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White Collar Crimes U S News World Report
1,567 wordsAs much as $ 40 billion are lost every year due to flourishing computer crimes. In 1993 alone, Internet, the world wide system of computer networks, was swindled out of approximately $ 2 billion, and about $ 50 million were stolen from various companies such as GTE Corp. , AT&T, Bell Atlantic and MCI (Meyer and Underwood 45). Ironically these same organizations have been collaborating with software manufacturers for an expanded software production (Cook 53). Multinational corporations and intern...
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American Dominance In Works By Ken Kesey
1,034 words... he river, and makes his life frustrating and challenging. Throughout the book, the river is always Hank's potential enemy. He is constantly checking the bank to see how much the water had risen. .".. Hank was worried that the boats might be swept loose from their moorings, as they had been last year, ... Before going to bed, he put on rubber boots over his pajamas and pulled on a poncho and went out with a lantern to check... Hank noted the water's height on the marker at the dock -- black w...
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Legalizing Prostitution Violent Crimes
1,193 wordsReferred to as the oldest profession, prostitution... has long been a problem which has provoked and disturbed Americans (Kinsie 3). Prostitution [is] the performance of sexual acts, solely for the purpose of material gain (James [NA]). Prostitution remains, excepted and considered normal in some cultures. No gender specifics exist for prostitutes, but female prostitutes comprise the majority of prostitutes. A person male and married characterizing the majority of prostitutes clients, commonly r...
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Fifth Amendment Supreme Court
503 wordsMiranda is one of the best-known cases in the history of the Supreme Court. It represents the Court's determination to treat even the lowliest of criminals with the same dignity and respect as the wealthiest celebrity. This case established the Fifth Amendment right of the accused to be informed of their right to counsel and their right not to answer questions. In The Ethical and Policy Debate Regarding Miranda, Section II questions: First, can Miranda's approach to regulating the interrogation ...
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Crime Scene Fair Trial
1,225 words... scene that the man who shot the officer was a third black man who ran from the scene (ia center. org). Immediately after the shooting, police brought Singletary to the station for questioning. In his report, he specifically stated that Jamal was not the shooter. At the 1995 PCRA hearing Singletary testified that the officer ripped up his statement indicating that Jamal was not the shooter and that the shooter had fled. Police then coerced Singletary, after five hours of badgering, into signi...
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Leopold And Loeb Acts Of Violence
1,229 wordsSocial reaction to school massacres and inexplicable acts of violence among the teenage population in the late twentieth century flooded television news programs and media broadcasting almost on a monthly basis. Many Americans questioned why such seemingly healthy and established children would want to harm themselves and others around them. Several psychological and moral issues arise from this question. Despite legal efforts to differentiate between adult and adolescent crimes, many argue that...
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Leopold And Loeb Sentenced To Death
1,210 words... any plea could not be used. Darrow needed to prove that Leopold and Loeb were mentally impaired at the time of murder and indeed unaware of their actions throughout the scheme of events. Darrow had to convince the judge that Leopold and Loeb committed the murder because of their mental conditions and immaturity. Never before had evidence of a defendants mental condition been offered to lessen a sentence. Such evidence had heretofore been used exclusively to show that a defendant was insane, ...
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Civilian Population Security Forces
352 wordsEven so, 15 million individuals of Kurdish origin presently live in the Republic of Turkey. Kurds have for decades been subjected to economic disadvantages and human rights violations which bear the hallmarks of systematic persecution intent on destroying the Kurdish identity by silencing the Kurdish language and other cultural expressions through violence or censorship. Since 1984, the Republic of Turkey has faced insurgency at the hands of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). It is estimated th...
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Socratic Method True Definition
1,168 wordsWitness before the gates of night and day, Parmenides represents humanity's introduction to the eternal truth of definition - Is. The beast of mankind stumbles confusedly through an inescapable labyrinth of ignorance, arrogantly determined that the appearance of knowledge, bestowed upon him through traditional belief, is truth. "Know Thy Self" is the advice posted at the birthmark of creation, the naval of earth, Delphi - the truth of being. Humanity struggles against an inevitable insignificanc...
