Essays on Crime

The term “victimology” first emerged from the work of Mendelsohn and supported by Von Hentig in the late 1940s. Mendelson and Von Hentig aimed to “understand the relationships between victims and offenders, and the victimization process itself” (Davies,2013). Victimology has had a significant impact on...

Drilling a hole into the top of a man’s skull which he would pour sulphuric acid in (Serial Killers: Nature vs. Nurture, 2019). This process was acted out to make his victim brain dead: almost zombie-like. The victim would typically be dead within the day....

The School-to-Prison Pipeline further advances low-income families into the cycle of poverty and is detrimental to society and change. The School-to-Prison Pipeline is a concept where children of minorities are being oppressed by the school system and that directly leads to expulsion, which leads to...

The story “The Match” written by Colson Whitehead opens with the discovery of a secret grave full of buried, unidentified bodies located on the school of what used to be Nickel Academy, a reform school for troubled juveniles. It is a story where former students...

Chicago, one of America’s largest cities, has faced some of the most ferocious increases in violence, specifically in homicide rates. Many other U.S. cities have similar problems relating to homicide rates, such as New York and Los Angeles, but Chicago holds a unique standard especially...

The crime homicide, specifically the category of murder, has been at the forefront of criminological studies for centuries. Identity implications for responding to the crime, and why the crime is committed will be explained through criminological theories from a theoretical perspective within this essay. In...

The Robert Farquharson case was one that shocked the entirety of Australia. Robert Farquharson was convicted of the murder of his children, Jai aged 10, Tyler aged 7 and Bailey aged 2 in Melbourne, Victoria on the 17th of December 2009. An unjust ruling to...

Homicide can be defined as the killing of a human being carried out by another with or without intent to kill them. Homicide is varying in natures with different types of it occurring under different circumstances, the most common form is murder, followed by manslaughter....

It is hard to tell why people commit various crimes as there are many different causes. Some individuals believe that crimes are committed based on a rational choice while other groups believe that crime is a result of poor social circumstances. People have to be...

Forensic psychology is a very interesting field of study if someone wanted to dive into a criminal’s mind and investigate their mental stability to stand trial. The definition of forensic psychology according to the American Psychological Association is “the application of clinical specialties to the...