Essays on Crime Prevention

Criminal Profiling    When we hear the term ‘criminal profiling’ we often think that it is the police, stereotyping, and generalizing a whole minority community to fit the criteria associated with a criminal description. There are more things that we should bring into factor when analyzing…

Video games containing violence is a very controversial topic nowadays. Many people are associating violence in video games to aggression in children. Parents believe that violence in video games persuades children to be violent. Henceforth, violent behavior in video games is criminal activity vividly portrayed…

Amnesia for crimes is a controversial issue with legal implications. Claims of amnesia are quite common in clinical practice, and because dissociative states fall under a defense of mental illness to mental health professionals, it is often necessary to provide expert testimony to cases involving…

Community environmental corrections is a new paradigm, supervising offenders to reintegrate back into the community and reduce recidivism. Since the turn of the millennium community corrections and punishment has transformed. In contemporary community corrections, community programs and community corrections orders are being used. This essay…

As far back as the 19th century, prison life has been around. However, back then the correctional system was not focused on the rehabilitation of its prisoners. More so, on the punishment that would be handed down to them, as they await their time to…

The prison system fails to achieve the core purposes of sentencing and punishment as it focuses solely on the punishment of offenders and not their rehabilitation and the recovery of victims. As a result, alternative options which attain all the core purposes holistically are better…

Technology reaches every aspects of our lives from entertainment to finance to even the most ordinary activities. Within this technological framework lies the opportunity for anyone with the slightest know-how to take advantage of our reliance on computers and the internet to commit cybercrimes. This…

Introduction The ardent rise of new information technologies have bought a revolution in business practices and made Canadian companies efficient and competitive. However, the electronic storage of personal information has multiplied the risk that may be misused to commit fraud and other crimes. This is…

Violence in prisons has been there for a long period of time. More efforts have been put in place to remedy the situation but a lot still needs to be done as the problem still persists. Most cases have been reported regarding poor prison management…

As we await the release of the final season of the crime drama TV series Criminal Minds, we would use this opportunity to dissect some interesting facts about the highly rated American TV show. Among the bothering questions that will be answered on this article…