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- 1511: Juvenile Crime and Punishment: Justice or Injustice
- ... of years of serious tensions between children and parents. In the U.S., parents and children both complain that they receive no respect from each other. Yet mostly because of the spread of guns and drugs, younger and younger children are killing and being killed. Just recently there were several shootings involving children less than twelve years of age. According to children rights advocates, even in the most violent years in ...
- 1512: Capital Punishment
- ... be committed because the criminal thinks they are too clever to be caught. Most capital crimes are committed in the heat of the moment during times of great emotional trauma or under the influence of drugs or alcohol, when logical thinking is in no doubt absent (NCADP). In such cases, persons will commit a crime of violence regardless of the consequences. The majority of the evidence shows that the death penalty ...
- 1513: Marijuana: Controversial Smoke
- Marijuana: Controversial Smoke Drugs have always been a controversial topic in the United States. With the announcement that marijuana could be legalized the debate had grown from a wild fire to a volcano. This is a hot topic because ...
- 1514: Hate Crimes and Punishment
- ... matter why the victim is chosen, he or she was still harmed, the family is still going to grieve, and someone must be punished (Staff editorial 1). Whether a person is killed for money or drugs or out of hate or prejudice, the fact still remains that he or she has been killed. With hate crime laws, the hate is being looked at, more so than the crime itself. Even though ...
- 1515: Cocaine
- ... people lost their lives with cocaine but also so have thousands of others. Cocaine not only hurts the user but also the people around them such as family and friends. Referring to the use of drugs in general there are no such things as winners, only losers.
- 1516: Drinking and Driving
- Drinking and Driving Every year almost 20,000 people are killed in accidents involving people (or persons) under the influence of alcohol or drugs. That means that someone is killed from alcohol-related accidents approximately every 7 hours and 29 minutes. These types of accidents end up costing the nation almost $50 billion dollars each year. Which is a ...
- 1517: The Death Penalty: The Deterrent
- ... murder. This is not the example that needs to be set for future criminals. . At 23 years old, Tanya Faye Tucker with an ice pick, brutally stabbed two people to death. Tucker was loaded on drugs when her violent crimes were committed. Claiming to have found Christianity in prison, this assisted in making her a model prisoner. Christianity and the death penalty Have a very forceful argument. The 5th commandment is ...
- 1518: The Death Penalty
- ... reduction of the homicide rate. Does the death penalty deter homicides? People murder for various reasons and under many different situations: - during domestic disputes, when passions are inflamed - Under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, when the individual is not in rational control. - Hit men murdering doing contract killings; they typically never expect to be arrested. - psychopaths and other mentally ill individuals who have little regard for human life and ...
- 1519: Capital Punishment
- ... Those asked the question have already committed the crime and thus does not reflect the sentiment of those considering a crime. Also, people often kill when under great "emotional stress or under the influence of drugs or alcohol - times when they are not thinking of the consequences" (Death Penalty Focus). Career criminals and those that plan a crime do not expect to get caught, thus making the consequences an invalid issue ...
- 1520: Marijuana Legalization
- ... America faced a significant drug problem. Through education, law enforcement and treatment, illicit drug use was reduced in the 1980s by fifty percent. Teenagers graduating in 1992 were fifty percent less likely to use drugs than were those who graduated in 1979. (Marijuana as a Medicine, California Narcotic Officers Association, www.cnoa.org/marijuana.) In 1993, after twelve years of decline, illicit drug use began to rise and it continues ...
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