The crime rate in the United States has been steadily dropping for more than a decade. Taking into account both the rate of violent crime and the rate of property crime, this rate has been tumbling for many years now, and there are various factors that contribute to this dip...

A consent form is an important element in research because it protects the ethical rights of people who are involved in studies. Without a consent form, a person could be entering into a study in which they are not prepared to participate. One of the tenets of this kind of...

Maslow’s Hierarchy and the X and Y theory of human motivation are both critical in the administrative element of criminal justice. According to Maslow, people need to first have their basic needs met before they can move up to meeting their higher-level needs. The theory explains, in part, that people...

Conflict criminology, radical criminology, and Marxist criminology all refer to similar and related ideas, but also different theoretical constructs. Conflict criminology is largely based on the ideas championed by Karl Marx, who believed strongly that one could understand crime only in the constructs of societal inequity. He believed that because...

In the 19th century, Marx and Engels presented the theory stating that people commit crimes due to the struggle between social classes. It marked the emergence of various conflict theories which discussed the relations between crime, victims, and criminal justice. Although criminologists had different attitudes to the phenomenon of social...