Hate Crime Laws: Abolish Them In the 1980's the governments of the United States created a new sort of crime; hate crime. ... The 1994 Crime Act included the Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act which stated that a person who committed a crime based on hate would be punished more severe than someone who committed a similar crime not based on hate (NCJRS, Hate Crime Resources - Legislation). ... A crime based on hate is just as worse as a crime based on indifference. ... Of all crime, only a small percentage is of hate crime, while hate crime is the one that is most discussed....

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Organized crime in America began shortly after the immigration of Italians coming over to America during the 1880s and 1890s. ... The Lufthansa heist of 1979 was carried out by the Lucchese crime family and representatives of the Gambino family. ... "Fortune 5: The Biggest Organized Crime Groups in the World." ... Matthews ranks the top five mafias or organized crime groups based on their income. ... Criminals are acting either in groups or independently based on the population that makes up all the criminals. ...

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"The main objective of early, placed-based prevention programs is to not only prevent juvenile delinquency but also adult criminality by reducing the prevalence of risk factors associated with delinquent behavior"(National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 2012, para. 3). ... This program is a school based program and more schools are waiting to offer it. ... Most of the crime that is committed in Atlanta is done so by those under the age of 29. The crime prevention programs would benefit most if they were targeted at the youth of Atlanta. ... For the best opportunity to reduce c...

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The Legal Structure of South Africa The South African legal system is similarly based to that of the United States. ... The High Court, however, does preside over serious crime hearings such as murder. ... Because South Africa's democracy is not yet established and still emerging, it is increasingly affected by high levels of violent crime. ... More serious crimes are presided by the High Courts. ... A new superior court, the "Constitutional Court" was established to decide matters based on Constitutional provisions. ...

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There are several reasons why we should look to alternative solutions to the problem of capital crimes. 1. ... Does not Deter Crime a. The deterrence of crime has always been one of the strongest supporting arguments for the death penalty. ... In the first line of the United States Constitution there are the words, "establish Justice- Our founding fathers envisioned a country based upon justice and personal rights. ... Amnesty International is a group based in England that is dedicated to protecting the fundamental human rights, such as the right to life. ...

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent court that will be based out of The Hague in The Netherlands. ... Crimes such as mass executions, murder, rape, forcefully removing people from their homes based on ethnicity, mass torture and mutilations, and the systematic destruction of property of a certain group of people, are all punishable by the ICC. ... Americans that commit crimes in other countries have far less civil liberties than they would have in the ICC. ... The court's jurisdiction is limited to the crimes that it can investigate. ... Also as a party, the US could als...

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent court that will be based out of The Hague in The Netherlands. ... Crimes such as mass executions, murder, rape, forcefully removing people from their homes based on ethnicity, mass torture and mutilations, and the systematic destruction of property of a certain group of people, are all punishable by the ICC. ... Americans that commit crimes in other countries have far less civil liberties than they would have in the ICC. ... The court's jurisdiction is limited to the crimes that it can investigate. ... Also as a party, the US could a...

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"...the death sentence is abominable, as abominable as the crime itself. Our state must be based on love, not hatred and victimization. Our penal code must be based on rehabilitation rather than annihilation."... Violent crime arrest rates peak at age 18 and then gradually decline to almost zero at age 60 and over (Effects). ... Williams, Chief Police in Los Angeles stated, "I am not convinced that capital punishment, in and of itself, is a deterrent to crime because most people do not think about the death penalty before they commit a violent or capital crime." ...

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Another way that conflict can contribute to the courts is the way that case laws can be developed based on the outcome of other court cases. ... Conflict leads to the court and court rulings have the ability to lead to a law that is created based off the ruling of the court when the law is interpreted (Baum, 2012, pg. 2). ... Conflict once again contributes to modern courts because it gives the ability to create laws based off of court rulings. ... 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 c...

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Deterrence Leslie Cantu: Fear of death deters people from committing crimes, proponents say. ... The idea is that the death penalty does not deter crime. ... Opponents of the death penalty will argue that although it is said to exist as a crime deterrent, in reality it has no effect on crime at all. ... These individuals fall into the "crimes of passion" category. ... Many advocates of capital punishment base their opinions on his results, but what many of them do not know is that no one else besides Ehrlich has come up with the same results (Blumstein, 358). ...

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Gangs are not the only examples of modern day racism, most people don't have to look further than their own households to see examples of hate based on people's appearance. ... Mostly they start because people have common beliefs, based on people that they hate, or who they think are inferior to them. ... Then again mostly what gangs do is commit hate crimes. ... In 1999 the U.S. passed the Hate Crime Preventions Act, which seeks to expand federal jurisdiction over these crimes. ... Jack McDevitt stated that hate crimes are message crimes, because the wrongdoer is sending a message...

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Throughout Prohibition crime was one of the most shocking problems on The rise. ... For the first time there was "organized" Crime developing throughout major cities. ... Controlling the crime was almost impossible for the pro-Prohibition leader Because of a lack of planning. ... For example, Jackass Brandy caused severe internal bleeding And Panther Whiskey had a fuel oil base!!!! ... Prohibition ended with an increase of crime, corruption and public health problems. ...

