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The Young Offenders Act - The Truth?
Number of Words: 570 / Number of Pages: 3
... delinquent shall be
treated, not as a criminal, but as a misguided and misdirected child . . .
needing aid, encouragement, help and assistance."(Page 72)
If a youth is close to the adult age of 18 years they could be
transfered to the adult justice system. This means that they would be
given the same sentences as an adult including and up to life in prison.
Many people have tried to correct this problem that they see as a weakness.
Yet, so far their attempts have failed. Another weakness they find, is that
the courts are expensive and unsatisfactory methods of dealing with crime
that is not v ...
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DNA And Crime
Number of Words: 1299 / Number of Pages: 5
... analysis. Although other body tissues
such as skin cells and saliva can provide genetic information about a person for
Forensic Science purposes, blood is the most useful source of inherited traits.
If the DNA fingerprints produced from two different samples match, the two
samples probably came from the same person.
Here are some examples of court cases where DNA plays an important roll
in the outcome of the trial.
Hauppauge N.Y.: After 11 years in prison for rape Kerry Kotler cried tears
of joy becoming one of the first convicts in the United States to be freed by
DNA technology. At a banquet ...
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Serial Killers And Society
Number of Words: 788 / Number of Pages: 3
... we pay seven dollars to go see a movie where everyone
except the bad guys gets strangled, mutilated, or shot- and enjoy it
in some sick way. The media goes out of its way to glamorize murder
and terrify the public. We support killers like Charles Manson on
Death Row with our tax dollars. In fact, we support them with more
than that. About two months ago there was an art show in California
entitled: The Death Row Art Show III. Pieces sold for thousands of
dollars regardless of their aesthetic appeal, because of the identity
of the ar ...
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Put The Death Penalty To Death
Number of Words: 982 / Number of Pages: 4
... In case of a mistake, the executed prisoner cannot be given another chance. A prisoner discovered to be blameless can be freed: but neither release nor compensation is possible for a corpse" (1). How can anyone be so inhumane that they, the jury, take someone else's life into their own hands to say whether or not they should die? There are people out there that take people's lives, but a jury should not decide the life of a human being. There is too much room for error in a death penalty trial. People fell sorry for someone who has been wrongfully robbed of a loved one. What if the person o ...
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Investigation Techniques Of A Homicide
Number of Words: 1409 / Number of Pages: 6
... the scene, they saw two people lying in a
pool of blood. The officers did not know if they were dead and if they were, how
and when. After the medical examiner looked at the bodies and the wounds on the
victims, he concluded that they were stabbed to death. The time of death was a
bit harder to determine. Death caused some changes to the bodies. The
investigator looked at the changes and was able to estimate a time of death.
Some of the changes the examiners look for are: lost of body temperature,
rigor mortis, and postmortem lividity. The body temperature will start to
decrease after death. Th ...
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Bobbies
Number of Words: 334 / Number of Pages: 2
... Catholic Board, introducing the Peace Preservation Act of 1814 (establishing an Irish police force known as the Royal Irish Constabulary), and handling the Irish famine in 1817 which brought him many praises. Peel's return to Parliament came when he lead a Protestant party to defeat the emancipation bill which allowed Catholics membership in Parliament. Peel's first interest in police began when acting as home secretary in Parliament. As home secretary, Peel began a major program to reform criminal law. From 1823 to 130, he formed many new ordinances including the improvement of the prison system, le ...
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The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 568 / Number of Pages: 3
... lethal injection, then electrocution, the gas chamber, firing sqad, and hanging. Lethal injection is more humane because is less painful than others. A Leuther from FRED A. LEUTHER ASSOCIATES INC. who is specialized in the manufacture and restoration of electric chairs, gallows, gas chambers, and lethal injection system, said that in the future he would produce microwave helmets. It would destroy brain and all brain functions. It would shut down both the automatic and conscious nervous system. Within a second the executee’s brain would be cooked from the inside out.
While executions are being abol ...
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Prohibition
Number of Words: 603 / Number of Pages: 3
... Eighteenth
amendment made it forbidden to manufacture, sell, transport, import or
export any intoxicating liquors. This was controversial because it turned
the common hard working man or woman, who enjoyed a drink after a hard
day's work, into a criminal in the law's eyes. In The History of
Prohibiton, a web site by J. McGrew, it states that Prohibiton also gave
criminals, such as Al Capone, the opportunity to feed off the illegal
substance. The organized crime circuit ate up Prohibition and began to boot
leg alcohol. Local pharmacies and basements near the border became hubs for
the transactions. Th ...
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Death To The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 767 / Number of Pages: 3
... serious
psychiatric problems or are mental patients. In none of these cases is it
possible that the fear to be sentenced to death could act as an effective
deterrent.
There is another heavy limit. One who plans a crime rationally can
choose to go on, although he knows the risk he's running, thinking that he
won't be discovered. Most of the criminologists assert that the best way to
discourage murderers isn't increasing the severity of punishment, but
increasing the possibility of discovering the crime and condemning the
culprit. This will take care of the truly deserving people, who know and
u ...
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Drugs In Sports
Number of Words: 886 / Number of Pages: 4
... Olympic Committee
(IOC) has a critical role to play in demanding extensive drug testing and
in providing funding for such testing.
This is a controversial issue. The IOC believes that each of the
international federations which governs particular sports should be
responsible for its own testing.
This seems reasonable enough, but it is argued that the Olympic Games are
the highest profile competition in the world and the most prestigious. The
world stops to watch them and they represent the culmination of years of
work for athletes. Winning a gold medal is the glory to any sporting career.
Urine te ...
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