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.
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) was formed in 1985 as the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies with the purpose of advancing knowledge about traumatic stress and promoting effective methods for preventing and ameliorating its negative consequences. In 1990 the name was changed to reflect the …
The expansion of access by children to the Internet, and the wide availability of chat rooms, email, online messaging, webcams, and bulletin boards, have unfortunately led to the possibility that child predators can use this technology to come into contact with unsuspecting children. Each year more and more …
The history of the pornography industry is inextricably linked to the development of communication technology. From the printing press to the Internet, pornography helped both popularize and mainstream technological innovations by providing men (the vast majority of pornography consumers) expanded opportunities and venues to view sexually explicit material. …
Psychotherapeutic, counseling, and supportive services have been available on the Internet for victims of interpersonal violence since the late 1990s. Services include education, information and referral, problem solving, supportive counseling, and psychotherapy. For example, Safe Horizon offers education through an online domestic violence shelter tour as well as …
Intersectionality is an analytic tool through which all social relations are structured, viewed, and acted upon. The concept of intersectionality specifically as applied to violence against women is often attributed to critical race scholar Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. As an African American feminist, Crenshaw was the first to make …
Relationships in which one or both partners are violent are often characterized by dissolution and low relationship quality. Indeed, across a variety of samples, studies comparing violent and nonviolent couples generally find that individuals in violent relationships report less satisfaction with their relationships and exhibit more negative behaviors …
Intimate partner violence (IPV), also called domestic violence or wife abuse, was first identified as a social problem by feminist advocates and scholars in the 1970s. Before that time, abuse of women in the context of intimate relationships and families was a largely hidden problem, although there is …
Abusive behavior within violent relationships is heterogeneous and likely differs with respect to etiology, course, mutuality, and severity. This has resulted in researchers and clinicians postulating various subtypes or categories of violent relationships. For example, while some violent relationships are characterized by both partners perpetrating infrequent use of …
Investigative interviewing of children has unique characteristics as an assessment technique. First, its goal is to elicit accurate information from children about specific upsetting events. These events include directly experienced child abuse and trauma, as well as witnessed startling or traumatic events. Second, investigative interviewers use methods of …
Child sexual abuse is a complex problem that is difficult to investigate because unlike cases of physical abuse or neglect, it is typically not determined from a medical examination or through the interviewing of eyewitnesses. The interview with the child complainant is a critical component in any criminal …
The investigative interviewing of offenders is, arguably, the most important aspect of a criminal investigation. It allows law enforcement the opportunity to gather information from people who have or may have knowledge needed in the investigation. Interviewing and interrogating are often confused with each other, though major differences …
Kinship care refers to the placement of children within the child welfare system with family members or others who have a significant relationship with the children. This term was created when the child welfare system began to formalize family foster care. Historically, families have been the primary …
Learned helplessness is the acquisition of the belief that attempting to escape from a negative situation is futile due to a previous situation in which escape was not possible. It is learning that nothing an individual does will affect what will happen to him or her, and, therefore, …
Learned optimism is the acquisition of a set of cognitive beliefs that allow situations to be interpreted in a positive manner. According to Martin Seligman, individuals interpret situations in terms of permanence, pervasiveness, and personalization. An event can remain stable across time (permanent) or change over time (temporary). …
There are two key legal issues related to the treatment of sexual and domestic violence: privacy and record keeping. This essay addresses privacy rights and laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); disclosures in the legal process; releases; informed consent; and privacy rights for children. …
Legal Momentum is the oldest nonprofit organization in the United States dedicated to advancing the rights of women and girls by using the power of the law and creating innovative public policy. Founded in 1970 as NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and renamed in 2004, a principal …
Although intimate partner violence was once considered a private issue, in recent decades advocacy groups shifted the issue out of the home and into the public arena. As public awareness grew, so did the perception of domestic violence as an unacceptable problem requiring societal reform for resolution. Partnerships …
Since children under age 18 frequently must appear in court as witnesses in criminal cases because of their victimization either within or outside of their home, it is important to examine how they interact with the criminal justice system process. For many years, pursuant to federal law, there …
In the United States, the legal definitions of sexual assault and rape vary from state to state. However, it is generally accepted that sexual assault involves sexual conduct of an involuntary nature. Rape, a form of sexual assault, involves the nonconsensual use of another person’s sexual organs. Both …
Over the course of the past 3 decades, state legislatures have enacted civil laws that address violence against women. Unlike criminal legal remedies, which are guided by the state and focus upon the offender, civil remedies are controlled by the survivor and are intended to serve the survivor’s …
