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- 2421: The Prohibition
- ... 24 percent between 1920 and 1921. In addition, the number of federal convicts over the course of the prohibition period increased 561 percent. The crime rate increased because prohibition destroyed legal jobs, created black-market violence, diverted resources from enforcement of other laws, and increased prices people had to pay for prohibited goods (Thorton, 10). The contributing factor to the sudden increase of felonies was the organization of crime, especially in ...
- 2422: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... outpatient drug therapy or sold drugs at a lower price commit much less crime (Duke). Even the DEA admits that, "Drug use was common among inmates serving time for robbery, burglary, and drug offenses" ("Crime, Violence"). Drug Prohibition has been very costly, detrimental to our relations with other countries, and harmful to users and society alike. All this while trying to battle an enemy who is not as dangerous as it ...
- 2423: The Push For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... illegal industry able to inflate prices. This is hauntingly familiar to the prohibition era of gangsters present when alcohol was illegal in the 1920s. Because drugs are sold on the black market, they cause violence, deaths due to no quality regulation, and diseases from sharing illegal drug paraphernalia (ACLU 1). The American Civil Liberties advocates the full decriminalization of the use, possession, manufacture, and distribution of drugs (ACLU 1). It ...
- 2424: The Rodney King Case
- ... America. The actions of Sgt. Stacy Koon, Officer Laurence Powell, Officer Tim Wind, and Officer Ted Briseno, which were captured on videotape the night of March 3, 1991, and the three days of rioting and violence that followed the trial shows how much differently people think when it comes to justice. In her article Karen Garner states that Rodney King and two friends were stopped and detained by the California Highway ...
- 2425: The Death Penalty: Why We Should Have Capital Punishment?
- ... same countries who have abolished capital punishment because it is "barbaric" to defend public safety that way are at the same time prepared to enforce political power and defend their territorial claims through infinitely more violence and bloodshed than the death penalty would ever require. It seems to me that those nations are just trying to rationalize their apathy and scorn for any institution that doesn't serve their self-serving ...
- 2426: Heroin Abuse
- ... of controlled heroin trials, legal injecting rooms and greater availability of clean needles should be given consideration. Lightening of the law would bring drug use out of the shadows it has long inhabited, removing the violence, criminality and risk which go hand in hand with the current drug trade. It is argued that any easing of drug laws would reduce the cost, and increase the availability of street heroin, but if ...
- 2427: Smoke The Prohibition!
- ... the lives of every citizen. It is unfortunate that our politicians, and even ourselves are too stubborn to even consider it. Bibliography "CIA, Contras, and Crack." The Christian Science Monitor. 1 Oct. 1996:20. "Crime, Violence, and Drug Use Go Hand-in-Hand." Online. World Wide Web. http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/legaliz/claim1.html. July 6, 1997. Duke, Steven B. "How Legalization Would Cut Crime." Los Angeles Times. (21 ...
- 2428: Outlaws In The Frontier
- ... in 1866. After the Civil War there was the growth of the cattle kingdom in Texas and neighboring states. Cattle rustling and horse theft turned into significant operations. Range wars bred a great amount of violence. Cattlemen fought over land and water rights, and they fought with great bitterness against sheep farmers. In Texas, range wars were fought over the use of barbed wire to fence grazing land. By the end ...
- 2429: Religion and Capital Punishment
- ... is built on a different set of morals than those they condemn. Given this parallel, an execution cannot logically be used to condemn killing; as it is killing. Capital punishment is using a criminals physical violence against that person and this would not be just. To assist in dealing with the question of the moral nature of the death penalty, one must examine what the word "right" means. While a state ...
- 2430: Robert Mapplethorpe And Obscenity Charges
- ... included in Lady: Lisa Lyon (1983) and Robert Mapplethorpe: Certain People (1985). The art world is driven by a quest for novelty. Novelty enjoys cultural tensions and controversy, and, in recent years, must descend to violence, obscenity, and vulgarity, to find it. Even the definition of avant garde, always the essence of modern art, has changed. Whereas it once meant "the presentation of classic social themes in new artistic forms", it ...
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