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Edward Gein All through history there have been stories of death and killing. There have been many murders in America. Some killers have had odd practices that they inflict on their victims; however, few have gone to the extent of Edward Gein. Because of his obsession with women and odd practices committed on the bodies…

“It’s really clear that the most effective way to turn a nonviolent person into a violent one is to send them to prison,” says Harvard University criminologist James Gilligan. The American prison system takes nonviolent offenders and makes them live side-by-side with hardened killers. The very nature of prison, no matter people view it, produces…

Although many arrests have been made, organized crime and the Mafia are still very active. Organized crime and its families, particularly the Italian mafia, have increased their illegal activities significantly over the past few decades. The Mafia and organized crime go hand and hand, one cannot be spoken without the other. Both of these forms…

Two of the Southwest’s more noted desperados during the early 1930’s were Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Bonnie and Clyde (or the Bloody Barrows, as they were then commonly called) terrorized the country, from Texas to Iowa and back, for two years, slaughtering at least a dozen men, most of whom were peace officers. They…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) expects to advance equity, as well as peace. It has been generally reprimanded for doing not one or the other, yet it needs to battle with some extreme basic and political troubles: it has constrained assets, it faces institutional confinements, it is controlled by states, and it is censured for…

Through Technology What is forensic science? What do forensic scientists do? Forensic science is the use of applying science to help in criminal and civil investigations. Forensic scientists process physical evidence to help found clues to bring an investigation to an end (What is Forensic Science). They can speed up the closing of an investigation…

While featuring the fatigue of our criminal equity framework Krishna Iyer, J. in the case of Rattan Singh v. Territory of Punjab, relevantly commented “consequently, it is the shortcoming of our criminal justice system that “thus, it is the weakness of our criminal justice system that victims of crimes do not attract the attention of…

In today’s society, people argue whether the death penalty is an acceptable form of justice. In America, the pros and cons of the death penalty are an ongoing debate. Countless questions arise whenever someone mentions the death penalty. Is Capital Punishment just? The death penalty is just. As a citizen of the United States, I…

Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game” (Blake Edwards 1922). Criminal psychology, which is one of the recently arising fields in Psychology but had been created a long while ago, is the study of the mentality, the motivation, and the social behavior of criminals (Miller 2004). It was…

Herbert Packer created two representations of the different views in the criminal justice system. In each representation he separated each opposing view into two categories, Liberal and conservative. The crime control model was more focused on old traditional (conservative), and the due process model leaned towards liberal values. The crime control model stressed that the…