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War On Drugs Marijuana Laws
1,405 wordsActivists hope ballot questions signal support for marijuana bills By Steve Leblanc, Associated Press, 12 / 5 / 2000 17: 05 BOSTON (AP) When researchers launched the nation's most ambitious heart study 50 years ago, they chose Framingham, a middle-class town west of Boston and cross-section of America. Now supporters of liberalized marijuana laws are hoping voters in this Massachusetts heartland are signaling a fundamental shift in public attitudes about the state's war on drugs. On Election Day...
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1,135 words... to serving out their sentences: rehabilitation at Phoenix House. The treatment was rejected by many, simply because it can take up to two years. Treatment is also cost effective. In fact, according to the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, $ 1 in treatment brings a return of $ 11. 54 for society. The attempts at education, primarily through Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), were generally unsuccessful. DARE was a program that began in 1983 in Los Angeles, u...
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Twenty Five Percent Nineteen Eighty
2,368 words... ent no longer exists in Canada. From established statistics it was found that there seems to be a striking correlation between the race of the offenders and the probability of them receiving a death sentence. In capital cases, black defendants statistically receive the death sentence more that the white defendants. This evidence of discrimination is confirmed by a study of the outcome of murder cases in Ohio between 1974 and 1977. "In cases where the victim was white and the offender was bla...
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Abolish The Death Penalty Mentally Retarded
1,184 wordsThe sentence of capital punishment is an expensive barbaric alternative for punishing a criminal. Where does the hostility and ignorance stop once it begins? Murder is unaccepted by society, yet people seem to pacify themselves by killing criminals. Is that not considered to be murder? Sentencing a criminal to death does not solve the questions and problems that are left behind. Parents will still cry for a child that is never coming home. Mourning families will still carry a never-ending hearta...
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Men Are Created Equal State Of Nature
1,107 wordsJohn Locke was born on August 29, 1632, into a middle class family during late Renaissance England. Locke started his studies at Christ Church in Oxford. He then went into medical studies and received a medical license, which he practiced under Anthony Cooper. They became friends, and when Cooper became Earl of Shaftesbury, Locke was able to hold minor government jobs and became involved in politics. Shaftesbury steered Locke towards the views of a government whose law was fair to all, and all w...
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Violent Crime Capital Punishment
766 wordsHow often have we heard the statement Two wrongs dont make a right? Yet, is this saying ever really applied to our lives? When do we ever turn the other cheek? As far as history is concerned, the human race has never felt the sting of a hand consecutively on both sides. Evidence to this can be found anywhere. Soldiers kill the enemy to win the war. Athletes become violent in order to obtain a trophy. And, in the judicial system, the ultimate crime of murder is dealt with the ultimate punishment ...
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Young Offenders Act People In Society
1,822 wordsIn todays society, the problem of juvenile delinquency is running more rampant than ever before. Also, the degrees to which it occurs are far more serious than they were, even ten years ago. The problem used to be over-simplified and chalked up to kids will be kids, but todays kids are contributing to much more serious crimes than they used to. One statistic states that youths under the age of 18 years accounted for 15. 4 % of arrests for violent crimes and 33. 5 % of arrests for property crimes...
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Years In Prison Chesney Lind
1,999 wordsFemale Criminals Western domination of women and nature was conceptually linked into the processes of making them inferior and had mutually reinforced each other. For example, Merchant (op. cit. p. 165) argues that from its beginning the discourse of modern science in the West was informed by imagery that portrayed nature as female. Given womens status this both aided and made erotic the domination of nature for men of science. Woman was interconnected with the exploration of nature having love ...
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Pain Or Suffering Child Molesters
807 wordsTitle / topic : develop a treatment program. Introduction: Both preferential child molesters and sadistic rapists oftentimes engage children in sexual activity by "seducing" them-courting them with attention, affection, and gifts. Just as one adult courts another, the pedophile seduces children over a period of time by gradually lowering their sexual inhibitions. Frequently his victims arrive at the point where they are willing to trade sex for the attention, affection, and other benefits they r...
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War On Drugs Alcohol Consumption
1,258 wordsFall 2000 Bootlegger: Version 2. 0 Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a mans appetite by legislation and make a crime out of things that are not a crime. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principle upon which our government was founded Abraham Lincoln On January 16, 1920 the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified by thirty-six states and became part of the Constitution. The intention of this n...
