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- 2431: The Pros And Cons About Legalizing Marijuana
- ... issue considered by the mass media is whether marijuana has an effect on crime or not. As written in the "Anti-Legalization Forum," the D.E.A. believes that drug use contributes to crime and violence. Many police officers say that criminal activity is not caused by dealers, but by those that are under the influence of the drug. A study showed that among males (18-49 years old) those who ...
- 2432: Attacks On The Insanity Defense
- ... that mental illness is a myth and label applied to behavior by psychiatrists who are making political and ethical decisions, and Laing (1969;1971) who claims that labels are being used by society to impose violence and control on people. View such as these and others deny the physical and biological basis of behavioral disorders. They separate completely biology and behavior, brain and behavior, and mental and physical. The fact that ...
- 2433: The Two Different Cases Regarding Capital Punishment
- ... of giving and receiving was the social practise. Everyone would contribute to the best of ability. What would a community based on this kind of love do with those who committed brutal acts of terror, violence, and murder? Put negatively, it would not live by the philosophy of "an eye for an eye,a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life." It would act to safeguard the members ...
- 2434: Serial Killers
- ... women was on a killing spree that lasted a decade. As a child, he grew up in a male dominated household. His father would scream, yell, and beat his mother. Ted grew up with domestic violence ingrained into his personality. He tried many times, but relationships never lasted. He was a charming and well educated man. To some he was considered a hero. When he was a teenager, he saved a ...
- 2435: Murder
- ... of supporting themselves without a child, and with the added burden of a new baby, they are often driven to poverty. The child grows up in an environment that is unhealthy, and often leads to violence. Additionally, more mothers in this age group than any other abuse drugs and alcohol during pregnancy. The results are premature birth, fetal alcohol syndrome, and low birth weight. These children have to go through life ...
- 2436: Capital Punishment
- ... and it was decided that they should be carried out in private. At this time the number of capital crimes were reduced drastically. By 1861, there were only four: murder, treason, arson, and piracy with violence. From the 1930s to the mid-1950s, people campaigned for the abolition of capital punishment. Following a number of controversial executions, a statute was put into effect in 1957 that restricted the death penalty to ...
- 2437: Is Capital Punishment Biblical?
- ... because murder is denying the image of God in the harmed individual. To murder a man is equivalent to murdering God since man is created by him and in his image. The murderer, thus, did violence to God himself. Jesus, in a sense, rewrites the Old Testament by his lesson found in Matthew 5:38-44: "You have heard that it was said, `Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But ...
- 2438: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment "He who sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God was man created."(Genesis 9:6) "Anyone who by violence causes a death must be put to death."(Exodus 21:12) "But should any person dare to kill another with deliberate planning, you will take that person even from my altar to be put to ...
- 2439: Rape
- ... number of sexist dictates that serve to maintain this subordinate relationship one of which is: Rape as a means of control over women. Rape plays a role in maintaining patriarchy by perpetrating the threat of violence. The acts of just a few violent men can terrorize all women and can control women's lives. The indifference of other men reinforces this effect. A strategy for eliminating women's vulnerability to rape ...
- 2440: Pedophilia: Causes and Typologies
- ... include the Chaotic family and the normal-appearing family(Kempe and Kempe, 1984). The chaotic family is typically of low socioeconomic status; is dysfunctional in that the family members have histories of substance abuse, incarceration, violence, and most members have very little or no education. Children raised within family units such as this are more likely to become targets of interfamilial sexual abuse. The normal-appearing family gives off the impression ...
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