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Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

Demographic Significance in Statistical Assessments

who favor capital punishment, 86.1% are white, and just 5.6% are black. In regards to sex, 53.2% of respondents were female, and...

Capital Punishment and Racial Inequities

it is not administered fairly. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more black people are incarcerated than white people. The criminal...

Bigger Thomas in Native Son by Richard Wright

victim is a white girl who is sincerely trying to be his friend, to treat him as a fellow human being...Her mother, who is blind, ...

Forensic Science and Capital Punishment

the system already, it involves people who have been in prison for years, some of them on death row. With the many recent discover...

Ethical Support for Capital Punishment

without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp. People who witness the reality each and every night on t...

US and New Jersey's Capital Punishment History

the Supreme Court decision of Furman v. Georgia (Freitas PG). This decision stated that the death penalty constituted cruel and u...

Justice Defined

the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Pros and Cons: Animal Experimentation and Capital Punishment

all animals react differently to products. The article does not appear to offer any vague or ambiguous statements for any claim ...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

The Capital Punishment Problem

executions would decline dramatically during the 1960s and 1970s, but would increase a bit during the 1980s and 1990s (Dezbakhsh ...

A Capital Punishment Analysis

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

Capital Punishment and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

that punishment is really nothing more than the stronger, and perhaps more popular, individual asserting his power and rights over...

Death Penalty Arguments Both For and Against

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...

Capital Punishment and the Positions of Presidential Candidates Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Pat Buchanan

In five pages this paper examines the differences in the support of capital punishment espoused by this trio of 2000 presidential ...

Death Penalty Overview and Opposition

In a paper consisting of eight pages capital punishment is presented in an overview along with the heated passions that inspire th...

Philosophers on the Death Penalty

In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...

Dead Man Walking Film Ethical Analysis

In seven pages the film is discussed in an examination of a trio of ethical theories and the morality of capital punishment. Five...

Capital Punishment and the Moral Dilemma It Presents

In ten pages this paper evaluates capital punishment in terms of its societal pros and cons and considers moral dilemma resolution...

Arguing Against Capital Punishment

In six pages this paper argues that the high probability of error is sufficient to abolish capital punishment in the United States...

Capital Punishment Law Justifications

In five pages this paper discusses how federal capital punishment imposition can be justified. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

In Favor of Capital Punishment

In six pages this paper assesses the debate from both sides before arguing in favor of the morality and effectiveness of capital p...

U.S. and Saudi Arabia on Capital Punishiment

In six pages this paper compares and contrasts capital punishment implementation between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. in a discussion...

Both Sides of the Death Penalty Issue

In six pages the pros and cons of capital punishment are examined in the question the writer poses, 'Is it moral for a society to...

Capital Punishment and the U.S. Constitution

In five pages this paper discusses the 5th and 8th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution with regards to capital punishment. Five s...

Federal and Georgia State Constitutions Compared

In eight pages the Federal Constitution and Georgia State Constitution are compared on three issues of abortion, capital punishmen...

Crito's Argument That Socrates Should Escape from Prison

In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...

Capital Punishment Defense

do not become innocent or less deserving of punishment because others escaped it" (van den Haag 51-68). Being a supporter o...

Victorian Era Writing

This paper considers 2 Victorian Age writings, essayist John Stuart Mill's 'Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment' and John Henry ...