Essays Tagged: "Violent crime"
Domestic Violence
e statistics rise and are left to wonder why. Each year 1 person out of every 40 is the victim of a violent crime. Everyone wants to find an answer a problem that is in great need of solving. But wher ... great need of solving. But where do we look to find the answers? What causes people to behave in a violent fashion? There are several factors that will cause people to act violently. Maybe if we expl ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Legalization of Marijuana
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 i ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Prison sentences...are they fair?
tate prisoners released in 1983 from institutions in 11 states, within three years sixty percent of violent crime offenders were re-arrested. More than half of those charged with violent crimes were d ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Marajuana
Most Americans do not want to spend scarcepublic funds incarcerating nonviolent marijuanaoffenders, at a cost of $23,000 per year. Politiciansmust reconsider our country's ... er year. Politiciansmust reconsider our country's priorities and attachmore importance to combating violent crime thantargeting marijuana smokers.Marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers at least$7.5 bil ... 5 billion annually. This is an enormous waste ofscarce federal dollars that should be used to targetviolent crime.Marijuana prohibition makes no exception for themedical use of marijuana. The tens of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Medical Miracles on the Horizon, in the future to come?
ts will face a multitude of problems in the 21st Century, including drug addiction, deadly disease, violent crime, warfare and hostility, hunger, and homelessness to name a few. All of these critical ... are now being given in the treatment of criminals, like anti-psychotic drugs to curb aggressive or violent behavior in schizophrenics. A new and improved group of antidepressants is also being used t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The Susan Smith case
informed of Susan Smith's tragic loss of her two young boys. No one would have guessed that such a violent crime could have occurred in a small town . Throughout the ordeal , police began to see the ... round and the events in question have left a profound social and legal impact on society's views of violent crimes.Susan Smith lived what most would consider a normal life up to the time before the ev ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
Gun Control in Canada. Speaks of how gun control is not in the best interest of society
of security. Through out history governments have used guns as a scapegoat for their problems with violent crime. Guns are not the problem when it comes to society's problems with violence, people ar ... un control is a good start to making society a more peaceful place to live and it will help prevent violent crime from occurring. They also what to stop the smuggling of weapons to help prevent crime. ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Title: Gun Control, this essay is about the right to carry concealed weapons for the right of protection.
ow that "1% increase in a state's gun-ownership rate has also been associated with a 3% decrease in violent crime." ( Lott 1) Many states have adopted concealed carry laws over sixty years ago. No sta ... low concealed carry of a handgun, not increased. The more people obtain permits over time, the more violent crime rates have declined. For each additional year that these laws are in effect murders de ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Gun and Weapon Control
The rise of violent crime in Canada
Violent crime in Canada is on the rise in Canada as well as the types of violentcrimes being committ ... lieve and intend to prove in the following essay that it is societiesresponsibility for the rise of violent crime with their unwillingness and inability toeffectively deal with the current trend in ou ... ity toeffectively deal with the current trend in our society. In the last few years, a slight dipin violent crime has been noted, but we must view this with skepticism as no officialstatistics are ava ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Rehabilatation of criminals, Awaste of time or worth the effort?
y: Heather Rose009-56-0641Table of contentsBackground information on crimeSince 1960, the number of violent crimes committed per capita in the United States has increased by more than 450%. More than ... ortion of criminals who commit the majority of the crimes. It is no longer rare to be a victim of a violent crime or to know someone who has been affected .Get tough laws passed by many states have ca ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Crime and the United States
very 27 minutes. Now there is a murder every 22 minutes. The astounding fact is in 1973 there was a violent crime every 6 minutes but now it has increased to a murder every 16 seconds. Crime per thous ... ent in recent years but that is not much. There is one exception; rape which has gone up 3 percent. Violent crime has risen 40.9 since 1983 while in recent years it has only gone down a tenth of a per ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Gun Control in the United States
n control is needed to understand the sides and issues. Gun control is an effort to stopthe rise in violent crime by strengthening laws on the ownership of firearms. Persons in the groupagainst gun co ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
All Violent Criminals Have a Mental Illness- Discuss
ALL VIOLENT CRIMINALS HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESSA mental illness is a disorder of the brain that disrupts a p ... others. As a result, the sufferer has a diminished capacity for coping with the demands of life. A violent crime is any criminal activity that involves a degree of violence; this could be anything fr ... lves a degree of violence; this could be anything from mugging to murder. I do not believe that all violent criminals have a mental illness and I think that mental illness contributes only negligibly ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Sex, Violence, and Popular Culture: Sure! Blame It On TV!
homicides each year in the United States, 70,000 fewer rapes, and 700,000 fewer injurious assaults. Violent crime would be half of what it is'" (Kristol 641-42). Being that this is a source, I would a ... en and we have seen our share of violence, but we cannot say it was all from television.Many of the violent incidents my family has experienced were seen with our own eyes. None of them were fiction. ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
It explains the dynamics of blood analysis and how blood patterns are interpreted.
e personnel can encounter blood evidence in many types of cases, including burglaries and other non-violent crimes, but it is most often encountered in crimes of violence such as homicide, assault, an ... ensic scientist in many areas of criminal investigation. It determines whether or not if this was a violent crime, accident, suicide, or natural death.Blood is the most significant and frequently enco ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Abortion: Choice Vs. Murder, an argumentative paper
he worst-case scenario of an pregnancy leading into an abortion, would be if it were a product of a violent crime, such as rape or incest.Why should women be made to care for children that were not in ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Does television violence negatively effect children.
ldren more aggressive, and if so, does TV violence account, at least in part, for the rapid rise in violent crime among adolescents?Children themselves think the answers may be yes. In one recent surv ... clear. Although there is convincing evidence that children who frequently watch TV violence or play violent video games are more aggressive than other children, this might simply mean that children th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
Is immigration from third world countried jeopardizing American economy and culture?
lready burdened by under funded schools, overcrowded prisons, persistent unemployment, increasingly violent crime, accelerating resource depletion, an ever-growing budget deficit and a rapidly decreas ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
South carolina Vs Susan Smith.
informed of Susan Smith's tragic loss of her two young boys. No one would have guessed that such a violent crime could have occurred in a small town . Throughout the ordeal , police began to see the ... round and the events in question have left a profound social and legal impact on society's views of violent crimes. Susan Smith lived what most would consider a normal life up to the time before the e ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
Gun Control.
Gun Control:Do We Really Have the Right to Bear Arms?Running Head: GUN CONTROLIntroductionViolent crime is commonly believed to be growing out of control. The police and legal system are una ... ves them the right to keep and bear arms. The common idea is that if we outlawed guns the amount of violent crime would be reduced and we would all be safer.Gun Control:Do We Really Have the Right to ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays