Criminology Essays

Can Prison Reform Solve the Overcrowding Issue?
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2019
Introduction: Prison overcrowding  has been a wide-ranging topic in the United States for decades now. This issue has been the contributing factor to prison violence, safety endangerment, increase in psycholo...

Symbolic Violence on Social Media: Linking National Identity Numbers to Social Media
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2019
Introduction: Symbolic Violence on Social Media The Potential and Limits of Linking Users’ Registrations to their National Identity Numbers for the Regulation and Investigation of Crime on Social Media in the...

Changing Approaches to Preventing Terrorism
Example essay. Last modified: 13th May 2019
Introduction: “Confronting non-violent extremism isn’t just about changing laws; its about all of us changing our approach” (David Cameron MP, Ninestiles School, Birmingham, 20 July 2015). Critically analyse...

Human Trafficking in Syria: Policy Recommendations
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2019
Introduction: Executive Summary Human trafficking has been on the rise in the recent past. Many people are confirmed lost through different ways. Among the leading countries in the human trade is Syria. There ...

Issues in Measuring Crime and Deviance
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Apr 2019
Introduction: In this assignment I am going to look at the problems involved in defining and measuring crime. I will look at the definition of crime and deviance and how this plays a part in our society. I will al...

Effectiveness of Drug Abuse and Resistance Education
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Apr 2019
Introduction: This paper explores the D.A.R.E. program and argues how D.A.R.E. can be effective and how it cannot be effective.  An overview and history of the program is given and then research and studies are r...

Human Trafficking & Human Smuggling
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Apr 2019
Introduction: Nearly all countries in the world face the challenge of human trafficking and human smuggling whether as a country of transit, origin or destinations for the victims (Jac-Kucharski, 2012). Human tra...

Should the Government be Blamed for the Increase in Human Trafficking?
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Apr 2019
Introduction: What is human trafficking and where does it happen? Human trafficking is ‘the business of helping people to enter a country illegally and forcing them to work there for very little money because...

Impact of Brexit on Hate Crime Rates
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Apr 2019
Introduction: The increases in hate crime following the EU referendum represents merely the tip of the iceberg for hate crime.  These increases come at a time when the police and the CPS are already failing to de...

Harmful Impacts of Pornography
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Mar 2019
Introduction: “He admitted to masturbating to hard-core pornography before raping over 100 women” A critical review of how feminist criminology seeks to explain the harmful impacts of pornography and women. ...

Human Trafficking in Post-Soviet States
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Mar 2019
Introduction: Abstract: This inquiry seeks to establish the reasons for increased human trafficking after the fall of communism in former Soviet Union states. With the collapse of the Soviet regime, post-communist...

Challenges to Stopping Mexican Drug Cartels
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Mar 2019
Introduction: Absolute poverty is one of the worst situations to be in, yet many people are experiencing it all over the world and the worst part about this is that the poverty is usually caused by the greed of ot...

The struggle against Mexicos drug cartels
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Mar 2019
Introduction: A vacation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico followed the New Year of 2009. I had spent time with locals, purchased their handcrafted souvenirs, and visited monumental tourist attractions. My travel led me to...

Arguments For and Against Three Strike Laws
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Mar 2019
Introduction: Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether or not the “Three-Strike” Laws should be abolished? It is likely that the laws increase homicides because a few criminals, fearing t...

Challenges to Reintegrating Sex Offenders
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Mar 2019
Introduction: A consideration in to the policy and practicalities of reintegrating Sex offenders. Despite the fact that sex offenders have lower re-offending rates compared to any other type of offenders, the p...

The Fear Of Sex Offenders Criminology Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Mar 2019
Introduction: In previous years, the fear of sex offenders has led the public to believe a fallacy regarding sex offender treatment. The public often start to view anyone who commits a sexual offence to be a high r...

Is Islamophobia on the Rise?
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Mar 2019
Introduction: Abstract Islamophobia remains naturally the wort thing too, unfortunately happen, to this generation instead of moving forward as a society people are going back to being so simple-minded. Many pe...

White Collar Crime: Causes, Impacts, and the Criminal Justice System
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Mar 2019
Introduction: RISE OF WHITE COLLAR CRIME The term “White Collar Crime” was first used by Edwin Sutherland in 1939. Sutherland defined white collar crime as “crime committed by a person of respectability a...

Sutherland’s White Collar Crime Theory: Financial Lending
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Mar 2019
Introduction: In Cullen, Agnew and Wilcox’s Criminological Theory, we will analyze Sutherland’s white collar crime theory. Sutherland essentially created the “white collar” reference that we now use so muc...

Ethical Issues of Undercover Police
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Mar 2019
Introduction: Abstract When an officer goes on an undercover assignment, it is more psychological for the officer than anything else. Undercover assignments can cause havoc on the officer’s marriage, fami...

What Works in Preventing Modern Slavery
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Feb 2019
Introduction: This essay focuses on Modern Slavery which covers human trafficking, slavery, forced labour and domestic slavery. It will concentrate on forced labour within the Modern Slavery Act 2015. It will outl...

Police Brutality And Its Effects On Society Criminology Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Feb 2019
Introduction: 1. Introduction Police brutality has occurred all across the world and is still a major concern amongst society and police organisations. This brutality ranges from assaults, death as a result of ...

What Influences Juveniles to Join a Gang?
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Feb 2019
Introduction: When it comes to gangs, juveniles are the ones that are being lured in the most. You’ll come across a certain neighborhood and encounter juveniles that are almost around the age of 12-18. You may a...

Stress in the Police Force: Causes and Effects
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Feb 2019
Introduction: Abstract This paper discusses police and the stress they deal with on a daily basis. It goes in depth on the negative issues of stress on police officers, the causes of stress and how stress can b...

Theories for Youth Gang Crime
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Feb 2019
Introduction: Reasons Why Teens Engage in Street Gang Related Crime Introduction The rapid increase of criminal gangs in the United States of America has been alarming in the recent past. It had been reporte...