Purchase Solution

This post addresses topics in crime and criminal law.

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Do you think it is beneficial for criminal justice professionals to agree that crime is "functional" in nature? Why?

How could crime help private business? Identify 10 industries or companies that could benefit from crime.

Are there problems inherent in organizations benefiting from criminal activities? Why?

Should organizations that benefit from crime operate as nonprofits? Why?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The solution discusses each question presented involving the functionality of crime, businesses that benefit from crime, and if organizations that benefit from crime should operate as nonprofit organizations.

Solution Preview

Do you think it is beneficial for criminal justice professionals to agree that crime is "functional" in nature? Why?

I think that by agreeing that crime is functional, we're putting it into a category where strategic planning for ways to fight crime is easier. By using a functional definition, we're giving crime an actual purpose, even though when we rationally think about crime, no actual good purpose exists from crime. By treating it as a functional act, we discover more ways to devise initiatives that problem-solve crime in many locations, and it allows us to devise specific plans of doing so. I would agree with this statement, because it forms a better structure for dealing with the problem of crime.

How could crime help private business? Identify 10 industries or companies that could benefit from crime.

Crime arises fear in people, and people react out of fear. ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Constitutional Law Rights

How much do you know about Constitutional Law Rights? Find out with this quiz!

Evidence

Do you know your evidence objections? Find out with this quiz!

Contract Requirments

How much do you know about the legal requirements for a contract? Find out with this quiz!

Title VII

This Quiz pertains to the spectrum of Human Rights through Title VII

Title VII Laws

Learn the basics of the laws under Title VII.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Inheritance of Criminal Behavior

    This library solution addresses the question of whether or not criminal behavior is an inherited trait by summarizing biological, psychological, and sociological explanations of crime.

  • Transnational Crime

    520462 Transnational Crime in the United States 1. How has the United States and other countries tried to combat transnational crime, and with what results? 2. Why is transnational crime so difficult to eradicate?

  • Criticism and Benefits of Community Policing

    This partnership addresses conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.

  • Inchoate Crimes

    In saying this, each state statute maintains some form of common law in which they can convict a person for criminal liability and receive the same amount of punishment as the principal assailant in the crime. References: Dolatowski, J.

  • Topics in Criminal Justice for Research

    In this particular task, you are asking for help in putting together 3 possible research topics in criminal justice. If these are to be the basis of a future research paper, I suggest making the subjects accessible and easy to research.

  • Criminal Justice in Post Secondary Environment

    525921 Criminal Justice in Post Secondary Environment Some authorities propose that all law enforcement (e.g., police officers) and corrections officers (e.g. guards) should be required to have a four-year college degree in criminal justice.

  • Bail within Judicial System

    When a person commits a crime, bail may then be set under the guidelines this "criminal" will report for the hearing, and he/she goes free to carry on with his/her life until the court date.

  • Cyber Crime and Psychology

    In our discussion, you will also post your topics; you will then be asked to comment on at least two other students' topics, giving your opinion about which of their topics you find the most compelling and think would be best for them to do.

  • Critical Sentencing Issues in Criminal Justice

    518137 Critical Sentencing Issues in Criminal Justice Respond to a critical sentencing issue in criminal justice. Possible topics for the response include: - The impact of sentencing guidelines. - The constitutionality of a guideline sentence.

View More Related Solutions