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What To Do When You're A Crime Victim
<view this essay>.... you arrive at your home or business and feel that it has been burglarized, DO NOT ENTER, but go to another location and call the police. Let the police search the property to make sure that no suspect is still present. Upon entering your home or business, do not touch things unnecessarily as you may disturb or destroy fingerprint and other evidence. Inform the police of anything that has been moved from its original position so that it can be checked for prints. Notify the police if you find anything that is not yours that may have been left behind by the burglar such as tools, clothing, etc. (Driver's licenses and other identification have been lef .....
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When Society Kills
<view this essay>.... capital punishment (or
"killing") consists of doing precisely this.
Cost of the Death Penalty
Capital punishment in California, as in every other state, is more
expensive than a life imprisonment sentence without the opportunity of
parole. These costs are not the result of frivolous appeals but rather the
result of Constitutionally mandated safeguards that can be summarized as
follows:
Juries must be given clear guidelines on sentencing, which result
in explicit provisions for what constitutes aggravating and mitigating
circumstances. Defendants must have a dual trial--one to establish guilt or
innocence and if guilty a second trial to deter .....
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Crimes
<view this essay>.... this type of theft, embezzlement, is a crime. may be classified in various ways. For example, they sometimes are grouped according to the seriousness of the offense, according to the motives of the offenders. Such may include economic , political , of passion, organized crime, and white collar crime.
I had the opportunity to work with the "CAPS" organization (Chicago Alternative Policing Stradegy) of the Chicago Police Department. Citizens complain about young people being out of control, or that someone parked two inches inside thier handycap parking spot. Criminal justice majors are hired by the city of Chicago to explain to the citizens that workin .....
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The Threat Of Death
<view this essay>.... debate still remains whether it actually
deters would be offenders. Does this age-old penalty for the ultimate sin
achieve its goal? There are many lofty and rational arguments on both sides of
this issue.
Advocates of the death penalty claim that the primary reason for this
harsh punishment is that the fear of death discourages people from committing
murder. The main ways in which they support this theory are: the severity of
the punishment, various polls of citizens and prisoners, and two in particular
studies.
The most obvious deterring justification is the severity of punishment
(Calebresi 19). This means, put simply, to punish for a crime in a way .....
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Marijuana
<view this essay>.... If the Post had focused on the DC area I would be
able to believe the statistic much more than if they had focused on the
surrounding area. Another thought was whether the Post had interviewed more
boys than girls or vice versa. Racial makeup of those involved in the study was
another issue that the Post did not elaborate on. I also felt it relevant to
ask what the percentage of that initial 68% were seniors who had only tried it
once. I think the percentage would drop significantly if the Post changed the
wording from "tried it once" to "used multiple times".
Knowing the geographic location of those surveyed would be useful in a
number of ways. F .....
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Search & Seizure In The Context Of Automobiles
<view this essay>.... effects. N.J. Constitution, Article 1, Section 7.
The United States Supreme Court has held that searches and seizures made without the benefit of a search warrant are unreasonable unless they come within a very limited and proscribed number of exceptions to the warrant requirement. Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 91 S.Ct. 2022, 29 L. Ed. 564 (1971).
One such exception involves automobile searches for contraband goods by a law enforcement officer. The Supreme Court has created this exception because it is not practical to secure a search warrant when there is probable cause to believe that contraband goods are in an automobile. Such things as automob .....
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Common Sense Control, Not Gun Control
<view this essay>.... off the trigger lock, and retrieve the bullets from on
top of your dresser. You don't want to create a situation that isn't necessary
so you huddle next to your bed and hope whomever it is takes what they want and
leaves. You hear them walking down the hallway toward you. Your bladder nearly
lets go. The intruder tries to open your door but luckily you locke d it.
There still is the possibility that it's you spouse so you don't shoot the
intruder through the door. Then the intruder kicks the door in, sending
splinters of wood flying about the room. The time has come, you raise from the
side of your bed, instinctively assuming a marksman's pose and fire .....
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A Few Media Commandments
<view this essay>.... in magazines and on billboards. These ads are not just advertisements for their specific product but they are made to appeal to the much younger audience in order to start them smoking at an earlier age. This allows the corporation to snare these victims and keep them addicted for years and years to come. This act also guarantees the firm a high constant demand for their products. It has been shown through recent lawsuits brought about by career smokers that the corporations did in fact know about the addictive properties of the nicotine and refused to inform the public. Magazines, newspapers and billboard owners should be held accountable for promoting thes .....
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