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Papers on Legal Issues
Serial Killers And Society
Number of words: 788 | Number of pages: 3.... except the bad guys gets strangled, mutilated, or shot- and enjoy it
in some sick way. The media goes out of its way to glamorize murder
and terrify the public. We support killers like Charles Manson on
Death Row with our tax dollars. In fact, we support them with more
than that. About two months ago there was an art show in California
entitled: The Death Row Art Show III. Pieces sold for thousands of
dollars regardless of their aesthetic appeal, because of the identity
of the artists. Serial killers are becoming as popular as rock stars.
Serial kill .....
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The Social Plague Of Crime And Criminals
Number of words: 1148 | Number of pages: 5.... subsets which stem from legal theories. The
first is the justice view. The second is the rehabilitative view. The final
is a combination of the first two views called the integrated view. All of
these perspectives contain very different thoughts about conjugal visits to
prisoners. Before I discuss each one, there are certain statistics about
forced sexual encounters in prison settings to keep in mind. According to “
An anonymous survey of 1,800 men and women in a Midwestern state prison
system revealed that 104 of 516 respondents (20%) had been pressured or
forced at least once to have sexual contact against their will while .....
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The Impact The Death Penalty Has On The Global Community
Number of words: 578 | Number of pages: 3.... remain all too real. We have no
way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be
certain there were some."(The Death Penalty In America) Now days there are
a lot more advanced technology such as the DNA testing that they can use
to prove someone's innocence. The criminals had a tough time proving
their innocence because of the tough situations they were put in such as
bad representation, and racial prejudice.(The Death Penalty In America)
It is awful to know that people actually spent most of their years in jail
trying to prove their innocence, only to be put to death. This is just one
subject that has .....
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Minimum Drinking Age - 1998
Number of words: 900 | Number of pages: 4.... on licensed premises. 3
* A former New Zealand Police Commissioner claims that moves to lower
the legal drinking age to 18 would create more than 100,000 extra
legal drinkers, having an "immediate impact" on law and order. 4
* Research evidence suggests that the younger the age when drinking
begins, and the greater the amount of drinking done in early years,
the greater the amount of alcohol-related problems later on. 5
* Young people experience the highest rate of health and social problems
associated with alcohol. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause
of deaths for teenagers. Ne .....
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Cause And Effect Of Speeding
Number of words: 472 | Number of pages: 2.... kind, and offers a traffic school option, the unpleasantness continues.
Usually the traffic school is no where near to the courthouse, which causes you
to search to find the it. The great experience of paying is close at hand after
locating the school. You must endure the nine hour course after paying for the
privilege of attending. This is a class most people would have never taken if
given the chance. The unpleasantness associated with a speeding ticket is almost
finished when you have completed the course.
A reoccurring reminder of a previous mistake is evident in higher insurance
rates. Most insurance companies feel that speed .....
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Law And Morality
Number of words: 2114 | Number of pages: 8.... most of the survivors to live for the next fifteen days is for one to
die. Somehow they have contacted an outside source to advise them on the
questions of "Who shall die?", and "How should the decision of choosing the
person be carried out?" These are all very difficult questions to answer, but
something must be done. It is unlikely that someone will voluntarily allow
someone to kill them so that the others may live, that is why another form of
decision making must be allowed. The best way to do so is probably by that
outside aid to suggest that they try drawing lots. For example whoever pulls the
shortest straw is the one who d .....
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“To Legalize Or Not To Legalize”
Number of words: 1850 | Number of pages: 7.... been many assumptions throughout the years on what effects drugs are causing on society. In the 1960’s, the psychedelic drug movement said that drugs were used as a means of mind expansion, liberation, and ecstasy. Then in the 1980’s drugs were seen as a source of anguish, escapism, and denial of self. Neither of these assumptions are true though. Drug use varies between each individual and most of the time it all starts off with the satisfaction of enjoying the drug in the first place. Many experts argue since drugs are mainly used for enjoyment why is it such a major problem if they are legalized? (Toward a Users’ .....
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The Drug War In America
Number of words: 1926 | Number of pages: 8.... were a glut on the labor market so in a effort to remove these worker from the work force this ordnance was passed. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was another law that was inacted for the same proposes. The first federal drug control law passed was the District of Columbia Pharmacy Act. This act regulated narcotics. Cocaine based product’s were being sold in many forms, such as soft drinks, cough medicine, and the coca crop was cultivated in many stated. The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 which was written as a tax law and appeared to be a means of gathering information, “requiring everyone in the drug trade to .....
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Search & Seizure In The Context Of Automobiles
Number of words: 1864 | Number of pages: 7.... warrant when there is probable cause to believe that contraband goods are in an automobile. Such things as automobiles and boats can quickly be moved away before an officer can secure a warrant. New Jersey Courts also recognize that an automobile exception is required because the need of a search warrant is often unforeseeable when an automobile is inherently mobile. Carroll v. United States, 267, U.S. 132, 45 S.Ct. 250, 69 L.Ed. 543 (1925). The Courts seem to realize that if law enforcement officers were required to serve a warrant each time they believed that someone had something illegal in their automobile, prosecution of .....
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Marijuana
Number of words: 630 | Number of pages: 3.... to "used multiple times".
Knowing the geographic location of those surveyed would be useful in a
number of ways. First, it would ease the fears of parents not living in the
troubled areas. More importantly, it would allow school officials, drug
enforcement officials, drug counselors, etc., to focus their attention and dime
to those specific areas with the biggest problem. Are we looking at inner-city
youth or are we looking at suburban youth. It makes a difference as to how you
approach the problem. Which station do you advertise on? Where does the local
government allocate extra funding for drug education and law enforce .....
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