If the parents know that their children are going to be out until the set time of curfew, then they know when their worrying will end. ... Many parents believe that giving their kids a curfew is going to keep them out of trouble completely and that nothing bad is going to happen to them. Even with a curfew teens are going to do what they want (Anderson). ... When teens rebel they tend to do things that they would not have done before because they have that adrenaline rush and think they can do whatever they want (Anderson). ... If they do not allow leniency with time, and punish the children f...

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Capital punishment is also necessary for murderers because it gives other victims an ease of rest and no more fear that the murderer might someday be released from prison and go after them. ... Whatever the case is, it all really depends on the situation. ...

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Where as one person is convicted of burglary then eight years later convicted of grand theft auto, once he is released if he is caught stealing a piece of gum he will go to jail for the rest of his life. ... If one person commits three random acts of violence, theft, fraud or whatever the case was should be thrown in jail for the rest of their life. ...

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Sure someone whose numbers were ominous was expected to provide an explanation and a plan for improvement, but then someone who knew he was going to be called upon to depend his performance would usually do whatever he could to improve that performance before it embarrassed him. The mere fact that one knew that one was going to be called to account provided the motivation to try new strategies. ...

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Could a man really be free if they did not express whatever disagreements with laws that may be implemented? ... I would see society as something completely fake with out the people who decide to play along with or go outside of what majority sees as good. ...

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It automatically eliminates the possibility of anyone, who fears capital punishment, from committing whatever murder they are meditating on. ... Half of this sum is spent on the prisons and court costs and the other half goes to law enforcement. ...

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Whatever kind of threat you want to choose, be it rape, assault by institution staff, or suicide, prison is a more dangerous place for young offenders. ... Congress says their reasoning is to cut back on costs, but these children who live from day to day in fear are going be released in an even shoddier state than when they entered. ...

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Make belief stories or whatever one may call it; urban myths and other folk devil stories has persisted in the society for ages. ... As the new expects, the society should be afraid of youth: parents should be afraid when their children go to school and old people should be afraid when they encounter a young adult. ...

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She goes to church frequently and prays all the time. ... A local rapper, Alien, bails them out for a price: he rescued them so they have to do whatever he commands. ... Alien agrees to her leaving but says that her friends cannot go with her. ... In retaliation, Alien and the last two girls standing go to the rival gangs party and kill every single member. ...

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These are people whom you would normally hang out with on weekends, or go to the movies with, but in some cases these are the people who get you in the most trouble. ... Parents don't fear that their teenage children are going to run out and shoot someone because they saw it on TV or did it in a video game. ... Not everyone is pressured by gangs but those who join, for whatever reason, soon realize they are more involved then they could imagine. ...

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The movie goes on showing violent acts of a person killing young girls. ... Most of them think they"re going to walk free with no punishment for murder, because the actors on TV get away with murder. ... Teens should be able to watch whatever they want. ... At the rate parents are going at now, it doesn't look good. ... The boys that killed that old woman were only sentence to go to the juvenile detention center and they weren't released until they were 18. ...

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Hypothesis: Due to the dubious and unproved value as a deterrent to violent crime, the inequity and mistakes inevitable in any system of justice instituted and administered by fallible human beings and the degrading and hurtful impulse toward retribution and revenge that it expresses, the abolition ...

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Supporters of stricter gun laws might believe that those who want to attain legal ownership of a firearm should go through more rigorous screenings and have more education about the dangers. ... However, tougher gun control will not, in fact, lower public violence because most people with the intent to harm others do not go through the legal process to obtain guns in the first place. ... Armed with a firearm or not, a criminal is a criminal and they will do whatever it takes to successfully commit a crime. ... However, to reduce the numbers that seem to only be going upwards we have to look a...

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You don't know whether to call 911 or just lay there and hope whatever it was will go away. ... Your bladder nearly lets go. ... But banning all hand guns is not the way to go about lowering the rate of crimes involving hand guns. ...

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They live in an aimless and violent present, have no sense of the past and no hope for the future, and act, often ruthlessly, to gratify whatever urges or desires drive them at the moment. ... This is getting out of hand, the days of little Johnny stealing a stick of gum from the corner store are over, now it is little Johnny going to school with a loaded .45 and shooting six of his classmates. ... We have recently observed the one year anniversary of the horrible massacre at Columbine high school in Colorado, students all over the country now have to go through metal detectors, have armed off...

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For example, it tells that if you angered, you should go to the alter, leave a gift, and follow through with a reconciliation with whomever has caused your anger. ... The punishment here is for whoever who has sinned to cut off whatever part of their body they have sinned with, which is just ridiculous. ... In the passage it explains that it is far better to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body go to hell, which sounds logical, but when it comes down to it, would anyone really want to follow through with it? ...

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The boys go on their way, this is an ordinary night for them, and back to their favorite hangout. ... The next time they go out, they break into the house of an old woman. ... Society, even today tends to look upon others who are different for whatever reasons as outcasts. ...

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Whatever it is, we need to find the root to this problem. ... If kids are abused at home they are going to grow up thinking it is ok for this to happen. ... A male living in poverty has nothing to lose, if anything he will go to better living conditions. ...

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The research within this article backed up the authors view on what is going on in the judicial system and she was able to have her claims justified. ... "Perhaps if we made those that were responsible for the paralyzation of a man during the commission of a violent crime go under the knife, resulting in the same form of paralysis, people would think twice about brandishing a gun at a whim." ... The author has a very good point that if the punishment was the same as the act than there would probably be less and less violent crimes, but the way to go about does not appeal to the public o...

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Inmates that go through structure programs receive substance abuse treatment, and they are released (Chachere, 3). ... Inmates are taught that when they have the Lord in their heart, wherever they are, whatever their circumstances, they will be happy (Chachere, 2). ...

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Even though some may consider the thought of getting caught and going to prison, it still does not stop them getting or doing what they want because they are so distraught that they see no other way to solve their problem. ... When a criminal gets sent to prison, does an amount of time, and gets let free, they are more intelligent, well-taught criminals that have the power to do whatever they please. ...

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In a study conducted by Schiraldi and Godrey on the effects of executions found that there is a 9 percent increase in the murder rates, going from 306 per month before to 333 after the executions. ... We can probably expect to continue hearing many churchgoers of whatever denomination referring to the Old Testament phrase,An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. ...

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The knockout game is a game played mostly by teenagers in which a friend picks out a victim and the person has to go and try to knock that person unconscious with one hit to the head or face. ... These places attract criminals because there is a sense that you can do whatever you want in these places. ... This affects the individual because hes not going to be able to get a high paying job with the amount of education he has. ... If you hang out with people that do bad things you are most likely going to do bad things as well. ... Children who are poor are most likely going to live in areas ...

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Capital punishment will, furthermore, put the convicted defendant through the precise fear and agony that the victim(s) had to go through upon his/her (their) death(s). ... Whatever the arguments of those opposed to capital punishment may be, value can never be put on a fellow human being's life. ...

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Instead, if this were invested productively, at a conservative 5% rate of return, that sum would yield $45,000 per year; more than enough to support a "lifer- in jail indefinitely, with enough money left over to go some distance toward hiring an additional jail guard or police officer (Capital Punishment: Facts pg 1-2). ... But I believe that a teenager has a chance to be rehabilitated and in time truly remorse whatever they have done. ...

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