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    Mass Incarceration In our country‚ The United States of America‚ we have many issues and one of them is mass incarceration. Many people are in jail because of the bail‚ mental issues‚ and poverty as well. People are also locked up for many reasons‚ but‚ sometimes they are not even guilty for anything. It has happened to so many people that they don’t want to pay bail because they are not guilty at all. Others have been locked up because of mental illness. One of the causes of mass incarcerations

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    Why does the Pope argue that socialism is an unacceptable economic system? Pope Leo XIII argues that socialism is an unacceptable economic system simply because it does not fall within the boundaries of natural rights. The Pope starts out by saying socialism strives off of the poor man’s envy of the rich by supporting the publication of private property. Pope Leo focuses on the rights of man given to him by nature‚ which‚ he claims‚ one of the rights is possession of private property. Man‚ by his

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    we should take free trade as being the best option for most if not all nations. Adam Smith‚ also known as the father of modern economics‚ has written extensively about why he believes free trade is what will bring about wealth in a nation. He is against the Mercantilist approach to the ban on imports‚ by either enforcing high duties or just absolute prohibition‚ as he believes this has a negative impact on society as a whole. Mercantilism during his time was the popular system in England where he

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    Drug addiction and Drug abuse Ramona Collins AIU online Abstract Drug addiction and drug abuse a chronic and habitual use of any chemical substance to alter states of the body and your mind for other than medical warranted reasons. The definition of addiction is a physical dependency and withdrawal have

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    Drugs‚ Crime and Prohibition Do drugs really cause crime‚ or is it our governments way of controlling the communities? Many people blame drugs for every problem in our society‚ but is it the true evil in our society? No one person can answer that question. There are only opinions and supposed theories on this issue. We have been taught over the years that drugs were bad and that they only affected the poor and less fortunate‚ and turned them into crazy criminals‚ but this isn’t true to any extent

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    ​- The criminal justice system (courts) puts harsher penalties upon the male juveniles due to statistics showing they are the main offenders. This is a basic thinking upon our society‚ as females are obviously seen as the more emotional sex‚ thus judges are able to take pity upon their emotional inadequacy. While juvenile males on the other hand have a moral restriction where they have not been so free with their emotions. Since judges are able to take the emotions which are shown in court into the

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    practiced nonviolent resistance because he understood that was the way of life. In the 1966’s that year initiated the first public encounter to the philosophy and approach of nonviolence within the civil right movement. During the deadly racist violence against the nonviolent workers embraced Dr. King’s commitment to nonviolence as a total way of life and inviable ideologies. Many of activists were willing to use peaceful protest and there were the fearful men who would not join the nonviolent movement

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    Drug Trafficking from Mexico to the United States Priscilla Reyes English Composition II Kari Lomanno December 16‚ 2012 The media represents Mexico drug scene as a replica of the Colombian Model. Mexico did not begin to traffic drugs until sixty years ago before the Colombians decided to get into the trade. There are two different political systems in both countries; the history and the structural relationship of the drug traffickers to the political powers in Mexico. Where did drug trafficking

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    Drugs and Alcohol 1 Introduction The connection between youth offending and drug and alcohol use cannot be denied. Drugs and alcohol are part of the personal stories of most young offenders in New Zealand. International criminological and drug literature supports the view that those young people who use illicit drugs are more likely to engage in criminal activity. 1 Further investigations show a clear link between the age at which a young a person first tries marijuana and the likelihood

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    Sex Offenders should have their own community and live there‚ I don’t want to be living with Sex Offenders. I don’t want my children to be walking in the same neighbor where there is Sex Offenders. In Manchester alone there are 451 Sex offenders and I’m glad that they have it on the internet so that could can get the maps to see where they all live. Sex Offenders have to be registered where ever they live. But there are a few that get away from that and hide. The 451 Sex Offenders comes from the

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