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Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

Imposing Sentence

duality of his parents being responsible for paying back every dollar he misappropriated from the victim (restitution), as well as...

Punishment and Crime

Criminologists, sociologists, and even psychologists often agree that specific factors in the lives of an individual determine the...

The Enron and Martha Stewart Cases Compared

those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...

Differences Between Crack and Cocaine Use and Sentencing Guidelines

is crack. Clearly, crack is cocaine in a slightly different form. Yet, the law treats these as different entities. Of course, it ...

Prison Overcrowding

is interesting to note that while increased efforts to incarcerate people have not proven necessarily effective, there are still m...

Sentencing Models

The individual is paying his dues, so to speak. There has been much criticism waged against retributive justice. Why? It seems tha...

History Of Educational Psychology - Emergence Of Cognitive Psychology

Both Plato and Aristotle discussed learning and education, the need for different types of education, the effects of the arts on l...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

English Criminal Law and Whether Mandatory Sentences Are Justified

is punished with the loss of their freedom. Therefore, retribution may be seen as basis for punishment. There are many that believ...

Death Penalty Cases and Sentencing

proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...

John Locke, Sex Offenders, and Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

You will then be able to extract supporting information as done here, and this example paper will indicate how to cite such source...

Characters of Bolingbroke and Richard II Revealed in the Play by William Shakespeare

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...

Last Minute Death Sentence Commutation by Illinois Governor George Ryan

recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifested in a number of ways including various arms of corruption within the Chicago p...

Illinois Corruption and Commutation of Death Sentences by Gov. George Ryan

corruption in Illinois enjoyed its hey day it seems during the administration of recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifes...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

Production and Liability

corporations are self-policing themselves for more accountability -- and how this action will likely carry over into the 2000s. Op...

Somerset Maughan

makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...

Society, Criminals, and Mandatory Drug Sentencing

emotion yet little fact, and 2. That based on fact. The purpose of this paper will be to review the latter....

Utopia of Socialism

theory could exist, if only individuals would work for the good of society instead of placing selfish aims above all else. Wells ...

Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

Analyzing the Case of Marcus Dixon

does not have a good track record in terms of sexual encounters. In defense of the verdict, Rainey (2004) notes that those who op...

Cost Analysis and Recycling

In ten pages this sentence outline presents the environmental effects and cost analysis of recycling. Fifty sources are listed....

Suicide and Ethics

In five pages this paper discusses suicide in an ethical consideration that includes a Roman numeral sentence outline of one page....

The F.B.I. and Its Efforts to Combat Organized Crime

This 5 page paper discusses the measures that the FBI is taking to combat organized crime. The writer discusses such policies as h...

Gun Control's Ineffectiveness

In eight pages this paper discusses how gun control legislation has been ineffective because society is the problem, not guns. Se...

Capital Punishment or Life in Prison

executed in the United States in 1995, the most since 1957. With more than 3000 inmates on death row nationwide -- more than any t...

Capital Punishment and the McVeigh Sentence

In ten pages this paper examines the sentence of Timothy McVeigh within the context of various death penalty issues. Twenty sourc...