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These acts of crime are quite high. ... Belief Driven/Violent Assault Crimes. ... Crimes within the Belief Driven/Violent Assault Context share several attributes: They are usually characterized by extreme violence and tend to be based on a "hypermasculine" concept of what it means to be a "man on the streets." ... Two crime types within this context are vigilante and honor crimes. Subcategories of honor crimes include self-preservation and gang crimes. ...

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Prison has never been an effective measure of crime control. ... The best way to fix crime is to fix society itself. ... Findings suggest that individual-centered approaches to crime prevention need to be complemented by community-based approaches (Benson, E. 2003). ... These criminals are usually small time and come from poor communities with high crime rates. ... The theory of a community-based approach also applies to preventing the mentally ill from entering prisons in the first place. ...

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It is believed that if students were made to wear uniforms the crime and discipline in public schools would decrease. ... Taking that away from child should be a crime not wearing baggy pants or not tucking in their shirt tails. ... These incidents were serious crimes which included robberies, vandalism, rapes, stabbing, bombings, shootings, and even cold blooded murders. These crimes were committed by students with problems a lot larger than what they were going to wear to school. ... The idea that they could is not based on facts but pure opinions. ...

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Our country is based on the belief that man is good until he or she is proven to be otherwise."(Harris p.2) This means that only a few people are committing crimes with uses of guns. ... But, in reality handguns in the hands of law-abiding citizens deter violent crimes while producing no significant rise in gun-related crimes; moreover, it has made them decrease considerably. ... And with that idea has grown up a new policy to combat crime. ... Indeed it does not even address itself directly to those who commit crimes. ...

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By electing trusted officials Klansmen would be assured that crime would be suppressed, minorities regulated, and community improvements initiated."... Klansmen, hiding behind hoods and cloaks, have committed numerous racially motivated crimes. ... Many of these crimes have gone unpunished. ... Even today, there are groups of people within the United States that commit violent and illegal acts to suppress the rights of others based on their skin color, and get away with it. ...

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Some would say that media should print and broadcast the name because it alerts people of the crime and brings truth. ... Within these cases each have been tried in different types of courts, some based on criminal suits, some based on criminal statutes and some on common law. ... "The right to privacy is just a right, a right based not on constitutional guarantees,""(Gates Jr. 2000). ... The public is interested in matters of social issues such as: crime, drug use and political candidates. ... Florida's law stipulates: "794.026 Civil right of action for communicating the identity o...

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He also made claims that Hiroshima was a military base. ... It was far from what Americans would consider a military base. ... This project included the modifications of forty six b-29 bombers to be used in the Manhattan Project, the training of the 509th composite bombing group, as well as support for the units based on Tinian Island. ... Many say the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have been considered war crimes because of the slaughter of innocent civilians. ... Allied forces decimated many Nazi occupied cities with bombing runs, those operations were not considered to be war cri...

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How can this innocent man be put to death in a system based on fairness, and a theory of innocent until proven guilty. ... Is capital punishment fair, and based on equality? ... And does the presence of the death penalty deter crime? ... In most states where the death penalty is instated, it is done so to deter crime. ... Now that is not to say it is impossible that, in some few cases, the death penalty did deter a capital crime. ...

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There are multiple ways to punish one who has committed a crime, and the punishments are different based on countries and what crime it is. A few countries around the world are using death penalty as a punishment, which can be based on the saying 'an eye for an eye'. ... "What punishment do you think fits the crime that James Perry and Lawrence Horn committed?... Likewise there will be those like Mario Cuomo who does not see the moral in the "an eye for an eye" method who wont see the logic in killing someone because they committed a crime. ...

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The power of the stronger is based on many variables of cultural power and intellectual strength. ... Can we divide humans into categories based on culture, race, tradition, society, etc. and survive the consequences humanely? ... "Overwhelmingly Saddam Hussein;s crimes were committed during that period, and the U.S. supported him all the way through, with a good deal of enthusiasm. ... By offering up the red herring of Hussein's rampant crime history as if to suggest that the west even cares, is all part of the orientalist's bag of tricks. ... The same factors of division are invol...

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Could it be that America is openly practicing executions based upon race, hate crimes if you will, and the public is unbeknownst to the fact? ... On the other side of town, the local car dealer commits the identical crime towards a black victim. ... Now I"m a man of justice; no one should be punished lightly for any crime. ... Granted, there may be undeniable evidence that a terrible crime has been committed. ... It does not help reduce crime (lecture notes), and procedures for its procurement are severely flawed. ...

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Guns can help prevent crime. ... This alone shows that crime would drop if more citizens owned, carried and knew how to use guns. ... Guns also provide vulnerable women with some form of protection against rape and other violent crime. ... These are just a handful of examples of why handguns help prevent crime. ... The rational given for most modern gun control legislation is "Crime Control." ...

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The crime rate has been rising, which is causing some issues for the people who use guns often, but do not use them in a criminal way. ... There has been a fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for the right to own a handgun. ... Gun control is also wrapped in the series of social issues such as crimes and drugs. ... They also argue that if a criminal's mind were set on committing a crime, a waiting period would merely become another obstacle. ... Firearms were shown to be the weapon of choice in 70% of homicides in 1993 and the number of violent crimes ...

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