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    Mandatory Jail Sentence

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    Home > Opinions > Politics > Would a mandatory jail sentence help decrease the instances of drunk driving? DEBATES OPINIONS FORUMS Report Topic Create New Topic Would a mandatory jail sentence help decrease the instances of drunk driving? Related Topics: Services‚ Blood alcohol content‚ Driving under the influence‚ Sentence (law)‚ Law 59% Say Yes 41% Say No * Drunk drivers should be imprisoned upon first offense   There would be fewer drunk drivers on the road. Many lives would be saved by car

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    Topic: Physical punishment “work” in the sense that it may stop a child from misbehaving‚ but adults who frequently spank & hit are also teaching children that violence is a good method of accomplishing a goal. Nonviolent methods are more effective way of training children. Agree or disagree? Nowadays‚ there are a lot of television news about violent toward children to teach them. Moreover‚ news bad behaviors of teenagers are trending to younger and younger appears frequently. Some people still

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    impossible for any other method to be more effective in achieving a revolution other than violence and bloodshed. Mankind has use this method for tens of thousands of years‚ and is the only form of governmental rebellion used. Some other forms of government has been tried‚ but none other were more successful than the original method of brute force. Nonviolent revolutions are extremely ineffective in the sense of trying to rebel against the government. The people of a nation would have no way to take

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    There for they should have received some type of sentence in jail to be held accountable for their irresponsible actions. The commissioner even stated “we should of have probably asked for paramedics sooner.” That did not happen and that resulted in Gray’s death. Another case involved a man named Eric Garner killed July 17‚2014. He was killed by an officer using excessive force by a choke hold. Mr. Garner was not armed and did not show any signs of violence‚ other than the fact he was upset from

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    An Alternative to Incarceration for Nonviolent Offenders COMMUNITY BASED CORRECTIONS PROFESSOR WARDEN J. JONES April 11‚ 2013   Community corrections is a range of alternative punishments for nonviolent offenders. There are two basic community corrections models in the United States. In the first model‚ integrated community corrections programs combine sentencing guidelines and judicial discretion with a variety of alternative sanctions and parole and probation options. In the

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    Nonviolent Offenders

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    Neil Condon CRJS 600 Dr. Richeson Nonviolent Offenders – Is Incarceration the Answer? "It’s really clear that the most effective way to turn a nonviolent person into a violent one is to send them to prison‚" says Harvard University criminologist James Gilligan. The American prison system takes nonviolent offenders and makes them live side-by-side with hardened killers. The very nature of prison‚ no matter people view it‚ produces an environment that is inevitably harmful to its residents

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    Protection in Criminal Punishment The 14th Amendment articulates that no State shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (Sullivan and Gunther 486). It is nearly impossible though‚ for the equal treatment of all persons‚ since every law affects people differently. “This command cannot literally require equal treatment of all persons‚ since almost all laws classify in some way‚ by imposing burdens on or granting benefits to some people and not others” (Sullivan

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    HOW SATELLITE BENEFITS SOCIETY          Satellites are used almost everyday by everyone. Even though you can’t see it‚ there will probably be one traveling above you today. Satellites are used for many things such as communication‚ oceanography‚ astronomy‚ surveillance‚ and a variety of other things as well . They help many scientists get a perceptive view at all kinds of objects anywhere in the world. Communications Communication satellites work non-stop 24 hours a day to keep the entire world

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    adults and giving them a life sentence doesn’t allow them to do so. In Gail Garinger’s‚ “Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life Sentences”‚ Garinger states the the 79 juveniles in the US who are convicted to a life sentence‚ are seen as unchangeable and no one cares what becomes of them. But from personal experiences of being a former judge‚ Garinger had see first hand the juvenile’s capacity to turn themselves around. If a juvenile were to be convicted to die in prison‚ they would be never be given the opportunity

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    Society and Criminals

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    “For” Does society create criminals? “Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.” In some respect I believe that the most prominent feature running through all reasons behind this crime is “society”. It is responsible for the way that people view crime. Many people see crime as glamorized in society and this compels them to commit it. Generally people are born sweet and innocent and are not automatically wired to commit crimes‚ or exhibit unacceptable behavior. It is Society and Undesirable

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