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    The Eagles are the most successful American rock band of the 1970s‚ formed in Los Angeles in 1971. The members that have played in the band are Randy Meisner‚ Glenn Frey‚ Don Henley‚ and Bernie Leadon. They have successfully made ten albums and are still a band today. Hotel California was the Eagles fifth album and was their best selling album (despite The Eagles Greatest Hits). The album was made on Asylum (a recording company) in late 1976. This is their first album without one of their founding

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    | |Essay due date – Thurs‚ Wk 8 |Wk 8 | Preparation Question Analysis Essay topic: The issue of capital punishment is frequently debated in the media. Do you support or not support the reintroduction

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    It has long been suspected that sex offenders have lower IQs than non-sex offenders. Studies on the topic go as far back as 80 years. A large number of these studies on the topic of sex offender IQ‚ however‚ use no classification scheme to break down the sex offenses by subcategories‚ such as the age group of victim or age group of the offender. In fact‚ all of the previous studies on the topic of sexual offender IQ lump all subjects into a single‚ heterogeneous sample with no distinguishing

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    a sex offender registry to be implemented here in the Bahamas. Prior to Marco Archer’s cruel killing‚ in 2003 four young boys between the ages of eleven and fourteen were found dead with signs of sexual assault in Freeport‚ Grand Bahama. These two alarming cases sparked a fuse in the House of Assembly and more emphasis was now being placed on the creation of a sex offender registry. While it is true that something needs to be done about the situation‚ is the implementation of a sex offender registry

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    future‚ while if the effect is negative (punishment) that behaviour is likely to be repeated less and less often to the point where it ceases completely.

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    Naming and Shaming Sex Offenders Define: The social issue naming and shaming sex offenders is the worst sex offenders being named and shamed on a website with their picture‚ name‚ address and date of birth on their profile. People can type in the suburb they live in and see what sex offenders live in their area. Argument #1 For: Sex offenders‚ even more so than other forms of crime‚ are prone to re-offending upon release from prison. Therefore‚ to protect society‚ they should be required to

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    Capital Punishment Many positions can be defended when debating the issue of capital punishment. In Jonathan Glover’s essay "Executions‚" he maintains that there are three views that a person may have in regard to capital punishment: the retributivist‚ the absolutist‚ and the utilitarian. Although Glover recognizes that both statistical and intuitive evidence cannot validate the benefits of capital punishment‚ he can be considered a utilitarian because he believes that social usefulness is

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    Punishing juveniles and guilty parties is intended to teach them a lesson. Distinctive methods of discipline should be utilized based of the history or the seriousness of the crimes. Not every individual child or adult should be confined for specific violations. With the overcrowding of the prison systems and the absence of correctional officers to place in those prison‚ is it possible for an individual to be punished for their wrongdoing with an alternative strategy? There may be numerous recorded

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    system was intended to rehabilitate offenders that committed non-serious crimes. Juveniles of today seem to take advantage of this system by committing violent crimes. Juveniles think they might get off easier because they believe they will be tried as juveniles no matter the seriousness of the crime. In the past years there have been laws to protect juvenile delinquents from being prosecuted as adults. There was a rising violent crime rate for juvenile offenders in the late 1980’s and 1990. To

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    victim’s family a sense of closure that some kind of punishment has been dealt out to the criminal. Families of victims feel that the criminal should suffer the same fate as the victims. Even the doctrines of the world’s majority religions advocate an eye for an eye‚ a tooth for a tooth. It is believed that the death penalty helps reduce crime rates. For example in Singapore a drug trafficker is sentenced to death no matter the nationality of the offender. This has maintained the crime rates in this country

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