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- 971: Young Offenders
- ... These crimes are being committed by young offenders of all ages. The crimes they are committing are get even more and more serious and in the last five years the percentage of youngsters committing more crime has increase by more then 50%. Young offenders are committing these crimes because the know that the punishment is real weak. If you ask me most young offenders think the young offenders act is a ... and trust me I am a young person I know just as other young people. A young offender is a person between the ages of 12-17. This person is a person who comities a crime and is given special rights. These right are less server then adults would get if they committee this same offenses. There are many cases where a young offender has got off much easier then a ... girl but the thing I found most shocking and the rest off the media was that when the police arrived he told them that they could not touch him. Even though he did committee the crime and he should have been charged but sadly e was right. This young offenders knows that the young offenders act is a joke and that is why he committed the crime. He could care ...
- 972: The Andromeda Strain: Summary
- ... central core was an open elevator like shaft where supplies and large materials could be lowered between levels. Seconds later the atomic self-destruct device activated! The virus had broken out of containment and the computer had detected it. Stone and Hall looked at each other and a flat computer voice added, "There are three minutes to atomic self-destruct." They knew an atomic blast would alter the virus, with each transformation killing in different ways. Since Hall was the only one with the key ... animal penetrates the core a poison gas and tranquilizer darts are released. Hall weighing the consequences of Andromeda being released decided to climb up the central core to the next level and a substation. The computer counting down to their death, "There are now two minutes to self-destruct." Hall took a deep breath and climbed in to the core. It was a round shaft extending several stories up and ...
- 973: Emma And Raskolvikov
- ... and Emma through committing adultery. Raskolnikov is an intelligent individual who feels a need to challenge both himself and his surrounding environment. When Porfiry Petrovitch discusses Raskolnikov's article about the consequences of committing a crime, the reader is given an insight as to why Raskolnikov murders the old money-lender. His published paper states that when a crime is committed by an ordinary man, he should be punished for it; when a man who is superior in intelligence commits the same crime, however, his greatness acts as a buffer between himself and the punishment, thus excusing his crime. From this paper, the reader understands that Raskolnikiv committed the crime not only because he disliked the old ...
- 974: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... the streets that enjoys beating the helpless, raping the defenseless, and robbing the penniless. About half-way through the novel, Alex is caught by the authorities. They attempt to reform him from his life of crime by using a controversial new technique that forces Alex to become physically ill at even the thought of violence. In the last chapter of the book, Alex is able to break free of the mental chains that the reform had captured his soul in, and reinstate his existence as a creature capable of moral choice by reentering his life of crime (Burgess A Clockwork Orange). Throughout the rough biographical sketch given, certain points in may be selected in which events in Burgess's life can be shown to have heavy influence on A Clockwork Orange. Burgess published A Clockwork Orange in 1962, a time in England that was marked with a great amount of crime and very violent youths. Burgess himself had once cited this setting as the source of, or at least the inspiration of the stories of horror and violence told in this novel (Baldwin A8). The ...
- 975: Book Review of "The Burning Man" by Phillip Margolin
- ... and back to his soon-to-be brother-in-law's house and then to his. That is when the police arrived and asked him to come to the station and help them solve a crime. At this time Dennis Downes and Bob Patrick, the officers who brought him there, began to question him about his whereabouts the night before and about his information on the murder that occured that night ... Wishing Well park. The questions led to Dennis Downes putting words into Gary's mouth about the murder and Bob Patrick intimidating Gary into believing he had supernatural powers and could remember everything about the crime, or in essence that he really did commit the crime. This would be the basis of Peter's defense case of Gary Harmon. He would use the entire script of this interogation of Gary Harmon to try to establish that Gary was coerced into ...
- 976: Black History
- ... three quarters of the "third strike" cases they prosecute do not involve "serious" felonies or violent acts. The California Department of Corrections has published statistics documenting 62 percent of third strike convictions are for property crime, drug crimes and other non-violent offenses. There are now 227 people doing 25-to-life in California for "petty theft with a prior." 387 people are doing 25-to-life for simple drug possession ... family is doing time along with him." A member of Families to Amend California's Three Strikes The California power structure justified the passage of their Three Strikes Law by widely promoting the impression that crime was out of control and that the existing laws were "soft on crime." In fact, neither of these things were true. During the 17 years leading up to 1994 (when three strikes went into effect), the California legislature passed more than 1,000 bills lengthening sentences or ...
- 977: The Threat of Death
- The Threat of Death As the war on crime continues, two truths hold steady: eliminating all crime is impossible, and controlling it is a must. The main weapon used to control crime in this war is deterrence. The government's deterrent for committing murder is the death penalty. The fear of death will not deter every person who contemplates murder from doing it. Whether it is ...
- 978: Law Enforcement
- ... here because they remain A basic tenet of the law enforcement profession. The police must be stable, efficient, and organized along military lines, the police must be under control of the government, the absence of crime will best prove the efficiency of police, the distribution of crime news is essential, the deployment of police strength, both by time and area, is essential. No quality is more indispensable to a police officer than a perfect command of temper; a quiet, determined police officer ... the power to enforce the law within their own city's limits. In some states, under special circumstances, city officers can exercise their power throughout out the state. Each police departments goal is to prevent crime, investigate crime, and to apprehend offenders. City police also work to control traffic, handle crowd control, and deal with emergencies and disasters. In addition, city police officers may perform the following duties, patrol areas ...
- 979: Hawthornes Life Versus Life In
- ... grows restless of waiting for her husband and figures he has died. She is mothering a child when we first meet her. The problem is she is not married and committed adultery. This is a crime in Boston that is punishable by death, but because she is a newcomer she is allowed to live but not without paying an extreme cost. She has to wear a letter A on her chest for the rest of her life so that everyone will know, and remember that she committed her crime. She is also forced to stand before the community for three hours with her child to humiliate her. While serving her time of humiliation in front of the community she recognizes her husband from England ... a doctor. The two begin to talk and they both accept responsibility for their actions. Chillingsworth does not wish to seek revenge against Hester but tells her he wants to know who she committed her crime with. Chillingsworth then requests that she not tell anyone their relation so he is not humiliated in his new surroundings. Later Hester is freed and she moves to the outskirts of town and earns ...
- 980: Elizabethan Revenge In Hamlet
- ... typical revenge play. Shakespeares Hamlet is one of many heroes of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage who finds himself grievously wronged by a powerful figure, with no recourse to the law, and with a crime against his family to avenge. Seneca was among the greatest authors of classical tragedies and there was not one educated Elizabethan who was unaware of him or his plays. There were certain stylistic and different ... plays about tragedy and revenge were very common and a regular convention seemed to be formed on what aspects should be put into a typical revenge tragedy. In all revenge tragedies first and foremost, a crime is committed and for various reasons laws and justice cannot punish the crime so the individual who is the main character, goes through with the revenge in spite of everything. The main character then usually had a period of doubt , where he tries to decide whether or ...
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