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Tobacco And Alcohol Rain Forests
789 wordsLegally defined, marijuana consists of the dried leaves and flowers of the plant Cannabis sativa. Cannabis is one of the most ancient and historically important of cultivated plants. Hemp or Cannabis has been cultivated for at least 6000 years (Frank 3). On account of the many advantages that this multipurpose plant offers, I see reason to believe that it should be legalized, to the public, in all forms. The legalization of hemp would reduce the size of our overpopulated jails. As a result, mill...
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Criminal Justice System Driving Under The Influence
777 wordsEffective as of November 28, 1995, President Bill Clinton signed legislation that forces states to adopt a Zero Tolerance Law, to prevent teens as well as adults from driving under the influence. To the youth of today, it doesnt really matter if drinking is illegal. No matter how much we spend on new laws, there will always be a way that the younger generation will sneak past to continue drinking. The problem shouldnt be considered as who is drinking, but should be referred to as who isnt drinki...
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Private Prisons And Special Interest Groups
1,564 words... d hands with the staff at the Sudbury Jail and local citizens to fight the privatization of correctional services. OPSEU has a new policy that will support locals to finance public events in their communities that speak out against privatization of correctional services. OPSEU gained the support of two municipal councils. The two councils threw their support behind the anti-privatization motion that was passed by the town of Midland. OPSEU has also mailed lobby kits to all corrections locals...
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Agreed Upon Threats World Order People
1,036 wordsThe country was ready to choose a person who best represents us as our president. We watched the debates, took part in opinion polls, we wrote checks, and littered our yards with signs that told the whole world that we were "involved. " There are many people who base their whole lives on politics. Some let it mingle in their religion, others use it for job opportunities and others use their politics to demonstrate their "moral" code. These same people let their politics divide a united republic,...
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War On Drugs Selling Drugs
1,152 wordsThe topic of this research paper is War on Drugs. There are many problems that drugs cause, but there are also problems that the war on drugs has caused too. The following paragraphs have supporting ideas for both ideas. Every president since Eisenhower had created new measures to decrease drug use in the United States, but, until 1979, none had actually succeeded. In 1989, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) released a report stating that there was a 37 % drop in casual (non-addicted) u...
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Federal And State Prison Inmates
725 wordsDrug abuse takes a toll on society that can only be partially measured. While we are able to estimate the number of drug-related crimes that occur each year, we can never determine fully the extent to which the quality of life in America's neighborhoods has been diminished by drug-related criminal behavior. With the exception of drug-related homicides, which have declined in recent years, drug-related crime is continuing at a strong and steady pace. Numerous Drug-Related Arrests Occur Each Year....
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Death Row Inmates Kinds Of People
900 wordsOver the years there have been debates and arguments about Capital Punishment. There are all kinds of people that are for it and then there are all kinds of people against it. People that are against it say that it is injustice and cruel. Well those people may be right, but I feel that we should have Capital Punishment in the USA. In todays courts innocent people do go to jail for crimes they didnt commit. When they do go to jail, human do like they normally do and make mistakes by putting some ...
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Death Row Pay Taxes
660 wordsIn Ed Angers essay, Fry Death Row Creeps in Electric Bleachers, he talks about an idea he came up with that would execute killers and rapists quicker and easier. Anger says to have electric bleachers to fry hundreds of killers and rapists at one time. I believe Anger has come up with a winning idea that will clean jails out. The specific points that I agree with are the idea of the electric bleachers, the quantity of prisoners, and the cost of housing these prisoners. The idea of the electric bl...
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Police Departments College Education
365 wordsLike any other profession, even the juvenile officers are required to have college education. The college education helps the officer understand the juvenile offenders in a better way and gives him knowledge about the ways and methods of dealing with the hardened criminals. With the college education, the juvenile officer is able to differentiate between the hardened criminals and the offenders who have landed in jails because of being in the company of the criminals. A juvenile officer must be ...
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1 Change In The Nature Of Crime America
798 wordsEssay # 1 Change in the Nature of Crime in America The rapid growth of the crime control industry is a frightening aspect of contemporary U. S. society. Incarceration represents the ultimate form of surveillance: 24 hours a day, within four walls, monitored by humans, by machines, restricted in their movements. In 1993, American criminologist, professor of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland Gary La Free published his seminal study, The Changing Natur...
