How would you like to go to another country and have some dirty person come up to you and start harassing you for money? Some would disagree with me, they would say that it makes places like the city interesting and give its some culture. ... Also tourists may feel like they are being harassed. ... They should have to work for their money just like every one else. ... You can never know for sure where the money you donate to them in, hope that it might just help a bit, goes. ...

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I don't feel like anyone's life should be taken from them by another human being for any reason. ... But the flip side of this matter is many people feel like Death is the easy way out for the killer. ... No matter where you are or what state you are in there is going to be death whether it is someone killing someone else or it is someone being punished to Death. ... So in closing I feel that if you kill someone anywhere you should be sentenced to the Death Penalty, and it should not depend on what state you live on that determines whether you will receive the Death Penalty. The ...

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Before you get into the major you must receive a C or better in Sociology 101, and Sociology 105. ... It requires you to work long hours and be on call at all times. ... I think that being a police officer would be a good experience for the next level of work that I would like to par take in. ... I feel like the criminology and investigations major is right for me because I am very interested in why people commit crimes, lowering the crime rate, and helping a specific certain community. I also feel like this would be a good opportunity to give back to a community and help raise crime awarenes...

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Does our society have to be violent in order to feel like a strong America? ... It makes them feel like it is ok to kill because you will win at the end. ... If you are in a big city you have to be a little more cautious then if you were in a small city like Cincnnati. ... If you murder somebody and you do not get punished for it, many people will be angry. You then have no control over what the mourning family might want to do to you. ...

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Yet although his life is on the line, Socrates does not act like a typical victim pleading for his life, he actually does the opposite. ... This was easily portrayed in the quote, "if you kill the sort of man I say I am, you will not harm me more than yourselves" (pg. 33,30c-d). ... He then goes on to state that if he actually was corrupting the youth unintentionally, the law requires one to take you aside to tell you, not take you to court(pg.29, 26a). ... Socrates took the painful words of execution the best way he knew how and like the hero that he is, managed to be brave about it. Speaking...

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Every time you turn on the news you read about somebody that was hurt or even worse killed because they had a different view of a subject. ... They could be considered as more of a way to be associated with others like you. Almost like a second family for some. ... Or that it is cool to beat someone up that you don't like. Incidences like this happen too often. ...

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Every time you turn on the news you read about somebody that was hurt or even worse killed because they had a different view of a subject. ... They could be considered as more of a way to be associated with others like you. Almost like a second family for some. ... Or that it is cool to beat someone up that you don't like. Incidences like this happen too often. ...

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Do you ever get that feeling at night when you are walking alone, you get a chill down your spine and your whole body begins to tense. ... Would you know what to do in order for you to get away? ... When you know how to defend yourself, you gain confidence. ... Some people don't like the idea of one of these classes, because they feel it is a violent way to solve problems. ... If you are in a room with eight people, chances are two of them have been attacked at some point in their life and something like this would not only help them feel like our community cares that it happened, but the...

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Would you liked to be killed for something you did not do? I do not think you would. ... You cannot free the dead. ... 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. ...

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Alchol in america is legal to drink when you are 21, while in Canada it is 19. ... This is true, but what he failed to point out is like with Australia, communities are widley spread out and to walk home from town would take hours. ... When you have such communities in Canada you will find that there are no strangers, everyone knows everyone and they trust each other because the communities are so small. ... Very much like in the USA, the media cannot comment on there heads of state, where as in Britain publications like Private eye and television programmes like Have I got news for you, ...

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American gang membership began evolving in the early 1800s, originating in large urban cities like Chicago and New York. ... Gangs are like a hierarchy, the longer you are in there or the more you have "put in work," the higher level of respect you have obtained. That respect lives with you forever until your gang ties are broken. ... New members look up to these higher level members like father figures and hope to one day achieve their status and respect. ... When you are brought up around a certain lifestyle, only that lifestyle seems right to you....

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The holocaust burns images of humans being herded like cattle into trains full of feces and the smell of rotting bodies, women and children wasting away to emaciated and starved figures, and dead corpses being piled into masses and swept under the dirt like nothing happened. ... Wade court decision to legalize abortion, 40 million innocent lives have been disposed of like garbage and small bodies tucked away into jars and trash bags. ... You may have had possible birth defects, been a hindrance to her life, or simply weren't convenient at the time. Aren't you glad she gave you a cha...

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He started doing things like running messages, torching cars, and to selling stolen cigarettes. ... They received many privileges like being able to import extravagant food and alcohol. ... It wasn't like home, but it wasn't too far off from being home. ... After the Lufthansa heist, people started dropping like flies. ... It is a rule when you are in the mafia, that you never talk, you aren't suppose to tell the police anything, especially no on that is above you. ...

