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.
Sexual harassment in schools is the unwanted and unwelcomed behavior of a sexual nature that interferes with one’s right to receive an equal educational opportunity. It is no longer a contested phenomenon. Its existence has been acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court, by scientific surveys, and by countless …
In 1981, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission added sexual harassment to its list of work-related discriminations prohibited by Title VII. Since then, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, South Africa, Australia, and Japan have adopted similar prohibitions. The conceptualization of the harm caused and the severity …
Over the past 4 to 5 decades, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to adults and adolescents who are sexually attracted to or who sexually abuse children. It has only been in the last 10 to 15 years that more than lip service has been given …
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 15 million new cases of sexually transmitted disease (STD; now commonly called sexually transmitted infection, STI) are acquired annually. The most common STIs are chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, hepatitis, genital warts, and trichomonas. STIs may have long-term …
Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a type of abusive head trauma that results from a baby or small child being vigorously shaken with or without impact. The rapid acceleration and deceleration of shaking produces the characteristic injuries that include bleeding around the brain, retinal damage, and cervical spine …
Domestic violence victims who decide to leave abusive partners may be concerned about the welfare of their pets when pets may not accompany them to new living arrangements. Some victims may be able to leave their pets with relatives, friends, or neighbors, or if they can afford it, …
Battered women’s shelters are temporary, violence-free environments for women experiencing domestic violence and their children. They provide the most basic needs such as shelter, food, and clothing to the women residing in the shelter. However, many also provide support services such as crisis lines, legal services, health care …
The concept of sibling abuse emerged as a form of family violence in the early 1980s. Sibling abuse involves emotional, physical, and sexual abuse perpetrated by one sibling against another. Using broad definitions of sibling abuse, prevalence estimates range from 60% to over 95% of individuals reporting experience …
The Silent Witness National Initiative is a not-for-profit grassroots organization that began in 1990 in Minnesota by a group of artists and writers who were distressed by a rash of domestic violence homicides in Minneapolis that year. Silent Witness began as a project to draw attention to the …
Researchers and clinicians have long been in agreement that men engaging in intimate partner violence (IPV) constitute a heterogeneous group. Some have attempted to address this issue by categorizing violent men or violent couples into subtypes. This essay discusses one such subtype: situational couple violence. In theory, the …
Social cognitive programs for violence prevention and treatment emphasize changing the way individuals think about social interactions and interpersonal violence in order to change their behavior. A basic premise of the social cognitive perspective is that interpersonal violence is learned over time and across situations and that part …
Socialization is the process by which a society’s culture—its values and norms—is taught and learned and human personalities are developed. Personality is a set of behavioral and emotional characteristics that describe one’s reactions to various situations or events. Although some aspects of the personality are present at birth, …
Aggression and violence have been key concepts in the study of human behavior. Although the definition of aggression varies among authorities, definitions are generally divided into three different schools of thought. These schools form a continuum along which at one end violence is seen as innate psychic energy …
Broadly defined, the term social support network is used throughout the field of interpersonal violence to indicate instances where one person’s welfare is dependent upon the nature and extent of positive relationships the person has with others. For example, victims of crime who suffer from physical and emotional …
Although many acts of violence are random events, there is a certain amount of patterning involved in who commits and who is victimized by violent crime. In particular, one of the stable findings of studies of violent behavior is that offending and victimization vary by class. Specifically, lower-class …
Spirituality, like culture or ethnicity, involves streams of experience that flow through all aspects of life from family heritage to personal belief systems, practices, and faith communities. They influence ways of dealing with adversity, the experience of pain and suffering, and the meaning of symptoms, their causes, and …
Starting in 1986, the National Institute of Justice sponsored studies employing randomization to compare the effectiveness of different police responses to domestic violence in five cities. The studies—collectively known as the Spouse Assault Replication Project— were conducted in Omaha, Nebraska; Charlotte, North Carolina; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Metro-Dade (Miami), Florida; …
Stalking is defined as a set of intentional behaviors that involves the repeated harassment of another person. Out of context these actions may appear nonthreatening, but they cause the victim to feel fear or emotional discomfort. The conduct can be as varied as the stalker’s imagination and ability …
State violence is the use of legitimate governmental authority to cause unnecessary harm and suffering to groups, individuals, and states. State violence stems from the desire of official state actors to reach the organizational goals of a state or governmental agency. The goals may be implicit or explicit …
Statutory rape is generally defined as nonforced, consensual sexual relations between an adult and an individual who is not old enough legally to consent to the behavior. Statutory rape differs from rape because it is mutually consenting and because of laws that define when an individual is capable …
