The trafficking of humans is a large-scale industry that is rapidly becoming a global issue, and has many different functioning economies - among which the most prominent are currently domestic slavery, sweatshop labour, forced marriage, and prostitution. Globally, an estimated two million women and children are tricked or forced into slavery each year, often as a result of poverty. Of these, around 800,000 are trafficked into the sex industry, making it the third largest underground economy in...

Violence has been part of crime since time immemorial. Although white-collar and property crimes are the most common in the 21st century, violent crimes are still rife in the society. Criminals can easily access machine guns, explosives and highly sophisticated equipment, thanks to the current technology. Street gangs have gone high-tech and racial profiling also continues to exist. This research paper investigates escalation of violence in crime from 2000 to present day. Escalation of Violence...

Residential Community correction encompasses a number of alternative punishments for criminals considered non-violent. There are two models of community corrections applied in the United States: integrated community corrections (front end) -brings both judicial discretion and sentencing guidelines together with a range of alternative programs, probation and parole options; the second model (back end) refers to programs whereby correctional officials direct already sentenced offenders into...

Throughout the article, Kelling and Wilson attempt to shed light on the issues of criminal behaviour within close knit communities, and the ways in which governments are taking action to try and reduce escalating anti-social behaviour stemming from small-scale neglect. The article is a discussion about the effectiveness of policing, as a measure of crime control, and the effectiveness of the crime prevention methods that have been tried and tested throughout the years. The article has a...

The criminal justice system and the decisions made within this system affect everyone as a whole and therefore should be given considerable thought regarding ethics and morality. If this is not achieved, even the best of intentions can provide for unwanted consequences. There are several different theories in which criminal justice ethical issues can be examined. Utilitarianism, Deontological and the Peacemaking theory are just a few discussed in this paper. The utilitarianism ethical...

The issue of the treatment of young people when committing a certain crime is a very important issue because sometimes it may be a matter of life and death. Some people agree that in the case of murder, a young child or a teenager must be convicted even to death. However this occurs only in some states of the United States of America, where death penalty is still used as a way of punishment, when there is a violation of the law generally, and the case of murder more specifically.About USAThe...

There occurrence and re-occurrences of events in the social world create a need and basis for sociological explanation. Sociology as a discipline then tries to provide intellectually responsible explanations of these events, social scientists are therefore capable of producing explanations that can both interpret and create understanding. Their work allows further reflection on the problem of explanations in sociological work (Brown, 1963). This essay will focus on whether or not social...

Terrorism is a subject matter, not a discipline. It has been approached by scholars from various academic perspectives with political scientists in the lead. In an effort to get a firm hold on a slippery subject, those studying the phenomenon of terrorism were obliged to define it more precisely. Terrorism could be described simply as the use or threat of violence to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm and thus bring about a political result. But making this definition operative in political...

Case State Court Discussion Board The following case is related to a large narcotics trafficking organization. According to the case, it should be first considered in the individual state court as it is a multi-state conspiracy. Factors The factors that should be considered regarding this determination should be: number of people involved in the crime from each state, amount of drugs seized, extent of crime whether national or international, amount of cash involved as it then requires the case...

There is a growing debate about gun violence in the USA. These incidents are mostly common for poor urban territories. Unfortunately more often juveniles and young adults are engaged in those criminal gun violence cases. Taking into consideration historical backgrounds, such as magnicides of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and of both American Presidents - James Garfield, William McKinley and John Kennedy, gun violence is not a surprising event in the United States. All these and other...