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- 2291: Capital Punishment
- ... There has been a general trend to a more punitive society (e.g. the "Three strikes and your out Rule") over this period and cities such as New York claim great success in reducing crime rates through the use of "zero tolerance" policing policies. But otherwise that has been political and economic stability over the last six years and no obvious social changes. Improvements in medical techniques have also saved many ...
- 2292: Prohibition...A Waste?
- ... a new generation of Americans disregarded the law and rejected the attitude of self-sacrifice that was part of the bedrock of the prohibition movement. Nevertheless, it was a long time after repeal before consumption rates rose to their pre-prohibition levels. Prohibition was almost a big mistake that the government almost missed. In the end of Prohibition people drank frequently if they could afford it. Most of the rich held ...
- 2293: Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
- ... the death penalty really deter criminals? There is very little valid evidence to suggest that capital punishment deters criminals. The most recent study of research findings on the relationship between the death penalty and homicide rates, conducted for the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and 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 ...
- 2294: Serial Killers
- ... worship, or a lust for blood. Psychotics are in their own world where murder is a perfectly normal way of life. Psychotics will also kill to appease a voice driving them crazy or a sexual interest which seems fine to them. The label "serial killer" is a group of abstract murderers all mixed up together. A "serial killer" is not just one kind of murderer.
- 2295: Capital Punishment
- ... or not the death penalty really deters crime is another issue. For example, the United States is the only Western nation that still allows the death penalty, yet it has one of the highest crime rates. During the 1980's, death penalty states averaged an annual rate of 7.5 criminal homicides per 100,000, while abolition states averaged a rate of 7.4 per 100,000. That means murder was ...
- 2296: Capital Punishment
- ... people can participate in each other's lives. If you press the agape motif to its highest manifestation, it becomes an ethic of non-resistance to evil, unqualified pacifism, and self-sacrifice in which self-interest is totally abandoned. The non-resisting Jesus on the cross who surrenders his life to save others is the epitome of agape at this level. Love at this point becomes superethical. It is grounded in ...
- 2297: Capital Punishment: Costs of The Death Penalty
- ... an insulting disguise for such an obscurity of fairness and logic. The death penalty is frivolous and discriminatory in its procedure because of the unreasonable prices we pay to execute certain groups at much higher rates than others. We pay different prices for using a death penalty. Sadly, today more than ever, the dollar seems to be the endlessly interchangeable standard of value. We strive to make money, save money and ...
- 2298: The Police Exception and the Domestic Abuse Law
- ... citizens) that have been convicted of the crime. This means that the action had to be so serious that someone pursued a lawsuit against the alleged criminal and a servant of the public's best interest had to see that the action was worthy of punishment. A "poke in the chest" at the local bar with very unlikely draw a conviction of Domestic Abuse. If the action was serious enough to ...
- 2299: Opinion on the Death Penalty
- ... killing the killers, except your ignorance for human life and well being. Some thought has been that if you do "kill the killer", it will deter others from committing such a terrible crime. However, murder rates in Canada have remained the same and there is no significant difference when comparisons are made of those States who still have the death penalty. A widely publicized execution might reduce homicides, but only for ...
- 2300: Adolescent Drug Abuse
- ... written by Wade Silverman. This article was published in The Journal of Adolescent Chemical Dependency in 1991. This article presented the results of a survey done in a rural school system to assess the prevalence rates of substance use and related lifestyle variables for teens and their parents. C) Source 3: The third source that I used was a newspaper article taken from the February 1, 1994 edition of the Los ...
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