Essays Tagged: "serious crimes"
Prison sentences...are they fair?
do killers, rapists, and child molesters go free? A large portion of early release prisoners commit serious crimes after being released. In fact, 'in a three year follow-up of 108,850 state prisoners ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Alcohol, how behaviour changes when alcohol is introduced
llion dollars a year because of sickness caused by alcohol.Alcohol plays a part in more than 50% of serious crimes in Australia. In violent crimes it plays an even bigger part: more than 75% of them a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Capital Punishment
xecutions have resulted fromconvictions for murder. The death penalty has also been imposedfor such serious crimes as armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, andtreason. There is a lot of conflict between pe ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Arguments about death penalty.
eye). The death penalty is a punishment to a person in which the person is put to death for a very serious crime they have committed, usually when they take another person's life. Our state and feder ... be punishable by the death penalty. The death penalty is seen as a deterrent to increasing and more serious crime. If members of the society know that if they commit serious crimes they could be put t ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Rape.
udes intercourse in the vagina, anus, or mouth. This is a felony, which means it is one of the most serious crimes committed in the United States. Although it is a very serious crime it has shown to b ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
How juveniles should be tried as adults.
and approve Proposition 21. Proposition 21 mandates that juveniles under 18 be tried as adults for serious crimes and serve longer sentences as befits those crimes. Even though Proposition 21 was cre ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Gun Control-Argumentative essay to make it harder for citizens to carry concealed weapons
and executed her while she sat in her chair, talking on the phone. This violent act and other very serious crimes like it are committed on a regular basis.There are many small things that the governm ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Gun and Weapon Control
Persuasive essay about why the juvenille justice system isn't harsh enough.
System is not harsh enough...Did you know that juveniles accounted for almost half the arrests for serious crimes in the United States in 1974 and for less than one-third in 1983? Did you know that r ... s of adolescents for murder, assault, and weapon use? The small number of youth who commit the most serious and violent offenses are becoming more and more violent. I found these statistics directly f ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Solutions for the Drug Epidemic?
is-- a society is consumed and overrun with drug abuse. Children are combing the streets committing serious crimes in order to get money to fulfill their cravings for drugs. Addicts and pregnant women ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Biological/psychological factors of crime
assical School that most crime could be explained through "human nature," they argued that the most serious crimes were committed by individuals who were "primitive" or "atavistic"--that is, who faile ... ts of criminal behavior were marked by a general lack of knowledge regarding the human brain and by serious methodological shortcomings. More recently, biological aspects of criminal behavior have bee ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Post Mortem Patricia Cornwell
ia Cornwell. This novel deals with a madical examiner whose job is to help the police find clues to serious crimes. Cornwell's use of setting, characterization, and conflict help to make this an excit ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Police Corruption
come in the way of personal favors, bribes, or gratuities. Other corruption activities involve more serious crimes such as brutality, drugs, and framing of suspects (Schmalleger, 2003, pp. 227-229).Po ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Should juveniles be tried as adults?
, they overlook the age of reason andimply that juveniles under the age of 18 be triedas adults for serious crimes and serve longersentences for the type of crime committed.Some people who oppose tryi ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Comparing Prison and University.
defined as an institution (as one under state jurisdiction) for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes. As it may not seem to us today, the use of institutions for the extended confinement ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Capital Punishment does not serve a purpose in society today. As such, it should be abolished. Do you agree?
been effective in serving as a deterrent for society, that prevents the number of murders and other serious crimes, thus it does serve a purpose, and should not be abolished.Capital punishment serves ... g order in the region. However, this punishment should only be carried out to criminals of the most serious crimes and not to those who commit petty crimes. Implementing capital punishment in an attem ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Should children who commit serious crimes face the same penalties as adults?
even and thirteen. As a result of this, a major issue has been raised, should children who commit a serious crime face the penalties as and adult? Do these kids know what they are doing? And more impo ... ponsibility not the weapon used.Those who believe that juveniles should receive adult penalties for serious crimes often claim that the young children are not fully aware of the crime they commit and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Capital punishment- The safe alternative.
for committing heinous crimes such as rape and murder. Capital punishment has been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robberies, murder, kidnappings, rape, and treason. The truth is the death pe ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Against The Death Penalty
as capital punishment, which means judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime. The death penalty can be defined as "The penalty of death for the commission of a cri ... hcraft, rape, perjury, and other capital crimes existed. Nowadays, Death penalty continues for very serious crimes. This ongoing use of the capital Punishment made society to believe that severe crime ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
This paper talks about Identity Fraud: The causes of Identity Fraud and how to deal with it.
le's information to open credit card accounts, apply for loans, purchase cellular phones, or commit serious crimes.How does this happen? Some ways that people's personal information can be taken is by ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Death penalty
n eye).The death penalty is a punishment to a person in which the person is put to death for a very serious crime they have committed, usually when they take another person's life. Our state and feder ... be punishable by the death penalty.The death penalty is seen as a deterrent to increasing and more serious crime. If members of the society know that if they commit serious crimes they could be put t ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty