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    Steroids have been a major component of teenage life these days. From Athletes to school going kids everybody is engaged in steroids. Why is this? This is because Steroids give you an extra boost to make your body look good and to give extra strength‚ stamina‚ etc. Then why do teenagers need it? Or high school going kids need it? This is because of our society; there is so much peer pressure for example There is a skinny boy at school and is bullied by strong and tall people at school so to counter

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    Juveniles should be punished as an adult if they have commit a crime? Every year in the United states‚ an estimated 250‚000 children under the age of 18 are triedsentenced or imprisoned as adults. And of these ‚ around 100‚000 actually end up in adult jails and prisons ‚ with many spending time in solitary confinement. About 37% are Non-Hispanic Black males‚ 25% are Non-Hispanic White‚ 23% are Hispanic males‚ 7.9% are all females and 6% are other males. I disagree that juveniles should be sentence

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    CRJ 308 10.28.2012 Why People Commit Crime  How do people define crime? Some might define crime as an act of offence towards the morality of humans. Others might regard crime as an act that harms the universal human rights. In my perspectives‚ I think that crime is an offence made towards the law. Therefore‚ why do people still commit crimes? There are many reasons why people may commit crimes and it depends on the type of person they are. Many people will commit a crime everyday whether it be

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    Explain why some teenagers drop out of schools Nowadays students usually drop out of school‚ to get a career. More than before job seekers are looking for people who have at least finished high school. The fact that students drop out of school is caused for different reasons. There are three main causes why students drop out of school: they can’t afford tuition‚ they prefer to work‚ and they fail the course. One reason which students decide to drop out of school is because they don’t have enough

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    influences in participating in violent activities. Owning a violent video game does not necessarily mean it’s a negative aspect that can cause involvement in these activities such as fights in school by our children. There was an experiment done that may say otherwise; however‚ not every aspect was accounted for in this experiment which makes it invalid. This experiment alone convinced me that violent video games in fact does not have any influence to children participating in violent activity at all. I personally

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    WHY CRIME IS INCREASING IN COLUMBIA Inflation and lack of job opportunities are the main factors that have produced an increase in the crime rate of Columbia. Inflation that happening in Columbia is a serious problem. For example‚ A good education costs 6‚000 Columbian pesos ($U.S 120) per month per child because of that only middle- and upper-income children attend school. Another examples of inflation‚ the average Columbian makes a salary of about 13‚000 pesos per month ($U.S 250)‚ the inflation

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    message of the movie was trying to get across. The second trial for the men who were encouraging the rape is the central matter of the film. It points out that criminal solicitation is just as wrong as the crime itself. The film did a good quality job in portraying the reality of a rape crime for a woman in a lower social-class. Whether a person is in low-class or high-class socially‚ does not make them more indecent. It also showed the difficulty of being heard when the woman is not so innocent

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    Should the federal government legalize marijuana? Why or why not? In society today‚ the debate to legalize weed or not is a very prominent and controversial issue. Even though there are a lot of positive and negative effects to smoking weed‚ I personally believe that there should be a law passed‚ that allows people over the age of 21 to smoke. Marijuana‚ also called Cannabis is a natural plant that contains a chemical called Delta-9-tetrahydracannibal‚ which is known as

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    Why People Commit Crime

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    society do play a role in the criminality of individuals. Criminal justice teaches about the different reasons why criminal choose to do criminal acts. Criminals have different background that mold them into criminal behavior weather it is DNA related‚ environment‚ or the ways of society. There are various reasons why criminal choose to do criminal acts. One reason why people commit crime is because they want to. This can be classified as an individual making a poor choice in life. It also can be

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    waits he begins to think back to the past seven years of his time in the Sex and Child Crimes Special Task Force Unit. He had worked for the Cleveland Police Department for a total of twelve years‚ coming up in a few weeks. Seven years ago having just made detective not even a year‚ when this special task force was created‚ in an attempt to help reduce violence in the Cleveland area and help reduce the Violent Crimes Unit’s infinite case backup. He was one of the highest scores in the history of the

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