Social Science

What is a criminal? I feel I must first begin by elaborating on the fact that the word criminal is a description used to describe a wide range of people. It is not the person as a whole. There are…
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The science of motivation is an interesting one and a person can learn a great deal about themselves and others by studying it. What is your motivation? Why do you do the things you do? What compels you to take…
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There are many types of organized crime and there are many types of individual crime. The one main difference between the two is that organized crime involves many people with the commission of each crime or a series of crimes….
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Faulty beliefs and a lack of values are the illness. Symptoms of that illness manifest themselves as criminal behavior. In all societies there are three plateaus. What is legally correct, what is ethically correct, and what is morally correct. This…
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One of the dangers of our world today is group-think. It occurs as a person lets identification with a group cloud their reasoning and deliberations when reaching a position on a given issue. At best, it is a rhetorical device….
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Prisons are overcrowded for many reasons. However, there are key factors that play a large role in the prison population problem. One is the incarceration of non-violent drug offenders. Prisons are no place for this type of criminal. There are…
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According to British experts, the mystery surrounding King Tutankhamun’s death has finally been solved. The king died in 1323 B.C., aged just 19, having ruled as Pharaoh for just nine years. Yet even after the much publicised discovery of his…
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The public seems largely unaware that economics effects crime. Is the public uneducated? Certainly not. All a person has to do is turn on the news or pick up a newspaper for daily reports of shoplifting, petty theft, embezzling, or…
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Motivation comes from pleasure and pain. Psychology as a science looks at archetypes, social conditioning and many other factors. Abraham Maslow wrote about where our needs sit. Survival needs sit at the top of his triangle; death is quite some…
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Anna Freud was the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. She is regarded as the founder of child psychoanalysis. She is also known for her contributions to ego psychology and defense mechanisms.  Anna Freud was born on December…
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