author of “Should This Student Have Been Expelled” argues that no matter how offensive words go‚ that everyone has a right to say whatever as far as freedom of speech goes. In this article Nat Hentoff supports his claim along with the decision making by Gregorian‚ president of Brown University‚ whether not to or to expel Hann for his inappropriate language being held towards others at the University. Hann’s words that included “Niggers‚ Fucking Jew‚ and Faggot” have offended some of the students that
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our citizens to prosper‚ we need to overhaul our correctional system immediately. The correctional system has three main goals: punish‚ protect the population and rehabilitate the offender. However‚ it is unclear how well the modern U.S. correctional system achieves these goals and whether the money invested in the correctional system might be better spent. Perhaps the most obvious goals of the correctional system are to punish those who are found guilty of crimes. In theory‚ this is supposed to
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number of registered sex offenders have increasingly grew over the years. Every day you see a man or women added to the registry for crimes against women and mostly children. The sex offender registries biggest and main focus is to keep the people in the community in each city and state informed and protected. ”Sex offenders and sex crimes provoke a great deal of anxiety in our society.” Baker‚ J‚ Brannon‚ Y‚ N.‚ Fortney. ‚ Levenson‚ J.S. (“Public Perceptions about Sex Offenders and Community Protection”)
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First what is the Correctional System? It is a set of agencies that control crime and impose penalties on those that might not obey the law or violate them. What is the function of the correctional system? That is a very good question. The United States imprisons more people than any other country. Why is that‚ do American break the law more? To understand the true function of the correctional system you most know what it is not. One many say the system doesn’t work anymore do to the overcrowding
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Internet users have a wide access to a variety of services: electronic mail or e-mail‚ access to file repositories and information resources‚ electronic file transfer‚ membership in special interest discussion groups and mailing lists‚ communications such as chat‚ real-time broadcasting‚ online shopping opportunities‚ breaking news and others. The Internet supports a variety of access protocols to allow various types of services. Many of these protocols feature programs that allow users
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Have you ever bullied or been bullied? If you have bullied or been bullied then you should know how bullying feels like. Bullying is very negative and creates major problems for our society. Nothing good comes out of bullying. It could very well change or ruin a person’s life. In fact‚ it does ruin many people’s lives. Kids can be mentally scarred if they are teased often. Even worse‚ they could be killed or fatally injured if the bullying gets extreme. There are many causes for bullying which must
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structured within my themes of my research questions. Within my findings I have grouped these questions together to come to a conclusion. Please refer to Appendix 1. Are young people aware of the consequences due to criminal offences? Theme one: Support The main theme I have discovered for these questions is Support. The focus for these
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Legal issues inherent in treatment of sex offenders with the right to refuse mental health treatment is the Fifth Amendment (Adams‚ 1997). The Fifth Amendment give right against self-incrimination and the Fourteen Amendment is regarding the preservation of family integrity (Adams‚ 1997). Some believe mandatory participating is punishment in disguise (Adams‚ 1997). Some mental health treatments can include psychotopic drugs‚ psychosurgery and aversive therapy that could potentially cause irreversible
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18 and commits an act that otherwise would have been charged as a crime if he was an adult. In most cases‚ many juvenile offenders often fall into bad company or they lack proper parental guidance. Furthermore‚ juvenile offenders are still young; they have not reach a level of maturity where they are able to exercise good decision-making. Therefore‚ I disagree that juveniles are solely at fault for their own crimes. On the contrary‚ many juvenile offenders were actually aware that their actions were
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corrections and they think of correctional officers. They usually think of them as the candidates that failed to make it onto the police force or as people who barely made it out of high school and needed a job. While this analysis of the job may be true in some instances‚ there a lot of people that go into corrections for better reasons. They are people who want to be able to help others turn their lives around and become a functioning piece of society. A correctional officer is one way someone could
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