recreational routine and worsens into a fixated taking as well as seeking of drugs (DiFranza, 2008). Thus, this research project discusses the issue of substance abuse specifically in the Utah region. It further goes ahead to investigating on the effect of...

Robbery Violence WeaponsIntroduction Armed robbery can be defined as the process of seizing property through violence which can even involve killing of people in most of the societies and involves the use of weapons. It involves the act of depriving one the right to posses his/her property through the use of force by the robbers and it’s against the law. So you will find that there is a forced intimidation which is imposed on victim/victims by the use of force. Armed robbery take many...

"International human rights law, international humanitarian law and international refugee law have sought to provide a comprehensive framework to address the harms experienced by both men and women in war. However, discriminatory interpretation and application of these three strands of international law, as well as the failure to recognize women's singular experience of armed conflict, have meant that this framework has not provided the protection and response that women have...

His name has escaped my memory; however, I will never forget his chilling story. He described Wesbecker's plot to fly a remote controlled airplane strapped with explosives to collide with the massive ink storage tanks on the roof of Standard Gravure. This clandestine The first awareness of workplace violence was the emerging story of the Standard Gravure plant in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Joseph Wesbecker murdered eight individuals, injured twelve others, and shortly thereafter...

Within a matter of 72 hours after the deadly attacks, the FBI was able to identify the suspects involved, 19 in total, revealing their names and other information, all being of Arabic and Muslim descent (Federal Bureau of Investigation). It became known later that the suspects were in fact, Islamic extremists, who were intent on killing as many Americans as they could, all in the name of Allah, their God. After September 11, 2001, it was clear that our nation was not prepared for such a...

Introduction The concept of a restorative justice system comprises of retributive and therapeutic models of justice that have progressive and constructive model of responding to crime in the community. The approaches of restorative justice systems accentuate on the need to protect the public and rehabilitate the offenders (Liebmann 2007). Evidently, there are various models of restorative justice systems that provide a platform whereby victims, offenders and the community in general can...

The correctional system is an umbrella term referring to a range of mandates directly executed or administered by jurisdictional justice institutions, which entails the castigation, management, supervision and rehabilitation of convicted offenders. These mandates are often accomplished through incarceration, parole and probation, while prison presents the most popular correctional agency globally. The system is alternatively recognized as a penal system because it concerns a network of...

The USA  actually is the most armed country in the world: the U.S. population is 300 million people, and according to the "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Bureau" nowadays about 60 - 65 million Americans (representing 45% of U.S. households) have more than 250 million firearms, and the number of weapons  in private hands increases by 4.5 million annually. Thus, Americans have the world's largest private arsenal.  In the United States there is a tradition of possession and use...

My aim through this paper is to explore the introduction of the College of Policing and how it will be perceived in the UK. The plan to professionalise the police service was followed after a recommendation from a review of police leadership and training that was published earlier this year by Peter Neyroud; a former chief constable of Thames Valley Police. Neyroud says "England and Wales was the first in building the modern police service in 1829, with this approach it will be the first...