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Truth And Justice Lack Of Knowledge
1,415 wordsThroughout the plight of man, there has always been an ongoing search for justice. Within this journey, exists the question, What is true justice? In bringing together the topics of truth and justice, many conclusions can be drawn to answer the above question. In Plato's Apology, he is able to defend his position and explain how truth and justice go hand in hand. From the beginning, Plato makes clear to the audience that what he has to say is truthful and just, I put my trust in the justice of w...
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Role In Society Men And Women
840 wordsCrime and Gender: Does the punishment fit? Before the jury stands the defendant. There is overwhelming evidence in the favor of the prosecution. The verdict comes back from the jury, not guilty. Why? The defendant is a woman. In our era of equal rights and civil liberties women have made great strides in their advancement and role in society, yet it seems that gender segregates when it comes to crime. There have been countless cases where women and men have been tried for the same crime, yet whe...
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Poor And The Justice System
978 wordsIn 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every criminal defendant has a right to have an attorney. The poor are appointed an attorney normally known as a public defender to defend them. The poor are given substandard representation in courts due to lack of funds and a broken criminal justice system. The criminal justice system has made strides forward. The Sixth Amendment right to counsel was generally understood as guaranteeing criminal defendants the right to hire their ow...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patient
764 wordsPhysician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas tothe medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed terminally ill, be allowed to engaged physician-assisted suicide? According to the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States, one haste freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The Fourteenth Amendment states, The State cannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any p...
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1960 And 1970 Lot Of People
1,204 wordsMarijuana is the most popular and used illegal drug in the United States today. It is used from the ages as early as 13 to as late as unknown. Marijuana is ranked number two in terms of the most popular drugs legal and illegal next to alcohol. There are a lot of things that people dont know about marijuana and its effects, and here is the truth. What is Marijuana? Half of the people smoking it dont even know where it came from in general. When you buy it from someone else however you will never ...
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Supreme Court Common Law
1,061 wordsThe ability to block spousal testimony does not however apply to all couples under the law. Those in common law relationships are not considered to be one and the same and these spouses's are able to give testimony about events that occurred during the relationship. Ultimately, because the issue falls under common law the question of whether a husband or wife to can be compelled to give evidence against there spouse was at the justices discretion. Most justices are more likely to compel spousal ...
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Grand Jury Supreme Court
1,232 wordsEncouraged by George Rappelyea, (a mining engineer who managed six local coal and iron mines owned by the Cumberland Coal Company), a group of leading citizens in the small town of Dayton - the 'drug store conspirators' - decided to accept the ACLU's offer, in the hope that the publicity surrounding the trial would help to reverse the town's declining fortunes. On May 4 th the group recruited John Scopes, football coach and occasional stand-in teacher at Rhea County High School as the subject fo...
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Community Policing In America
1,576 wordsCommunity Policing in America (1) The concept of community policing has become especially popular in recent years, since celebration of diversity, had succeeded in turning the ever-increased number of streets in American cities into places, which people try to avoid at any cost, especially after it gets dark. It is not a secret that in so-called hoods, drug dealers often openly sell crack, with police officers being given orders not to get involved, in order not to provoke racial riots. Nowadays...
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Mumia Abu Jamal American Heritage Dictionary
1,930 wordsThe following paper will discuss the topic of racial injustice in the United States Legal System. Since this topic is so broad, it will deal with the trial of Mumia Abu Jamal in 1982. This paper will show how the " system" will try anything to keep a minority down. The system consists of upper middle class to upper class whites that believe minorities are inferior to them. The system is used is a " political machine" used by whites to keep these minorities from becoming power...
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First World War Firing Squad
1,799 wordsDuring the First World War, many people were accused of being spies and helping the enemy. One of them, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, has gone down in history as one of the most legendary women of all time. Using the pseudonym Mata Hari, Margaretha led a career as an exotic dancer, was accused of spying for the Germans, did spy for the French and was executed before a firing squad. Mata Hari? s trial was clearly unfair and the evidence was weak at best. When we examine her background, the events ...
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Fellow Athenians Trial Socrates Jury
723 wordsWho was Socrates? Socrates was born and raised as a native Athenian. He was a stonecutter by trade and spent most of his life in poverty. He was married to his wife Xanthippe and had three sons, Lamprocles, Sophroniscus (named for Socrates father), and Menexenus. Socrates spent much of his time in the agora conversing about ethical issues to his many followers. He had a fondness for exposing hypocrisy, ignorance, and conceit among his fellow Athenians. At the time of his trial Socrates was appro...
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