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Do you still feel safe? ... As you read on, you will see why we need to bring it back to the state. ... Capital punishment today is more humane, though, with new methods like lethal injection and the electric chair compared to old ways like drawing and quartering, the guillotine, and boiling the guilty to death. ... If you are willing to take a life then your life should be taken from you. ... Too many people sit on Death Row each year and are not executed like their sentence stated. ...

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They could give a shit if you were the cousin of the president or a nanny. ... You would think these characters are drugged or brainwashed, but they're not. ... Everyone likes to feel like they fit in. ... When you think of all the things life has to offer, why would you want to involve yourself in all this complicated criminal shit? ... You don't even want to blink for fear of missing something. ...

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At first you dismiss it as the wind. ... But then you realize you have a 9-mm Smith and Wesson hand gun in the nightstand. ... You hear them walking down the hallway toward you. ... There still is the possibility that it's you spouse so you don't shoot the intruder through the door. ... These might sound like simple solutions to a difficult solution, but they are solutions that will work.Nan Desuka put it best, "'Guns don't kill people - criminals do.' ...

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But I'd like to excerpt some selected passages. ... People (like myself) who've worked in law enforcement agree that things are terrible, and we wish that something could be done. ... Rummel at September 29, 2003 09:24 PM I agree that the costs of solving this problem as fully as I'd like would be huge. ... This is way, way too long, but - like you - I am passionate about this subject. ... "And if you think that you can make an un-biased and - more importantl...

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There are also less common prison gangs like Los Solidos, Latin Locos, G27, Nation, Brotherhood, Elm City Boys, 20 Luv, and Esses. ... When I asked him why he joined he said because "I don't want a *censored* up my ass...when you claim one of these organizations you don't get *censored*Ed with as much because you got your peeps behind you". ... Most gang members were already street gang members, which bore street names like the 60th street gang. ... He got into brawls like everyone else but gang involvement was not a necessity for Hassine as it was for Jake. ... Would you?...

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First you would need to define what media violence is. ... Violence and the threat of violence simply come to feel like part of the natural background of everyday life. ... In the American Academy of Pediatrics" article "some things you should know about media violence and media literacy," they explain the affects of media violence on children. ... That's where you go to sleep at night and they drug you and take you somewhere else and then they bring you back and put you in bed and, when you wake up, you think that it's a bad dream" (Bean). ... In order to get the attention of t...

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Later on you did another offense. This time you did beat someone up with a deadly weapon, that's another count goes toward you. ... Even though your third offense time severs should only like 4 year but since it's your third strike judge give you 25 year. ... We don't want them to end up like some of the people that are in prison. ... In order for this to happen everyone has to help out like paying more taxes. ...

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You can't dispose of adults. ... If so, you could curb delinquency. ... Male juvenile delinquents are more likely to commit violent or serious crimes like rape, murder and armed robbery (Pancratz, p.7). ... Whereas females tend to commit less serious crimes like shop lifting, teenage males are the lifelines for drug trafficking. ... If you are 17 years old, you are tried as an adult and end up in prison. ...

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Everyone within those walls cannot be treated like they are less than human. Regardless of what you have done, you still have feelings and deserve some kind of respect as a person. Going into a prison you already know that some of the freedom that you had before is now lost, but they do not have to treat you like you are an alien from another planet. ... I believe that there are different measures of punishment like one has in their household. After two times and your child does not listen, you bring out the "big punishment" to make your child realize that you mean what you say. ...

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As you can see, it goes straight to the point. ... He is a bit naive sometimes, like in page 45 when he tried to convince himself that the only difference between socs and greasers is that greasers like Elvis and do not like the Beatles and socs like the Beatles and do not like Elvis. ... Wait till I get out...I told you he don't mean half of what he says..."" ... You do not have to keep reading to solve a problem. ... It is like going "behind the scenes- of a gang. ...

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In a neighborhood full of projects, you could basically call it ghetto. ... For example, I have a friend like many others who exercise the use of drugs and are in a gang. ... You could see the change in him; pricy clothes, fresh attitude. ... The type of kid your parents talk to you about how nice he is. ... You knew that was all people were talking about. ...

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What do you think of when the word crime is spoken? ... Both men are criminals, but which one's actions are more detrimental to you? ... This may seem like a very high number, but think about this: Guns alone kill over 11,000 Americans every year (Bowling for Columbine). ... In contrast, would you walk alone through the streets of Detroit? ... There's a good chance that if you walk through the bad neighborhoods you will be attacked, raped, mugged, or even murdered. ...

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