The only way to make sure these murderers don't commit more crimes is by capital punishment. ... The ultimate penalty ,death, is necessary for the punishment of terrible crimes because it provides the most complete retribution and condemnation. ... Because of the use of the death penalty and capital punishments there was a decrease in crime and murder rates. ... Using capital punishment prevents many unnecessary deaths and crimes. ... If they were successful they would have the opportunity to commit more serious crimes, to prevent all of this from happening, we must enforce the usag...

• Word Count: 804
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Capital punishment is a social institution whereby a goveronment punishes a certain crime by putting the offender to death. ... or cruel and unusual punishment'' shall not be inflicted upon a defendant. How can one argue that taking anothers life is not cruel and unusual punishment? ... These cases prove that death by any means is a " Cruel and Unusual" punishment for any crime. ... Capital punishment is a bad policy and does not benifit anyone in the long haul. ...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Advocates of capital punishment claim that it is an effective deterrent against crime and that it is morally just. The statistics, however, point the opposite direction, indicating that capital punishment has little to no effect on the occurrence of crime and is a profoundly discriminatory and a morally conflicting practice. ... Capital punishment simply bears little effect on the occurrence of such crimes. ... The claim that deterrence of crime is an effect of the practice of capital punishment is simply statistically invalid. ... For the crime of murder, 3,343 w...

• Word Count: 822
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Capital punishment is the highest form of punishment in the United States of America. ... (It is the belief of many that capital punishment is morally wrong,) - I believe that capital punishment is morally wrong- .It can be inflicted upon the innocent; It does not deter crime; there is prejudice involved and therefore it should be abolished. ... Also, it has not been proven to deter crime. ... Capital punishment is not the answer. It does not deter crime, it does not bring back the victim of a crime, and it is cruel and inhumane. ...

• Word Count: 1323
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There are too many crimes committed by youths and more severe punishments would most likely result in a major decrease in juvenile offenses. ... If punishments were made more severe, the use of illegal drugs and alcohol among the juvenile population who commit crimes would also decrease, as shown proven in a 1995 Annual Report on Drug's and Alcohol published by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Colombia University. ... For example, if the juvenile who commits a crime truly regrets doing so, he will still be sentenced to a severe punishment. ... The statistics of ...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A psychologist by the name of Karl Menninger says that criminals should be psychologically evaluated because they are "sick not bad" and treated for their crimes instead of punished because nothing good ever comes from punishment. ... Hetter and Graeme Newman who are for the punishment of criminals and believe that the state of the legal system of today is diminishing, that if laws were stricter, the crime rate would or could very well decrease as stated by Newman. ... With punishment the legal system dares the criminal to commit another act of crime and if they commit a crime the punis...

• Word Count: 773
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By 1967, capital punishment had virtually halted in the United States, pending the outcome of several court challenges. ... Punishment, on the other hand, is defined as the rough handling or penalization for a wrong doing. ... Does the Death Penalty deter crime, especially murder? ... And states that have abolished capital punishment, or instituted it, show no significant changes in either crime or murder rates. ... The crimes ranged from any between murder and fornication. ...

• Word Count: 873
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Hate crime legislation is discrimination. ... He committed a violent act, and received the right punishment - execution. ... This case received no pressure to prosecute fully or classify the crime as a hate crime. ... Meaning by percentage of population and crime rate, blacks commit far more crimes. ... Yet black crimes, as listed above receive no media attention. ...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The average prison sentence for a violent crime is about one year longer for African-Americans than for Caucasians ("Racial Inequalities in" 1). Many cases in America have been concluded in which a white man gets less prison time than a black man for the same crime. ... A study has shown that 58,000 criminal cases have found disparities in the sentencing for blacks and whites arrested for the same crime ("Black Americans Given" 1). ... Blacks and whites should be treated equally when it comes to making a sentence of the same crime. ... Also, people might think that white cr...

• Word Count: 935
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A plea bargain is an agreement to plead guilty to a lesser charge with less-severe punishments. ... This gives the defendant a set punishment, which is usually to good to pass up. ... The main problem with this is that the government made strict punishment for crimes and then 90% of the time the punishments do not get enforced. ... Plea bargains leave no real uniformity giving some people a lesser punishment than others who committed the same crime. "If all criminals cases went through a court with a set sentence for the nature of a crime, there would not be so many people getting out of th...

• Word Count: 1900
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. ... When you look back, slavery was a form of punishment in itself. ... The latter amendments ban slavery except for punishment for a crime, and they also line out the rights of citizens. ... Such as: "Germany paid reparations to Israel for the crimes of the Nazi Holocaust. ... She apologized for the crime and recognized a long-standing grievance of the Maori people. ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

If America does not wake up soon, we will have extreme punishment against crimes, honour killings, and child marriage. ... Researches show that "under sharia law, courts may set an eye-for-an-eye punishment for crimes," but victims may pardon convicts in exchange for so-called blood money". ... This proves that if we got the exact number of crimes, this would be an epidemic. ... If one state becomes like the UK, then there's going to be an increase of random public, during the day, crimes like on the train or the bus. If there are more crimes in public trains and buses, one state will b...

