There are no Children Here Alex Kotlowitz's book, There are no Children Here, deals with the subject of race, values, and community responsibility of the urban underclass. ... There were no drug rehabilitation programs or centers to help combat the problem. ... The gangs were dedicated to violence. ... The cops came and went, but the gang members were there 24 hours a day. ... Then when a person of authority finally did care, the money was not there to provide the services necessary. ...

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There is no evidence to say that capital punishment is more effective than life imprisonment. ... Then why take another life for a life that a person took. ... There is no representation of what crimes capital punishment would include. ... A study in the USA in 1987 reported three hundred and fifty people were guilty of capital crimes yet they were innocent - twenty-three of these people were executed. We have to allow room for mistakes as no one or no system is perfect. ...

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There are no Children Here Alex Kotlowitz's book, There are no Children Here, deals with the subject of race, values, and community responsibility of the urban underclass. ... There were no drug rehabilitation programs or centers to help combat the problem. ... The gangs were dedicated to violence. ... The cops came and went, but the gang members were there 24 hours a day. ... Then when a person of authority finally did care, the money was not there to provide the services necessary. ...

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If it is going to stop a crazy man from killing again then so be it Were not supposed to kill others. ... No matter where you are there is going to be murder and crime. ... As a remedy for crime, it has no purpose and no effect. ... More than 3,000 people were executed since 1930; nearly half were people of color. ... I think that in no way it would ever be ok for anyone to die unless it is just there time to go. ...

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People are suppose to live and die, we can't make someone live if there no life. ... No matter where you are there is going to be death. ... There is no real way to replace one life with the death on another. ... More than 3,000 people were executed since 1930, nearly half were people of color. ... I think that in no way it would ever be ok for anyone to die unless it is just there time to go. ...

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During that year there were 47 murders. Before the date of the execution there were 26 murders executed and after that there were 21. (19% difference). In 1960, 56 there were 56 executions and 9,410 murders. In 1964 there were 15 executions and 9,250 murders. In 1969 to 1975 there were no executions and 35,100 murders. ...

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There are many things that could happen to children out on the streets. ... Also, if her parents were not able to pick her up, then there must have not been someone home to meet her. Since Carlie's parents were not being responsible, Smith was able to take advantage of their poor little girl. ... There are many ways that this horrible incident could have been prevented. ... If everyone works together, in no time at all, the crimes against children could decrease dramatically. ...

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Wilkerson acknowledges in depth how they were both from homes where they were born to mothers who first gave birth at the age of fourteen and who were not financially stable to take care of their children without the assistance of welfare (326). ... If there is no opportunity in your neighborhoods then how can people support themselves or their families? ... They no longer could borrow after awhile because there was nowhere to borrow from, leaving them to beg and steal. Once begging damaged their ego and no one had anything to spare, the only thing left to do was steal. ... Imagine being ...

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There were 57 women on death row as of October 2014. ... The jury then recommended the death sentence, even though Simmons had no criminal record and his age was only 17. ... There were more than a lot of prosecutorial misconducts in this case. ... In 2008, there were 2,418,352 prisoners in the American prison system. There were 705,000 prisoners that were incarcerated for violent crimes. ...

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I think if there not violent then they should get more than three strikes. ... If they were behind bars then there is a chance of less crimes being committed and people being hurt someway. ... There is no reason anyone should be able to commit a crime, any type of crime no matter the circumstances. ... No more chances. ... If there not smart enough not to commit that many crimes then they shouldn't be in society with normal people....

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As William Hearst said it "There is no deterrent in the menace of the gallows. ... Many people in jail would like to die rather then sit. ... Put them to hard work, you can make use out of them, if you kill them, they are no use. In the past there have been many ways of execution. ... There have been many more cases then I have stated. ...

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Societies throughout history keep coming back to the death penalty for those criminal exceptions in which there seem to be no other logical alternatives. ... There is no exception here for murderers. ... There is no getting around the fact that the death penalty is a costly judicial procedure. ... There have been free government programs offering free DNA test to inmates that wanted to challenge there convictions but few people have volunteered for this and there have been "virtually no exonerations" (Willing par 3). ... There is no visible pattern that can be ascertained from these statistics...

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There is no actual way for one to find out the reasons behind crime but there is many reasons that may explain why. 1.The Great Depression which was caused by the fall of stock prices that began September 4th 1929 then became world wide after the stock market crash. ... Unemployment in the U.S rose to 25% and in some countries it was as high as 33% cities all over were hit hard with no jobs no money people were left with nothing else but to commit violent acts of crime to get by. 2. ... There were 14,748 homicides in the United States in 2010 including non negligent- manslaughter, 666,160 mu...

