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- 13301: Crime
- ... professional activities to protect consumers. During the 1960's and early 1970's, consumer protection became one of the fastest growing fields of criminal law. In the United States, for example, the federal government developed new rules and penalties. The regulations were intended to control air and water pollution, to prevent fraudulent trade practices, and to alert people seeking loans about actual interest costs. Crime is one of the world's oldest social problems. Almost every generation has felt itself threatened by increasing crime and violence. However, no country has yet developed completely reliable methods for measuring the volume and trend of crime. The FBI ...
- 13302: Capital Punishment: Is It Required
- ... Capital Cases. Boston University Law Review 75 (1995): 768-69. 2) Cavanagh, Suzanne, and David Teasley. Capital Punishment: A Brief Overview. CRS Report For Congress 95-505GOV (1995): 4. 3) Flanders, Stephen A. Capital Punishment. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1991. 4) Frame, Randy. A Matter Of Life and Death. Christianity Today 14 Aug. 1995: 50 5) Grisham, John. The Chamber. New York: Island Books, 1994. 6) Long, Robert Emmet. Criminal Sentencing. New York, NY: H.W. Company, 1995. 7) Stewart, David O. Dealing with Death. American Bar Association Journal 80.11 (1994): 50 8) Szumski, Bonnie, Lynn Hall & Susan Bursell. Opposing Viewpoints: Capital Punishment. Greenhaven Press, ...
- 13303: Capital Punishment
- ... the case may be appealed for a variety of reasons. The defendant's lawyer could claim that the defendant's rights were violated when he was arrested, that the defendant received an unfair trial, or new evidence that could prove the defendant's innocence has surfaced. (Guernsey,16) Next the appeal is taken to the Intermediate Appellate Courts (state) or the US Courts of Appeals (federal) who will decide if the ... and forbidden nearly everywhere. Currently the only accepted means of execution are: electrocution, the gas chamber, firing squad and lethal injection. (Bedau1) The firing squad is only used it Utah upon request. (Guernsey, 54) Montana, New Hampshire and Washington are the only states that allow hangings. (55) The electric chair was introduced in New York in 1890 and is now used in 24 states. (Bedau2) The criminal is seated in a chair. Electrodes are attached to the head and a leg. Pulses of 2000 volts are sent through ...
- 13304: Capital Punishment and The Death Penalty
- ... a crime? Is the death penalty fair to everyone, even the minorities and the poor? How does mental illness and retardation come into play? When a person is sentenced to death by lethal injection in New Jersey, the provisions of N.J.S. 2C: 11-3 say that the "punishment shall be imposed by continuous, intravenous administration until the person is dead of a lethal quantity of an ultrashot acting barbiturate ... television representatives, two newspaper representatives, and two radio representatives. No one related either by blood or by marriage to the person being executed or to the victim is permitted to be present during the execution. (New Jersey Statutes Annotated: Title 2C Code of Criminal Justice: 2C: 37 to 2C: End) There are two very important Supreme Court cases dealing with capital punishment. In 1972, in the case of Furman vs. Georgia ... years later, in the case of Gregg vs. Georgia, the Supreme Court shifted in the opposite direction, and ruled that "the punishment of death does not invariably violate the Constitution." The Court ruled that these new statutes contained "objective standards to guide, regularize, and make rationally reviewable the process of imposing the sentence of death." (Bedau, Hugo Adam, American Civil Liberties Union, prodigy) There are many different reasons, pro and ...
- 13305: The Death Penalty Should Continue to be Used in the U.S.
- ... death penalty has been declared constitutional in 1976, thousands of people have been placed on death row and 314 of them have been executed.( Yaffe,1) Thirty-eight states now allow the death penalty, with New York being the last to adapt this legislation last March. Massachusetts and Iowa have been trying to pass a law that would to allow the death penalty to be used in their states. Capital punishment ... these prisoners, they won't have to suffer. Another reason the people who oppose the death penalty feel that it is unfair is that it denies the person the privilege to be retried if any new evidence comes up. On the average, an inmate in kept in prison 8 years before their death sentence is carried out.(Yaffe,2) If no evidence is found by then to prove their true innocence ... Focus, 18 November 1995: CD Newsbank. Rodriquez, Era M. "Court Ponders Limits of Its Own Power." The Recorder, 19 March 1996: Internet. Yaffe, Deborah. "Federal Court Weighs in on California Rule for Death Row Cases." New York Times, 4 June 1996: CD Newsbank.
