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Problems With Gun Control
<view this essay>.... in which the
interpretation should be surveyed in light of today's social and politics
environments. Bill Clede ideas in his article seem to be guild by the idea of
the Constitution being a living document.
At the time the Second Amendment was written, it had a major impact on
this country because State and National governments were unable, or lacked the
power to protect the people. This Amendment gave the power to the people to
bear arms for protection. As Clede points out in his article, it was not the
intent or purpose of this Amendment to bestow unlimited rights upon the people.
The question to ask today is, are the people responsible enough to have t .....
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Don't Talk To Cops
<view this essay>.... there is no law requiring you to talk with the police, the FBI, or
the representative of any other investigative agency. Even the simplest
questions may be loaded and the seemingly harmless bits of information
which you volunteer may later become vital links in a chain of
circumstantial evidence against you or a friend.
DO NOT INVITE THE INVESTIGATOR INTO YOUR HOME!
Such an invitation not only gives him the opportunity to look
around for clues to your lifestyle, friends, reading material, etc., but
also tends to prolong the conversation. The longer the conversation, the
more chance there is for a skill investigator to find out what he wants to .....
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Date Rape
<view this essay>.... rape might
occur. Sometimes a man thinks that a woman “owes” him something if he has taken
her out for dinner and a movie or if a woman acts in a friendly manner towards
him. The presence of drugs and alcohol are also a contributing factor to the
occurrence of date rape.
An example of date rape that occurs commonly, especially within a
college campus, is when both the man and women are drunk. In an environment such
as a college or university, parties are commonplace for students. It is a place
where friends can gather, listen to loud music, and get loaded. Typically, a man
will coerce a woman back to his apartment or dorm. This is dangerous for both
parties .....
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Drug Trafficking In Mexico
<view this essay>.... forces, with offices in four other north Mexican towns, were seen as vital to increasing the flow of information between the nations' counter-drug forces along the 2,000-mile border.
U.S. and Mexican officials agreed that the performance of the task forces would be a yardstick by which to measure cooperation between the two nations, and monitoring their success was included formally in the White House's National Drug Control Strategy report issued last month.
"Regretfully, [the task forces] were never really implemented," DEA chief Thomas Constantine told Congress last week, blaming the failure on corruption and lack of security. U.S. officials said the Mex .....
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R.I.C.O
<view this essay>.... to the movie's forward, is a more effective way of eliminating organized crime. Some have suggested that the acronym RICO had its origins in the Edward G. Robinson character (Greek 1991).
Some forty years later, in 1970, after many hearings and protected debate, the Congress enacted into law what it hoped would be the ultimate solution to the organized crime problem. The act, which is commonly known as RICO, (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) was passed as part of the Organized Crime Control Act. The purpose of the act was to curb the apparently increasing entry of organized crime into the legitimate business world. (Miller and Jentz .....
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Applied Litigation Research
<view this essay>.... to study ongoing litigation are still under development. Quantitative designs have dominated this field to date and typically are used for jury selection (Frederick, 1984; Penrod & Linz, 1986). Quantitative techniques, such as secondary analysis of survey data, have been employed to help create checklist scales to valuate potential jurors for prejudicial tendencies during voir dire (Abbott, 1987). Another purpose of quantitative techniques, which is used less often, is to focus strategic themes and arguments for trial. Nonetheless, quantitative designs have been strongly criticized (Saks, 1976), in large part because they tend to fall short when used as the p .....
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Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of
capital punishment and the moral viewpoints on the death penalty.
The first evidence of capital punishment is from Hammurabi's code, a book of
Babylonian law, from 1700BC. (http://www.schoolsucks) The Bible mentions that
execution should be used for many crimes. (Bedau1) One example of the death
penalty in the bible is "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to
death." (Exodus 21:12). The bible also suggests stoning a woman if she
unmarried sex and had "wrought folly on Israel by playing the harlot in her
father's house" (Deuteronomy 22:21) England recognized seven major crimes tha .....
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Medicalizing Drugs
<view this essay>.... more than capable of supporting themselves but have been taught that they do not have to go out and get a job. They just have to have children to support and we will give them the money, housing, and the food they need and not require them to have to do anything for it in return. Alan Dershowitzs proposal will also create the same situation, except we will now be supporting individuals drug habits. Alan Dershowitz states "But since we can neither eliminate heroin nor the demand for it, there is a powerful case for medicalizing as much of the problem as feasible." This statement is ludicrous, it would not change society in the slightest other than we woul .....
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