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Strengths And Weaknesses Prison Labor
1,233 wordsCorrections Population Why were these articles grouped together the way they were? That is, what do the articles have in common, and how do they inform each other? These articles were grouped together because they had the common thread of violence within the correctional system that is now a national concern. Penitentiary drew attention to the potential for death and destruction that lurks in every prison. It seems that the locus of control in many prisons shifted from correctional staff to viol...
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Juvenile Offenders Juvenile Delinquency
1,951 words... are also another options, such as preventing juvenile delinquency. Unfortunately, these programs were not successful. Our legal system has two different court systems. One, Juvenile court is where we hear many of our cases on custody battles, child support payments, and even misdemeanors committed by juveniles. Secondly, Adult courts other wise known as Criminal court. This is where adults find out their fate for a crime committed against another. Juvenile Offenders could be tried in both sy...
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Domestic Violence Treatment Programs
1,182 wordsDomestic Violence Domestic Serago Professor Abodalo 10 - 22 - 01 BATTERERS Does arresting batterers do more harm than good? For this debate my side is the con and I will give ideas and support to their views. Before I get started I just want to say that I dont condone husbands beating their wives at all, and many others feel the same way. Battering is a learn behavior you are accountable for your own actions and must face the serve consequences ahead. Many people believe that what is happening i...
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Compton Mentally Ill
1,638 wordsBorn Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix Born in 1802, Dorothea Dix played an important role in changing the ways people thought about patients who were mentally-ill and handicapped, originally cast-off as? being punished by God, ? as well as the way facilities handled and treated them. She believed that that people of such standing would do better by being treated with love and caring rather than being put aside. As a social reformer, philanthropist, teacher, writer, writer, nurse, and humanitarian, Doro...
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San Diego Ca War On Drugs
1,178 wordsIllegal drugs are according to the government a major problem in our society. According to the Department of Justice drugs are the cause of most of our crime. The three major drugs that are being widely used are marijuana, cocaine, and crack. These drugs are used to relieve pain and make people feel better mentally and physically (69). If we legalized crack, marijuana, and cocaine it would drop the crime rate, make the people and government more money, and cut the abuse rate. As the Collegiate d...
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Marijuana Legalizing Marijuana Marijuana Becoming Legal Americans
282 wordsMarijuana Legalizing Marijuana Legalizing Marijuana Marijuana becoming legal is a topic every American should agree on. The reason being is it would benefit Americans in three ways; there would be less crowding in jails, it would create more tax income, and it would cut down the amount of crime in the country. First, marijuana becoming legalized would be beneficial to the United States because it would reduce the crowding in jails. In 1998 alone nearly 750, 000 Americans were arrested for minor ...
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U S Supreme Court Sexual Abuse
1,366 wordsWe all know that our prisons are the final frontier for the socially rejected criminals and violent offenders. We know that our prisons are so overcrowded that the Supreme Court of California issued a court order to reduce the number of inmates. We know that since there are more inmates in prison the chance of getting rehabilitated is very slim. And we also know that the ratio of supervision of guard to inmate is extremely high. But do we know what goes on in our prisons and jails? We know we ha...
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Law Abiding Citizens Meals A Day
878 wordsShould Prisoner s Rights Be Expanded or Limited? What Additional Rights Should They Be Given? What Rights Should Be Taken Away? When an individual commits a crime the legal system prosecutes the criminal and ultimately incarcerates him. The very foundation of such a sequence of events is meant to degrade the offender and remove any social rights he had while on the outside. For example, prisoners have this vague notion that they are entitled to any basic rights while in prison. This concept has ...
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Put In Jail Justice System
837 wordsCrime and Punishment have been around since the dawn of time. Each time period had its way to deal with it. Some of the ways worked and some did not. In ancient Roman times, a criminal was punished by being made a spectacle of in the gladiators arena where they would fight until the other was dead. And even in the early American ages of very religious times, they had many cruel and even barbaric forms of punishment such as beheading's and tarring and feathering people. These types of punishments...
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Witch Hunts Accused Witches
1,579 wordsIn the winter of 1692, a wave of witch hysteria surrounded the settlement of Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The accusations began with two little girls who were acting strangely. There are many underlying factors to why these thoughts of witchcraft started coming about. These issues were going on before that winter of 1692. The winter of 1692 was the onset of the hysterics behind the witchcraft trials. To understand the reasons behind the hysteria, you have to know a little about...
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