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- 531: Date Rape
- ... substance use is not involved, another factor is mixed signals between the man and the woman. If a woman acts in a friendly or outgoing manner towards a man, he may interpret this as a proposal to have sex. Even if a woman says "no," the man may think that she is playing hard to get, that the "no" really means "yes." Some men are sexually aroused when a woman struggles ...
- 532: Should Drugs Be Made Legal?
- ... wave. Government surveys show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery 21 percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these numbers are up. One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases ...
- 533: Attacks On The Insanity Defense
- ... of those released proved to be dangerous. ABOLISH THE INSANITY DEFENSE Abolishing the insanity defense is easier said than done for the simple reason that the mens rea requirement remains a fundamental legal principle. The proposal that "mental condition shall not be a defense to any charge of criminal conduct" could be interpreted in one of two ways. The broader interpretation would mean that absolutly no aspect of mental condition could ...
- 534: Date Rape
- ... substance use is not involved, another factor is mixed signals between the man and the woman. If a woman acts in a friendly or outgoing manner towards a man, he may interpret this as a proposal to have sex. Even if a woman says no, the man may think that she is playing hard to get, that the no really means yes. Some men are sexually aroused when a woman struggles ...
- 535: Handgun Control in the United States
- ... Brady Bill, named after Jim Brady, who was permanently disabled in John Hickney's attempt to assassin-ate Ronald Regan in 1981 ( Morganthau 33). The Brady Bill is a common sensical and an ad-mittedly modest attempt to impose a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns, and to require local police agencies to make a "reasonable" effort to ensure that the buyer does not have a criminal record ...
- 536: Jury Nullification and Its Effects on Black America
- ... is best for the American legal system, what legal precedents dictate, or as is most often the case, on what is "right." It is, however, negligent to simply focus on these issues when examining the proposal of Professor Butler. Instead criticism and analysis must be based upon what is best for the Black community in this country. From this perspective it becomes clear that although race-based jury nullification has many ...
- 537: Should Drugs Be Made Legal? (Against)
- ... wave. Government surveys show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery 21 percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these numbers are up. One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases ...
- 538: Should Drugs Be Legalized?
- ... wave. Government surveys show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery 21 percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these numbers are up. One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases ...
- 539: Gun Control
- ... were not after hunting or target shooting guns; they were after military cannons (clearly "assault weapons, with no sporting purpose"). How did the citizens of Concord and Lexington respond to this reasonable, moderate gun control proposal? With their guns! With a battle that killed hundreds of people and began years of vicious war! Why were our ancestors so "unreasonable"? Because they knew that once their guns were taken, the rest of ...
- 540: Capital Punishment: Against
- ... Furman decision. A number of states sought to resolve the discriminatory and arbitrary nature of the death penalty by simply sentencing to death everyone convicted of first-degree murder, but the Supreme Court rejected this proposal saying that "mandatory death sentence laws did not really resolve the problem but instead 'simply papered [it] over' since juries responded by refusing to convict certain arbitrarily chosen defendants of first- degree murder" (Berger 353 ...
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