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The Increasing Use Of Street Drugs
<view this essay>.... anywhere, as it was for me just a week ago. I appreciated what I found and was able to flush it into our local sewer system.
Peer pressure is an extraordinary part of how this life style works. It is amazing how one individual can fabricate how wonderful this "life taking" addiction can be. When one is influencing another it is slightly forgotten how people on a daily basis die from doing drugs. Whether it kills you or not, the drug users don't think about how messed up their brain and body can get when just trying drugs. A common way that drug dealers rope in young people is by giving them drugs to try. It is after they like the drugs they come .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
<view this essay>.... organization argue the fact that legalization would
result in the decrease of crime rates in our cities 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 succ .....
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Drug Trafficking Policies
<view this essay>.... Establishing effective mechanisms to thwart money laundering.
Improving the government’s ability to intercept drug shipments at the borders, in national waters, and in national air space.
Establishing strict controls that prevent illegal trafficking in firearms.
Halting the flow of precursor chemicals for illicit purposes.
Stepping up security along the nations borders.
E. High-Level Contact Group for Drug Control (HLCG)- was established in March of 1996 by Presidents Clinton and Zedillo (of Mexico) to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking and reducing the consumption of illegal drugs. It has the following .....
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Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... as the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria, the French philosopher
Voltaire, and the English law reformers Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Romilly.
They argued that the death penalty was needlessly cruel, overrated as a
deterrent, and occasionally imposed in fatal error. Along with Quaker
leaders and other social reformers, they defended life imprisonment as a
more rational alternative.
By the 1850s these reform efforts began to bear fruit. Venezuela (1853)
and Portugal (1867) were the first nations to abolish the death penalty
altogether. In the United States Michigan was first state to abolish it
for murder in 1847. Today, it is virtually abolished in all of W .....
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Should Juveniles Be Waived To Adult Court
<view this essay>.... criminal justice system should work to help youngsters, not to humiliate or punish them. Along with the creation of the juvenile justice system went the creation of “status offenses”, these are offenses that if committed by an adult, would not be considered an offense.
In the 1950’s and 60’s many laws were passed to protect the rights of children, in a court of law. The major decisions of this time were: Kent v. United States, In re Gault, and In re Winship. Since the time that these laws were enacted, the number of juveniles committing violent offenses has risen dramatically.
There are two distinct schools of thought in this argument: side A believes that .....
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Dangers Of Anabolic Steroids
<view this essay>.... kind of sport. Although
steroids contribute to a muscular body, usage should remain illegal
because they physically deteriorate and mentally destroy the body.
Many people are fascinated about steroids because of their
ability to build up the body. Whether taken by injection or the pill
it increases strength and endurance. Steroids also help in the healing
process of muscular tissue by first injuring them, then the muscles
heal quicker adding more fiber increasing their bulk. Many athletes
turn to steroids more often because they're cheaper then marijuana or
cocaine. A ten week cycle .....
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What Is Our World Coming To: Rising Crime In US
<view this essay>.... According to the DPS (Department of Public Safety) reports crime is
down 3.8% in 1991. That sounds great but then you hear that rapes have
increased 6.5% , in 1991, you don't think that we are improving so much.
This report was compiled from ninety-three different Arizona police
agencies. Of all the crime rape showed the largest increase. Last year in
Arizona, there were 1,568 reported rapes compared to 1,472 in 1990. There
was 289 slayings last year, in Maricopa county, while there were only 277
the year before that. An increase of 3.6%. Phoenix alone had 151 of those
slayings last year.
Lots of the public and medi .....
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Fraud
<view this essay>.... and don't mind doing
wrong. That means the remaining 60 percent are potentially dishonest, that's a
total of 80 percent of employees which may be dishonest. To understand fraud you
first have to determine the contributing factors to why people commit fraud.
Some people commit fraud for the sport and thrill of it. There are other
recognizable reasons why honest people may commit a breach of trust. Need is the
most common reason. A desperate financial need is usually the cause of most
frauds. Still some people commit fraud to pay for an elevated life style which
other wise they could not afford. Needs arise from a number of locations these
include: Drug or al .....
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