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- 1541: Capital Punishment
- ... murder by a defendant with a previous conviction for intentional murder; murder while under a life sentence; murder during kidnapping; illegal sale of cocaine, methadone, or heroin to a person who dies from using these drugs; murder during first- degree sexual assault; multiple murders; the defendant committed the offense(s) with an assault weapon."(AOL1) For the state of Delaware murder with aggravating circumstances, "including murder of a child victim fourteen ...
- 1542: The Threat of Death
- ... death for what he is doing, capital punishment is not very likely going to have a deterring effect. Another situation that the opponents build their platform upon is in the case of offenders impaired by drugs or alcohol or in an emotional rage. If a person is not thinking straight, then chances are very good that they are not going to be dwelling on what the consequences of their actions might ...
- 1543: Handgun Control in the United States
- ... be broken? Certainly a federal law making handguns ill-egal would sharply decrease the number of guns sold and make their street price much higher, though, like Prohibition in the 1920s or the war against drugs in the 1980s, it might be very ex-pensive to enforce. But with 60 million handguns already in private hands, even an effective ban on guns might not be enough. One intriguing possibility is to ...
- 1544: The Positive And Negative Effects of DNA Profiling
- ... the black race. Furthermore, such biological approaches towards criminality do not take into account sociological factors, such as poverty, and would inevitably lead to the practice of controlling minority children with the use of therapeutic drugs or worse. For this and other reasons, courts of all levels must implement harsher scrutiny in the area of genetic profiling and its uses. There is also a current effort to create a national database ...
- 1545: Juvenile Justice
- ... the alternative of prevention and intervention programs. More specifically, programs designed to modify those young adults who have already murdered, or who have already attempted to murder (these programs also apply to juveniles involved in drugs, gangs, theft and so on). The only problem with these kind of programs is that they don't work; for one they don't place a strong enough emphasis on what they are doing or ...
- 1546: Heroin: The Most Dangerous Drug
- ... lifestyle of the dealers, and heroin junkies are probably the most feared and avoided of all addicts. As for an objecive continuum from "hard" to soft substances, this all depends on who is deciding which drugs are the worst or the best. many things can be used to decide, such as the level of addiction, the extent of the withdrawal, ad most importantly the amount between the effective and lethal doses ...
- 1547: Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
- ... Control, in 1988, has concluded that:"this research has failed to provide scientific proof that executions have a greater deterrent effect than life imprisonment."1. Many murders are committed under the influence of alcohol and drugs, some murderers might be mentally ill. If one of these factors influenced a person, how could he/she control and asses what he/she is doing or be deterred from committing the crime? It would ...
- 1548: Death to the Death Penalty
- ... serious crimes such as murders consider the consequences of their actions. Murders are often committed when the criminal is blinded with passion, when emotions prevail over reason. They are sometimes committed under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or in panic moments, when the culprit is discovered while he steals, as I mentioned already. Some murderers have very serious psychiatric problems or are mental patients. In none of these cases is ...
- 1549: Teen Violence and Its Causes
- ... is wrong and cause a child to become depressed. And a depressed child is not a functioning child, psychologically. And an unfunctioning child is at risk of becoming psychologically unbalanced. This all can lead to drugs, alcoholism, or even abuse to themselves or to others. Then they have become a child that is immoral and a problem to society. All this from divorce, all this because of parents, and an outcome ...
- 1550: The Social Plague of Crime and Criminals
- ... for themselves. An area that is open to much criticism by supporters of this theory is the resulting situation conjugal visits can produce. Several crimes have been committed during unsupervised conjugal visits including spouses smuggling drugs and weapons into the facilities, i nmates escaping, and inmates committing murder, child abuse and domestic violence.(Assemblywoman Paula Boland) California is one state that allows for conjugal visits for prisoners. On average $22,000 ...
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