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- 6361: Should Marijuana Be Legalized?
- ... active substances known." One of marijuanas greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. Marijuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs. Marijuana as medicine has been studied for many years. In some cultures, it is already used as medicine. There are many good uses for marijuana to be used as medicine, which will ...
- 6362: A Few Media Commandments
- ... United States of America that was founded on freedom of speech and freedom of the press certainly has brought about ethical dilemmas. With the Constitution protecting these institutions, the only hope that they do not abuse this protected privilege is that of self-regulation.
- 6363: Decriminalizing Prostitution
- ... the easiest form of organized crime is prostitution due to the number of men/woman willing to be customers to prostitutes. Violence is one of the major problems for women and prostitutes. Sixty percent of abuse to prostitutes is caused by clients, twenty percent by the police and another twenty percent due to domestic relationships. The involvement of weapons concurred for prostitution has increased greatly since 1995. The United States Department ...
- 6364: The Debate Over Capital Punishment
- ... will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit as to what they can do, until they have learned it themselves. Therefore, capital punishment will never truly work as a deterrent, because of human nature to ignore practised ...
- 6365: Serial Killers in the U.S
- ... more frequent. We have even seen up to a half dozen of their cases on the news simultaneously. Cases such as San Francisco's Zodiac Killer; New York City's Son of Sam; Atlanta's child murderer, Wayne Williams; Los Angeles's Hillside Strangler; and Milwaukee's own, Jeffrey Dahmer. Many times, they fit into a pattern, but sometimes there is no pattern. The phenomenon is world-wide, from England's ...
- 6366: Date Rape
- ... were making love" (Hennessy 3). Women need to be strong as well as be educated with what date rape is. They can't back down on their gaurd. Rapists need to pay for how they abuse women, both externally as well as internally. A 1988 study showed that more than half the female teens surveyed thought there were times when it would be acceptable for a man to force sex (Date ...
- 6367: The Death Penalty
- ... most states the law allows the family of the victims of the convicted to witness the executions. These executions seem so barbaric in a society where human life is supposedly valued so highly and every child grows up hearing uncountable times that two wrongs do not make a right. It is also not surprising to note that the vast majority of people on death row in the US are poor non ...
- 6368: Young Offenders
- ... he did. Another case talking about the young offenders act is the James Bulger. Had the murder of toddler James Bulger occurred in Canada, his killer would never been charged. Under the Canadian law, no child under the age of 12 can be charged with any criminal act, no matter how odious. This was a cases which created a lot of heated discussion about the young offenders act. The discussion was ...
- 6369: The Positive And Negative Effects of DNA Profiling
- ... will outweigh the advantages when private institutions develop access to this database and use the information for discriminatory purposes. The impending usage of a national DNA database poses many possible risks of political and commercial abuse of such information, along with the danger this information falling into the hands of unfriendly parties, are unpredictable. Such unpredictability, certainly, is a violation of people's rights to privacy. For instance, if a private ...
- 6370: Corruption in the NYPD
- ... there has been strong opposition within NYPD and the mayor Guliani's office. Furthermore, CCRB does not jurisdiction to investigate police officer corruption, and has only the power to recommend punishment for excessive force, and abuse of power to the police commissioner. There have been signs of serious conflict between the police and CCRB, and with lack of cooperation by the police, the power of CCRB IS meaningless. A true civilian ...
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