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Treatment Of Drug Offenders Is Dysfunctional
614 Words - 3 Pages.... extreme. And to society he is considered a “criminal.” Was sending this person to prison the best thing to do? It just does not seem worth it
For years and years we having been locking up drug offenders. People with no violent history at all have to share jail cells with murderers and rapists. And what happens to these non-violent people after assimilating to the prison population? The idea is to lock them up, not rehabilitate!
Prison life can have many effects on a person. Once in prison, one must submit himself to eating, sleeping, and living with harden criminals. And for the most part the drug are still readily available. In prison, the more illicit drugs are ....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
597 Words - 3 Pages.... and towns, but in actuality
almost eighty-two percent of all violent crime that involves drugs don't involve
marijuana. The fact remains that crime would still inhabit the streets if
marijuana was to be legalized. The organizations base there theory on the
success that the Netherlands has had with reduction of crime due to the wide-
spread legalization of marijuana. The differences between New Amsterdam and the
United States is great due to a different structured economy and different
cultures. This differences would prove to be the reason for their success and
the United States failure.
Legalization would also be very dangerous to the economy. The United
States e ....
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Crime And Punishment
382 Words - 2 Pages.... any kind is wrong. As outlined by laws and guaranteed by the
Canada Charter of Human Right, every human is entitle to live. And under no
circumstances do anyone else have the right to someone else live away.
Extinguishing the life of the murderer is equivalent to murderers killing their
victim. If it is illegal for murderers kill, how is it possible for government
to be justify to end the lives of the murderers.
Another concern of executing murderers is the possibility of killing an
innocence person. With our improving technology, what we now believe is beyond
reasonable doubt might a verdict filled with errors in the future. One very good
example of this is the recent ac ....
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Regulating Big Companies
1501 Words - 6 Pages.... hold down production costs. These actions were taking place in the Northern Mariana Islands, which was an American commonwealth near the Philippines. The workers are described as predominantly young women from China, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Thailand, that often work twelve hours a day and seven days a week. They sometimes don't receive pay if they fall behind on their quotas. These workers often live seven to a room in barracks that are surrounded by inward-facing barbed wire. The lawsuits maintain that some companies forced pregnant women to have abortions to maintain production levels. The lawsuits also contend that the foremen of the factories often limit b ....
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Capital Punishment: For
592 Words - 3 Pages.... thieves, drug lords, rapists and any other severe
law perpetrator, there must be some form of control and it must be capital
punishment. Any person who kills people with no regrets or rapes innocent
victims continuously, does not deserve to live in a luxurious North American
penitentiary or anywhere for that matter, they deserve nothing but the death
penalty. When the words ‘death penalty' or ‘capital punishment' are heard, they
obviously are disturbing and uncomfortable, but so are their crimes. There is
no hope for criminals with this kind of behavior and mentality. I believe that
capital punishment is the key necessity.
If capital punishment was enforc ....
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Capital Punishment
3289 Words - 12 Pages.... to see through the irrationality of the vengeance raging in so many of us, like it is in the supporters of . An indecent justice, one that takes human lives based on ideals of vengeance and violence, is an immoral system that is unacceptable.
The most widely used argument in support of is that the consequence of execution influences criminal behavior more effectively than imprisonment does (Amnesty International). Although the argument may sound reasonable, in reality the death penalty fails as a deterrent. First, punishment can only be a useful deterrent if it is rational and immediately used. cannot meet those conditions. The number of first degree murderers who a ....
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Drinking And Driving Offences
1195 Words - 5 Pages.... Consequently it is usually
easier in the long run for you to give a breath sample if asked. If, for
example you are convicted of "Refusing ato give a breath sample" for the
first time, but was earlier convicted of "Driving while impaired", your
conviction for "Refusing" will count as a second conviction, not a first,
and will receive the stiffer penalty for second offences.
For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you can
make. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol
or drugs is one of the offences. Evidence of your condition can be used to
convict you. This can include evidence of your general conduct, speech,
abili ....
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Corporal Punishment
433 Words - 2 Pages.... that will stain their memory for a very long period of time.
In other cases physical punishment scars and stains the body changing its
physical appearance but only on a small scale.Corporal punishment is also used
because it is quick and in most cases effective.The mental condition of the
person being affected may worsen not only resulting to utter madness but may
also result in lack of moral strength.Most people nowadays feel that corporal
punishment is not the best answer to enforce restrictions in society as they
feel,that pain is not the best solution.
Although Corporal punishment has its disadvantages it can also make people
aware of the fact that wrong doi ....
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