Criminology Research Proposals Samples For Students

This training is meant for the Centervale's law enforcement officials. However, the training curriculum can be used within the county. All the Centervale's law enforcement officials are required to undergo the training.
- Purpose of the Training

This training has four main objectives or purposes. The purposes of the training include:

- The main purpose of the training is to equip Centervale's law enforcement officials with adequate information on crime victims (Karmen, 2012).
- The training is aimed at providing an understanding of criminology and victimology.
- In addition, this training covers both stranger violence and intimate violence.
- The training will supply trainers with information that would assist ...

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to determine the deterrent effect of the death penalty or capital punishment in the commission of future crimes. Most of the criminal experts believe that the justification for the imposition of the death penalty against criminals should be for retributive grounds and to make the criminals suffer the consequences of their actions. Thus, when a person kills another, the retributive effect of capital punishment or the death penalty is take the life of the murderer (Radelet & Akers, 1996). The main reason for the imposition of the death penalty is to discourage the murderers to ...

Introduction

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (2010) defines burglary as the unlawful entry into a structure in order to commit theft or a felony. The term structure refers to offices, apartments, houseboats used as homes, barns or railroad cars. It however does not refer to cars or ships. This entry need not be forceful. Burglary is classified into three forms; forcible entry, attempted forcible entry and non-forcible unlawful entry where no force is applied.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (2010) reports approximately 2,199,125 burglaries in 2009. This is less by 1.3% in comparison to 2008. This is however higher ...

Corporal punishment is considered inflicting of physical pain upon a prisoner as a punishment for violation of a prison rule or regulation. Such forms of conduct include, but are not limited to whipping, cold shower, electrical shocking devices and suspension from cell bars by handcuffs. The use of solitary imprisonment as a system of punishing violations of prison discipline is not included within corporal punishment definition. Most states have no statutes that specifically forbid the use of corporal punishment. Other states, however, prohibit corporal punishment in detention facilities by the statue.
The use of corporal punishment to reinforce prison ...

Introduction

The topic that was chosen for this research study is the death penalty. The occurrence of heinous crimes and rise in the criminality rate supports the restoration of death penalty. Many of the death penalty advocates believe that is a legitimate sanction against murderers for retributive purposes. The more compelling reason to restore the death penalty is the positive claims on its deterrent effect to future crimes. Thus, the punishment can be regarded as a lawful discipline to discourage hardened criminals from their wrongdoings.
This topic was chosen because there are several countries around the globe which questioned the legitimacy ...

Introduction

How does the factor of gender impact the concept of violent offending?
One of the most commonly held notions is that males have a higher propensity to commit violent crimes compared to women. This holding is one of the most widely held concepts in the area of criminology. However, there is a growing debate as to the scope of the “gender gap” in terms of violent offending has shifted in recent years. A number of commentators hold that the gap is described in terms of its stability; others proffer that there is an observable closing of the gap, particularly ...

Neighborhoods with more police patrols are less likely to be burglarized than neighborhoods with normal police patrols

Abstract:
Orientation: Neighbourhoods with more police patrols are less likely to be burglarized than neighborhoods with normal police patrols
Research purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine whether perceived more police patrols in the neighbourhoods can have a direct correlation with fewer reported burglaries.
Motivation for the study: To develop a multivariate understanding of the trends of reported burglaries in neighbourhoods with increased police presence.
Research design, approach and method: This is a survey research which seeks to get from the police the primary data of the nature and frequencies of burglaries reported in a metropolis estate. ...

In the journal titled Mapping the Spatial Influence of Crime Correlates: A Comparison of Operationalization Schemes and Implications for Crime Analysis and Criminal Justice Practice, Caplan Joel acknowledges the variety of independent variables that have significant direct correlation with particular crime outcomes that decades of research in the field of criminology have identified. The author admits that despite tremendous amount of research in criminology, researchers still understand little about correlates and research factors. He reiterates that there is a meager understanding of the manners in which the factors and correlates of crime become applicable in ways that represent their spatial ...

Summary of the Jurisdiction of the Proposed Criminal Prevention Initiative

The chosen jurisdiction in this case was the city of Detroit in Michigan, United States. Among all the states and territories of the United States, the city of Detroit simply had the highest incidence of violent crimes per capita. The table below summarizes key crime-related findings on the said jurisdiction. It covers the following metrics for a more detailed analysis and interpretation: population, number of reported cases of violent crime, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, rape, assault, and burglary. The said raw data came from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI, 2014) report on crime in the United ...

Research Questions

When did gun control legislation first become law?
What are past gun control efforts?
What have been the results on crime from past gun control legislation?
What are current gun control laws?
What are proposed gun control laws?
What is the controversy surrounding gun control?
In order to have a discussion concerning the criminal use of firearms, a definition of the terms used in gun restrictions is needed. The interpretation used in a report submitted by legislative attorney Vivian Chu to Congress addressed the prohibition of the possession, transfer, or manufacture of firearms (Chu, 2013); this is the definition ...

Long known as one of the most deadliest cities in the United States, Baltimore’s crime rate decreased over throughout 2007, 2008 and 2009 but the city has long been known as a bastion for overall crime. In 2013, Baltimore experienced a jump in homicide rates of 7.3 percent, which was one of the highest levels in the nation surpassing Detroit, New Orleans, Cleveland and Oakland (Reuter, 2014). The goal of this paper is to determine why Baltimore has such a high rate of crime compared to other cities in the United States. In order to determine this demographics, the weather, the ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes this criminal ...

Domestic violence is any kind of abuse that can happen between partners in a relationship. In Australia it is also referred to as intimate partner’s relationship and it can occur in different forms. The major types of domestic violence that have been established include physical, social, emotional, spiritual and economic violence. This violence usually affects people of all ages and it is not necessarily that it occurs at home to be classified as intimate partner violence. Many a times, domestic violence is usually about the power and control, in both the family and intimate partner relationship, and in most occasions ...