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- 2271: Why the Legal Driving Age Should be Raised
- ... or her license and thinking that they can do anything. What they don't realize is what danger they are putting themselves, as well as others into. As a group, teenage drivers have high crash rates per mile driven. What isn't so widely known is that the problem is worst among 16-year-olds, the age when most beginners get licenses. Crashes involving 16-year-old drivers aren't like ...
- 2272: Drugs in Sports
- ... 6 years later, he found himself totally isolated from the sport and unable to continue. Why you may say? Was it a great injury sustained? Was it a financial problem he faced? Did he lose interest in the sport? None of these actually. The only problem John Mcewick faced was a moral one. Unfortunately John Mcewick believed that sport was something that tested the combination of natural ability, training and determination ...
- 2273: Minimum Drinking Age - 1998
- ... club culture and the marketing of extra strong drinks aimed at young people. 11 * In Australia, when the drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 years, there were significant increases in the juvenile crime rates, traffic deaths and injuries, and non-traffic hospital admissions. A 1986 study found the number of 17-20 year olds killed in road accidents in South Australia increased by 75 percent when the state cut ...
- 2274: Gun Control
- ... violent crime rate in states which kept strict CCW laws fell by an average of 24.8%. The 29 states that bought the NRA line that hidden handguns make them safer saw their violent crime rates drop by only 11.4%. Nationally, violent crime declined by 19.4% in that five year period. Violent crime actually rose in 12 of 29 states (41%) which liberalized their CCW laws over the five ...
- 2275: Electrocution is the Only Way
- ... audience at hand. Earl Maucker has chosen to write about a controversial topic that is in the back of most readers minds. Therefore, it is not very hard for him to quickly gain the interest of several readers. However, his credibility is another issue. As a newspaper columnist for the Sun Sentinel, Maucker has minimal credibility. As an editor, he makes this very evident trough his use of bias opinions ...
- 2276: How To Reduce Crime In Your Neighborhood
- ... better, and working with them you can reduce crime, develop a more united community, provide an avenue of communications between police and citizens, establish on-going crime prevention techniques in your neighborhood, and renew citizen interest in community activity. "Citizens Safety Projects" are set up to help you do this. It is a joint effort between private citizens and local police. Such programs have been started all over the country. Maybe ...
- 2277: Capital Punishment
- ... 400 lives annually since there are over twenty-two thousand murders every year (Gottfried 23.) Capital punishment opponents also argue that states without the death penalty that adjoin states with the death penalty have crime rates that are just as low (McCuen 45.) However, this is circumstantial and it must be considered that a state with the death penalty has the death penalty for a reason, and that its crime level ...
- 2278: Applied Litigation Research
- ... to become "immersed" in the field, becoming part of a group, organization, or community, examining those features of activity which presumably have greatest significance for the event or participants. Conversely, applied observers have a direct interest in the success or failure of the client's case. The purpose is to influence the outcome of trial--something attorneys are ethically bound to do. Although traditional ethnographers and sociologists attempt to remain impartial ...
- 2279: The Increasing Use Of Street Drugs
- ... the country because we have no accurate way of counting them. For some things, such as prescription drugs, tobacco, or alcohol, we have a wealth of sales information and can make much better estimations of rates of use." Society has and will always have problems. An easy escape from ones problems are drugs. To my understanding drugs can open a new door of fun and games. Unfortunately those who want to ...
- 2280: Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights
- ... much sense as banning alcohol to reduce drunk driving. Indeed, persuasive evidence shows that civilian gun ownership can be a powerful deterrent to crime. However, statistical evidence shows no correlation between waiting periods and homicide rates (Reagan 84). The image of a murderously enraged person leaving home, driving to a gun store and finding one open after 10 p.m. (when most crimes of passion occur), buying a weapon, and driving ...
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