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- 851: The Death Penalty Is Needed
- ... all are poor, a significant number are mentally retarded or otherwise mentally disabled, more than 40 percent are African American, and a inappropriate number are Native American, Latino and Asian. Does the Death Penalty deter crime, especially murder? No, there is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime. States that have death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws. And states that have abolished capital punishment, or instituted it, show no significant changes in either crime or murder rates. Don't murderers deserve to ...
- 852: Juvenile Justice
- ... the heart of this controversy: the juvenile justice system. For the past several years the system has been under attack by every one from state legislatures to parenteen groups. Our solution to the rising juvenile crime problem- to get tougher. According to a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll, 60 percent of Americans believe that a teenager convicted of murder should get the death penalty (ollson48). In response to this get tough mood, more and more states are passing legislation to try youths as adults for more types of crime at younger ages. Colorado for example has a brand new type of tough love for their juvenile threats to society, this new love', so it is termed consists of lowering the age so that juveniles ... the current age limits for execution. Ruling on the Oklahoma case of a fifteen-year-old murderer, the high court declared the death penalty unconstitutional for anyone younger than the age of Sixteen when the crime was committed. Such a young person is not capable of acting with the degree of culpability that can justify the ultimate penalty, the courts said. Presently, states cannot set their minimum age lower than ...
- 853: The Positive And Negative Effects of DNA Profiling
- ... than 1,000 in the U.S. since 1987) has been increasing dramatically despite the inconclusive testing by the scientific community in many aspects of forensic identification. A correlation between DNA patterns taken from a crime scene and taken from the suspect has often been enough to charge a person with the offense in spite of proof that some procedures for testing DNA are fallible by legal and scientific standards. The ... he was shocked by the insurance company's response. Sophisticated DNA testing had revealed in Frank's tissues a single missing copy of a so-called RB antioncogene and minor variations in two other genes. Computer analysis showed the molecular misprints more than tripled his risk of getting small-cell lung cancer by age 55. His application was rejected. With the newfound ability to reveal an individual's molecular secrets come ... will allow society to benefit in appropriate ways." Without the proper constraints, the price of glimpsing one's medical future is high indeed. DNA profiling can be an extremely beneficial tool in the war against crime. However, when used for discriminatory purposes, this tool becomes a crime in itself. The ability to compare and contrast a person's genetic code with another should not be taken lightly, for with this ...
- 854: The Importance of Plea Bargaining in Criminal Trials
- ... plea bargaining with criminals is wrong. The entire basis of the argument against plea bargaining says that criminals should not testify or have anything to do with the prosecution because they were involved with the crime. We fail to realize that without plea bargaining many criminals would never be punished for their crimes at all. It is as simple as that. Granted, a plea bargain is, by definition, a compromise. But ... be increased by 900% (according to Tom Wallace, a public defender from Baltimore, Maryland). It is also important to consider the length of time that would be required to try every person indicted for a crime. With the courts as over burdened as they are, taking every case to trial could clog up the courts almost indefinitely. Since every person in this country is guaranteed a speedy trial (courtesy of the ... there is lying but every part of the court system will have a little of that. The affirmative speaker has totally contradicted himself. He stated that plea bargaining is when a person admits to his crime and therefore is rewarded with a lighter sentence. Is the affirmative side saying that criminals admit to other crimes than what they have done. It appears to me that he is stating that a ...
- 855: MP3paper
- ... is Shorthand for Moving Picture Experts Group-1, Audio Layer-3(Isenberg). MP3s are files that are compacted and able to be downloaded. They contain songs that have been recorded from a CD onto a computer. There are several different ways of receiving these files and putting them onto your computer. If you can find an easy way of downloading MP3s it is very possible that you may never want to buy another album again. MP3 is only one of several types of digital CD quality music that can be saved and also played on your personal computer. I personally like MP3 the best because I find them to sound better. To play these files you need a MP3 player. There are a couple different types of players out on the internet. ...
