A brief comparison between criminology and victimology. It gives some idea the goal of each science, and how they both contribute to the criminal justice system.

A discussion of the most notable theories of the social process theory of criminology. The discussion looks into social learning, social control, and social reaction theories.

This article describes how criminology grew from sociology.

This term paper discusses the controversial topic of career criminology. The paper also takes an in-depth look at the overall effectiveness of the criminal justice system in relation to career criminals.

Criminology is the fascinating combination of sociology, psychology and criminal justice.

The term "deviant" usually has a negative connotation, but the reality is that deviance can lead to genius in some cases. This possibility is discussed herein.

Born to a farming family in the Philippines, Riza is the third child of six children. Finishing her BS Criminology at the local university was mostly the product of 'hard earned pay for tuition': by being a door-to-door sales representative on an empty stomach...

The Chicago School fundamentally changed sociological thought and its theories still hold clout today.

A look at the differential reinforcement theory of criminology, its empirical evidence as compared to other social learning theories, and its view on violent crime.

The word "negligence" is tossed around quite casually in today's society, but what exactly is criminal negligence? And how is it used by U.S. courts?

"Criminals go where the money is," Dave Marcus, a senior security strategist at McAfee Inc., said during a visit to Toronto to present the company's 2007 North American criminology report on organized crime and the internet.

An analysis of how hypnosis can correlate with crime.

"One semester we took criminology for God's sake! Criminology! Who the fu** are we studying to be, Batman?" That beautiful quote was said in the summer movie Clerks 2.

Today's youth are under more pressure than ever before and violence among youth is a serious concern.

In order to understand crime we have to be able to understand the criminal.

In the modern world, there are few people who reject the phenomenon of globalization. The world becomes more and more global as people of various cultures have begun to communicate more freely with one another, which represents a degree of integration.

Cool heads prevail even though the crime scene is gruesome. But this isn't a scene from CBS's crime show CSI but an exercise in Central County Occupational Center's new Forensic Investigation class.

Community policing brings desirable benefits to the community, and refocus community-police relations in a productive, amiable context.

Our fear of crime and criminals has given birth to yet another injustice in our system. Mandatory sentencing guidelines are removing discretion away from our judges and needlessly filling our already massive prision systems.

Americans have a prominent fear of crime, especially sexual offenders who are known to have higher rates of recidivism and numerous victims. Often too many times the victims are children and women. How are we to protect our future, our children?

Religion encourages people to look hopefully to a better world to come, minimizing the social problems of their world. A link exists between religious beliefs and societal benefit. But is there a link between religion and adolescent behavior?

The term racial profiling makes good headlines, makes people wary and distrustful, but it is a label that should be discarded.

It would be interesting to take each of the existing theories and create a map showing where they converge, intersect or propel away from each other.

In modern society we are faced with the difficulty of ensuring that we are not locking up innocent people. We as a society want to fight crime at any means necessary but at what cost are we willing to pay for this so called justice?

The long lasting debate about the death penalty may be an issue that is never truly decided. The death penalty laws have been established as far back as the eighteenth century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi in Babylon

It has been a long lasting debate if crime is an individual responsibility, or a social responsibility. There are of course theories as well as other ideas that help to support both sides of the issue.

Our judicial system has become too tyrannical with their ability to take a person's freedom for a minor penetration of the law. People should be afforded the civilized justice that our country was founded on.

Students in many different majors can find internships right here in Collin County, Texas.

The emergence of evolutionary theory in the early nineteenth century quaked political and societal realms. Today, the aftershocks continue as terms such as "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest" are both applied and exploited.

Nothing exemplifies the contradictions of American culture like pornography.