A Global Epidemic Violence: adj. 1. Using Physical Force to hurt somebody or damage something. 2. Illegal Force of unjustified force, or the effect created by the threat of this. (Encarta Dictionary 2002 page 1983) Violence against women occurs in many different forms and in many diffe...
Racism is defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica's dictionary as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and those racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. ... Murder is defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica's dictionary as the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought. ...
According to the dictionary, crime is defined as "an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law.... " This is according to the dictionary "the standard of evidence required to validate a criminal conviction in most adversarial legal systems. ...
The word justice is described in the dictionary as "a being righteous; fairness" and to bring to justice is stated as "to treat fitly or fairly". Is our juvenile justice system just? According to the definition it is not. It is not fair or righteous to treat juveniles as adults. Today we live in...
Educating Convicts By Gregory Manwelyan EN-101 11/28/02 Shortly after reading in Rereading America, "Learning to Read", an essay by Malcolm X, I had wondered what other forms of educations lay behind prison gates. Malcolm X never made it past the eighth grade, yet after a stay i...
Criminal Control, Not Gun Control The second amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of all people "to keep and bear arms." It further states that this right "shall not be infringed." The definition to infringe as defined by Webster's Dictionary, means to encroach or to intrude...
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"One death is a tragedy a million deaths is a statistic"- Josef Stalin. Today in the United States it is hard to mourn the loss of one when hundreds are killed annually, but what gives someone the right to take another life? The death penalty is what. The death penalty is the murder of a person ann...
Prison has never been an effective measure of crime control. According to the Oxford dictionary, prison is defined as "A building to which people are legally committed as a punishment for a crime or while awaiting trial." This definition displays in clear view the problem society has with the reason...
Is it Just, or just another way to bend the rules? Is capital punishment just? The death penalty is a controversial issue for most people. Supporter's claim that it eliminates repeat offenders, deters potential murderers and is the ultimate retribution. Opponents denounce it as murder, say that it does not cause deterrence but rather promotes violence and claim that it introduces the chance of an innocent person being executed. ...
Juvenile Reform: On the Right Track? Fifteen people were found dead, and over twenty-three were left wounded. Two gunmen, part of the Trenchcoat Mafia, walked into their school at 11:30 am in Littleton, Colorado and started firing. Although this is not an everyday occurrence, juvenile delinquency...
