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Protecting The Innocent
Number of Words: 1389 / Number of Pages: 6
... penalty, including death row and the endless appeals and legal machinery, far outweighs the expense of maintaining in prison the tiny fraction of criminals who would otherwise be slain (Draper 46). A report issued in1998 by the Judicial Conference of the United States found the cost of sentencing a defendant to the death penalty is higher than imprisoning the accused for life. This is due to the high cost of providing representation in federal death penalty cases (www.uscourts.gov/dpenalty.htm). Cases involving the death penalty take longer to prosecute and therefore have higher costs than other ca ...
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President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative: In Relation With The Soviet Union
Number of Words: 1770 / Number of Pages: 7
... soviets have been, up
until 1990, the U.S's defacto enemies. There goal was too destroy democracy and
imposing communism. 4 This is way it was though to be inevitable for a nuclear
war with the soviets. "The dream of a non nuclear world is a great and notable
one, how ever for the foreseeable future it is unattainable in actuality and
unwise in theory." 5 Because of this harsh the United States is left with a
problem; How can we beet this so called inevitability? The answer is: space
based defense weapons. The program, brought forth by the Reagan administration,
was called the strategic defense Init ...
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Government's Welfare Programs
Number of Words: 595 / Number of Pages: 3
... that income. Welfare also aids in improving the economy because the
children of these families can afford to go to school and have a chance to make
someone of themselves. Instead of enrolling in welfare themselves, in the future
these people will make contributions to the economy and will be tax paying
citizens.
On the contrary, welfare is currently a great government expense that
tax payers pay for. Federal tax rates throughout the country are extremely high
and welfare, along with Medicare and Medicaid, are main contributors. The
purpose of welfare is to aid a person with monetary need in getting ...
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John F. Kennedy: Foreign Affairs
Number of Words: 271 / Number of Pages: 1
... faced.
The Bay of Pigs was the first battle that John. F. Kennedy faced with communism and it came to just three months after his inauguration. Fidel Castro, Leader of Cuba, had been working to export its revolutionary ideas to other Latin American countries. In the US Castro was seen as a major threat. Under former president Eisenhower the CIA had prepared a plan for an invasion. The Bay of Pigs ended up to be a fiasco.
The Cuban Missile Crisis took the US to some surprise. The Soviet Leader , Khrushchev, approved the instillation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. An American reconnaissance plans ...
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Social Security In The Future? Maybe Not
Number of Words: 2418 / Number of Pages: 9
... The article about the Social Security in the paper had
me thinking and I must have a bad dream.
The Presidential election will be coming up this November ‘96 and the
question that many of Americans have on their mind is what are you going to
about the Social Security crisis? This question has our nation divided between
generations. The elder people of our nation (ages 50 and up) feel confident that
Social Security will be there for them and that it should be left alone. On the
other hand the Baby Boomers (ages 31-49) and Generation X (ages 18-30) lack this
confidence fearing that they will ...
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The Corruption Crisis Of The E
Number of Words: 2068 / Number of Pages: 8
... on the other hand is the behaviour that is tolerated by the public in a given society and not looked upon as misbehaviour. Grey corruption is the area in between, which is tolerated by a part of the society, while seen as corruption by the other part. It is also important to realize the dynamics of the definition of corruption, as it changes with geography or time from black to grey to white corruption (or vica versa). Corruption scandals are often only a sign of this change in the public perception of corruption.
These cultural differences can be observed in the member states of the European U ...
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Treatment And The Sex Offender
Number of Words: 11362 / Number of Pages: 42
... counseling he admits that a study of adult offenders did show improvement in attitudes of offenders, but since it did not include information on recidivism it was discounted.
Martinson is criticized because the counseling programs may not seem to work because of the institutional environment outside the program. Martinson says that even in institutional environments that control every part of the offenders environment and treatment, did show a reduction in recidivism for one year. But he says the effects of such treatment did not reduce recidivism any more than no treatment after two years. A ...
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California's Proposition 184: Three Strikes And You're Out
Number of Words: 1105 / Number of Pages: 5
... measures there was little they could in the face of tremendous voter
approval. Many voters did not realize that this bill could put potentially
incarcerate people for ludicrous amounts after the commission of a minor
offense. Even more voters did not realize the cost of implementing such a bill.
Now that this new legislation has been in effect for a year and the
tremendous negative effects it have become obvious we must repeal it.
One of the issues that must be considered when imposing mandatory
sentencing is the increased cost of incarceration. In the state of California
it costs $20,000 pe ...
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Apartheid In Modern South Africa
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... antiapartheid African National Congress and released A.N.C leader
Nelson Mandela from jail (56). De Klerk also showed his intentions to "bring a
swift end to legally sanctioned racial segregation" (56). "He called on
Parliament to repeal immediately the remaining pillars of discrimination that
dictate where blacks can work and live" (56). De Klerk also asked lawmakers to
discontinue the Group Areas Act which segregated black and white residential
areas and the Land Acts, which prevents blacks from owning land outside of
specially assigned homelands (56). The Population Registration Act which forces ...
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Planck V. Indiana
Number of Words: 1010 / Number of Pages: 4
... removed from
their parents custody, and at no time was any identification shown by the
officers. Curt, Lance Planck's younger brother, resisted this removal from his
house, and was threatened by an officer that he would be "dragged out of here."
After this scene, Emily, Stephen, and Curtis Planck were loaded into a van and
driven to an eye doctor in Anderson, Indiana. The examining doctor, Dr. Joseph
Woschitz, came to the conclusion that no treatment was needed for any of the
children. How can the state justify this type of behavior? Is ripping a child
unwillingly from his mother's arms in the ...
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