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Outline: Negative Debate On Effects Of Hate Mongering
Number of Words: 942 / Number of Pages: 4
... would call "hate crimes"
are more terrible even if the actual act is the same? You do realize that
this is what you are saying by assuming that hate crimes deserve a more
severe punishment?
Possible inherency 3. Rise in hate groups promotes violence. - People
are not forced to listen to hate mongering groups. The people who mostly
follow them are people who believe what they are preaching. - You are aware
that you are recommending that we limit freedom of thought, even if the
thought is deplorable? Are you aware that this is in direct violation with
the first amendment of the United States ...
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The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 1980 / Number of Pages: 8
... in a
manner designed to guard against arbitrariness and discrimination. Several
states promptly passed or reenacted capital punishment laws.
Thirty-seven states now have laws authorizing the death penalty, as does the
military. A dozen states in the Middle West and Northeast have abolished
capital punishment, two in the last century (Michigan in 1847, Minnesota in
1853). Alaska and Hawaii have never had the death penalty. Most executions have
taken place in the states of the Deep South.
More than 2,000 people are on "death row" today. Virtually all are poor, a
significant number are mentally re ...
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Electrocution Is The Only Way
Number of Words: 666 / Number of Pages: 3
... for the audience at hand.
Earl Maucker has chosen to write about a controversial topic that is in the back of most reader’s minds. Therefore, it is not very hard for him to quickly gain the interest of several readers. However, his credibility is another issue. As a newspaper columnist for the Sun Sentinel, Maucker has minimal credibility. As an editor, he makes this very evident trough his use of bias opinions. He shows these one-sided beliefs through exerps like “In a grisly report” or “Just what Florida doesn’t need: a new but almost-identical version of its 76-year-old electric chair.” Despi ...
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The Death Penalty Is Needed
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... that have abolished capital punishment,
or instituted it, show no significant changes in either crime or murder
rates.
Don't murderers deserve to die? Certainly, in general, the
punishment should fit the crime. But in civilized society, we reject the
"eye for an eye" principle of literally doing to criminals what they do to
their victims: The penalty for rape cannot be rape, or for arson, the
burning down of the arsonist's house. We should , therefore, punish the
murderer with death along with all other heinous crimes.
If execution is unacceptable, what is the alternative?
Incapacitat ...
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Corruption In The NYPD
Number of Words: 1313 / Number of Pages: 5
... fighting crime-except among themselves." Corruption is the
product of individual police officer and police environment, and its
control must mainly should come from the department.
Any number of elements or combination of things can influence the
behavior of an organization. Within the police department ; the
organizational hierarchy , the police culture, and the interaction with
the public influence the level of corruption and brutality in the community,
and as long as the NYPD and the city of New York refuse to look into the
leadership of the department and the role it plays in ignoring and i ...
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Crimes In Schools Lower Academic Levels
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... that would happen in my school or somewhere nearby.
After reading many articles there was this one article that grabbed my attention right away. The title of the article was “Violence against U.S. kids is common”. Just imagine how many students must have read that heading and felt unsecure about themselves. When a person reads such articles they do not sit there and worry about what is going to be discussed in class that day but they think of how they can protect themselves if something like that was to happen to them. Going back to the article it states that “everyday in America, thirteen child ...
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How Should The United States Treat Todays Criminals?
Number of Words: 691 / Number of Pages: 3
... just taken by receiving the death penalty, but the “
Medical Model” would have sentenced this inmate to a number of
rehabilitation programs believing that this decision to take human life was
caused by the environment that the inmate lived in.
Unlike the “Medical Model” the “Justice Model’” will not sentence a person
to rehabilitation, but it will provide rehabilitation programs and certain
incentives to participate in them. The belief of the “Justice Model” is
that a person cannot be forced to rehabilitate his/her self. Statistics
have proven that if people are forced into rehabilitation they will ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 898 / Number of Pages: 4
... paid for the first time he or she appeals the court, after that it is up to the inmate to pay for his or her own lawyer. Now, after exhausting state appeals, most prisoners are allowed only one appeal in the federal courts (Regoli and Hewitt 544). I think if the inmate wants to appeal his or her case they should have to pay for it from the beginning. Society has to pay enough money as it is for inmates. is less costly than maintaining a criminal in prison for his or her entire life.
Next, society has a right to protect itself from criminals. If it is obvious that a person is guilty of murder, then ...
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Attacks On The Insanity Defense
Number of Words: 3680 / Number of Pages: 14
... the conclusion that the insanity defense is useless and should be
abolished entirely. Insanity is a legal, not a medical definition.
Therefore, mental illness and insanity are not synonymous: only some mental
illness constitutes insanity. Insanity, however, includes not only mental
illness but also mental deficiencies. Due to this, there are problems in
exactly how to apply a medical theory to a legal matter (Herman, 1983;128).
The legal concepts of mental illness and insanity raise questions in a
conflict between what are termed legalistic criminology and scientific
criminology: mens rea, punishment ...
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Legalizing Idustrial Hemp
Number of Words: 2610 / Number of Pages: 10
... very little water; it produces four times as much fiber per-acre as wood does, so it can drastically cut deforestation.
Hemp is simply a natural for our country and it can be a terrific cash-crop for America farmers. There is only one problem with this remarkable plant: Our government outlaws it. Hemp should be legalized for economical and environmental purposes. Industrial hemp means those parts of the Cannabis sativa plant which contain less than 1.00% tetrahydrocannabinols (THC). THC is the psychoactive chemical found in Cannabis sativa. Industrial hemp is not to be confused with marijuana. Mar ...
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