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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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Death Penalty Deters Habeas Corpus
1,363 wordsIt is usually called, simply, the chair and at one time, was in constant use at New Yorks legendary Sing Sing Prison. But, no executions have occurred in New York since 1963, a time when support for capital punishment was eroding across the country. The states capital punishment statute was declared unconstitutional in 1977. In this year, and in each of the following 17 years, Democratic governors vetoed legislation to restore the death penalty. Yet, in 1994, with the coming of republican Govern...
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Recidivism Of Sex Offenders
1,305 wordsSex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43, 000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510, 000 children are sexually assaulted (Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510, 000 children have their childhoods destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault ...
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Solve This Problem Prison Overcrowding
545 wordsIn todays society criminals have learned that unless they are involved in a serious crime, their punishment will not be sever. Almost all long-term sentences have to deal with felons who have committed serious offenses. So were do we draw the line on giving out short-term sentences to criminals. Prison overcrowding has become a big issue lately, and lots of money has been spent to try to solve this problem. There are a few right answers to this problem and a few wrong ones. One answer sounds log...
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Should Government Regulate Victimless Crimes
1,576 wordsThroughout history, there have been moral rules, enforced, which have been instituted by society as a whole due to the nature of their ethical shortcomings. These crimes against morale have often been called victimless, vice, or even consensual crimes. These offenses can hardly be considered crimes. A crime is defined as being an offense to one who is harmed by or made to suffer from an act, circumstance, agency, or condition whereas a victimless crime is defined as An illegal act that is felt t...
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Short Period Of Time Juvenile Crime
334 wordsIn this article about youth curfew laws from the journal, Crime and Delinquency January 2000 issue, they talked about how analysis of the subject provides extremely weak support for the theory that curfews reduce juvenile crime rates. Of the offense and victimization measures, only burglary, larceny, and simple assault arrests significantly decreased after cities adopted curfew statutes. These decreases occurred only for revised laws, and only the reductions in larceny appeared in both the count...
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Border Patrol Fourth Amendment
864 wordsWhen police set up traffic checkpoints looking for signs of drug use, walking a narcotics detecting dog around the car, and examining drivers licenses and registration does that practice violate the Constitutions protection against unreasonable searches? From August to November of 1998, police in Indianapolis set up six traffic checkpoints to look for signs of illegal drugs transported on city streets. Officers stopped cars, checked each drivers license and registration, looked for signs of drug...
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Sodium Bicarbonate Federal Drug
577 wordsCrack (rock) and cocaine are both stimulant drugs, which are widely used in our country today. They both present problems for us because of their potency and highly addicted addicts that can not seem to escape their grasp. Crack and cocaine also have various street names such as coke, snow, blow, base, C, ice, flake, sniff, rock and the list goes on. Cocaine is sold in a white powder form, which is sniffed, injected, or smoked (free-basing) and is much more expensive than its cousin crack (rock)...
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Study About School Uniforms In Public Schools California
917 wordsThroughout the state of California, the disputes continue over whether school uniforms have a place in the public school system and whether there are positive results to wearing school uniforms. The public school uniform conflict has not only been discussed within each school, but also on television, radio and even within the judicial system. One of the most promising arguments against wearing uniforms in the public school system is the violation of the First Amendment: nothing is more basic and...
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Article Titled Personal Integrity
849 wordsSince cheating has been a problem in our society, there have been many attempts to rid the world of this problem. Such attempts include creating an honor code, forms of punishment, and possibly a computer-integrated classroom. The terms by which an honor code are defined as are (taken from the article titled A Question of Honor), " something that defines ethical academic conduct with the expectation that students will monitor their peers, report violations, and mete out penalties. " An honor cod...
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Death Penalty Evil Deed
1,030 wordsThe average homicide rate in the 13 states without the death penalty is lower than the average homicide rate in the 37 states where it is legal. Between 1972 and 1990, the homicide rate in Michigan which has no death penalty, was generally as low or lower than the neighboring state of Indiana, which restored the death penalty in 1973. The U. S. Bowers- Pierce study analyzing executions between 1907 and 1963 concluded, that an average of two additional homicides were committed in the month after ...