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Opponents Of Capital Punishment Deters Murder
1,514 wordsCapital Punishment Pro Outline Thesis Statement: Although the opponents of capital punishment believe this to be immoral and non-productive, advocates of capital punishment have proven this to be a cost effective, and ethically correct deterrent of future murders. I. Cons of capital punishment A. Racism in sentencing B. Immoral C. Unproductive II. Pros of capital punishment A. Deters murder B. Cost effective C. Morally correct III. Support for capital punishment A. Support in The United States B...
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Support For The Death Penalty Amount Of Time
1,129 wordsCapital Punishment is reasonable in today s society. What this means is that as long as people are still committing acts of violence, no matter how civilized a society thinks it is there must be a sufficient punishment for those crimes. It is funny how long it took for this nation, a nation that is supposed to set the example for the rest of the world to finally question the morality or ethics of capital punishment. Why you may ask has it taken so long, I believe that it has taken this long beca...
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Penalty Deters Murder Death Penalty Deters
949 wordsSince Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Since the beginning of recorded history, mankind has made use of the idea of capital punishment. Most ancient societies accepted the notion that certain crimes deserved the death penalty. The idea of a crime punishable by death dates far back to Ancient Rome and the laws passed at that time. Till this day, however, there is still much debate as to whether or not capital punishment should be abolished. Although there are numerous arguments for and again...
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Criminal Justice System Commit A Crime
2,699 wordsIn our society's criminal justice system, justice equals punishment. You do the crime, and you do the time. Once you have done the time, you have paid your debt to society and justice has been done. Because our society defines justice in this manner, the victims of crimes often seek the most severe possible punishment for their offenders. Society tells them this will bring justice, but it often leaves them feeling empty and unsatisfied after getting what they wanted. Punishment does not address ...
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Criminal Justice System Cruel And Unusual Punishment
1,077 wordsDeath Penalty An eye for an eye, a life for a life? Does this philosophy hold true in the twentieth century? Is the death penalty a Cruel and Unusual punishment or is iknow a necessary tool in the war on crime? With the increase in crime and violence in our society due not only to gang and drug activities, but also psychotic murderers, our criminal justice system must decide whether or not death as a form of criminal punishment is economical, non-discriminatory, and a deterrence factor of crimin...
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Legalization Of Drugs Drug Legalization
394 wordsApril Drug Legalization Essay Questions April 28, 2001 Drug Legalization The debate over drug legalization has existed for decades. It is a hot topic for discussion among young and old alike. While many different opinions have been argued over, most of America can agree on one things have a serious drug problem in the United States. Solutions to this problem have been tossed about; we should create harsher laws for drug users, we should legalize the less dangerous drugs in society, we should leg...
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War On Drugs Legalizing Drugs
633 wordsLegality, Although it is clear that society is unhappy with current efforts to stop illegal drug smuggling, illegal drug use and distribution, no one seems to know what should be done. With drug use and drug related crime on the rise, some Americans argue that current drug law is too easy on drug offenders. Society at large asks, Can we ever stop illegal drugs and their use? It is a question that unfortunately has no easy answer. More and more people in America feel that if this country cannot s...
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Drug Offenders Prison Population
619 wordsFor John Russell it was just another ordinary night. At 2: 00 A. M. he was calmly sleeping. He arose to a cracking noise outside; just then the police came crashing into the house. They ransack his house and found a 3 -ounce bag of marijuana. In his underwear only, he is cuffed and taken to jail. In the meantime his wife and two kids huddle in the bedroom scarred to death. Was it all necessary? Is the pursuit of marijuana really so important that a family has to be terrorized and broken apart. M...
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Legalizing Marijuana President George
1,122 wordsPresident George Marijuana Drug Policy President George W. Bush proposed a 2. 8 billion approach to confront the problem of illegal drug use. He feels that drugs are ruining peoples lives and the community we live in. His campaign launched a speech about teaching parents how to deal with drugs and their children. Parents should have the responsibility to warn children that drugs are bad and that they should stay away from it. Bush wanted to be more involved by spending millions of dollars on the...
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Marijuana Prohibition Marijuana Possession
312 wordsThe Marijuana Reform Party believes: That adults who choose to use marijuana in the privacy of their own homes should not be subject to civil or criminal sanctions. That it is wrong for children to use marijuana, and that such use is best stopped through honest drug education and by providing children with positive alternatives to drug use. That the best way to protect the health and well-being of our community and children from marijuana-related harm is to control the growth, distribution, and ...
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