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Papers on Legal Issues
Phencyclidine: The Dawn Of A New Age
Number of words: 3325 | Number of pages: 13.... dissolves in water. The cyclohexamines
are known for their the potent neurological effects, with PCP being the most
potent. Almost every variation has been administered to, or abused by, humans at
some time (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). All these compounds have similar
pharmacological effects, which vary considerably according to the amount
administered. Small doses produce a `drunken' state, in which subjects report a
numbness in the extremities, while some species (like dogs and cats) become
quite excited (Halberstadt, 1995). Intermediate doses have anesthetic and
analgesic effects , with the psychic state resembling sensory .....
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Pornography
Number of words: 5241 | Number of pages: 20.... Any man, child or
transsexual who alleges injury by pornography in the
way women are injured by it also has a claim.
[emphasis added]
My goal in this paper is to suggest that a slight modification to
this subsection of the ordinance would make it very difficult for liberals
and legal conservatives to object to it. This modification would restrict
the cause of action to the same persons as the other sections of the
ordinance, namely, the particular victim of the specified injury. I shall
argue that such a modification would largely cohere with the conception of
harm already at work in Ont .....
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Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
Number of words: 1236 | Number of pages: 5.... gain weight, and greatly reduces damaging pressure in the eye caused by glaucoma (4, p.1). The fact that smoking marijuana to relieve medical distress is still illegal is alarming. If marijuana can help so many suffering victims of these ailments, then why keep it out of use? Marijuana ranked ninth in order of preference for the treatment of mild to moderate nausea and vomiting, and sixth for treatment of more severe symptoms induced by chemotherapy (8, p.1). Forty-four percent of oncologists have recommended cannabis sativa, marijuana, to at least one patient (4, p.2).
Of the respondents who had prescribed marijuana though .....
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Corruption In The NYPD
Number of words: 1313 | Number of pages: 5.... is the
product of individual police officer and police environment, and its
control must mainly should come from the department.
Any number of elements or combination of things can influence the
behavior of an organization. Within the police department ; the
organizational hierarchy , the police culture, and the interaction with
the public influence the level of corruption and brutality in the community,
and as long as the NYPD and the city of New York refuse to look into the
leadership of the department and the role it plays in ignoring and in many
ways encouraging misconduct by the individual officer. Michael Armstrong, .....
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The Drinking Age: 21 For Everyone?
Number of words: 646 | Number of pages: 3.... in
Belmont County in Ohio, the police conducted raids of 5-10 different
establishments in 1993 that had liquor licenses and reportedly to sell alcoholic
beverages to minors. It was proven that each business in question had indeed
been guilty of the charges. What would one suspect happen to the business?
Wouldn't one expect for them to lose their liquor license? On the contrary,
these businesses were given probation without so much as a fine.
Also, even if the person under 21 cannot go buy the alcohol himself
because he is refused by a merchant, he can find an adult and give them the
money needed to purchase the alcohol .....
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Teen Violence And Its Causes
Number of words: 1687 | Number of pages: 7.... higher divorce rate. As
this rate goes up, so does the crime rate. Couples today have forgotten
the word commitment. As a result of this, the children suffer. It is hard
to grow up with separated parents. Most children become bitter or angry as
they grow because of their divorced parents. In some cases the parents
fight or argue which can affect a child, and may adapt the child to be more
aggressive. Also, when raising a child in a divorced atmosphere, what kind
of lesson is he/she learning? They will learn that a commitment is not a
serious thing. That can affect them when they go for a job, or get married.
Since parents .....
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The Need For Extreme Criminal Justice Reform In California
Number of words: 2736 | Number of pages: 10.... Magazine Feb 14,
1996) C. By passage of this act, the State of California has acknowledged the
limitations of incarceration as both punishment and a deterrent to criminal
behavior. D. The legislature has in fact declared that "California's criminal
justice system is seriously out of balance in its heavy dependence upon prison
facilities and jails for punishment and its lack of appropriate punishment for
nonviolent offenders and substance abusers who could be successfully treated in
appropriate, less restrictive programs without any increase in danger to the
public"
II. More facts, Opinions and Developmental Ideas
A. In essence .....
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The Controversy Of Capital Punishment
Number of words: 1042 | Number of pages: 4.... They also argue that no adequate deterrent in life imprisonment is effective for those already serving a life term who commits murder while incarcerated, those who have not yet been caught but who would be liable to a life term if arrested, revolutionaries, terrorists, traitors, and spies.
The classic moral arguments in favor of the death penalty have been scriptural and retributive. For example, the statement from the Bible that “whosoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6) has usually been interpreted as a divine warrant for putting a murderer to death. “Let the punishment fit the crime” .....
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In Cold Blood: Death Penalty
Number of words: 1369 | Number of pages: 5.... with
humanism." In other words, society has long since left behind the archaic and
barbous" customs" from the cruel "eye for an eye" anti-human caves of religion-
another factor that should raise immediate misgivings for freethinkers.
State killings are morally bankrupt. Why do governments kill people to
show other people that killing people is wrong? Humanity becomes associated with
murderers when it replicate their deeds. Would society allow rape as the penalty
for rape or the burning of arsonists' homes as the penalty for arson?
The state should never have the power to murder its subjects. To give
the sta .....
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Whistleblowing
Number of words: 2122 | Number of pages: 8.... Research & Theory, 8, (3), 413-439.
2. Loeb, M. (1995) . When to rat on the boss. Fortune, 132, (7), 183.
3. Mulrine, A., & Schrof, J. M. (1998). Coping with a crooked boss. US News & World Report, 125 (12), 76.
4. Sprague, R.L. (1998). The painful legacy of whistleblowing. Forum for Applied Research & Public Policy, 13 (1), 71-75.
5. Singer, M., Mitchell, S., Turner, J. (1998). Consideration of moral intensity in ethicality
judgments: Its relationship with whistle-blowing and need-for-cognition. Journal of Business
Ethics, 17 (5), 527-541.
6. Over 2 Million Dollars in Damages Awarded to Nuclear Power Indu .....
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