Category: Crime

  • White-Collar Crime: Securities and Pension Fraud

    Securities fraud Securities fraud, which is also referred to as stock fraud or investment fraud, is generally a deceptive exercise in the stock markets aimed at inducing investors into making purchases or sales based on falsified information. It often results in huge losses and violates the law of securities (Blanck, 2008). In this practice, investors…

  • Preventing Crime Victimization in International Students

    International students are the students who go to other countries to study and because of this, they face a lot of problems. They are a vulnerable group who face common security problems because of several factors that include demographic factors, lack of stable economic security, limited options to employment, housing and transport, and many other…

  • White-Collar Crime and Negligence

    Table of Contents Introduction Negligence White-Collar Crime Conclusion References Introduction White-collar crime is a category of non-violent criminal activities that are motivated by financial gain (Payne, 2016). Negligence refers to “the failure to use reasonable care” (“Negligence law,” n.d., para. 1). The aim of this paper is to analyze two case studies on white-collar crime…

  • Crime and Criminals: General Characteristics

    For a long time, crime has been a subject of discussion among various countries across the globe, with various strategies and inventions being developed to curb the same. Many researchers have also made in-depth discoveries about crimes and criminal activities, most of which are interesting, fascinating and clear pointers to certain common phenomenon in the…

  • Crime Scene Investigation in Media and Real Life

    The common belief rests on a premise that forensic sciences are very exact and cannot be doubted. Facts relating to fingerprinting, DNA analysis and other particle matching were thought to be undeniable for a long time, but there are cases where seemingly factual information turns out to be wrong. The television shows that illustrate the…

  • The Teens, Crime, and Community Project in the US

    The criminal justice system collaborates with different agencies in order to tackle the major issues affecting the United States. The targeted project topic focuses on the problem of juvenile delinquency. Studies indicate that more youths and children commit different forms of crime in the United States. Such crimes continue to affect the lives of the…

  • Deviance, Crime and Social Control

    Table of Contents Selected Topic Summary of Selected Reading Selected Theoretical Perspective Applying the Perspective to the Above Topic References Selected Topic The selected topic from the class text is “Deviance, Crime, and Social Control”. The term deviance “refers to the violations of established contextual, cultural, or social norms” (Zembroski, 2011, p. 241). Crimes occur…

  • Crime Scene Investigation Effect in Justice System

    Abstract Movies have been known to influence popular culture in different parts of the world. Analysts believe that the “CSI effect” is one of the fruits of popular culture. The argument presented in this paper is that the effect has significantly influenced jurors in such a way that they ask for unnecessary laboratory results, expert…

  • “White-Collar Crime” Definition and Qualification

    White-collar crime can be defined as the crimes which are committed by individuals of respectability and very high social status in the course of their occupation. There have been numerous debates as to what qualifies as a white-collar crime and it generally encompasses a variety of nonviolent crimes that are usually committed for financial gain…

  • Impact of Crime on Civil Liability and Risk: FTCA

    The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) of 1946 waived the doctrine of sovereign immunity of the United States government. After its enactment, all federal workers lack defense of their employment and become liable for their wrongdoing to the same extent as natural persons according to the local laws of a particular location where negligent or…