Criminology Article Reviews Samples For Students

Article Review: Gender Climate Change: A Feminist Criminological Perspective

Executive Summary
The article “Gendering Climate Change: A Feminist Criminological Perspective” by Wonders and Danner (2015) represents the study on the dialectical relationship that exists between socially constructed gender and climate change. Within their study, the scholars examine several issues to support their idea and explain logically the importance of the problem under consideration and the usefulness of feminist criminological perspective for analysis of climate change issues.
First of all, they provide the results of the review of the current criminological literature, stating that feminist perspective has been largely ignored in most criminology literature covering the issues of climate ...

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Over the last four decades, there have been major trends in the criminal law sectors. Criminology has revolutionized from the basic notions proposed by Aristotle to the contemporary laws and regulations proposed by the modern authorities in the field of law and criminology. More so, there have been major changes in correction centers, authorization of sentencing, and other sectors involving the criminal handling. Additionally, article review includes relating a piece of writing in criminology to the modern world and trends that are taking place in the modern world perception of the justice system. Still criminals have become more advanced in ...

This article, compiled by Brenda Morrison in February 2002 at the Australian Institute of Criminology, has critically analyzed bullying and victimization in schools especially in elementary and high school levels not only in Australia but also in many other parts across the world. The main idea that Ms Brenda Morrison has tried to bring out is that bullying in children that mostly take place in schools has both short term and long term effects, with effects affecting both the physical as well as the psychological wellbeing of the child both in his young age as well as later age, ...

Braga, A. A. (2001). The effects of hot spots policing on crime. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 578(1), 104-125.
The major concept involved in the study is directed patrolling for crime reduction. Directed patrolling is operationalized by increasing police patrolling in areas where crime rate is higher, otherwise known as hot spots or high crime zones. Thus, it analyzes the effects of hot spots policing on crime rate and crime displacement. That makes crime rate and crime displacement as the two dependent variables in the study for two questions while hot ...

Criminal Justice

1 A Spatial Analysis of Neighbourhood Crime in Omaha, Nebraska Using Alternative Measures of Crime Rates

The research focuses on four kinds of crime and their spatial patterns. The crimes studied are: a) robbery, b) assault, c) burglary, and d) auto theft. Geographic information system or GIS procedures were used to correlate the occurrence of these crimes with the characteristics of a neighbourhood in the City of Omaha, Nebraska. Ordinary least square methods were also employed. For alternate measures of the crime rate, crime density and crime location quotients were deduced. There research yielded three vital results. To begin with, the findings ...