Essays Tagged: "homicides"
Serial Killers
e year. In 1989 (the last year for which detailed figures are available) there were 21,500 recorded homicides, of which some 5,000 are unsolved. Unofficial sources believe that as many as a hundred se ... l the killer is taken into custody, dies, or himself is killed. Second, the killings, like 'normal' homicides, tend to be one-on-one. Third, there is no, or very little, connection between the perpetr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Ted Bundy From the Beginning of Taking Life Until the End of His
two days to weeks or months. Thesetime breaks are referred to as a cooling off period.' Because homicides involving multiple victims is gradually becoming more commonplace, and to facilitate an un ... hin a short time span,' and spree killings, which Ressler et al. defines as 'a series of sequential homicides connected to one event committed over a time period of hours to days and without a cooling ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Rogerian Argument - handguns in US
n usershave pointed out the fact that states who have relaxed their gun laws have had an increasein homicides. Also the fact that more people have died from criminal use of guns thanpeople in the civi ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > United Nations
Gang Activity
Since the beginning of the decade, teenage homicides increased by one hundred and fifty percent (Strout, Brian 1996). This sharp increase is la ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Juvenile Crime (Crime Rates)
e crime rate is soaring. Between 1990 and 1994, the rate at which adults age 25 and older committed homicides declined 22%; yet the rate jumped 16% for youths between 14 and 17. This age group surpass ... early Oe90¹s as the most crime-prone. (Between 1986 and 1991, 18 - 24 showed a 62% increase in homicides; 14 - 17 showed a 124% increase in murders.) It is this age group that will be booming in ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Smoking - an essay on the history and hazards of smoking.
s smoking. Yet each year, cigarette smoking kills more Americans than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, homicides, suicides, illegal drugs and fires combined. Smoking is an extremely bad pastime, practice ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The Biography of a Serial Killer - Ted Bundy
as two days to weeks or months. These time breaks are referred to as a cooling off period." Because homicides involving multiple victims is gradually becoming more commonplace, and to facilitate an un ... hin a short time span," and spree killings, which Ressler et al. defines as "a series of sequential homicides connected to one event committed over a time period of hours to days and without a cooling ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
"Crime prevention for children"-has lots of stats,talks about gang affiliaton, drug use, etc. This essay goes through the juvinile court system, and punishments, also explores where "devience" starts.
he end are children growing up thinking guns are okay. "over the ten year period from 1987 to 1997, homicides of juveniles ages 15-17 were more likely to involve a fire arm than were homicides of adul ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Sex, Violence, and Popular Culture: Sure! Blame It On TV!
, hypothetically, television technology had never been developed, there would today be 10,000 fewer homicides each year in the United States, 70,000 fewer rapes, and 700,000 fewer injurious assaults. ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Ban on Hand Guns
of handgun control clam that if we limit access to guns it will have little affect on the rates of homicides, because people who want to kill work really hard to get a handgun or will find another wa ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Alcoholism: the symptoms and effects of the disease.
n complications involving the brain, liver, heart and other organs as well as over doses, suicides, homicides, and car accidents. The long term effects of drinking can lead to problems with the digest ... y short-term effects of alcohol, all of which can cause premature death due to overdoses, suicides, homicides, and car accidents. Overdosing on alcohol can cause very serious consequences, including d ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Capital Punishment.
sion, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, one is bombarded with news of arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and other such tragedies. It is a rare occasion to go throughout a day in ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Gun control.
rse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. This is the ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Alcoholism and its affects.
rease the amount of testosterone in a man's body and cause impotence.Alcohol abuse can lead to both homicides and suicides.Drinking can cause serious injuries and death -- over 38% of drownings are al ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Guns.
So the question arises, should there be stricter gun control? Will it make a difference in how many homicides and killings there are in the United States? Would stricter gun control make a difference ... zen to bare arms. The fact is that people kill people, not guns. There would still be robberies and homicides whether or not there were guns. You would be loosing more than you would be gaining by mak ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
This paper is about the differences and similarities between serial killers and murderers.
spects of serial killing, it is important to briefly explain and differentiate the various types of homicides or serial killings. Besides the obvious single-incident homicides that has become a part o ... Besides the obvious single-incident homicides that has become a part of daily life, other types of homicides or murders include mass, spree and serial killings. Mass murder involves the killing of th ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
This is a problem soultion paper on smoking.
Every year we lose 4.9 million people worldwide, not from aids, homicides, drugs, or even auto accidents, but from smoking. Smoking kills more than all of those com ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
This essay was originally meant to promote the death penalty.
anada in 1976 has not led to increased homicide rates. Statistics Canada reports that the number of homicides in Canada in 2001 (554) was 23% lower than the number of homicides in 1975 (721), the year ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Gun control.
rse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. (Jefferson ... ichmond are federally prosecuted. ...These efforts appear to be stemming the tide of violence, with homicides for the period November 1997 through July 1998, running more than 65% below the same perio ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Gun and Weapon Control
This essay is about the controvesy over the minimum drinking age. This essay argues that it should not be lowered to 18 from 21.
se and abuse is absolutely unacceptable. Even more children dying from alcohol related car crashes, homicides and alcohol poisoning is outrageous. Children becoming heavy drinkers and later alcoholics ... nd Human Services the three leading cause of death in the 15-24 age group are automobile accidents, homicides and suicides. Alcohol is the leading factor in all three. In addition this year 66% of 18- ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs