Legalization Of Marijuana
.... would mean that there would be an increase in the amount of people
who would be caught and punished for possessing marijuana. ( Sommer, 67 ).
The annual survey of freshman, which has been sponsored by
American Counsel on Education since 1966, includes an item relating to the
legislation of marijuana. Austin, Green, and Korn ( 1987 ) indicated that
results over a twenty year period show distinctly conservative trends. (
Sommer, 67 ).
In 1968, for example, fewer than one in five students supported
legislation. The base of support increased consistently over the next
decade and by 1977 the majority of freshman ( 53% ) favor .....
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Something Happened! - The Sexual Harassment Suit Of The Nancy Hart And The
.... their weight in proportion to their height
A violation of any the above conditions would be grounds for
dismissal from the Police Department without the right of Union protection.
After the six new Police Officers graduated from the Police Academy,
they were assigned to various shifts. They were to be evaluated and inspected
while on a one year probation period. When the end of probation period was
coming close, one of the female Officers was called into the Police Chief's
office. When she was in the office by herself, the Police Chief stated she
had a good to excellent evaluation from all her supervisors, but .....
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The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
.... feel as though
they were being controlled.
In addition to saving money, studies show that alcohol is easily
obtained and most eighteen-year-olds who do so drink sensibly. A ten-year-
old study found that youngsters who experiment moderately are better-
adjusted than youngsters who are completely abstinent. It is hard not
allowing eighteen-year-olds to drink when over 90% of the underage
population say it is very easy to obtain alcohol. A 1994 study on substance
abuse found that 55.7% of eighteen-year-olds in the U.S. and Alberta,
Canada drink sensibly. (“The Age of Exile,” March 25, 1995, p.1) Studies in
the 1970s show that .....
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The Need For Stricter Gun Laws
.... Unfortunately, we tend to interpret
the Constitution to broadly. Obviously, in the late 1700's, there were no
deadly weapons to contend with. They had muskets, which could hardly be
used in a very swift and deadly manner. Granted, the musket could kill,
but if you asked any semi-sensible person if they would rather use a musket
or a handgun, they would take a handgun any day of the week. This is why,
in my opinion, we need to radically change the way we go about handling
these problems.
With the rising crime rate, the best way to send this trend in
another direction is to educate. We must start educating early and if
thi .....
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Death Penalty In The United States
.... can be unfairly applied.
Death penalty opponents feel that the death penalty must be
abolished because it cheapens the value of human life. The death penalty
desensitizes people to murder and violence because, by executing people,
the state sends the message that violence is an acceptable means of
resolving conflicts. The death penalty also reduces the gravity of the loss
of human life by making it legal for the state to kill people it deems to
be beyond reform (Winters 57). Death penalty opponents defend their claims
that the death penalty actually causes an increase in crime citing
statistics such as that in California, betwee .....
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Gender Effects On Criminal Sentencing
.... in favor of women. It was found that women were
awarded lesser sentences than their male counterparts for the same crimes;
these differences were found for both larceny and felony cases. The
leniency given to women was found to be similar to that of minors, both
male and female. Nagel and Weitzman offer explanations for this
discrimination, although no clear explanation has been discovered. They
posed that judges assume women to be weaker than men and, thus, the same
result, i.e., rehabilitation or detterance, can be achieved through a
lesser jail sentence. The authors also propose a solution to this problem
of discriminati .....
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The Brady Law
.... areas of the country where doing checks would bring manpower to a
below minimum level. This argument is not valid for large cities, however,
because it is needed more there than anywhere else in the country. In
large cities there are many more police officers and they can afford to put
a few on duty doing these checks. In large cities you can easily blend in
because of its size. Places like Montana and Arizona don't necessarily
need to run checks on every person, but ones they have not seen before in
their small community or ones that look suspicious should be checked out.
In this case the courts decided that the .....
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Drug Abuse: People Abused Vs. Drugs Abused
.... applied into
mother-child scenario.
If a mother becomes, at some point, totally drug addicted, she can
no longer control her actions, psychological stage of mind, etc. She can
no longer be in a position of making the right choices and decisions, and
of course, she will not be in a position to recognize and face the reality.
The only choice such mother could make would be dictated by her addicted
mind, and most likely would have nothing to do with reality. In the mean
time, her child will have to face a tremendous emotional difficulties, as
well as experience psychological imbalance and inability to deal with an
adult-level, .....
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Why The Penal Laws Failed
.... an Anti Catholic declaration
for the oath of supremacy. The oath banned all Catholics from becoming
members of the parliament or any other position of power. Catholics could
not practice law, run for office, purchase land or own land, vote, enter
any profession, hold arms, guard a child or educated his/her child. The
purpose of setting up such laws was to lessen the overall power of the
catholic people in society. The Irish parliament believed that if there
were no Catholics in a position of power then people would no longer accept
the religion of Catholicism. However this was not so. This law did not work
as originally planned, a .....
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When Society Kills
.... have a dual trial--one to establish guilt or
innocence and if guilty a second trial to determine whether or not they
would get the death penalty. Defendants sentenced to death are granted
oversight protection in an automatic appeal to the state supreme court.
These constitutional safeguards translate into:
- a more extensive jury selection procedure
- a four fold increase in the number of motions filed
- a longer, dual trial process
- more investigators and expert testimony
- more lawyers specializing in death penalty litigation
- and automatic, mandat .....
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Gun Control
.... unconstitutional. And therefore illegal. This translation,
however, is not accepted by all people. Including the United States
Government. They believe that the amendment guaranteed no right for
individual citizens to possess weaponry, but merely allowed for the
government to form and maintain an armed service (IE. United States Army,
US. Navy). Because of the different translations of our constitution, gun
control can be viewed by different people in different ways (Lacayo 20).
Some of the many gun control bans and laws wich are under constant hellfire
from the NRA are those pertaining to self-defense. Under current laws .....
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Misconduct In Police Departments
.... court's going
to turn them out anyway, it may seem better form of justice to
hit them in the pocketbook and take their money--especially if
the policeman has a big mortgage. (110)
An officer with a family might be involved in this conduct, therefore
threatening his or her salary. "With salaries so low, bribes have become
an essential income supplement, especially to those officers with
families." (122) "They're poorly paid, yet charged for their own
equipment." (122) "They work long hours, yet are paid no overtime." (122)
"They live in constant danger and are badly trained." (122) "For backup,
they .....
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