Theodore Lorraine Sendak, a former Indiana Attorney General, once stated, "Our system of criminal law is to minimize human suffering by works or order primarily to forestall violence or aggression. ... With a total of 282 laws in this document, Babylonian King Hammurabi also included the theory of "an eye for an eye ". ... If future criminals feel that they can easily get off with a light sentence for a heinous crime, it seems only natural that instances of murder would increase. ...

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In one case, which happened on March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King. ... Many feel the system is administered almost exclusively by whites and designed to protect the white lives and property but provide minimal protection to the life and safety of minorities like Rodney King. ... Inequality has always existed in the United States legal system and continues to exist today; even though inequality presently in the system is not as blatant as what it once was, the system has come to depend on inequality. ...

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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting towards the literature on masculinity slowly increasing within the past 20 years due to the pressure from feminist works. In this essay, I will begin by reviewing theories on masculinity, and evaluating why such ideas create the assumption that violence appears to be associated with masculinity. I ...

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