Category: Criminal Justice Essay Examples
See our collection of criminal justice essay examples. These examples are to help you understanding how to write essays on crime-related topics. Contemporary study of criminology and criminal justice is also increasingly interdisciplinary and thus features a broad variety of topics on the causes, effects, and responses to crime. Also, see our list of criminal justice essay topics to find the one that interests you.
There is a great deal of confusion in the use of the terms homicide and murder, partly because criminologists and lawyers tend not to use the terms in the same way. Legally, homicide is the killing of one person by another, and homicide is divided into justifiable and …
Homophobia is usually defined as the irrational fear and hatred of gay men and lesbians. It combines the words homosexual and phobia; hence it refers to fear or panic regarding people who are sexually attracted to a person of the same sex. Many people contend that the word …
In a culture of homophobia (an irrational fear of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people), GLBT people often face a heightened risk of violence and violence specific to their sexual identities. Media representations of GLBT people have contributed to this culture of homophobia and elevated risk of violence. …
Honor crime and honor killing are violent acts against women and girls (beating, battering, or killing, for example) that are rationalized by a notion that an individual’s or family’s honor has been threatened because of the actual or perceived sexual misconduct of the female. Honor killing of a …
Human rights are the basic rights that all people are entitled to by virtue of being human. Most importantly, human rights are inalienable, indivisible, and interdependent. Human rights are inalienable in that they inherently belong to each person and cannot be taken away from him or her. They …
Hymen replacement surgery is a procedure by which a doctor, using dissolvable stitches, reattaches to a woman’s vaginal wall the skin membrane—called the hymen—that once covered the opening to the vagina. The medical term for the procedure is hymenoplasty, but it is also known as hymen restoration surgery, …
Gender roles have some generally acknowledged boundaries that tend to shift over time. Social acceptance of masculinity and femininity is expressed through everyday behavior, fashions, and ascribed or achieved qualities associated with each gender group. The distinction between heterosexuals and homosexuals or bisexuals is generally made based on …
Immigrant women migrate to the United States for a variety of reasons. Many come here voluntarily to better their lives, to reunite with their family members, to attend school or look for jobs. Others come involuntarily, as victims of human trafficking, fleeing persecution, sexual assault or domestic abuse, …
Immigrant and migrant women who are caught in abusive relationships and/or victims of sexual assault, trafficking, or other violent crime must often turn to law enforcement for assistance. Many times, law enforcement officers are the first responders to incidents involving violence—be they at the home or in public. …
Sexual abuse accounts for 12% of the 1 million substantiated cases of child abuse and neglect annually. Approximately 20% of adult women and 5% to 10% of men were sexually abused as children. The peak age of vulnerability to sexual abuse is between 7 and 13 years of …
Incidence is defined as the frequency with which offenders commit crime. More specifically, it is the number of times a criminal behavior is observed during a particular time frame. Incidence tends to be unevenly distributed and skewed, which means most individuals will report very little, if any, criminal …
Infanticide refers to the killing of an infant, typically up to 1 year of age, though some sources classify as infanticides the killings of children up to 2 or 5 years of age. Both men and women commit infanticides, which differ in many ways from the killings of …
The insanity defense is an affirmative defense to a criminal charge. Affirmative defenses are those in which the defendant tries to limit or completely eliminate criminal liability by offering an excuse or justification for the act. (Self-defense and duress are also affirmative defenses.) In the insanity defense’s traditional …
The Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC) is a national policy and practitioner training center established to address domestic violence in the African American community. The formal mission of IDVAAC is as follows: To provide an interdisciplinary vehicle and forum by which scholars, practitioners, …
Instrumental behaviors are common in interactions between two people, occurring whenever one person attempts to influence the other to act or refrain from acting in specific ways. In this sense, these behaviors lie at the core of reciprocal exchanges. However, when the tactics of influence are covert, overly …
Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS) are services designed to prevent a child’s placement out of the home, most commonly into the foster care system. Families are typically identified by child protective services systems because of suspected or confirmed child abuse and/or neglect, and referred to IFPS in an …
The notion that family violence persists across generations is pervasive among clinicians, researchers, and the general public. Although many people expect consistent intergenerational transmission of violence (ITV), many scholars have questioned the supposed inevitability of transmission. Phenomena such as partner violence and child abuse clearly lead to myriad …
Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) is a little studied psychological disorder characterized by repeated violent outbursts against people or objects, which is caused by a failure to resist aggressive impulses. The violent or aggressive reaction is disproportionate to the stimulus that provokes it, and outbursts occur repeatedly. IED is …
In recent years, there have been a number of significant shifts in the organization of the commercial sex industry, each relevant to women’s experience of violence within prostitution. Internationally, the last decades of the 20th century witnessed a tremendous growth in what is known as “sex tourism”—the development …
Henry Kempe, a Denver pediatrician who coined the term the battered child, founded the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) in 1977. Initially conceived by an international group of 18 professionals meeting at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center (Italy) in 1975, the association …
