As a nation‚ the United States has more people in prison than any other country and the burden this places on the resources of our society is immense. Evidence shows incarceration is not always an effective way to achieve a safe society (Tonry) and in an attempt to reduce the sheer number of prisoners‚ other methods of rehabilitation and punishment are sometimes used. The most common methods used are some form of probation or parole. While both probation and parole are alternatives to incarceration
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communities and provide a new source of indisputable hard evidence. Unfortunately‚ everything also comes with its disadvantages and while the benefits of body cameras do outweigh the negatives on paper‚ they may still not be enough to result in wide scale implementation. Such disadvantages include cost‚ as the cost of a single body camera ranges from $400 to $700 (Taser International Inc.) The reliability of these cameras may also be called into question as technological bugs are inevitable. According
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Obama Care: Comparison of the Pros and Cons to the Populace ASN 280: Meyash 11/08/2013 Obama Care: Comparison of the Pros and Cons to the Populace Obama Care‚ AKA the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010‚ reforms the health insurance industry and the American health care system as a whole. To the layman the information included in the over a thousand pages of legislature is very hard to decipher. I found myself searching for Obama care
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you calculate the crime rate if given the numbers (you need to know the formula) #crime/total popX100‚000 UCR pros and cons PRO: paper trail; CON only 50% crime reported Index Crimes list and defined Part 1 (criminal homicide) Part 2 unofficial from NCVS NCVS pros and cons PRO: capture unreported crimes CON: no paper trail Self-reporting pros and cons: PRO: unsigned crime report; Con: subject not identified Bill of rights: What are the key issues of the following Amendments? 1freedom of
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Throughout the past and present‚ human beings have had a natural tendency to believe they are better than average. The people of Athens were certainly no exception. They wanted to believe that they were the best humanity had to offer. The Athenians valued freedom and for every man to fulfill his own life and desires in peace. They claimed their sense of independence was balanced out through the fact that everyone upheld fair and just laws. They prided themselves on not sacrificing their individual
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college have pros and cons. The pros for the electoral college is that is has been used for years. The basis of the electoral college is written down in the constitution. As long as the United States uses the electoral college as the way to vote in a president there will be no need for a constitutional amendment. It could be years before congress could effectively write and pass an amendment that could
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Pros: People may now be eligible for other welfare programs and that will then change their allotment for Cal-Fresh. Cons: People may not report their changes because they are intimidated due to the fact that they may be taken off the program completely. 6) It is required the county receives directly from the employer hours worked and earned income. Pros: No fraudulent claims. Cons: Laps response time from employer with in required deadline from the county. 7) Social workers need to be more
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The Great Migration was a large scale movement on African Americans to northern cities. This occurred as a result of WW1 because there were numerous job openings due to men leaving to fight in the war. African Americans also moved north to try and escape from discrimination. However‚ African
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1. Overfishing dramatically reduces the population of the fishes that are being targeted by fishing companies. For example‚ the Chinese have overfished their fish populations in the East China Sea‚ so now they are fishing illegally on Philippine‚ and Argentine waters. This is now a crisis because if they have overfished their population‚ then they will continue to do this on waters of many countries. This will might lead the fish population to the point of extinction‚ similarly like how the beavers
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Gentrification has been the reason for distressing fight in numerous American urban areas‚ regularly along racial and economic deficiency lines. Neighborhood change is frequently seen as an issue of social equity‚ in which well off‚ typically white‚ newcomers are saluted for enhancing an area who’s poor‚ minority occupants are displaced by soaring rents and monetary change. With the impact of gentrification in urban community manifest social effects of homelessness and social stressors of low income
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