Capital Punishment Capital Punishment: a.k.a. the death penalty. To kill or not to kill. This is an extremely controversial question in today's society. The number of people who are for it still believe in the saying, " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." These are the people wh...

To kill or not to kill. This is an extremely controversial question in today's society. The number of people who are for it still believe in the saying, " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." These are the people who feel if you intentionally take the life of someone else, the...

In the story "A Rose for Emily" the author was trying to illustrate the aftermath of a closure. Isolating a human being from the real world can sometimes lead to insanity. What Faulkner was trying to portray in his short story is how a sympathetic, caring and sensitive human being can turn...

BUREAU of ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, and FIREARMS The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms is one of the most important Federal Agencies we have. It is dedicated to reducing violent crime, collecting revenue and protecting the public. The ATF, for short, has many different programs for alcohol, fi...

At first glance, one would expect a movie titled "City of God" to show how poverty and marginalization would make criminals of frustrated people. Instead we see how, in an atmosphere of unsupervised chaos, a single charismatic psychopath can hold sway over an entire population with the force of his...

Tough Guise Reaction C13 - Intro. to Soc. From Watching Tough Guise-Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity I have awaken to the social construction of masculine identities in our country during the past 20th century. I always knew of the social differences between males and females because ...

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThis novel is short-only being about 180 pages-but looks maydeceive you, or in other words don't judge a book buy its cover or itsthickness. A Clockwork Orange is actually 360 pages because youhave to read between the lines. You may think that the ...

In ancient times the death penalty was a foundation for the Law of Herod, Lex Talionis, and the ever quotable "an eye for an eye...." Capital punishment is the execution of a person convicted of committing a crime so heinous that certain societies feel there is no retribution short of death to its ...

Throughout my time as a criminal justice student, I have been interested about the relationship between drugs and crime. I have also been amazed by the statistics having to do with the amount of prisoners returning to a correctional facility after their time served. The link between drug use and cr...

Scarface: An American Nightmare In the midst of the American progression into a new era of acceptance and insight, several media of American culture underwent dramatic changes to shed light on otherwise tabooed ideas and lifestyles. Such is the case in 1983's directorial masterpiece Scarf...

AUTO ANARCHY Thesis: Road rage and aggressive driving are prevalent hazards on American roads; more measures should be taken to stop this dangerous trend. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Short story involving a dispute during driver's ed where the teacher became so enraged that he order...

The part of the movie we watched in class started off by introducing some of the characters. There was Benny, Carrot, Lil' Zé, and a few others. There seems to be a party going on, Benny's going away party where all the different groups have all seemed to mesh together to say goodby...

Violence in schools is a great concern in our society. The concern is heightened by the abundance of media coverage on a number of recent school shootings. With all of the news clips, sound bites, and Internet coverage swirling around in our heads, one might conclude that children are more viol...

A Tale of Two Cities Essay In the book A Tale of Two Cities, the story revolves around the French Revolution and the outcomes that result from it. In many instances, the story focuses mainly upon the lives of the French peasants and...

The issue on capital punishment being allowed in the American court system has been an ongoing debate for many years. I believe that capital punishment is moral and just. Edward Koch said "it is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life that we affirm the highest value of hum...

Senorita Extraviadad: The Women Of Juarez The women of Juarez are known to work in big known companies, but only get paid four to five dollars a day. They go to work at three or four in the morning and get home by midnight. They work in what is called the "Maquiladora". It is known t...

The Young Offenders Act This essay was written to show the advantages and disadvantages of the Young Offenders Act over the previous Juvenile Delinquents Act. Also it should give a theoretical understanding of the current Canadian Juvenile-Justice system, the act and it's implicati...

Not many people would argue that violence in the home destroys families, individual lives, and upsets the community. When a domestic violence incident occurs, we often readily identify the obvious victim, the adult. However, we often overlook the unintended victims. Our children, silent sufferers o...

The movie "The Outsiders" is based upon a group of boys from "the wrong side of town". The boys were deviant and unlike the rest of society in the 1960's. The boys are from the lower-class group of Oklahoma youths who call themselves Greasers because of their greasy long hair. Few Greasers are ...

In past years, society has looked nearly exclusively at notorious cases. For instance, the case of Stanford vs. Kentucky, wherein a seventeen-year old boy had committed the crime of murder in Kentucky. The court affirmed the death sentence and rejected Stanford's belief that he had a constitu...

The answer to this question is astounding: the U.S. incarcerates 25% of the world's prison population with only 7% of the world's population. This is a disturbing anamoly in the history of the world. Never before has a country been able to incarcerate so many people at such a high rate, ...

Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. The argument in favor is based on justice and the nature of a moral community, which requires that each person respect the life, liberty, and freedom of others. Those who commit vicious crimes destroy the basis on...

Susan Smith When turning on the television, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, one is mess with news of arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and other such tragedies. 1994 must be a great year to be alive if you are a criminal! Nobody takes liability for his or her own act...

In American History X the skinheads gather around an older man Cameron Alexander, a "white power" writer and recruiter of youthful neo-Nazis. His rhetoric of race reduces all the social problems in America to one thing-minorities. The trouble is, complex social problems never have one s...

A 47-year-old man, whom we will call Rob, stole fifteen dollars from a convenience store and consequently, was sent to prison on a charge of petty theft. Because the crime he committed was so trivial, Rob was allowed to go through a rehabilitation program of his choice. He chose a basic computer s...