Essays on Crime

“The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt,” a quote from Judith Lewis Herman, an American psychologist and teacher. Often times women enter relationships, even marriages, expecting to be protected rather...

This paper is about violence against women. Many women suffer from rape, murder, and assault daily. A lot of times it goes unreported. In this essay, it covers the percentage of women that do not report spousal rape because they believe it is not actual...

Violence against women still exists as one of the main issues in the 21st century. Violence in this context does not mean only physical violence. It is much broader and includes sexual, emotional, psychological and financial abuse. It is categorized as hostile aggression an act...

Domestic violence against women is any act of violence that results in physical, psychological or sexual harm which is gender orientated and will continue until Australians have the courage to care for their neighbours. All forms of domestic violence is a violation of human rights...

Domestic violence is alarmingly prevalent especially against women in many industrialized nations. Patriarchal ideology or gender traditionalism promotes to maintain subjugation of women in superior-inferior which is male-dominated and women serves as cheap labor. Throughout the study, representative sample of 770 married Bangkok women had...

Edward “Ned” Kelly is a well-known and popular individual in Australian history. Many people have their own opinions about this famous individual. Some people think of him as a hero, while others think he is a brutal killer. For others, he may appear as a...

Terrorism in Afghanistan has been long understood as a result of foreign occupation of the land by the foreign troops. It has been a direct, or indirect, result of United States military intervention in the country, termed as ‘Graveyard of Empires.’ More recently, the United...

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon shook the world from the heart of New York. The unprecedented lethality caused and the coordination of events on that day gave a new meaning to terrorism. Yet, it...

The Taliban is an insurgency group currently active in Afghanistan. As far as we know, they have been active since 2001 to the present. The word Taliban comes from the word “Talib” meaning “student” or “religious student”. Their main language spoken is Pashto, one of...

In today’s modern literature, ‘pirates’ are considered as ‘legends from the dark past’. But in the 21st century, pirates still exist and in great numbers. Although it is not broadcast on the news for the world to see, pirates are very common in different parts...