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- 13261: The Drinking Age Should Be Lowered to Eighteen
- ... that sixteen is too young to be given power over a weapon as deadly as an automobile. However, since the legal driving age is sixteen, perhaps lawmakers should enact training requirements that are stricter for new drivers. For example, they could require more driving time with a certified instructor, or give them a probationary license for the first six months of their licensure. Even though there have been many cases of ... would still be young people that would abuse this privilege; however, with time there would be fewer abuses. In a land built on individual freedom, it is strange that we are sent out in the world as adults, yet denied the opportunity to make such a simple choice. I think eighteen-year-olds should be granted this opportunity.
- 13262: The Drug War in America
- ... NIDA needs to continue research on drugs such as ibogaine. This drug is thought to block chemicals in the brain that play a key role is sensitizing addicts to drugs even alcohol. (U.S. News & World) Another benefit of treatment is the reduction of the cost of drugs due to less demand which intern reduces crime. Many treatment programs not only offer drug treatment but also offer job training and life ... of them. (Gray, 152) “Despite some successes, United States and host countries’ efforts have not materially reduced the availability of drugs…… international drug-trafficking organizations have become sophisticated, multibillion dollar industries that quickly adapt to new U.S. drug controls efforts”. (U.S. General Acct. Office) Today 17 billion dollars a year are spent on the drug war. The ability to control the in flow of drugs into the country is ...
- 13263: Applied Litigation Research
- ... against pretrial survey analysis and trial simulations. The objective is to show how different methodological approaches converge in the frame of reference which reflects the actual verdict reached in trial. Litigation research is a relatively new field of social science application. The most useful methodological approaches to study ongoing litigation are still under development. Quantitative designs have dominated this field to date and typically are used for jury selection (Frederick, 1984 ... qualitative and quantitative, is the only method by which parties may develop an alternative understanding of the actual story which observers may hear--as opposed to what lawyers think they said. This is not a new methodology, nor is our intent to evaluate participant observation as a separate and distinct method of trial intervention. Each case in every trial may call for a unique mix of applied research strategies. We report ... strategies might be observed or interpreted by jurors. The information provided in the case history delineates such strategies and shows how participant observation data can be used by the research team to help attorneys create new tactics and themes and deal with unanticipated courtroom events. The Case The lawsuit involved a breach of contract action brought by Jones Tugboat and Towing Company (Jones) against Consolidated Barge Transport, Inc. (Consolidated). Jones ...
- 13264: The Prohibition
- ... books, hollow canes, and anything else they could find (Bowen, 159). There were also illegal speak-easies which replaced saloons after the start of prohibition. By 1925, there were over 100,000 speak-easies in New York City alone (Bowen, 160). As good as the ideal sounded, “...prohibition was far easier to proclaim than to enforce” (Wenburn, 234). With only 1,550 federal agents and over 18,700 miles of (Bowen ... motive caused over four hundred gang related murders a year in Chicago alone (Bowen, 175). Incidentally, large cities were the main location for organized gangs. Although there were over a half dozen powerful gangs in New York, Chicago was the capital of racketeers, including Johnny Torrio, “Bugs Moran”, the Gennas, and the O’Banions (Behr, 192). The most powerful and infamous bootlegger however, was Al Capone, operating out of Chicago. One ... office buildings, and anywhere that could be found, admitted only those with membership cards, and had the most modern alarm systems to avoid being shut down. “There were twice as many speak-easies in Rochester, New York, as saloons closed by Prohibition” (Thorton, 6). Bootleggers, having very profitable businesses (one bootlegger was worth more than five million dollars), either illegally imported liquor, stole it from government warehouses, or made their ...
- 13265: The Death Penalty
- ... It would shut down both the automatic and conscious nervous system. Within a second the executee’s brain would be cooked from the inside out. While executions are being abolished in most parts of the world (except Iran, Iraq, China, Yemen and some former Soviet states), Americans seem to want more of them, with fever appeals and delays. “Death Belt states are Texas, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, and Alabama, which together account for 78% of the executions America has seen since Supreme Court reinstated the death-penalty in 1976. While states in New England and the Northeast Midwest and Pacific Northwest either forbid Capital Punishment, or rarely use the laws on their book, in the South putting people to death has became a part of life. that is ...
