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Marijuana
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... with investigating marijuanas medical uses
with out fear of controversy. The last reason is the Fedral government
would benifit two ways, First the fedral revenues would increase, because
marijuana ciggaretes would be taxed at the point of sale. The companies
that make the ciggaretes would also pay income taxes. Secondly there would
be a reduse in the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and
procecute users and sellers of marijuana.
III. There are reasons why marijuana shouldn't be legal. One reason is
because there was one study that shows their were about 55% of all fatal
acci ...
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Under Age Drinking : The Problems It Creates
Number of Words: 1036 / Number of Pages: 4
... high. It dosn't
help that Dillon is a college town and ther are many under age college kids
there. Now lets imagine another party where kids are drinking.
The bonfire is roaring, Bubba just decided that singeing everyone's
eyebrows off by throwing some gasoline on the fire would be fun. Of course
nobody thought that this was very funny except for Bubba. Bubba is not the only
teenage person at this party who has had a few to many. There are a lot of
under age kids who are just plain drunk. This is a regular kind of party in my
hometown, everyone goes out and drinks to get drunk. The sa ...
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Fraud
Number of Words: 1478 / Number of Pages: 6
... Still some people commit fraud to pay for an elevated life style which
other wise they could not afford. Needs arise from a number of locations these
include: Drug or alcohol addiction, Marriage break-ups and/of extravagant love
affairs, Gambling Debts, Business losses, Unexpected family crises, Mounting
debts, and the desire to live a lifestyle far beyond ones means.
Fraud is costing society several hundred billion a year. Organizations
loose close to 6 percent of annual revenue to fraud and abuse of social systems.
Fraud costs Canadian organizations $100 billion annually. On the average,
organizat ...
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Gun Control
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... while in no way preventing criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere.
However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Wes ...
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Violence Against Women Act
Number of Words: 1055 / Number of Pages: 4
... anger her husband. She was afraid
to go back to school and she was afraid to go shopping or spend any
money on her own. All three of these things clearly interfere and
affect interstate commerce. Women like Mrs. Benenson are the reason
the act was passed.
There has been a long history of judgements in favor of
Congress's power to legislate using the commerce clause as a
justification. For the past fifty years, Congress's right to interpret
the commerce clause has been un ...
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Reasons For Juvenile Crime
Number of Words: 521 / Number of Pages: 2
... has found that 53% of these children are more likely to be
arrested, and 38% more likely to commit a violent crime as an adult,
then their counterparts who did not suffer such abuse. The symptoms of
child abuse are “high levels of aggression and antisocial behavior”
and these children are twice as likely to become juvenile offenders.
Also improper parental care has been linked to delinquency such as
mothers who drink alcohol or take drugs during pregnancy cause their
babies to grow up with learning disorders, a problem which leads them
to be juv ...
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Juvenile Justice System In America
Number of Words: 2179 / Number of Pages: 8
... could be kept apart from adult criminals. By the mid-19th century, other state institutions for juvenile delinquents were established, and their populations soon included not only young criminals but also less serious offenders and dependent children. The movement spread rapidly throughout the U.S. and abroad. These early institutions were often very rigid and punitive.
In the second half of the 19th century increased attention was given to the need for special legal procedures that would protect and guide the juvenile offender rather than subject the child to the full force of criminal law. ...
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Minimum Drinking Age - 1998
Number of Words: 900 / Number of Pages: 4
... men aged between
14-17 years was drunk illegally on licensed premises. 3
* A former New Zealand Police Commissioner claims that moves to lower
the legal drinking age to 18 would create more than 100,000 extra
legal drinkers, having an "immediate impact" on law and order. 4
* Research evidence suggests that the younger the age when drinking
begins, and the greater the amount of drinking done in early years,
the greater the amount of alcohol-related problems later on. 5
* Young people experience the highest rate of health and social problems
associated with alcoh ...
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Gun Control
Number of Words: 1248 / Number of Pages: 5
... as an
excuse for oppression?
The opposition of gun rights say that the amendment states that The
Second Amendment was never intended as a gun license for the entire
American populace. As originally drafted—and as consistently interpreted by
the courts for more than a century—the Amendment does not grant any blanket
right to own a gun nor does it stand in the way of rational, effective gun
control. They also say that the idea of gun ownership as an American
Birthright is just a myth. However, this is not true. The amendment
states that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Clear ...
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A Comparison Of Male Juvenile Sex Offenders With Delinquent Non-Offenders
Number of Words: 1656 / Number of Pages: 7
... juvenile referrals since 1991 (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department,1993). Of these referrals, over 200 are sexual assaults (Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, 1993). It is increasingly becoming a major problem and could possibly have profound effects in the near future. Though this is not a great number in comparison to the number of referrals, to this researchers knowledge, there are no treatment facilities in Harris County specifically designed to treat this type of offender. Statistics are not clear on recidivism rates here; but one thing is clear, that this problem will not go ...
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