The term prostitution can be defined as the practice or profession in which a person will provide a sexual service to another in return for, or as payment. There are various forms of prostitution including; 'brothels' (usually run from a house/building with two or more people engaging in prostitution at any one time) 'street walkers' (Those who walk the streets, usually in an area known for prostitution, and await people to approach them) 'escorts' (whilst sex is not advertised - only company...
The concern about racial profiling is erupting throughout the country. Many provinces, cities, social groups, and academics have decided to study racial profiling, and how race and ethnicity may play a part in police investigations. Toronto is no different. Allegations of racial profiling have been around for years and still are a subject that creates a lot on media hype and controversy surrounding police. Racial profiling should not be confused in with criminal profiling, because they are tw...
Introduction When it comes to talk about crime, a lot of people will relate to the street crimes including burglary, robbery, and assault. However, more and more people complain that an increasing number of white-collar crimes exits in our society nowadays, such as false advertising, tax evasion, and insider stock trading. Write-collar crimes are very complicated issues which "can harm victims both directly and indirectly without the victims even knowing it" (Benson 3). It affects individuals...
Functionalists look at society as a whole, a functionalist would explain crime and deviance by saying that the nature of society itself is the cause of deviancy, rather than a psychological or biological perspective. Functionalists see crime and deviance as inevitable, and they feel that it is a necessary part of society. Some functionalist would also see crime and deviance as a positive aspect for society. Emile Durkheim, the founder of functionalism argued that a certain amount of crime in ...
Vehicle related represents a substantial proportion of all property crime - probably in the region of one fifth. And yet, crimes involving motor vehicles seem far from a political or a criminological priority. Why? Corbett (2003) suggests that the primary reason is our value system: we are practically and emotionally dependant on the car and consequently reluctant to admit, let alone embrace, the problems associated with its use. Much car crime is not perceived as real crime. And yet, as we w...
This chapter therefore presents a discussion of traditional justice processes as used for criminal offences prior to the armed conflict which has lasted for over 20 years. It also highlights those rituals that have been selectively adopted by these communities in the aftermath of the conflict, and to what extent they have realised justice and reconciliation. The chapter further examines the practicability and effectiveness of adopting traditional justice mechanisms in their entirety to deal w...
Society has come a long way in accepting social culture which was deemed as controversial or taboo, which its negative notions are solely based on morality. Such controversies include legalising abortion in Canada or accepting Gay rights, which both are seen upon as heinous and a blasphemy, mainly due to morality. Recently, the issue at hand, which has been quite popular on the media radar, is legalizing prostitution. Much of the opposition of legalizing prostitution are motivated on a moral ...
In today's society crime is a constant. People that are well know, to people that no one has ever heard of fall victim to criminal activity on a daily basis. There has to be a reason why these things happen so often. Victim precipitation theory holds that the victim is the contributing fact of their victimization. Women, especially, can make themselves available to criminals and can effortlessly become easy targets. In a sense, every victim contributes to their own victimization in one way or...
"While the evidence seems to show that prisons do not succeed in the rehabilitating prisoners, there remains enormous pressure to increase the number of prisons and to toughen sentences for many crimes (A. Gidden, Sociology, 2006 p831)'. The statement above made by A. Gidden [1] in his book shows that our current prisons do not work perfectly in this society in its aim is to rehabilitating prisoners. Prison is defined as a building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime they have c...
Section 1: The Problem of Knife Crime in Britain. In June 2006, 15 years old Alex Mulumbu after celebrating the end of his GCSEs exams became one more victim of Britain's knife culture. The victim after he got off a bus with friends in Lambeth, south London had an argument with a larger group of teenagers (Woolcock, 2006). During the dispute members of the gang disappeared and returned armed with knives, baseball bats and hockey sticks. Alex was stabbed in the heart and was left lying in a po...
