The Brown University Digest of Addiction theory & Application also believes that "The ineffectiveness of the zero tolerance approach to illegal drugs is tied to the fact that it fails to distinguish among drugs as well as between the use and abuse of drugs"(Brown Univ.) obviously the purpose of the policy was to get rid of illegal drugs and alcohol from schools; illegal drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, crack, ecstasy, and many others. ... A student who was only six years of age from Colorado Springs was suspended for having a type of candy called "lemon drops"(foldvary). ... Even Kyle Pruet...

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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...

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He was a handsome well-educated and graduated from University of Washington, no one can believe that this man could turn out to be a sexual seductive serial killer. ... He took life of 35 young women from 1974 to 1979 in many states: Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado and Florida just to satisfy his obsession of murder. Most of his victims have one thing in common: long dark hair and pretty face which resemble his first victims who was also his college's girl friend at University of Washington. ...

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"A recent study by Professor Michael Radelet and Traci Lacock of the University of Colorado found that 88% of the nation's leading criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime" (Para 1, "Is the Death Penalty Deterrent?... In 2005 a professor of the University of Michigan reopened the case and found Larry to be innocent. ...

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Speculation into the reasons for the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado centered for some time around the video games played by the murderers that involved shooting opponents with a pistol which was an accessory to the games' play (Boal, 1999). ... A study by Harvard university in 1994 found that "fifty-nine percent of high school students could get a hand gun- and successfully bring it to school if they wanted to (Kopka, p. 8). ...

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One of the most recent hate crimes was against a young homosexual college student at the University of Wyoming. ... Colorado and states like California also have hate crime laws to help protect those of different races, disabilities, and of sexual orientation. ...

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Two gunmen, part of the Trenchcoat Mafia, walked into their school at 11:30 am in Littleton, Colorado and started firing. ... People everywhere were shocked and afraid when the news broke out about Littleton, Colorado. ... James Fox, from Northeastern University points out; up to 57 percent of children do not have full time parental supervision in the United States (NCPA 1). ...

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Deterrence Leslie Cantu: Fear of death deters people from committing crimes, proponents say. They also believe that if attached to certain crimes, the penalty of death exerts a positive moral influence by placing a stigma on certain crimes like manslaughter, resulting in attitudes of disgust and horror to such acts. Furthermore, retentionists insist that the deterrent influence of the death penalty reaches across state lines into jurisdictions that have abolished it, and so all benefit by its continued use. Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Ac...

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Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck even conducted a study on the effects of gun registration on crime rates in 75 different cities. ... In 2007, for example, a gunman entered New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and shot and killed two girls. ...

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In 1998 a case in Colorado involving a ten-year-old student named Shanon Borchardt Coslett stirred debate and has since been frequently cited as an example of the improper implementation of zero-tolerance policies. ...

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