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Child Sex Tourism Bill In Australia
<view this essay>.... refers to anyone who commits a sexual act on a child under the age
of sixteen, at the time that the offence was committed. Also the changes intend
to deal with organisations that may run or promote child sex tours, such as
travel agencies and the like, who have specifically run sex tour packages.
Defences to these offences such as stating that the defendant had no knowledge
of the child's age will be also targeted, as currently, this is a major
stumbling block on the course to justice. Finally to save time and cost, video
link hearings will be setup between the child in question overseas, and the
Australian courts.
The changes stated above were required .....
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Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... as there are no fewer murders on a per- capita
basis in countries or states that do have it, then those that do not. In
order for capital punishment to work as a deterrence, certain events must
be present in the criminal's mind prior to committing the offence. The
criminal must be aware that others have been punished in the past for the
offence that he or she is planning, and that what happened to another
individual who committed this offence, can also happen to me.
But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft
to 1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their
actions. Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the indi .....
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Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... less severe.Although people argue that the death
penalty is needlessly cruel, it should be used in every state, because
paroled murders get out of jail too fast and the only punishment equal to
murder is the death penalty.
Capital punishment is always going to be questioned by the
states. The United States doesn't like the death penalty because they say
its not a valid purpose of punishment. The states say a punishment that
conflicts harm can hardly be good for us. The states don't want to kill a
man who is already imprisoned. They say he's already being punished.
However the states don't keep all murders in jail forever. Some
of these .....
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Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West
Virginia, and Wisconsin. The remaining states do have some form of capital
punishment ranging from hanging, firing squad, electrocution, gas chamber, and
lethal injection.
If somebody killed someone they would not automatically get the death
penalty, there are several circumstances that a judge, jury, and prosecutioner
must look at to see how bad the crime was. In some states if you kidnap someone,
and do heinous things to them, you could still be eligible for the death penalty.
Each state which carries a death sentence has got their own requirements that a
person must meet to dec .....
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Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... as there are no fewer murders on a per-capita basis in countries
or states that do have it, then those that do not. In order for capital
punishment to work as a deterrence, certain events must be present in the
criminal's mind prior to committing the offence. The criminal must be aware that
others have been punished in the past for the offence that he or she is planning,
and that what happened to another individual who committed this offence, can
also happen to me.
But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to
1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions.
Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the indiv .....
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A Working Alternative To Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... of 94 countries and territories use the death penalty for ordinary crime, including the United States. In the other 57 countries in the world, the death penalty no longer exists. In some of the 57 countries, capital punishment is only banned for ordinary crimes and still effective for military crimes or crimes committed in exceptional circumstances such as wartime (Doan, 2).
Currently 34 of the states in the U.S. exercise capital punishment. The most recent to abolish capital punishment was Massachusetts, in 1984, and New York, in 1995, was the most recent to reinstate it, according to the NAACP. During 1977 and 1994, Texas executed the highest number of pri .....
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Police Blunders In The Manson Investigation
<view this essay>.... the camp of which he was a counselor. Everyone had gone to bed
when Tim awoke to a man's voice screaming "Oh, God, no, please don't! Oh God,
no, don't, don't, don't..." (Bugliosi & Gentry 4). At this time, about twelve
forty a.m., he awoke his supervisor, told him about the scream, and requested
that he go see if anyone needed help. He drove around the area but saw nothing
unusual. Robert Bullington of the Bel Air Patrol was in his parked car when he
heard three gunshots spaced a few seconds apart. He immediately called in to
headquarters (the call logged in at 4:11 a.m.). Headquarters then called in to
LA
PD but nothing further was done. About four t .....
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Case For Legalizing Marijuana
<view this essay>.... in India to the highly potent hashish. The following
consists of pure cannabis resin. Marijuana is not a narcotic and is not
mentally or physically addicting drug. One can use mild cannabis
preparations such as marijuana in small amounts for years without physical
or mental deterioration. Marijuana serves to diminish inhibitions and acts
as an euphoriant. Only once in a while will it produce actual
hallucinations. More potent preparations of cannabis such as hashish can
induce psychedelic experiences identical to those observed after ingestion
of potent hallucinogens such as LSD. Some who smoke marijuana feel no
effects; others feel relaxed and sociable, ten .....
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