- 856: Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment
- ... in the course of kidnapping. First degree murder is not punishable by death. One who willfully murders a cashier is no less evil then the murderer of a police officer. Both have committed the worst crime. Both should be subjected to the worst possible punishment. That is justice. Standing in the way of that justice, however, are the likes of Rev. Miller, who brim with such pity for criminals that they ... Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota. The U.S. has over 1.5 million incarcerated in prisons, by far the largest system in the world, and that does not include those in jail. The tough-on- crime politicians, of course, are elected by promising bigger and better jails for those scum bags. I once heard someone say, "Building jails to lessen crime is like building more cemeteries to prevent AIDS." Prison building is the fastest growing industry in America. In fact, prisons can no longer be called prisons. The politically correct term is correction- industrial complexes. ...
- 857: The Mafia and Street Gangs
- The Mafia and Street Gangs Throughout history, crime has existed in many different forms and has been committed by not only individuals, but by groups as well. Crime is something that knows no boundaries; it exists in all cultures, is committed by all races, and has existed in all time periods. Crime exists as a part of the economic institution and is a lifestyle for many people. (The True Story) Crime also exists in both organized and unorganized forms. Since the early 1930's, "organized" crime ...
- 858: Internet Junkies
- We have all seen the pictures, in our head and on television, of the typical Internet junkie: alone in the dark, he sits glued to the soft glow of the computer screen, hand on the mouse, eyes glaring into the screen. His eyes flutter through the endless web pages and online chats, fingers gliding over the keyboard, seemingly pressing keys at random. There is a soda ... are usually in their teens or twenties - the age premier of the Internet addiction spending their golden years in a trance. He has withdrawn himself from society, settling into his little world consisting of a computer, modem, and the vast, sprawling network named "the Internet" which is everywhere, but nowhere. The world in which you hear a lot about, but never see. The place which is quickly becoming our world, not ... made the whole country seem smaller. With transatlantic cables and satellites, the advent of television and CNN, and now the Internet, the world has become nothing more than a picture on a screen, be it computer, television or otherwise. Our image of the world has changed incredibly: from being immeasurable in size and unconquerable, it has shrunk to a measly little abstract thought based on pictures and sounds relayed to ...
- 859: Individual, Group And Society
- ... salary rather than a company. Who am I? My answer used to be; I am student. I am an over weight person. I am a nap-lover. I am a boring person. I am a computer programmer. I am a guitar player. I am ---. But since I came to the United States, a few things were added. These are; I am Japanese. I am an Asian. I am a yellow skin ... might explain something in this case. I do not like asking for an assistance or help. This is one of my faults on learning or accomplishing something. There are good examples. I have been using computer for a few years, and I have liked it. But computer is sometimes complicated thing, it needs some knowledge to solve problem or figure out how to do something. Fortunately my father is a sort of computer technician and programmer, he knows much about computer. ...
- 860: Marijuana Should Be Legalized
- ... are addicts from marijuana need our help and compassion, not punishment by law (Ending Nightmare). The legalization of marijuana would benefit our country in many ways. It would improve our economy, there would be less crime related to drug use, victims of glaucoma and other diseases would have better medicines, and it would allow police and other law enforcement officials to devote more resources to hard drugs like crack and cocaine ... End Nightmare). This is true today. Some marijuana contains harmful chemicals. However, if it were made legally, these harmful chemicals would not be included in the marijuana. When alcohol was banned, a new wave a crime and violence was created by bootleggers conducting turf wars with one another. when prohibition ended, so did the violence caused by the bootleggers (Violence). Now, alcohol is legal for adults and there are no more ... of the drugs used today. If it were legalized, valuable resources could be used to stop cocaine and heroin, which are much more dangerous. Because of the War on Drugs and new drug laws, the crime rate in America has been increasing by a margin of thirty-two percent since 1976 (Ending Nightmare). The War on Drugs also drives up drug prices. This attracts more people to the business. When ...
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