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Miami Dade County Religious Groups
1,130 wordsPhase 2 Individual Project - Sociology The aim of this paper is to collect information that will enable to draw some general conclusion about the social groups that are most likely to influence the development of a child in the area, and recommend the types of social services that the city Miami in Dade County may wish to make available. Miami city, Miami-Dade County According to the 2006 American Community Survey, the number of school-age children (population 3 years and over enrolled in school...
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Trade And Economic Globalization
1,822 wordsTRADE AND ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION Scott Pegg, in his work on Globalization and Natural-Resource Conflicts, maintains that Leaders of internationalized, centralized, and privatized resource-rich states depend upon commercially successful exploitation of natural resources for their survival. This dependence upon the revenue streams generated by natural resources promotes and encourages violence. The frequent end result of such vested interest in the efficient and uninterrupted exploitation of profi...
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Image Of God Capitol Punishment
903 wordsWe can not afford to disregard the importance of capitol punishment and the crimes that deserve it. People have used a number of arguments to support their position regarding the death penalty. Among the arguments employed have been deterrence, cost, retribution, incapacitation, rehabilitation and mistake. It has been suggested, though, that a persons position on the issue of capital punishment is not determined by a rationale evaluation of the arguments for and against the death penalty, but is...
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Criminal Justice System Violent Crimes
1,133 wordsDecreasing Trends in Crime by Chris Nicholson Ten years ago, crime was on the rise across the nation. It was a situation seemingly beyond control. Then, starting in the early 1990 s, the trend began to turn around. Crime rates began to drop, slowly at first, but with more notable decreases each following year. This new development promises renewed opportunities for urban areas torn by violence and lawlessness. City streets are gradually becoming safer and citizens can enjoy an improved quality o...
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Link Between Drug Study That Was Performed Drugs
577 wordsAddiction to drugs is a very serious problem. This can be defined as the continued involvement with a substance or activity despite ongoing negative consequences. These behaviors usually provide a sense of pleasure in the beginning. These pleasures can only be achieved through drug use and other harmful acts. The two types of drug addictions are psychological and physiological. These two types of addictions are so intertwined and related that it is often hard to tell them a part. Physiological d...
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Ball Is Kicked Opponent Soccer
741 wordsSoccer is a popular sport played all over the world. Even though it has only been popular in the United States for the past 30 years, soccer has been a long time favorite most everywhere else. The sport dates back to the Egyptians, who played games involving the kicking of a ball. Now, the sport has grown to a global pastime, including men? s and women? s teams, and the World Cup (which is played every four years). Soccer originated with kicking games played by people in ancient civilizations. T...
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Three Strikes Law Criminal Justice System
875 wordsIn recent years several mandatory sentencing laws have been put into motion. The original goals of the mandatory sentencing laws were to stop repeat offenders and to exhibit a get tough attitude on crime. These laws have not been working as intended, instead mandatory sentencing has led to some unfortunate consequences. Some of these consequences are overcrowding in prisons and less prison based rehabilitation. Mandatory sentencing laws do not narrowly target major drug traffickers. Today there ...
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Drug Related Made Illegal
698 wordsShould Marijuana be legalized? Affirmative We need fuel! We need paper! People are starving! The answer to these problems is grow more pot. If we really want to save the rain forest than that is the answer. According to the U. S. department of agriculture you can make 4 times as much paper with hemp as you can with the same land area of trees, and you can grow another crop when youre done. Plus it only uses 1 / 5 the chemicals and is + the cost of paper made from trees. In fact, before the 20 th...
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Law Enforcement Officials Driving While Black
1,187 wordsRacial Profiling: Unfair to the Innocent The issue of racial profiling in America is one of great importance to the future of American society. This issue fairly new, in terms of being recognized is old in its ways. Racism and stereotyping are issues that date back to hundreds of years ago. Racial profiling in America is one that needs to be addressed by the government and society if we ever want America to truly be, The Land of The Free. One of the main examples of racial profiling is called DW...
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