do research about abortion. She wanted to find out more information about the pros and cons to it. She read that having an abortion can lead to severe damages to a woman’s body. Diana finally made up her mind and decided to keep the child. It has been
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Punished: Chapters 1‚ 2‚ & 3 Reading Reflection “Ultimately‚ I believe that by understanding the lives of the boys who are criminalized and pipelined through the criminal justice system‚ we can begin to develop empathetic solutions which support these young men in their development and to eliminate the culture of criminalization that has become and overbearing part of their everyday lives‚” (Rios‚ 2011‚ page 23). This quote shows the main agenda as to why Victor Rios conducted his study on young
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Xiaoqing Shi Dr. Henry Bayerle Classics 102Q 25 November 2011 Does Antigone Deserve to Be Punished? Antigone has been acclaimed as a model that challenges authority and insists on just acts. However‚ according to Aristotle‚ a tragedy requires a man’s harmartia‚ which means error. Therefore‚ as a main character of a great tragedy‚ Antigone must possess flaws. Antigone’s self-certainty is one of her mistakes that contribute to her tragic fate. She regards burying dead people
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whether or not child soldiers should be forgiven for what they have been forced to do. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because‚ they have no control over their life‚ they were under a bad influence‚ and they were forced to fight. Child soldiers should receive amnesty because‚ at a young age these adolescents had no control
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approximately 300‚000 child soldiers actively fighting in wars and conflicts of all kinds. Imagine spending your entire youth stuck in an army of some kind‚ risking your life everyday. This is what child soldiers have to go through. The use of child soldiers increased dramatically over the past years and it is clearly a huge issue. These child soldiers go through a lot‚ and the few that survive go through even more afterwards. The question is‚ should they be prosecuted for their crimes? Should these children
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sellers. The government has legislated ways of dealing with drug abuse and trafficking. In 1988‚ Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act that penalizes abusers of illicit or controlled substances in the bid to control the problem of drug abuse (U.S. DEA‚ n.d.). While it has been found that drug abuse is associated with other crimes‚ illicit drug use should definitely carry lighter penalties compared to drug trafficking. Drug trafficking refers to the production/cultivation‚ importation/exportation/
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Brutus’s intentions in killing Caesar and determining whether he should be punished for being part of the plot to assassinate the leader of Rome. The resolution of this case will either justify Brutus and the other conspirators’ act of murder or avenge Caesar’s death. Due to his overly ambitious nature and false claim that he did what was best for Rome‚ I believe that Brutus killed Caesar to gain power and therefore should be punished for his involvement in the murder. Brutus’s actions when he gained
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Police abusers are skilled in verbal intimidation and degradation. Women tell us their abusers scream at them like they talk to criminals on the street — their voices and faces change; they use filthy street language; they tell the victim she is "just like the scumbags he deals with every day." Some women describe fearing that the abuser has lost touch with reality‚ that he has forgotten who she is while he is in this rage. She knows that when the police arrive at the scene and learn that he is a
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looking back on the “Child is a Criminal or Criminal is a Child” assignment‚ I believe that my views have not changed from the views I possessed early on in this course. The views I had were actually solidified throughout this course in learning more about the juvenile justice system. I favored the “criminal is a child” model of approaching juvenile crime in the original essay and the key point noted was that juveniles are a product of their environment and should not be punished on a standardized scale
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Dr. Rios’s purpose in writing this chapter is to convince the reader that Tyrell and Jose‚ as well as many other gang members‚ had been trapped into joining the gangs or committing criminal activity such as selling drugs to provide for themselves‚ since the police could not provide them with what they needed. Tyrell is the first focus of the chapter and Rios goes into detail on the Ville‚ which is “a low income housing project on 66th Avenue and International‚” (45) known by many to be one of the
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