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Capital Punishment

... per person each year to keep a person in prison. Why should we pay that much money for criminals a year, especially when most prison inmates have had prior convictions. Over half of all inmates return to prison shortly after being released. There are about thirty-three hundred people on death row. Fifty to sixty percent of inmates are now executed each year, most after having served ten years on death row (Senna and Sigel 430). While inmates are on death row most will appeal the courts, which taxpayers also pay for. Inmates have their l ...

Number of words: 898 | Number of pages: 4

Gun Control

... Saturday Night Specials for which there is no legitimate use or need. The public is polarized on the issue of gun control, Anti-gun control activists believe that it is each and every American's individual right to bear arms. After all, the Second Amendment to the Constitution states that: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Advocates of gun control say that even with 20,000 gun control laws already in existence, the serious prob ...

Number of words: 1113 | Number of pages: 5

The Death Penalty: Why We Should Have Capital Punishment?

... innocents, among others. I have listened and read the arguments opposing the death penalty and I find that they are not at all convincing. One argument states that the death penalty does not deter murder. Dismissing capital punishment on that basis requires us to eliminate all prisons as well because they do not seem to be any more effective in the deterrence of crime. Others say that states which do have the death penalty have higher crime rates than those that don't, that a more severe punishment only inspires more severe crimes. I must po ...

Number of words: 2325 | Number of pages: 9

Should Drugs Be Legalized?

... 81,762 drug seizures due to drugs in 1989 alone, but the bad news is the numbers of prisoners have increased by 70 percent which will cost about $30 million dollars. Despite common wisdom, the U.S isn't experiencing a drug related crime wave. Government surveys show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery 21 percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these numbers are up. One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. ...

Number of words: 683 | Number of pages: 3

The Death Penalty: To Be Or Not To Be...

... while Guiliani administration is talking about crime rates in the New York City going down, all I see and hear in the media are reports about horrible crimes committed by New Yorkers. As George Pettinico states in his article " Crime and punishment: America changes it's mind ": The media's extensive coverage of crime, especially the most brutal and horrific cases have heightened the public's fear and anger over this issue to a near frenzy. When asked in January of this year, " How often do you see reports of violent crime on te ...

Number of words: 1750 | Number of pages: 7

Inform About Sex Offenders: Yes Or No?

... play in their own neighborhood. Mrs. Kanka would not have let her daughter play outside if she would have known, and if she should have done this her daughter would still be alive today. Sure it might be nice to know, then you could take the right precautions, but if the system does its job then you should have to worry about Jesse as much as any other person. It is not fair to the child to limit the way he or she can play just because a sex offender is free. I feel that the police department has an obligation to make sure everybody that w ...

Number of words: 445 | Number of pages: 2

Gender Effects On Criminal Sentencing

... opinion that women's motives are different than those of men, which creates less of a threat to the public. It is important for any society to have constant improvements where they are needed, and research is a vital part to finding where the problems are. Criminal sentencing is a large and pivotal part of the American legal system, and, although equality in all aspects of a criminal trial is the central ideal, research shows that the system falls short of this. Nagel and Weitzman (1972) summarized research by various investigators. Whe ...

Number of words: 905 | Number of pages: 4

Gun Control

... bear arms, shall not be infringed" (Caplan p32). "Underlying this amendment are two goals of an individual and collective defense from violence and aggression, which have been recognized by Congress" ( Caplan P.32). The second amendment should help secure right of the people to have a gun in their home. " The government should not be permitted to declare who would or would not be able to bear arms on the basis of vague religious tests or any other nebulous standard or artifice" ( Caplan p.39). The first infringement on the Second Ame ...

Number of words: 1230 | Number of pages: 5

Differences Between Various Crimes

... damages to the injured party. If found guilty of a tort the tortfessor is not punished by way of jail time but instead by way of money. Criminal are treated differently because they are breaking a law where as tortfessors are not although some crimes can also be found as a tort. What is the difference between burglary and robbery and give an example of each. Burglary is the break-in and entering of a home or other building with the intent of carrying out a felony. An example of this would be when a person breaks into your house and stea ...

Number of words: 749 | Number of pages: 3

Pornography

... an assault "directly caused by the specific work. I do not think liberals, or others for that matter, should have much problem with the clause dealing with assault, since a causal connection to specific works is demanded by it. However, s. 3.2(iii) which deals with trafficking would be very problematic for liberals and legal conservatives because it creates a cause of action for a person contrary to the traditional conception of a rights holder's cause of action. This subsection reads: Any woman has a claim hereunder as a wo ...

Number of words: 5241 | Number of pages: 20

Mexico's Drug Trade

... well as a lack of reliable data. Moreover, discourses corresponding to specific economic and political interests have masked the true nature and dynamic of the drug issue by casting it in mythical terms. Consequently, a battle has emerged between United States political and economic factions shaping popular opinions as well as government action. In the 1970’s, this conflict intensified when certain drugs became international commodities on a grand scale. Drug trafficking was born and the subsequent “drug trade movement” created e ...

Number of words: 3112 | Number of pages: 12

Capital Punishment Is Murder

... that he did the right thing and he shouldn't be punished because the other boy "hit him first." You, in accordance with the administrator, explain to your child that just because he didn't start it, it doesn't make his actions right. To borrow and old phrase, two wrongs don't make a right. No matter what someone does to you it doesn't make it okay to do it back, right? I believe this exactly. This is the reason that I disagree with capital punishment. and nobody is justified in killing another human for what they've done in the ...

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