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    morning/afternoon Miss.Robitaille and fellow classmates. It is with these kinds of controversial stories that we come to doubt on whether the death penalty should still be kept in place or be abolished. Capital punishment is a highly debated topic all around the world‚ having opinions surrounded by ethical and moral reasoning. As a fact‚ capital punishment does not deter crime rates but rather increases it. Furthermore‚ the death sentence goes against the Fundamental Human Rights and spending life in jail‚ into

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    Essay On Hate Crimes

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    don’t like the fact you are different‚ look different or believe in different things. Disliking someone is one thing‚ but hating someone is another. Understanding that hate is a very powerful word‚ when someone hates something they tend to show their emotions by presenting multiple hate crimes or speeches. A hate crime is a crime that is committed by a person or a group of people with the intentions to cause offense‚ threaten and/or murder people because they are different than them. In terms of

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    Five Categories of Crime

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    There are five categories of crime in America. These categories include felonies‚ misdemeanors‚ offenses‚ treason and espionage and inchoate offenses. A felony is considered a very serious crime in the USA‚ as well as many other countries. A felony is a crime which is punishable by death (lethal injection‚ electric chair‚ etc) or imprisonment of more than one year. There are some instances in which a crime can be considered a felony or a misdemeanor (which I will get into shortly)‚ depending on

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    Hate Crime Legislation

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    Hate Crime Legislation Although many people are unaware of what hate crimes are or fail to the see the seriousness of this issue‚ the government and influential figures in the United States should raise awareness about hate crimes and improve resources for the investigation and prosecution of hate crime. Hate crimes are very important because they protect certain groups of people from being harassed. Most people do not understand what a hate crime is. A hate crime is an act or attempted criminal

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    Hate crime and Extremism

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    What is hate and extremism exactly? There are many types of hate crimes and extremism. Hate groups are an organized group or movement that advocates and practices hatred‚ hostility‚ or violence towards members of a group that represents a race‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ gender or sexual orientation. Extremism is the holding of extreme political or religious views. What is a hate crime or group? What is extremism? What do they both have to do with each other? What do they have in common? Hate crimes happen

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    Critical Argument Analysis University of Phoenix Cassondra Capers ENG/215 September 14‚ 2013 Dr. Williams Critical Argument Analysis Americans have their own culturally determined sense of physical perfection‚ and they often go to extremes with diets‚ exercise‚ fashions‚ pharmaceuticals‚ and cosmetics to achieve a certain look. Body piercings or images show how men and women feel about themselves and or to tell a story. Life of body modification for men and woman gives them free expression

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    Computer crimes are criminal activities that involve using a computer and a network to gain unauthorized access with the intent of deleting‚ altering‚ or damaging computer data. Due to them being extremely versatile‚ establishing criminal and noncriminal behavior when in use can be very difficult at times. “According to the U.S. Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics‚ by 2000 more than 300 million users around the globe accessed the World Wide Web. Of those‚ at least 1 million were engaged in illegal

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    Hate Crimes In America

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    different hate crimes. During the twentieth-century the law changed and evolved into a mechanism to protect civil rights. When race protection became the primary focus‚ the direction of the law changed to protect all races from discrimination. African-Americans were the primary race that was affected by racial violence from the Ku Klux Klan (Perry‚ 2009). This issue was very devastating and this drew a lot of attention to the Supreme Court. The changes that were made were based off the hate crimes that

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    Parental Responsibility‚ a Deterrent to Juvenile Crime Growing up in a family where both parents have thirty years experience working in the juvenile justice system‚ I have learned to value and respect parental responsibility for their children and their children’s behavior. In 1995‚ a small community in the Willamette Valley‚ passed an ordinance which held parents responsible in just this way. The ordinance (No. 94-132) that was adopted in Silverton OR‚ in 1995 charged parents with the misdemeanor

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    Essay On Hate Crimes

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    target of crimes of hatred and prejudice. From public lynching‚ cross burning‚ arson to vandalism are just some of the tactics used by hate groups to display their prejudice. According to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) the term hate crime was not used until the 1980s‚ however investigations conducted by the FBI on hate related crime stretches far back to the First World War‚ on the group called the Ku Klux Klan attracted their attention. The department of justice defines a hate crime as “Hate

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