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Should Juveniles Be Waived To Adult Court

... assumption, that was made at that time, was that the criminal justice system should work to help youngsters, not to humiliate or punish them. Along with the creation of the juvenile justice system went the creation of “status offenses”, these are offenses that if committed by an adult, would not be considered an offense. In the 1950’s and 60’s many laws were passed to protect the rights of children, in a court of law. The major decisions of this time were: Kent v. United States, In re Gault, and In re Winship. Since the time that ...

Number of words: 937 | Number of pages: 4

Crimes In Schools Lower Academic Levels

... all these stories about people getting killed in school. Maybe us being older and being more understanding we could forget about those problems and focus on what were doing, but the younger children who are not yet as understanding and mature will not feel secure in such a situation. Even though I am a young adult and I am able to understand many things I personally feel that I would not be able to focus on my schoolwork if I knew that such violent crimes are happening everyday. That is mainly because I would never know when such a crime ...

Number of words: 449 | Number of pages: 2

Graduated Driver's License Controversy

... their safety. Also, even though drinking at the age of 16 is illegal, 70% of all teens drink alcohol. Each year, 60% of teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related (Teenage Drunk Driving). This was a cause for great concern. What ever could be done to save the lives of those teens and others on the road? Some of this trepidation came out in the open when researchers found that 25% of 16-year-olds has some kind of crash in the first year driving (Getting Your Drivers License). Some action needed to be taken in order to insure safet ...

Number of words: 652 | Number of pages: 3

Laws Of War

... and Tokyo: Crimes against Humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated. Leaders, organizers, instigators, and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to ...

Number of words: 3430 | Number of pages: 13

Death Penalty In The United States

... reduces crime because it deters people from committing murder if they know that they will receive the death penalty if they are caught. Others in favor of the death penalty feel that even if it doesn't deter others from committing crimes, it will eliminate repeat offenders. Death penalty opponents feel that the death penalty actually leads to an increase in crime because the death penalty desensitizes people to violence, and it sends the message that violence is a suitable way to resolve conflicts. Death penalty opponents also condemn t ...

Number of words: 2700 | Number of pages: 10

"Speed": Methylamphetamine

... after days. Students use the drug for intensive study habits or during depressing moments of school. On Speed, users never want to eat because the drug shrivels up their stomach that causes massive weight loss. One of the reasons' women use the drug is to lose weight, which is an extremely unhealthy way of doing it. What Speed does is it effects the middle nervous system, and stimulates the brain. The drug causes insomnia, restlessness, and a fake sense of acting normal. People either snort the drug up the nose or smoke it through th ...

Number of words: 864 | Number of pages: 4

Reviving The Death Penalty

... have the same belief as Thomas Draper, an author on the book called Capital Punishment, that no society can abolish crime, so their only hope is to do everything they can to control it. It is time for the United States to mandate the death penalty for the crime of murder in all 50 states and to carry out the executions of those sentenced to death. Capital Punishment is the lawful infliction of the death penalty. In England, by 1500, only major felonies carried the death penalty: treason, murder, larceny, burglary, rape, and arson. Th ...

Number of words: 1750 | Number of pages: 7

Minimum Drinking Age - 1998

... Zealand Facts * A survey of drinking patterns in Auckland from 1990 - 1996 show a considerable increase in the typical amount of alcohol drunk and the frequency of drinking by 14 -19 year olds. This is counter to the trend for the general population. 1 * Under age drinking is widely practised in New Zealand. A recent survey showed that 43% of all 14-19 year olds had drunk at least on one occasion illegally on a licensed premise within the last year. 2 Nearly a quarter of all alcohol consumed by young ...

Number of words: 900 | Number of pages: 4

Problems With Gun Control

... can also be viewed as a living document, in which the interpretation should be surveyed in light of today's social and politics environments. Bill Clede ideas in his article seem to be guild by the idea of the Constitution being a living document. At the time the Second Amendment was written, it had a major impact on this country because State and National governments were unable, or lacked the power to protect the people. This Amendment gave the power to the people to bear arms for protection. As Clede points out in his article ...

Number of words: 906 | Number of pages: 4

The Effects Of Race On Sentencing In Capital Punishment Cases

... v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972). The Supreme Court Justices decide that the death penalty was being handed out unfairly and according to Gest (1996) the Supreme Court felt the death penalty was being imposed "freakishly' and ‘wantonly" and "most often on blacks." Several years later in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the Supreme Court decided, with efficient controls, the death penalty could be used constitutionally. Yet, even with these various controls, the system does not effectively eliminate racial bias. According to Profe ...

Number of words: 894 | Number of pages: 4

The Need For Stricter Gun Laws

... slip through our fingers and disappear forever. I advocate legislation that would take the handguns out of the criminals' hands and watch the government put these brutal killers into jail and let them stay there. If we could eliminate the nonsense that happens constantly on Capital Hill, this dream would be a very real one. With the interests of political activist groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Congress has had a tough time passing any legislation that would benefit the pu ...

Number of words: 622 | Number of pages: 3

Medicalizing Drugs

... resources to stop the abuse. These individuals are more than capable of supporting themselves but have been taught that they do not have to go out and get a job. They just have to have children to support and we will give them the money, housing, and the food they need and not require them to have to do anything for it in return. Alan Dershowitzs proposal will also create the same situation, except we will now be supporting individuals drug habits. Alan Dershowitz states "But since we can neither eliminate heroin nor the demand for it, th ...

Number of words: 817 | Number of pages: 3

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