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In the United States alone, in 1994 there were 5,853 hate crimes that were documented (www.fbi.gov/ucr/hatecm.html). Just in Texas in the year of 1995, there were over 300 hate crimes that were reported to different agencies (www.adl.org/presrele/hatecr_51/2604_51.html). ... It was three white men in there mid 30's who offered the victim a ride and then just killed him (Newsweek June 14,1998). ... What they stood for and what they fought so hard for; to have the peace, to have the type of world where there was no violence and no hate. ... Then there is the United States Constitution secti...

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There were obviously the crucifixions, but there was also stoning, beheading, hanging, shootings from a firing squad, the electric chair, gas chambers, and now they have lethal injections. ... Aren't they just doing there job though? No, if we let that slide, then we would have to let the murder slide too because they could have been doing a job for somebody else such as a mob boss or gangster of some sort. ... I mean if there is no threat of death to one who commits murder, then that person is guaranteed to be provided with a descent living environment un...

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There are around 3000 people on death row across the country right now and if these politicians get their way, then 3000 lives will be spared.... All human life does have the right to be respected but there is a point when that right can be lost, if someone takes the life of another human being then they have given up that right. ... (Yaffe,2) If no evidence is found by then to prove their true innocence, chances are no evidence will ever be found. ... Sixty-seven percent of the people on death row were convicted of a previous felony. ... This doesn't seem to be a problem becaus...

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However, things have changed since then. ... There is no way of knowing how many other innocent lives have been lost due to capital punishment. ... To counter one of the points made by the pro argument, there is no proof that the death penalty actually deters crime. ... Capital punishment is a final sentence; there is no way to repent afterwards. ... There is no way to possibly calculate the number of innocent lives that have been sacrificed at the hands of unfair judgment. ...

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Who Needs the Death Penalty Anyway There is no way any person could tell me that the death penalty is a form of justice. ... I also feel as humans we have no right to take a human life. ... There are also those out there who believe that the death penalty is a deterrent. ... If that is true then we all are contributing to the death of a human being, that's a scary thought. ... Gutierrez 3 While doing all this death penalty research I often wondered if there were really innocent people on death row? ...

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If these are some of the things that you're into, then this is your kind of movie. ... Tarantinos' characters chop off ears then talk into them as if they were using ma bell. ... They could give a shit if you were the cousin of the president or a nanny. ... No holes barred, no questions asked, no thought given to actions or consequences. ... There is a certain comfort level in belonging to something, anything. ...

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At one time, prisoners were treat as if they were subhuman. ... But no one, no matter what they've done, should be denied fundamental human rights, especially when that denial comes in the form of such torture." ... According to The Stanford Prison Experiment, a normal prisoner that knew it was an experiment started going crazy when prisoners were not able to step out there cell. ... During visitation hours, security should be checking the visitors' bags to ensure that there is no smuggling of drugs inside their purses or bags. If inmates are still able to sell and purchase drugs fro...

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There may be dangers to drug use, but there are also dangers in using alcohol and tobacco. ... As far as overdosing, there is no scientifically valid evidence of anyone dying of an overdose of marijuana smoke (Marshall 82). ... All of these could be avoided if drugs were legalized, and the black market would vanish not too long after. ... unity, then it is not a problem for society. ... If the results from legalizing marijuana were positive, then perhaps other drugs can be sold later. ...

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Within East Side High, there was a teacher named Joe Clark. ... The students were then shown walking through the halls dealing drugs, fighting and completely out of control. ... They simply refused to do school work and there was a major lack of discipline because the teachers had no control over the students. ... He then decided to bring back Joe Clark because they new that Joe possessed the qualities that were needed to get the job done. ... He then put locked chains on all of the doors to keep them out. ...

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There were several religions that stepped up to oppose the death penalty, most notable the Roman Catholic Church. ... These were just some of the opposing viewpoints. ... Carmical does not make a real strong case but what Carmical states is that there is no proof an innocent man has ever died. ... He then dies from cardiac and respiratory arrest. ... There maybe a few changes necessary to the death penalty but no person has the right to take the life of another and deserves to sit in an air-conditioned prison, watching television, eating his dinner. ...

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If drugs were made legal then it would cause a threat to the good of society. ... If drugs were made legal, then a large amount of under age consumers would be able to easily get their hands on them. ... This is more understandable and possible then legalizing the use of all drugs. But then you have to ask the question: if we legalize marijuana where does it stop? ... When it comes to legalizing illicit drugs there can be no medium. ...

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It is a cruel and cold blooded form of punishment and there have been instances where innocent people were sentenced to death and later found to be innocent. ... A cover story in the "Time"3 presents a report about a man called Doug McCray, then 32. ... A study made in the U.S., of death row inmates has found that 62 percent were unskilled workers, 60 percent were unemployed and a majority of these people were represented by lawyers with less than five years experience. ... It can be seen that there is no logical reason for reintroducing capital punishment. The fact that there is ...

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