For many years, newspapers have reported on the news and various issues all around the world and here in Australia. The article written by Mr. Brad Norington, Washington correspondent for the Australian Newspaper, on the 2nd of August 2010 "Dose WikiLeaks vigilante denies having blood on his hands ...

Ethical Current Event As we look back on the last month, we are plagued with one image: the shootings in Washington. How can this happen over and over and the person get away every time unseen in the daylight? Then we realize we live in a sin infested world, and should we really be surprised b...

I still remember the day clearly. It wasn't what he had done that changed my mind at first. It wasn't even the verdict. It was the moment of his actual death.. seeing & hearing about it on television.. that made me firmly re-think my own beliefs on the subject and endorse the death penalt...

Everyday there is a war being waged on America's inner city streets--a war between residents, drug dealers and the people sworn to protect one from the other. This war has its casualties, none greater than L.A.P.D. Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris, a 13-year veteran narcotics officer whose questiona...

Sniper Killings (Vindicator) The month of October 2002 has been a very sad month; a Sniper (Jargon) has been on the loose killing innocent people for no apparent reason. He has already shot thirteen people, taking the lives (Euphemism) of eight and the rest were critically injured. Two suspect...

Douglas Christopher Thomas, 17 fatally shot his girlfriend's parents as they slept in their home, according to the January 11th Minot Daily Newspaper. The girlfriend's parents had been trying to end their relationship for months and out of frustration and anger Douglas went along with h...

The old west and the days of prohibition perhaps were dramatized back when we were kids when we would play Cowboys and Indians or Cops and Robbers. But, today the drama is much more serious and the issues about handguns can be debated until both political parties declare war on each other. In what h...

Within the last few weeks, the alleged Washington D.C.-area snipers were caught. All evidence points toward seventeen year old John Lee Malvo and forty one year old John Allen Muhammad. Considering Malvo is only seventeen, he can't be executed in any surrounding area except for Virginia where...

Just make it legal! " Hey man, lets go smoke a blunt. We are just too cool." Those words come out of so many teenage mouths. Marijuana also known as weed, Mary Jane, pot, hash, chronic, cannabis etc. is a common drug used among teens. Ever since marijuana was prohibited in the Unit...

Nick Brown English 100 3/5/01 Word count: 1,186 In an Age of Violence School shootings in Moses Lake, Washington; West Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Littleton, Colorado spark some serious questions throughout the US today. Schools beefing up security all over the country strive t...

There has been a lot of talk from many individuals about wiping out crime, but many times efforts are forfeited to the rationalization that crime can never be stopped. There has always been crime, and there will always be crime as long as the causes of these crimes are not dealt with in a suitable m...

Proposition 36, the Substance Abuse Crime Prevention Act was passed and rightly so because, first and second time drug offenders should receive the therapeutic treatment they need. After the sentence most of the offenders come out of jail worse than when they went into jail. Drug addicts and alc...

The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases Throughout history, minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal justice system, particularly in cases where the possible outcome is death. In early America, blacks were lynched for the slightest violation of informal laws and ...

Capital punishment, as the definition reads, is the penalty of death for a crime. It has been used since biblical ages for crimes, and it seems like a simple enough an just way of being punished. Some people have raised the question, asking if people have the right to decide on the fate of someo...

Gun Control Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and ...

Americans Must Give Up TV Violence For the Kids, Or Else To the unsuspecting eye, this nation's response and reaction to the rise in number of violent acts committed by teenagers could be described as appropriately overwhelming, but when examined more closely, does America really care? W...

Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for t...

Gun Control in America Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast andsteady increase in ...

Coping With School Violence Violence is definitely a major problem in our school systems today. Establishing guidelines and observation by educational staff and parents cannot only deter violence but also prevent it. Noticing the early warning signs in a child's behavior is the key to observan...

One Spring morning in 2002 Adrianne innocently went to school with a Tweety bird chain around her neck. She was eager to show her friends her new prized possession. Little did she or her parents know that wearing this would lead to such trouble. The school deemed the chain as contraband and by the ...

Abortion Over the Past 18 years America has seen 27 million abortions but some are still asking if this is moral and should we allow such procedures to take place? Do we have the right to tell someone they must have a baby? Should we have the power to shape ones destiny and destroy a mature l...

Journalists are often the most opinionated and outspoken media figures. Since they are given a lot of freedom in their writing, their opinions naturally figure prominently in their pieces. Syndicated columnists are among the lucky few that get paid to state their beliefs freely; being published in...

Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight f...

Throughout the history of the human race, people have been put to death as retribution for various forms of wrongdoing. Prior to the first criminal laws, these killings were acts of private retribution with no specific code for which crime would justify the infliction of death. The earliest set of...

Mandatory Minimum Sentences Mandatory minimum sentences are a big problem in today's society. People like drug dealers and other petty crimes can get off pretty much scot-free in today's judiciary system. These people are treated with such benevolence that their sentences are virtually r...