1. Gang Violence
Violence in schools around the nation is a serious problem. It includes gang activity, theft, bullying and the use of guns and other weapons. The total number of crimes committed in public schools has risen to close three million each year. About 9 percent of all students are victimized at least ...
Several sophisticated statistical models have attempted to measure the net effect of firearms on criminal violence. ... Thus, as opponents of gun control correctly contend, gun control measures in the United States, if anything, contribute to increased criminal violence because they deny guns to honest citizens but not to criminals. ...
Some arguments against the enforcement of school uniforms are that uniforms are just an extreme measure of the school's dress codes, whether or not school violence would lessen if student were made to wear uniforms, and that uniforms take away a child's First Amendment rights. ...
" Over 600 people were falsely convicted and 35 faced death for crimes that they did not commit-(Johnson). The death penalty is an ineffective and expensive way of dealing justice to the American people. It is easier and cheaper to send someone to prison for life than to have them face the death pen...
Death Row The death penalty is outmoded and should be eliminated from our justice system. The death penalty is extremely racially biased and is not assigned justly. While advocates claim it is cheaper to execute than to support a felon for life in prison, it is actually more expensive to sentence ...
How do you combat juvenile delinquency when psychologists believe "much of the delinquency grows out of the adolescents need to rebel against the restrictions of the adult world?" You can't dispose of adults. So why not eliminate adult restrictions? Yet, restrictions are imposed to offer to offer...
Capital punishment is a sign of deep sickness in our culture. Our culture is addicted to violence and is desperately ill. War, racism, torture, abortion, sexism, and nuclear weapons are all signs of that illness in the world. The death penalty like these other signs of society gone wrong is immora...
U.C.R represents data that is; "actual offences, those reported or detected offences that have been found , upon preliminary investigation to have actually occurred, as opposed to being unfounded."2 Therefore, official data is a measure of information collected and accounted for on those crimes that have come to the attention of the police. ... "Crime statistics do not measure criminal behaviour they measure the response of various agencies to their perceptions of crime."4 We can then determine that the quote in the daily by statistics Canada may hold to be flawed by lack of unifor...
IV. Introduction What is this whole idea about the Death Penalty? Is it really effective? " The death penalty is commonly defined as a punishment inflicted upon a criminal for a crime that they have committed." To some it is an inhumane way of solving crime. ...
Society would like to accept that children lost to gangs are from dysfunctional and uncaring homes. While in some cases this may be true, in many homes this is not the case. In Susan Horton's article "Mothers, Sons, and The Gangs" she speaks of three different scenarios of gang members and their families. Although the families had different backgrounds, beliefs, and techniques they all shared in common sons who were gang members. They are mothers who care but have to face alone the battle of raising their sons in a community lost to gangs. ...
Statistics like this arise "because too many judges and magistrates either don't know the law or are unwilling to apply it with appropriate vigor." (186) The NRA has in the past, and are presently, supporting measures to increase the severity of the punishments of the "incorrigible minority who place themselves outside of the law." ...
Do you think killing someone because they have killed someone is right? Murder is wrong, any way you look at it. Since childhood, I have learned that this is the truth. The question then is, what is capital punishment? Simply put, capital punishment can be defined as being the process in which a per...
"The Reality of the Prison Walls; Fair or Unfair?" The story "Past Present" by Jimmy Santiago Baca is a story of the prison system and the unfairness that he had seen during his time in there. The prison system to him is considered "unjustified". They have caused him to become a person that he d...
"The True Crime" Today is your every first day for kindergarten. As you walk into the classroom with your brand new Curious George lunchbox clutched tightly in your hand you notice the alphabet tacked to the wall on colorful note cards. You still don't know all the letters no matter how man...
John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in a middle class neighborhood. He lived with his parents and his three sisters. Like most children his age, he took part-time jobs after school. He had everything from newspaper routes to working in a grocery store. H...
What would be the effect of depriving ordinary, law-abiding citizens from taking up firearms in self-defense? Society has placed blame on the availability of firearms for countless homicides, domestic abuses, robberies and many other senseless crimes. In fact it is people that kill people, not guns....
The Internet Attacks Created to be a military intelligence weapon by the US Defense Department, the Internet is now a vast mediocre commodity. The Internet is a publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. Therefore, people from every corner and...
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." This definition displays in clear view the problem society has with the reason...
Crimes are now easier to commit Crimes are easier to commit in this day and age. Criminals have no sense of rehabilation anymore, because now all that seems to happen to them when they commit a crime is a slap on the wrist and sent back out into society. I believe that in this time in the judi...
It is designed with four primary objectives : (1) to develop detailed information about victims and what the outcome of crime was, (2) to estimate the members and types of crime not reported, (3) to provide measures of selected crimes, (4) to compare over time and types of areas. ...
Gun control as a Canadian social issue Gun Control is an important issue to Canadians in today"'s society. Canada has both provincial and federal legislation that restricts the sale, purchase, and use of different kinds of firearms. The United States, on the other hand, do not have federal or state bills restricting the possession or use of firearms, only local laws exist there. A firearm consists of any barreled weapon from which a shot, bullet or other missile can be fired and that is capable of causing serious bodily harm or death. Society"'s concerns about protection from vi...
"An eye for an eye" is something that many people do believe in, but will likewise allege that they do not trust in the death penalty, or as some people call it capital punishment. I for one do believe in the death penalty. It has been in existence for centuries throughout the world. People think th...