After several months of this I became bored once more and realizing that's there is no money in this field either. An opportunity came along after a couple of months to become an electrician, once again I found myself doing another job I loved doing but thought "really do I want this when I"m sixty" no I want to be retired when I"m sixty. ... Once again not knowing what the future may hold in store for me. ... Once again past experience paid off I was an electrician again. ...

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Before you can learn about how it applies today and its future, you must know its past. ... In his book he made a case that the death penalty shouldn't be completely abolished, but as for certain crimes it proved useless in preventing them in the future. ...

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You cannot help those who feel like they do not need it, which will continue the violence in the future. Many crimes are by repeat offenders, I think that if we hard harsher punishments for those who are incarcerated for gun violence and better rehabilitation practices it could help to decrease the chance of a person committing another violent crime once they are released from a facility. ...

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The political future of problem solving courts will depend on their efficiency and cost effectiveness as a response to crime. After defining and analyzing previous studies on each type of court, the Casey and Rottman identified twelve trends that could affect the future of problem solving courts. ... Stacy Lee Burns states, "Problem-solving courts share the common goal of altering participants' so-called ˜deviant' ways and reforming them into law-abiding citizens, having a future-oriented focus on treatment and recovery (rather than on blame and punishment for past misconduct)...

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(Love) Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (once a supporter of executions) commented on the unfair application of capital punishment in the United States in 1994 saying, "I feel morally and intellectually obliged simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed The death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake From this date forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." ...

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Capital Punishment: Is it right or wrong? The death penalty has not remained constant throughout American History . It has undergone numerous changes and reforms in the past two centuries, falling in and out of public favor. The death penalty has been in our legal system since our legal ...

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Hard Labor during this time was an understatement, not only did prisoners work on the ships they experienced labor during the day then once night fall came that's when their work on the ships began. Once those in charged discovered the inability and cruelty these ships brought upon these prisoners they shut them down. ...

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In particular, timely recognition of at-risk youth and correction of ineffective or minimally effective parenting techniques are critical to the prevention of future delinquency (Lundman, 1993). ... There are many types of family conflict but the absence of communication and the inability to solve problems are two of the most fundamental forms relative to future delinquency. ... Service professionals should understand the relationship between lack of supervision/rules in the home and possible future criminal behavior among youths and should be solicitous in their observations. ... Studies ...

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Once the purpose of the criminal justice system is established, one must find out the purpose of capital punishment. ... Here is a punishment that truly makes the criminal pay for his crime, stops the criminal from committing future crimes, and deters other criminals from committing the same crime. ... Once a murderer is caught and convicted, justice seems to demand that he at least be prevented from murdering someone else. ...

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Annotated Bibliography The Death Penalty for Juveniles The following research draws upon different opinions and perceptions for and against the further enactment of the death penalty for juvenile offenders. The various articles that are presented draw conclusions on the pros and cons of using the death penalty as punishment for young offenders. Numerous views surfaced in my research such as the views of president Bush, prominent authors and court officials as well as the views of individual states. In order to fully evaluate this sensitive topic I have presented a mixture of opposing p...

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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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"The Times found that during the last 20 years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 percent to 101 percent higher than in states without the death penalty- (Bonner & Fessenden, 2000). Capital punishment is ethically wrong, it does not decrease crime, and innocent peopl...

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The founding fathers anticipated that gun control could become a serious issue in the future, so they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution. ... Whatever check or balance gun ownership might provide on the government is completely nullified once the government has a record of the location of every gun in private hands. ...

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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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The past century has been one of sensational crimes that have amazed many Americans. Form the Lindbergh baby to the exploits of Al Capone, to serial murderers like Ted Bundy. Crime has become a cultural phenomenon that has captured the interests of academics and the causal reader alike. To look back...

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