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.
Coordinated community response (CCR) refers to communitywide efforts to bring together relevant stakeholders to address complex social problems (e.g., intimate partner violence, sexual assault, child abuse, substance abuse). Efforts to coordinate responses to social problems developed out of an awareness that (a) many stakeholders (such as parents, friends, …
Scholars of corporate violence study the ways in which corporations—not simply individual actors within a corporation—engage in activities that are harmful or socially injurious. Sometimes these acts are illegal; other times they are not. In other words, it is not only illegal corporate activity that is capable of …
Couple counseling focuses on interpersonal relationships, with problems related to the couple relationship becoming the central focus of treatment. Its use with couples involved in intimate partner violence (IPV) is controversial. Why Couple Counseling? Sustaining a couple relationship is a difficult endeavor because of the myriad adjustments that …
In every state in the United States (but not in every court) there are programs in which trained, volunteer, court-appointed special advocates (CASAs) serve to protect a child before the court. There are more than 50,000 advocates serving in some 1,000 state, county, or local program offices nationwide. …
Victims of violent crimes suffer serious psychological, social, and economic injuries resulting from the crime that may continue long after their physical injuries have healed. In recognition of the financial consequences of crime victimization, the Crime Victims Compensation program is designed to reimburse crime victims for expenses incurred …
Crisis hotlines are dedicated telephone numbers available for persons who need immediate assistance. Hotlines may provide services to individuals experiencing specific problems or address a variety of emotional and/or health related issues. Hotlines are often the first link persons in crisis have with formal services. In the late …
Cultural competence refers to the set of attitudes, practices, and policies that enables a person or agency to work well with people from differing cultural groups. Other related terms that have been used are cultural sensitivity, transcultural skills, diversity competence, and multicultural expertise. Until the early 1990s literature …
A cultural defense is an affirmative defense used by defendants to explain their behavior and the inability to conform their behavior to the law. This rationale is used by defendants to argue that the beliefs of their culture dictate their actions and therefore make them less culpable when …
This essay briefly identifies the major issues surrounding a specific form of batterer intervention program (BIP), namely Afrocentric or culturally sensitive intervention with African Americans. For the purposes of this discussion, Afrocentric and culturally sensitive interventions are those that acknowledge the intersection of gender and race, adopt a …
Homicide, the killing of one person by another, can have many motivations. Retaliation, which is simply getting even with another person for some real or perceived wrong, has long been a motivation for committing homicides. Some experts argue that culture, defined as knowledge, beliefs, and values shared by …
While less is known about abusive mothers, 30% to 60% of fathers who abuse their female partners also abuse their children, and abusive fathers sexually molest their daughters at least 6 times as often as nonabusive fathers. Abused gay and lesbian parents face similar issues, plus bias from …
The term cyberstalking is used to describe stalking behaviors that (a) involve repeated threats and/or harassment, (b) use electronic mail or other information technology-based communication, or (c) would cause a reasonable person to be afraid or concerned for his or her safety. Cyberstalkers most commonly harass their victims …
There are two cycles of violence often referred to in the literature on interpersonal violence. One is the “intergenerational transmission of violence” and the other is the cycle of intimate violence that escalates to violence and then subsides only to escalate again. This essay focuses on the cycle …
The Danger Assessment (DA) instrument is designed to assess the likelihood of lethality or near lethality occurring in a case of intimate partner violence (IPV). The most important risk factor for intimate partner homicide (IPH) is prior domestic violence. Even though abused women are fairly good assessors of …
Endemic to college campuses in North America and elsewhere, date and acquaintance rapes are the most common threats to female students’ safety. Many researchers, rather than restricting their focus to forced sexual intercourse, now define date and acquaintance rape as involving a wide range of unwanted sexual acts …
Dating or courtship violence is a pattern of actual or threatened acts of physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse perpetrated by an individual against a current or former dating partner. Abuse may include insults, coercion, intimidation, sexual harassment, and threats. The effects of dating violence can last a lifetime, …
From this perspective, the act of selling sex for money is not inherently harmful to women. Advocates for sex workers’ rights view consensual sexual activity among adults for money as an occupational choice of individual sex workers who decide to sell sex for money. Sex work is a …
A history of delinquency, aggression, or conduct problems is linked to dating violence—defined as physical, sexual, or psychological violence within a dating relationship. However, research on family violence and other kinds of violence and antisocial behavior has been generally conducted separately, and examination of links between these phenomena, …
Delinquency is commonly associated with violent behavior. Chances are that when people are asked what they commonly perceive as delinquent behavior, youth violence will not be far from their minds. Although the specter of youth violence has fueled fears about crime generally, and moral panics erupt every so …
Every year, thousands of people come to the United States seeking asylum. Asylum is given to those individuals fleeing persecution on account of their race, religion, national origin, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. A person seeking asylum must do so within a year of …
