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The Social Plague Of Crime And Criminals
Number of Words: 1148 / Number of Pages: 5
... way society feels about
conjugal visits is in three subsets which stem from legal theories. The
first is the justice view. The second is the rehabilitative view. The final
is a combination of the first two views called the integrated view. All of
these perspectives contain very different thoughts about conjugal visits to
prisoners. Before I discuss each one, there are certain statistics about
forced sexual encounters in prison settings to keep in mind. According to “
An anonymous survey of 1,800 men and women in a Midwestern state prison
system revealed that 104 of 516 respondents (20%) had been pre ...
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Rape
Number of Words: 1581 / Number of Pages: 6
... rapes happen between two people who know each other. The F.B.I. says that several studies show that fewer than one in a hundred acquaintce rapes are reported to the police. "When one in four women will be raped in her lifetime, less than ten percent will report the assualt, and less than five percent of the rapist will go to jail." (Gibbs, 207) In this country a women was raped every six minutes, ten women every hour. In a twelve month period 76 per 1000 college women experienced one or more attempted or completed rapes. Rape is accounted for six percent of the total violent crime volume. Acuiantance ...
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Law And Morality
Number of Words: 2114 / Number of Pages: 8
... all will die with such a plan. The only
way for most of the survivors to live for the next fifteen days is for one to
die. Somehow they have contacted an outside source to advise them on the
questions of "Who shall die?", and "How should the decision of choosing the
person be carried out?" These are all very difficult questions to answer, but
something must be done. It is unlikely that someone will voluntarily allow
someone to kill them so that the others may live, that is why another form of
decision making must be allowed. The best way to do so is probably by that
outside aid to suggest that they ...
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Paula Jones' Lawsuit Against Bill Clinton
Number of Words: 376 / Number of Pages: 2
... case should be held at a later date
when President Clinton is no longer in office. It takes away from his job which
is to run the United States of America. Fifteen years ago, the Supreme Court
blocked a damage suit against Richard Nixon with a five to four vote finding
that the president is immune from being suied for his official acts. If the
president gets in trouble, the whole nation is also in trouble because after all
we did elect him. Our confidence in our political leaders will suffer, and out
system of government will be impacted negatively. If Paula Jones is allowed to
sue the president, ...
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The Issue Of Gun Control
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... the sail and manufacture of armor piercing bullets, automatic rifles and Uzis. Unfortunately, we tend to interpret the Constitution to broadly. Obviously, in the late 1700's, there were no deadly weapons to contend with. They had muskets, which could hardly be used in a very swift and deadly manner. Granted, the musket could kill, but if you asked any semi-sensible person if they would rather use a musket or a handgun, they would take a handgun any day of the week. This is why, in my opinion, we need to radically change the way we go about handling these problems.
With the rising crime rate, the ...
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Counterfeiting: We're In The Money
Number of Words: 1056 / Number of Pages: 4
... were arrested for the use of
counterfeit bills. With the use of the internet and a color printer, these two
teenagers were able to create and pass their counterfeit twenty dollar bills
through the high school cafeteria but were later arrest by police after trying
to use their money at a local Taco Bell. If teenagers are finding ways to
counterfeit money, that should tell someone that we need to do something to
protect our economy for the future.
In attempt to enhance our currency system, the one hundred dollar bill
was completely redesigned last year and released at the beginning of this year.
This ...
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The Unabomber: Is He Serious?
Number of Words: 1706 / Number of Pages: 7
... a catastrophe? According to the author, it would have to be industry
and technology of all things. He was convinced that due to the industrial-
technological system in which we live, ultimately humans are going to be
subjected to world wide suffering and inevitably a total shut down of humanity.
Now at this moment I felt a little disbelief. I had heard he was actually an
intelligent person, but I was starting to wonder.
His whole theory was based on the fact, that at one point or another,
the human race will be taken to the point of complete break down. He feels that
if it's bound to happen, we ...
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Capital Punishment: Pro
Number of Words: 1323 / Number of Pages: 5
... be punished for
their crimes, and that it does not matter whether it will deter the crime rate.
Supporters of the death penalty are in favour of making examples out of
offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime rate,
but the crime rate is irrelevant.
According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight murders
are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He goes on to
say, "If one execution of a guilty capital murderer deters the murder of one
innocent life, the execution is justified." To most supporters of the death
penalty, like ...
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How To Reduce Crime In Your Neighborhood
Number of Words: 525 / Number of Pages: 2
... Maybe one already exists in your community.
These organizations don't require frequent meetings (once a month or so). They don't ask anyone to take personal risks to prevent crime. They leave the responsibility for catching criminals where it belongs - with the police. This is NOT a "vigilante" group:
These groups gather citizens together to learn crime prevention from local authorities. You cooperate with your neighbors to report suspicious activities in the neighborhood, to keep an eye on homes when the resident is away, and to keep everyone in the area mindful of the standard precauti ...
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Just Say No! A Profile Of Cocaine And It's Effects On Two Lives
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... 400 tons of
cocaine is smuggled out of South America each year. Half of this cocaine ends
up on the streets of the United States.
Cocaine is a stimulant. That means that when it is used, it speeds up
the way the brain works. It causes the brain to send out too many electrical
signals that then get mixed up. Because the brain tells the heart how fast and
often to beat, using cocaine can make the heart pump so fast that it damages the
muscles or can lead to a heart attack. Since the brain also tells the lungs how
often and how deep to breath, the use of cocaine can cause those signals to get
mi ...
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