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Is The US Policy On Drug Prohibition Effective?
Number of Words: 4855 / Number of Pages: 18
... more on drug-related crimes and punishment. The estimated cost to the United States for the "War on Drugs" is $200 billion a year or an outstanding $770 per person per year, and that figure does not include the money spent by state and local government in this "war" (Evans and Berent, eds. xvii).
The second cost of this "war" is something economist like to call opportunity costs. Here, we have two resources which are limited: prison cells and law enforcement. When more drug crimes take up law enforcement's time and when more drug criminals take up cells, less ability to fight other crime exists ...
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The Impact The Death Penalty Has On The Global Community
Number of Words: 578 / Number of Pages: 3
... honest testimony and human error remain all too real. We have no
way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be
certain there were some."(The Death Penalty In America) Now days there are
a lot more advanced technology such as the DNA testing that they can use
to prove someone's innocence. The criminals had a tough time proving
their innocence because of the tough situations they were put in such as
bad representation, and racial prejudice.(The Death Penalty In America)
It is awful to know that people actually spent most of their years in jail
trying to p ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... to abolish the death penalty
altogether. In the United States Michigan was first state to abolish it
for murder in 1847. Today, it is virtually abolished in all of Western
Europe and most of Latin America.
In America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (except Israel) most
countries still retain the death penalty for various crimes and impose it
with varying frequency.
Shooting and hanging are the two most common methods of execution
followed by beheading and lethal injection which is becoming almost
universal in America and is also used in the Philippines, China and
Guatemala. Electrocution ...
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Teen Homicide
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... playing with, some say it is accessibility to guns and liquor. Who can you blame? What your child learns at a young age affects them as a teen or young adult. The only person you can blame much is to say it is yourself. What you teach your child, how much love and care you give it can affect them as adults and teens to a certain extend. The community you live also can affect your teen. Just in Saturdays, newspaper it talks about a liquor store catered to Bergen teens. What happens when the store does not give the teen liquor anymore? The teenager goes in the store to rob it and bang an accident happe ...
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Drinking And Driving Offences
Number of Words: 1204 / Number of Pages: 5
... the penalty and the defences you can make. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol or drugs is one of the offences. Evidence of your condition can be used to convict you. This can include evidence of your general conduct, speech, ability to walk a straight line or pick up objects. The penalty of the first offences is a fine of $50.00 to $2000.00 and/or imprisonment of up to six months, and automatic suspension of licence for 3 months. The second offence penalty is imprisonment for 14 days to 1 year and automatic suspension of licence for 6 months. The third offence penalty ...
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The Two Different Cases Regarding Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 674 / Number of Pages: 3
... void their own right to membership. Those who violate the
personhood of others, especially if this is done persistently as a habit
must pay the ultimate price. This must be done for the sake of the
community which was violated. We can debate whether some non-lethal
alternative is a suitable substitute for the death penalty. But the
standard of judgment is whether the punishment fits the crime and if it
honors the nature of the moral community.
LOVE AND AN IDEAL SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY
Christian live, is unconditional. It does not depend on the worthiness or
value of those to whom it is directed ...
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Young Offenders
Number of Words: 659 / Number of Pages: 3
... and he raped a girl but the thing I found most shocking and the
rest off the media was that when the police arrived he told them that they could
not touch him. Even though he did committee the crime and he should have been
charged but sadly e was right. This young offenders knows that the young
offenders act is a joke and that is why he committed the crime. He could care
less about what he did.
Another case talking about the young offenders act is the James Bulger. “
Had the murder of toddler James Bulger occurred in Canada, his killer would
never been charged. Under the Canadian law, no child under ...
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Crimes
Number of Words: 2125 / Number of Pages: 8
... or that someone parked two inches inside thier handycap parking spot. Criminal justice majors are hired by the city of Chicago to explain to the citizens that working together with the police can produce solutions to minor problems like the "Parkers", or the "Loud People".
are often divided between acts that most people would consider evil and acts that lawmakers decide should be regulated in the interest of the community. The first group includes such major as arson, assault, breach of the peace, burglary, kidnapping, larceny, murder, rape, and robbery. The second group includes of a "rapidly ...
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The Need For Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 773 / Number of Pages: 3
... will be for many more. Your lawyers have began the
lenghthly appeal process. Once all the appeals have failed, it soon is time,
and you will be moved to a holding cell. There you will be offered your final
mean, of your choice. Your last visitors arrive, first your lawyer, your family
members and at last a preist who prays with you. You take your final glance
around the room, as you are lead to another room close by, the execution room.
A few prison officials are present to witness your execution. In a matter of
moments it's over.
You could have been Gary Gilmore, Ted Bundy or Charles Brooks, a ...
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Our Prison System Sucks
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... Not treated like guests. There
is a fin line between being punished and being over punished however. I'm
not saying that each person should be beaten daily, or made to stay in a
cell by themselves with no one to talk to for an eternity. The person
should be punished according to the crime. "An eye for an eye." This
brings me to the subject of capital punishment. I'm sure some of you are
disgusted by the word, but I am not. I am disgusted with the fact that it
is not here in Canada. I believe that for major crimes, such as that of
Paul Bernardo certainly deserve the death penalty. If someone ...
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