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- 6391: Effects of Television Violence
- ... are many carried out. These solutions are easy to implement, but are often overlooked because of commercial purposes. One such solution is to "create conflict without killing." Michael Landon, who starred in and directed "Little House on the Prairie" managed to do so in his programs. His goal was to put moral lessons in his show in an attempt to teach while entertaining. On the program "Hill Street Blues" the conflicts ...
- 6392: Serial Killers and Society
- ... was also an incredible decade for shock, fear and serial killers. John Wayne Gacy, an amateur clown, was a pedophiliac homosexual. He tortured and killed thirty three little boys and stored their remains under his house. David Berkowitz, a.k.a. the Son of Sam, stalked New York City from nineteen-sixty-seven to nineteen-seventy-seven. He claimed to have been following a voice from his dog that told him ...
- 6393: Capital Punishment
- ... who support the abolishment of capital punishment would ask about rehabilitation, the re-training of prisoners with an employable skill for use when they are released. Not only is it expensive to re-train and house criminals, but with some, it is just not possible, because they are hardened criminals and will not change. For those people, it is just not worth the effort and the taxpayers' money to even attempt ...
- 6394: If Marijuana Were To Be Legal
- ... to be no end to. "In 1989, a Republican county executive of Mercer County N.J. estimated that it would cost him as much as 1 billion dollars to build the jail space needed to house all the hard-core drug users in Trenton alone" (Long 128). All of this money could be used on better things. By lifting the ban on marijuana use and treating it like other drugs such ...
- 6395: Case for Legalizing Marijuana
- ... 11. p365-347. 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
- 6396: Legalization of Drugs
- ... legitimate businesses combined.(Wink, p.2) They have a lower cost than throwing people in prison. It costs $52,000 a year to detain someone at Riker's Island. However, a years stay at Phoenix House in New York, for example, costs $15,000.(Yoffe, p.1) If it is not already obvious, the way in which the government goes about it's drug war is inoperative. Money that is spent ...
- 6397: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... community, especially the children in the community, should be the primary concern. While I agree with John DiIulio, that we need more churches, I also feel that if more jails need to be built to house young thugs, build them. If children as young as 7, 8, or 9 yrs of age need to be incarcerated like adults, do it. While this may seem harsh, I believe that it is the ...
- 6398: Drinking Age
- ... in at one point in my life. I'm going to cut the bull shit and talk about the facts. Here's what parties today look like for teens. The setting, a beach or a house with no adults around to say what's wrong. The people are a bunch of teens of both sexes. The environment is any kind of drugs and or alcohol. These consists of hard liquor like ...
- 6399: Community-Based Policing: Law Enforcement For The Twentieth Century
- ... so it will not get worse or create other problems. An example of a tool used in "Problem Solving" is what is called the "broken window" theory which suggests that an abandoned, or non-maintained house (or community) will attract disorder or mischief and the criminal element. Through "Problem Solving" the window is fixed, deterioration is prevented and the community is safe once more. Like any other part of C.B ...
- 6400: Capital Punishment
- ... he dies shall be put to death." (Exodus 21:12). The bible also suggests stoning a woman if she unmarried sex and had "wrought folly on Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house" (Deuteronomy 22:21) England recognized seven major crimes that called for execution by the end of the 15th century. These crimes were: murder, theft (by deceitfully taking someone goods), burglary, rape, and arson. As time ...
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