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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 846 / Number of Pages: 4
... rape, and murder because of violent nature of these crimes.
These crimes, even today, are still viewed as violent and should be
punished with the highest degree of discipline available to achieve justice.
After much public pressure, capital punishment was suspended on a
trial run in 1967. This proved to be ineffective, because even though the
law stipulated that crimes such as treason or the murder of law enforcement
agents, were still to be subjected to the death penalty, the federal
cabinet continued to commute those criminals from death to life sentences,
hence the law was not being followe ...
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Crime - A Game You Can’t Win
Number of Words: 721 / Number of Pages: 3
... the sentence is a mockery of the judicial system. The “Three Strikes” law represents a faltering attempt at punishing violent criminals.
“We have increased the odds of incarceration,” said Dr. Morgan Reynolds, director of the National Center for Policy Analysis’ Criminal Justice Center. “Perpetrators know it is more costly to commit crime, and that acts as a deterrent”(Reynolds). In the State of Florida, the minimum prison term for a repeat rapist is 10 years. While this is an extensive time to remain locked away from society, the focus should be in the repetition of the crime. Ask the vi ...
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Q/A: Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 1444 / Number of Pages: 6
... writers, musicians, activists,
lawyers, inventors, working people, etc.
Q. How Long Have People Been Using Marijuana?
A. Marijuana has been used since ancient times.4 While field hands and
working people have often smoked the raw plant, aristocrats
historically prefer hashish5 made from the cured flowers of the plant.
It was not seen as a problem until a calculated disinformation campaign
was launched in the 1930s,6 and the first American laws against using it
were passed.7
Q. Is Marijuana Addictive?
A. No, it is not.8 Most users are moderate consumers who smoke it socially
to relax. ...
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Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
Number of Words: 1236 / Number of Pages: 5
... patients, helps AIDS patients gain weight, and greatly reduces damaging pressure in the eye caused by glaucoma (4, p.1). The fact that smoking marijuana to relieve medical distress is still illegal is alarming. If marijuana can help so many suffering victims of these ailments, then why keep it out of use? Marijuana ranked ninth in order of preference for the treatment of mild to moderate nausea and vomiting, and sixth for treatment of more severe symptoms induced by chemotherapy (8, p.1). Forty-four percent of oncologists have recommended cannabis sativa, marijuana, to at least one patien ...
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Drug Abuse: People Abused Vs. Drugs Abused
Number of Words: 721 / Number of Pages: 3
... of changes in health is the result of
one's free choice. Any of the above stages can be easily applied into
mother-child scenario.
If a mother becomes, at some point, totally drug addicted, she can
no longer control her actions, psychological stage of mind, etc. She can
no longer be in a position of making the right choices and decisions, and
of course, she will not be in a position to recognize and face the reality.
The only choice such mother could make would be dictated by her addicted
mind, and most likely would have nothing to do with reality. In the mean
time, her child will have to fa ...
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Prohibition...A Waste?
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... businesses. By 1900, millions of men and women were beginning
to share this hostility toward the saloon and to regard it as the most
dangerous social institution then threatening the family. The Anti-Saloon
League of America (ASL), organized in Ohio, effectively marshaled such
people into political action. State chapters of the ASL endorsed candidates
for public office and demanded of their state governments that the people
be allowed to vote yes or no on the question of continuing to license the
saloons.” (Encarta 1) The ASL held powerful members in Congress and so was
able to pass an amendment fo ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 3289 / Number of Pages: 12
... International). Although the argument may sound reasonable, in reality the death penalty fails as a deterrent. First, punishment can only be a useful deterrent if it is rational and immediately used. cannot meet those conditions. The number of first degree murderers who are sentenced to death is small, and of this group an even smaller number of people are eventually executed. Moreover, the possibility of increasing the number of convicted murderers sentenced to death and executed by requiring mandatory death sentences was declared unconstitutional in 1976 (NCADP). Murder and other crime ...
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Speeding Tickets As A Form Of Discipline
Number of Words: 481 / Number of Pages: 2
... disagreeable experience. If you waited to see the judge, you may be on your way after paying the fine. If the judge is kind, and offers a traffic school option, the unpleasantness continues. Usually the traffic school is no where near to the courthouse, which causes you to search to find the it. The great experience of paying is close at hand after locating the sorrow-laden school. You must endure the excruciating nine hour course after paying for the privilege of attending. This is a class most people would have never taken if given the chance. The unpleasantness associated with a speeding ticket i ...
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Gun Control
Number of Words: 541 / Number of Pages: 2
... penalize law-abiding citizens 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 r ...
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The Mafia And Street Gangs
Number of Words: 1428 / Number of Pages: 6
... a black hand were distributed to the wealthy. This was an unspoken request for an amount of money in return for protection. If the money wasn't paid, the recipients could expect violence such as kidnappings, bombings, and murder. By the nineteenth century, this society grew larger and more criminally oriented.
Gangs of today have similar roots to yesterday. Gangs in one form or another have been around for hundreds of years. Pirates were probably some of the original bad gangs. (An Overview of Gangs) Most gangs were formed years ago as small groups of people who shared common interests, like tod ...
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