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The Increase Of Violent Crimes
Number of Words: 342 / Number of Pages: 2
... were under the age of 25. Another disturbing trend is that those using guns are getting younger. Boys are learning to live by the gun, and sort out their arguments with guns. In 1997, more than 27,000 young men between the ages of 12 and 15 were killed or injured by handguns. Television and films have helped to glorify the gun through the Westerns and police dramas where shots are fired in almost every scene. On the average, the American child sees 10,000 people die on TV shows, which diminishes the importance of human life and makes violence seem normal. Reducing the number of guns in private hands i ...
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A Working Alternative To Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 1082 / Number of Pages: 4
... in 1984, and New York, in 1995, was the most recent to reinstate it, according to the NAACP. During 1977 and 1994, Texas executed the highest number of prisoners, a total of 85. As of 1996 there were 3,122 inmates on death row. These convicts could help with government labor with a hope that they might be free someday. Figures show that, with men, 80% decide in favor of the death penalty, and women the vote was 74%.. White populations vote 81% for capital punishment and blacks only 53% (Doan, 2). This information means that the general public will resolve to end the lives of these killers ...
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Capital Punishment: Pros
Number of Words: 735 / Number of Pages: 3
... to me.
But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft
to 1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their
actions. Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves.
Every human has a personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not
tolerate. How far they will and will not go. This personal set of conduct
can be made or be broken by friends, influences, family, home, life, etc.
An individual who is never taught some sort of restraint as a child, will
probably never understand any limit as to what they can do, until they have
learned i ...
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Juvenile Crime
Number of Words: 519 / Number of Pages: 2
... 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 juvenile criminals.
Another risk factor is the effect of the media on the juveniles of today.
Before the time a child has reached seventh grade, the average child has
witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 ...
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Child Sex Tourism Bill In Australia
Number of Words: 1986 / Number of Pages: 8
... to save time and cost, video
link hearings will be setup between the child in question overseas, and the
Australian courts.
The changes stated above were required to not only protect abused children
residing overseas, but to prove that the Australian Government is in touch with
the community values within Australian cities. The amendments made to the law
were needed because of the shameful amount of Australians indulging in sex
practices with minors in countries other than Australia. Before the law was
amended the general feeling among those involved in the process was that the
Child Sex Tourism ...
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Should Drugs Be Made Legal?
Number of Words: 484 / Number of Pages: 2
... abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS.
Many believe that legalizing drugs would lessen crime. They point out that the legalization of drugs would deter future criminal acts. They also emphasize and contrast Prohibition. When the public realized that Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed. From this, one may infer the same of legalizing drugs. Legalizing alcohol didn't increase alcoholism, so why would drugs increase drug abuse?
However, drugs should not be legalized because there would be an increase in drug abuse due to its availability. Once legalized, drugs would becom ...
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Police Brutality
Number of Words: 833 / Number of Pages: 4
... time in federal court for
violating Rodney Kings civil rights. Both were convicted and sentenced to prison
terms {Brutality In Los Angles 7} The Rodney King video and trial sparked a
question in many peoples mind through out the nation, “How big of a problem is
police brutality? Little did they know that this would be the beginning of a
streak of police related violence.
Sandra Antor a Miami, Florida residence was driving through South
Carolina heading north on vacation. When she was stopped by a South Carolina
Highway Patrol officer. {Bruning 15} He dragged her from the car and cursed at ...
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Illegial Aliens
Number of Words: 600 / Number of Pages: 3
... that you walk wearily into a 7-11, yearning for a large
Pepsi, filled with ice, and brimming with tiny bubbles popping at the
surface. . . But no!! the cashier can only say, "Thank you, come again" in
a bad accent. You've probably also taken an extensive trip once or twice
along a barren interstate. But before leaving, you want to make sure your
family doesn't starve on the journey. So you drive through at McDonalds,
and order 2 big macs with cheese, 2 quarter pounders with cheese, 2
cheeseburgers with cheese, a couple large cokes, and a happy meal for the
little ones. Half-way to nowhere, you are ...
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The Push For Legalizing Marijuana
Number of Words: 1652 / Number of Pages: 7
... a war on drugs in 1973 and over the next 20 years, each succeeding president continued to escalate the drug war. This policy has obviously done nothing to stop the recreational use of drugs in this country; on the contrary it is causing great harm. When most people imagine the legalization of marijuana, they fear a marijuana free-for-all with everybody constantly getting high. Legalization would include a law passed by Congress allowing the government to control the content, quality, and distribution of marijuana. The laws would be similar to the current laws regulating alcohol, including laws ...
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Capital Punishment: Injustice Of Society
Number of Words: 1401 / Number of Pages: 6
... than long prison terms do.”(Cavanagh 4) Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that “…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes…We could execute all three thousand people on death row, and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow.”(Frame 51)
In addition, with the growing humanitarianism of modern society, the number of inmates actually put to death is substantially lower than 50 yea ...
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