Failure Of Gun Control Laws
.... was too much for them to bear,
they picked up their personal firearms and went to war. Standing against
the British armies, these rebels found themselves opposed by the greatest
military force in the world at that time. The 18th century witnessed the
height of the British Empire, but the rough band of colonial freedom
fighters discovered the power of the Minuteman, the average American gun
owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal
guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served
a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of
this country understood .....
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All Drugs Should Be Legal, Or How To End The Drug War
.... different result? Have we not learned our lesson from Prohibition? It only took us a mere 14 years to repeal prohibition (Lewis A15). Why don’t we legalize narcotics?
I do not know what will happen if we try this; nobody does. It has never been tried in America. It has been tried in other countries.
One of the countries that have experimented with legalization is Switzerland. In an effort to reduce the number of HIV infected individuals, Switzerland conducted an experiment from 1992 to 1996 in which the government controlled heroin, methadone, and morphine. Before this experiment, in one of the cities of Switzerland, th .....
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Crime Prevention
.... crime prevention has become popular in the past twenty years is because of the economics of the justice system. The government was facing huge costs and they wanted to divert some responsibility to community based programs. Another reason was that police departments wanted to use the local communities to be their eyes and ears.
The reason for this belief was because the community would know exactly what is going on in their area. Finally, the local communities were demanding that they be involved in fighting crime because they were tired of criminal activity in their neighbourhood.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental De .....
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The Rise Of Auto Thefts In Charlotte, North Carolina
.... the victims name, address and general information about him or her, including the place of employment. The next important piece of information required is the VIN number from the vehicle, which is the vehicle identification number and/or the tag number. Without this information, the proof of owner is hard to determine. If this VIN number is not presented, the initialization of the report is incomplete. If the owner is not verified, the report will be filed as auto theft but it will not be entered in APB, DCI, neither will it be entered in NCIC terminals. These terminals allow law enforcement agencies of different levels to se .....
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The Problems Of Marijuana Prohibition
.... For instance, alcohol’s cause of cirrhosis to the liver, and tobacco causes lung cancer and coronary heart disease. The plain fact that both tobacco and alcohol are carcinogens to speed up all cancers, are all good examples of how bad alcohol and tobacco can be. Alcohol is the source of half of highway fatalities, arrests, and homicide. Meanwhile it is accounted for a fourth of all suicides. The risk of mortality associated with pot is lower then that associated with cigarette smoking (National 151). When comparing the three, marijuana is not addicting, like alcohol and tobacco. In 1972 the federal government had an extensiv .....
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Capital Punishment And The Death Penalty
.... Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house" (Deuteronomy 22:21)
England recognized seven major crimes that called for execution by the end of the 15th century. These crimes were: murder, theft (by deceitfully taking someone goods), burglary, rape, and arson. As time went by more and more crimes were believed to deserve the death penalty and by 1800 more than 200 crimes were recognized as punishable by death. (Bedau2)
It was not long before capital punishment met opposition. The Quakers made first movement against execution. They supported life imprisonment as a more humane justice. Cesare Beccaria wrote On Crimes and Pu .....
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Persuasive Essay On Capital Punishment
.... the death penalty was used more often, some of this money could go towards other important causes such as gun control and education (Caldwell 598).
Moreover, it is important to keep in mind that laws do change as do parole boards and people eventually forget the past. Life imprisonment lets the murderer live and as long as the person is alive, there is always a chance, no matter how slight, that he will strike again. Take for instance the case of James Moore who raped and strangled 14-year-old Pamela Moss in 1962. Her parents decided to save Moore from the death penalty on the condition that he be sentenced to life in prison wi .....
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Capital Punishment: Right Or Wrong?
.... death is substantially lower than 50 years ago. This fact that it was more safe back then than it is now probably has to due with the fact that in earlier times, where capital punishment was common, the value of life was less, and societies were more barbaric, capital punishment was probably quite acceptable. However, in today's society, which is becoming ever more increasingly humane, and individual rights and due process of justice are held in high accord, the death penalty is becoming an unrealistic form of punishment.
Also, with the ever-present possibility of mistaken execution, there will remain the question of innocence o .....
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Capital Punishment
.... therefore it is not effective and somewhat contributes to the problem. I must point out though that states that have the death penalty are usually highly urbanized areas that most likely will have high crime rates because of the large population. Rather, in rural states there is no need for the death penalty because the population is most likely low and scattered throughout the region. States that practice capital punishment do so because of high crime rates, not vice versa. Abolitionists also state that the death penalty is a racist punishment, and only given to African Americans. In the May 11, 1998 issue of JET magazine it .....
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Capital Punishment
.... States, women are rarely sentenced to death and executed (27). The poor and friendless defendants, those with inexperienced or court-appointed counsels, are most likely to be executed. For example, Orenthial James Simpson had the money to afford the best lawyers and was “guilty as sin,” but he was acquitted. According to Alison Coope, a disproportionate number of nonwhites are sentenced to death. Also, when the death penalty for rape was still used in many states, no white man was executed for raping a nonwhite woman; whereas, most black offenders found guilty of raping a white woman were executed (24).
The possibility tha .....
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Capital Punishment And Religion
.... argue that life is sacred and killing is always wrong, whether it is done by an individual or by the state" (Honeyman 3). It is safe to say that most of us would agree that our lives are precious, and even sacred. Most of us also agree that killing is wrong. Miller says, "To punish a murderer by incarcerating him as one does a pickpocket cannot but cheapen human life. Murder differs in quality from other crimes and deserves, therefore a punishment that differs in quality from other punishments." (pg. 87) By not giving criminals the proper quality of punishment, we send the wrong message to our society. "To refuse to pu .....
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Crimes In Schools Lower Academic Levels
.... 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 children under the age of 20 are murdered”. (Internet www.cnn.com)
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