- 13266: Case for Legalizing Marijuana What
- ... of the Soviet Union, for example, regard individual privacy as trivial when compared to the needs of the state. If the United States is to be persuasive in promoting freedom in other parts of the world, it must respect the privacy of its own citizens. Sometimes it is hard to do this because what goes on in people's private lives may seem offensive. But, according to U.S. traditions, there ... 347. LEXICON PUBLICATIONS. Philippines, 1979 2. Lorimer, Lawrence; "Marijuana" Encyclopedia Year Book 1993. p214-215. GROLIER INCORPORATED. Canada, 1993 3. Snyder, Solomon. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs. Series 2. LEGALIZATION: A DEBATE. CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS. New York, 1988
- 13267: Juvenile Justice System In America
- ... S., child criminals were treated as adult criminals. Sentences for all offenders could be harsh and the death penalty was occasionally imposed. The First institution expressly for juveniles, the House of Refuge, was founded in New York City in 1824 so that institutionalized delinquents could be kept apart from adult criminals. By the mid-19th century, other state institutions for juvenile delinquents were established, and their populations soon included not only ... was given to the need for special legal procedures that would protect and guide the juvenile offender rather than subject the child to the full force of criminal law. Massachusetts in 1870 and 1880 and New York in 1892, provided for special hearings for children in courts. As the U.S. juvenile justice system began to develop, jurisdiction over criminal acts by children was transferred from adult courts to the newly created juvenile courts. The first such court was established in Chicago in 1899. One of the principal reasons for the new system was to avoid the harsh treatment previously imposed on delinquent children. An act of wrongdoing by a minor was seen as an indication of the child’s need for care and treatment rather ...
- 13268: The Mafia and Street Gangs
- ... Cosa Nostra in 1926. He was successful in the usual mob rackets like protection, money, gambling, and bootlegging. (Exactly What Is The Mafia?) In the 1940’s, a census ranked Pittsburgh third behind Chicago and New York in terms of Italian- American Population. (26 American Mafia Cities) During this time, gangsters openly flaunted their wealth and power. This period established many young men as leaders in the New Age American Mafia. Goals of the new age gangs like the “Bloods” or the “Crips” are not far from what the Italian- American Mafia did in the 1930’s. Gangbangers were also out to make a cheap buck. Over the last ...
- 13269: Gun Control in the U.S.
- ... are assembled. A semi-automatic machine gun can be converted into a fully-automatic gun with a little handcraft. A shotgun can become a bloody powerful weapon by sawing-off the tip of it. Obviously, new methods of gun control are needed to produce desired results. In the first half of 1991, fifty children under the age of seventeen had been shot to death. If we continue to monitor the sale of firearms, there must be new techniques that can watch where the guns end up. And if we decide that we can/will not go down that track, we must make that judgement earnestly, and without haste, because it will decide the future of The United State of America as we know it. --- Bibliography Larson, Erik. "The Story of a Gun", The Atlantic Monthly. January 1993 Pooley, Eric. "Kids with Guns." , New York. August 5, 1991.
- 13270: Rasputin
- ... had no way of knowing how fateful the meeting would be. Gregory does not appear to have made much of an impression at first. Nicholas and Alexandra had far more to worry about that this new holy peasant: their only son and heir, Czarevich Alexei, born in 1904, had inherited the terrible disease hemophilia from his mother. Several years after their first meeting with Gregory, during one of their son's ... life. But there is no further evidence this theory as of yet. When the Czar decided to leave his palace and take charge of his troops in the fight against Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I, the people of Russia believed the Czar had left the Czarina - and, many believed, Rasputin - at the head of the Government. Although Rasputin rarely offered political advice (he had no understanding of politics ...
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