• Word Count: 848
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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.... North American societies are more focused on justice and punishment, rather than rehabilitation. ... The best way to fix crime is to fix society itself. ... Overall, society should shift its attention from punishment towards rehabilitation. ...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Juvenile crime does not only affect the individuals who commit the crime; it also affects the victim of the crime. ... One of the major causes of juvenile crimes is violence in the home. ... Another reason for juvenile crime is media violence. ... Focusing on the child at its early age can reduce juvenile crime. Also, giving the offender the appropriate punishment along with the rehabilitation services needed to encourage former criminals can help lead productive lives. ...

• Word Count: 651
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Capital punishment has been a cause for debate for many years, and people continue to disagree on the topic. ... Why does the United States need capital punishment? ... To do this, the punishment must be harsh enough to deter potential criminals"(Bastiat). This punishment is of the harshest form, but it is necessary to maintain order. Is capital punishment in fact a deterrent? ...

• Word Count: 699
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

All the gun control laws are not about preventing crime. Law abiding citizens who are armed will prevent crime. ... They do not stop crime while it is happening. ... Predominantly guns of crime are used by gang members. ... Armed citizens pose a risk of punishment to criminals - perhaps more so than does the criminal justice system. ...

• Word Count: 5482
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

Many state legislators like Alaska, California, Oregon, Ohio, and Colorado have made the punishments for using marijuana less harsh. ... That's far more than the total number of arrests for all violent crimes combined, including murder, robbery, rape, and aggressive assault. ... Such a system would reduce many of the problems presently associated with the prohibition of marijuana, including the crime, corruption and violence associated with a "black market." ... Therefore the legalization of marijuana would not only boost the economy, and lower the crime rate. ...

• Word Count: 561
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Their crimes include, among others, brutal sexual assault and murder. ... Their crimes also include child molestation or pedophilia. ... Their crimes vary from shoplifting to driving while intoxicated. ... Sentencing reform groups such as Sentencing Project and the Project for Older Prisoners say neither punishment nor recidivism justify prolonged incarceration of the elderly (Anderson, 1994). ... "Violent crime is a young man's game. ...

• Word Count: 784
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To join a gang one must either be jumped in, which means all of the other gang members will fight whoever is being jumped in to see how well they can handle themselves, or one must commit a crime such as assault or even murder. ... Punishment in most instances means death to the disloyal member thief. ... Any violation of this rule may also result in punishment for the violator. ... Most of the time this will then lead to each member trying to commit a bigger and more violent crime or more crimes than the others. ... In gangs with more intelligent members, these feelings end up making eac...

• Word Count: 1108
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Some people think that it is a good idea because it could lead to catching terrorists, but what about the other 99 percent of people that are not committing crimes? Under this Act people that are not committing crimes are currently being held violating the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. ... It has been said, of the people being held, very few of them are being tried for crimes and most of them are secretly arrested by immigration. ... The Eighth Amendment safeguards us against excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishment. ... These people did not go to trial nor were they convi...

• Word Count: 722
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

It said that it was a crime to say or write anything "false, scandalous and malicious" against the government, Congress, or the President." Which didn't sit well with the general population, who thought it was directly a hit against the first amendment, however, "Congress had a convenient legal basis for the laws it had enacted since that time, making certain kinds of speech a crime. And since punishment after the fact is an excellent deterrent to the exercise of free expression, the claim of "no prior restraint" itself is destroyed."...

• Word Count: 623
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state governments are separate entities and have formal authority over the same area and people. With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. Civil rights are freedoms and rights ...

• Word Count: 8719
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School

Drunk driving is considered a serious crime in the United States. ... Drunk driving is a serious crime and has grim consequences. Punishment for first time offenders includes suspension of driving privileges, points, and fines. Punishment for second time and subsequent offenses increases significantly and typically involves a period of imprisonment. ... Failing to appear in court may result in the State charging you with the crime of failure to appear. ...

• Word Count: 1503
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Civilians abuse the weapon, they are using it to commit crimes "I think we are prepared to get rid of the dammed things entirely the handguns, the semis and the automatics"(Roger 245). ... I believe that there should be strong penalties for people who ate caught with guns illegally and stronger punishments for those who threaten violence with guns. ...

• Word Count: 567
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This law was enacted in response to soaring crime rates during the mid 1980's and early 1990's (Walsh, 2007, pg.1). This affected the courts because it changed the way the courts would make their rulings on crimes. ... This policy affected the courts because it not only increased the amount of cases it would handle, it would also present the courts with a wide variety of different cases that needed to be dealt with from minor to serious crimes (Grabosky, 1999). ... With the increased corruption within the Mexican government, dealing with drug traffickers and upholding zero toleranc...

• Word Count: 1661
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School