Essays on Crime Prevention

For decades, state statistics have shown New York school systems enforce harsher punitive measures on black and Latinx students, K-12, at higher rates than their white counterparts. In the 2015-16 school year, students across the state lost 686,000 days of instruction due to suspension and summonses, frequently for minor offenses (Bryan-Gooden & Foster, 2019). Even...

In the time it will take the average person to read this 6-page essay, a child in Yemen will have starved to death. Due to the current Saudi-Arabian and Iranian sponsored proxy war happening in Yemen, 2.2 million children are in need of urgent care, with 462,000 children on the brink of starvation (“One Child...

This essay will be assessing the impact of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO). By impact, I mean its effect, what it has achieved to the family law system and to society as a whole. Areas of reform that I think will enhance the efficiency and effect of the current...

The infliction of any kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command) is referred to as Punishment. Punishment comes in various forms such as legal, capital, social, etc. It acts as a form of social control in society, as the means to punish those...

The topic of abortion has always been extremely controversial due to its high standing in spheres of morality, politics and health. Often, this debate is centered around the extent to which the right to one’s body supersedes the life of a human being and when that life begins. Internationally, abortion law has varied throughout history...

When evaluating offender profiling as a discipline of forensic psychology, it is important to consider that there are two different methods used by police across Britain and America as means for characterising offenders, however its usefulness has been questioned. The Approach uses patterns that exist in within related crime scenes to identify offenders. Contrastingly, The...

There has been a steady increase in the crime rate all over the world. This reflects in a large number of crimes yet to be solved. Crime investigators are overwhelmed by the magnitude of these crimes and often suffer from stress, depression, anxiety, and burnouts when faced with intricate cases. Artificial Intelligence employed at various...

Blood stains, sun glasses and a charger; to the average person these items are completely unrelated but to a forensic scientist these objects can be clues to solving their next case. Forensic scientists help investigations by collecting and analyzing evidence. In recent years, forensic science has been increasing in popularity due to its glamorization by...

In our modern day society, many rely on technology in many ways. A major benefit in technology found in forensic science is crime-fighting tools. Due to technology, science has also given our society many useful crime-fighting and solving mechanisms. These technological advances are so useful that they are being utilized all over the world. Whether...

Criminal profiling has begun to rise and become a popular tool utilized by law enforcement all over the nation. Criminal profiling is the construction of a psychological, behavioral and demographic profile of the type of person likely to have committed the crime. Profilers help investigators by putting together a profile based on the evidence and...