Category: Crime Investigation
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Criminal Investigation: Offense Issues
Prosecuting a crime is a process, which is not limited by the processes related to the investigation. In that regard, it will be an understatement to say that the work is finished with merely collecting evidences, interviewing witnesses, and catching the offender. Bringing the case to the court is another stage of the prosecution, where…
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Criminology as a Science: Cause and Effect
Table of Contents Introduction Essay Body Conclusion References Introduction Criminology is a study of the nature and degree of the problem of crime in society. For years criminologists have been trying to unravel criminal behavior. Most of the studies in modern study of criminology in efforts to comprehend criminal behavior, what origin it and how…
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The Breonna Taylor Case and Criminal Investigation
Jamarcus Glover and Adrian Walker, who are unrelated to Kenneth Walker, were the primary focus of the LMPD investigation. They were accused of selling controlled drugs from a drug house about 10 miles away. Glover was in a relationship with Breonna Taylor until February 2020, when Taylor entered a relationship with Kenneth Walker (Baker, 2021).…
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Variance Analysis in Criminal Justice and Criminology
Chapter 12 of Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice examines a hypothesis-testing technique called “analysis of variance” (ANOVA) that can be used when the independent variable (IV) is categorical with three or more classes and the dependent variable is continuous. It tests statistics called “F statistics” due to its F probability distribution. ANOVA combines variances…
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Labeling Theory and Critical Criminology: Sociological Research
Theories that define why some members of society break laws and others never move in such direction are spread among multiple disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, and criminology. All of these theories seek for understanding of the motivational factors of crime and claim that deviance significantly impacts it. Giddens et al. (2019) define deviance as…
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Criminal Investigation: Mr. Brewer’s Verdict
On July 12, Mr. Mikkelson reported the burglary of his house, where he lived with his wife and adult daughter. A DVR, iPad, bottle of Maker’s Mark and the daughter’s diamond necklace were stolen. Such evidence as Mr. Mikkelson’s daughter’s ex-boyfriend’s fingerprints were found on the furniture inside the house and on the shattered basement…
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Robert Merton’s Strain Theory in Criminology
In the United States, there are an increasing number of juvenile offenders and the country also has one of the highest incidences of serious crime. Studies show that the causes of such criminal behavior are rooted in a complex set of psychological, social, and economic factors. Clinical studies have uncovered that emotional disturbances caused by…
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The Due Process: Criminology
Introduction Due process refers to the process that a government should use to handle its citizens in case of a law violation to ensure that there is justice and fairness. The government must under all circumstances respect every individual’s legal rights as dictated by the law (Tribe, 1975). Due process refers to the government as…
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Feminist Perspectives’ Contribution to Criminology
Introduction Feminism entails a constructive understanding of how gender differences amount to inequalities in various environments. Historically, societies embodied gender roles as a fundamental variable in defining the norms and culture of a people. Women have, for so long, been victims of gender biases and participatory contexts, especially criminal offenses. However, over the years, feminist…
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Criminal Investigation of the State vs. Garrison Case
Table of Contents Background Deductive Reasoning Analogical Reasoning Incompletely Theorized Agreements and the Associated Case Background On the evening of January 2, 1982, the defendant was at his sister’s residence in Hartford when the victim, Jeremiah Sharp, arrived. Sharp had been residing with the defendant’s sister sporadically for the last four years and had his…