- 13306: Psychodelic Drugs
- ... be novel and fascinating . Because LSD diminishes an individual's capacity to differentiate the boundaries of one object from another, and oneself from the environment, some users report a pleasant feeling of oneness with the world. The description above is one side of the coin, the so-called "good trip." The other side of the coin is the "bad trip," in which hallucinations, loss of boundaries, and perceptual changes are experienced ... of motor coordination. Another drug, PCP (Angel Dust) is sometimes marketed as LSD. It is cheaper and easier to make, and it is potentially lethal. Ecstasy Like cocaine, Ecstasy (3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is not a new drug. It was synthesized in 1914 by a pharmaceutical company for use as an appetite suppressant, but was never marketed. It has been "rediscovered" in recent years and goes by the name of MDMA, ADAM ...
- 13307: Decriminalization vs. Prohibition
- ... only person that I couldn't say no to. I took a hit. Within fifteen minutes, I felt the most exquisite feeling I had ever experienced. I felt as though I was in a different world. It was at this moment that I knew things would be different for me, but I was still unsure about it, because I had heard of the dangers of drug use. I decided to do ... viewed as a wonder drug. It was an effective pain killer, it relaxed the body and proved to dramatically reduce stress, yet it showed very few side effects. After a while, however, people started finding new ways to use it. These ways would not only perform the tasks the drug was intended to perform, they would actually give the person a euphoric sensation. However, these ways of using it were not ...
- 13308: Marijuana
- ... variations in potency and the irregularity in absorbtion. The time delay before the onset of the possible effects of marijuana lowered it's popularity as a medicine as did the introduction of a variety of new and better medicines like aspirin, morpheine (habit forming), chloral, barbituates tranquilizers, and when it got on the list of drugs thought by the world community to require legal restrictions. Our first President, George Washington, grew cannabis on his plantation. The cannabis he grew was more fibrous and is better known as hemp. Hemp was used to make rope, twine ...
- 13309: LSD
- ... who was searching for possible therapeutic uses of Ergot. Hoffman continued his experiments, but never came in contact with the crystals until1943. (LSD can be absorbed through the skin.) Hoffman then sent LSD around the world to be tested and investigated to find medical uses. Lysergic acid deviates were found to relieve migraines and control postpartum hemorrhage because it causes veins to contract, but also caused gangrene of the limbs, and ... once familiar shapes distorted beyond recognition. The hallucinations become intense, and total unreal objects may appear. A user may go through a profound "mystical" experience where they find insight or enlightenment about themselves or the world around them. The fourth stage is the downfall where the drug wears off and the user re-enters the normal world. LSD was very popular in the late 60's for its properties of "realization", transcendence, or the all-knowing effect that LSD often gives. But the use of LSD quickly faded because of it' ...
- 13310: Decriminalize Marijuana for the Good of America
- ... to escalate the drug war. This policy has obviously done nothing to stop the recreational use of drugs in this country, on the contrary it is causing great harm. It's time to try something new. When most people imagine the legalization of marijuana, they fear a marijuana free-for-all with everybody constantly getting high. Legalization would be a burdensome task for the U.S. Government. In fact, the legal ... groups like Cypress Hill and the Black Crowes. Increasing public support and media attention will slowly force the legalization issue into the forefront of the political arena. If the widespread acceptance continues among the powerful new voting block -- college students, the policy towards marijuana could change in the near future. Weighing both the costs and the benefits the decriminalization/legalization of marijuana seems inevitable. Many of the purported myths about its ... Dallas Morning News 9 December 1994. Cauchon, Dennis. "Marijuana: Medical Enigma." USA Today 1 Oct. 1996, national ed.: 4A. Courtwright David T. "NO!" American Heritage Feb. - March 1995: 43, 50-56. Goldman, Albert. Grass Roots. New York: Harper & Row 1979. Hager, Paul. "Marijuana Myths." ICLU drug task force literature. Available: http://www.parinoia.com/drugs/mariijuana/facts/marijuana-myths. Himmelstein, Jerome L. The Strange Career of Marijuana [sic]. Westport Connecticut: ...
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