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- 10921: Crime - A Game You Can’t Win
- Crime - A Game You Can’t Win The American public is alarmed about crime, and with good reason. Our crime rate is unacceptably high, and many Americans feel like prisoners in their own homes, afraid to venture out for fear of becoming another statistic. For more than 20 years, state and federal crime control policies have been based on ...
- 10922: Violent Crimes Involving Guns
- ... equipment in their dwellings. (8) Israel, which has an extremely low crime rate but is vulnerable to enemies including terrorists, depends on the defensive value of widespread civilian gun possession. Denmark and Finland also have high rates of gun ownership and low crime rates. The experience of these countries shows that widespread gun possession is compatible with low crime rates. How many violent crimes involving guns are committed each year? FBI ...
- 10923: Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair
- ... by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of social issues such as crime and drugs. Guns have become closely linked to drugs and murder in the public mind. Drug dealing and high tech weaponry have escalated the warfare in cities between long established loosely knit gangs. Predominantly guns of crime are used by gang members. Many police officers are killed every year due to drug and gang ...
- 10924: The Rodney King Case
- ... states “it was the defense contention that the officers believed King to be under the effects of PCP, a powerful hallucinogenic, and therefore extremely dangerous” (824-25). The defense attorney knew that because of the high profile of this case, their clients could not receive a fair trial in Los Angeles. Evans implies, “because of the extraordinary pretrial publicity, a defense motion to move the proceedings from Los Angeles succeeded, and ...
- 10925: The Death Penalty: Why We Should Have Capital Punishment?
- ... Strongly urbanized states are more likely to have higher crime rates than states that are more rural, such as those that lack capital punishment. The states that have capital punishment have it because of their high crime rate, not the other way around. In the 1920’s and 30’s, death penalty advocates were known to refer to England as a means of proving capital punishment's deterrent effect. Back then ...
- 10926: Analysis Of International Law
- ... resources. The Court observed: It is one of the advances in maritime international law, resulting from the intensification of fishing, that the former laissez-faire treatment of the living resources of the sea in the high seas has been replaced by a recognition of a duty to have due regard of the rights of other States and the needs of conservation for the benefit of all. Consequently, both parties have the ...
- 10927: Gun Control in the U.S.
- ... restricting the ability of individual citizens to purchase weapons. The different types of gun control vary from waiting periods between when you purchase the gun and when you actually get it, background checks so that high-risk people can't purchase guns through legal channels, and completely banning certain types of guns. There are countless ways for criminals to avoid these government regulations, causing them to only render the ability of ...
- 10928: Should Drugs Be Made Legal?
- ... be legalized because there would be an increase in drug abuse due to its availability. Once legalized, drugs would become cheaper and more accessible to people who previously had not tried drugs, because of the high price or the legal risk. Drug abuse would skyrocket! Addicts who tend to stop, not by choice, but because the drugs aren't accessible would now feed the addiction if drugs were made legal. These ...
- 10929: The Death Of A Criminal
- ... with the American economy? American tax money is used to support hard core criminals like murderers, rapists, etc. that are serving their sentence. At the end of 1992 State and Federal prisons reached a record high of 883,593 prisoners. This record means that approximately 1,143 prison bed spaces are needed per week due to overcrowding. To put this in an economic prospective, on the average each prisoner cost $22 ...
- 10930: Capital Punishment: Right or Wrong?
- ... However, in some cases, these people weren’t let off the hook, and were executed. Why should someone be executed for defending, or standing up for themselves. Another reason is technological advances. With all the high-tech things we have these days more and more cases are being turned around. People who have been thought to have killed someone for sure, have been found innocent in court. Sometimes they are found ...
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