Essays on Criminal Behavior

Why care about mass incarceration or its root factors? As a society, we all want to live in a safe neighborhood, and people who are a danger to society should be locked up behind bars. However, why is it that America has 2.3 million people…

People commit crimes for a variety of different reasons. Before answering the question; why people commit a crime, we have to understand the people who commit a crime. Taking the factors of the reasons people commit a crime based on their social background, personality, gender,…

There is abundant literature describing the reasons why people offend. Prominent factors attributed often include antisocial personality,1 mental health,2 and psychopathy.3 In this study, we were interested to find out the influence of offender sociodemographic variables such as age, parent’s marital status, education, employment, and…

Throughout all of the time, there have been two types of people, the rich or well privileged and the poor the people who have to struggle to survive every day. With that struggle they have to do whatever it takes to survive in the harsh…

The unique thing about people is that they all go through different situations. Situations whereas, they might have been seventeen and instead of getting geeked out about prom and graduations, they had to pull extra shifts and help the family out to make ends meet….

Curfew, a regulation requiring folks to stay inside between specific hours, usually at night. This practice is nothing new with a purpose to maintain public order such as staying indoors at a specific time. It was frequently used throughout the war to create certain civilian…

Countries such as Australia, Thailand, Germany, and several others, have implemented a curfew law for teenagers 18 and under, while there are several other countries, that do not. Curfew law is a regulation issued by a government typically to maintain public order, which is to…

Have you ever tried to have a conversation with your daughter or son and they are just stuck behind the bright screen of their mobile phone, texting their friends, or scrolling through Instagram? Almost half of the mobile phone users say that they “couldn’t live…

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…