which there is injury to the public or a member of the public and a term in jail or prison‚ and/or a fine as possible penalties. Criminalizing sexual activities is an oppressive restriction of our individual liberty and denial of our freedom. Decriminalization (or tolerance) is the repeal or amendment of statutes that made certain acts criminal‚ so that those acts no longer are crimes subject to prosecution. On the other hand‚ legalization (or regulation) removes a legal prohibition against something
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drug policy involving 117 randomly selected professional economists from the American Economic Association in 1995. The results showed that most of the professional economists (58%)‚ favored changes in public policy in the general direction of decriminalization. On the other hand‚ findings regarding the 1991 opinion poll of Americans contrast with a survey of college freshmen in 1988‚ wherein 19.3 percent of the college freshmen favored the legalization of marijuana. A survey of the high school class
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California’s “three strikes” law called for mandatory sentencing of repeat offenders‚ and New York adopted the “Broken Windows” strategy that called for the arrest and prosecution of all crimes large and small. The solution to this problem is decriminalization of possession charges on a Federal level. Marijuana." American Lung Association. American Lung Association‚ 2 Feb. 2015. Web. 09 Mar. 2015 what is Marijuana? It’s a drug made from the dry shredded parts of the Cannabis sativa hemp plant. This
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Legalization of Prostitution The purpose of this paper is to focus on the vastly contentious issue of the legalization of prostitution. Within this subject I will consider both arguments for legalizing prostitution‚ as well as arguments against. My paper will begin with a brief summary of the appealing nature of the industry while considering the positives of the subject; including specific facts and studies that support the legalization of prostitution as beneficial. My paper will then continue
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EWRT1A-16 2/12/14 Discourse Paper Final Draft The Prohibitive Costs of the Drug War On June 17‚ 1971‚ President Richard Nixon committed what is arguably one of his most significant and lasting executive acts when he issued a special message to Congress regarding the growing drug abuse problem within the United States. Although this message was significant in many ways because of the public acknowledgment that the Federal Government was not doing enough to combat drugs and their associated
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HE IMPLICATIONS OF LEGALISING PROSTITUTION IN NAMIBIA By UMUNAVI DESIRE KAMBOUA Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of BACHELORS IN LAW Supervised by: PROFESSOR N.J HORN In the subject Human Rights At the UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of the Bachelors in Law Degree DECLARATION I‚ Umunavi Desire Kamboua‚ hereby declare that this dissertation titled “The Implications of Legalising
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Rebeca Manns ENGL 112 Argumentative Paper September 2‚ 2012 Drug Court vs. Incarceration Drug addiction has increased drastically across America in the last fifty years. Non-violent drug offenders fill our jails and prisons. Taxpayer dollars are put into a prison system that is proving to be counter-productive. Recidivism rates are high. Drug Court is an alternative to incarceration that offers rehabilitation to criminal offenders. In drug court‚ the traditional functions of the U.S. justice
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To Be Black and Blue James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues”‚ is an honest‚ unflinching look at pre-civil rights era‚ American life in the predominately black neighborhood of Harlem. Baldwin’s short story speaks on issues of family conflict‚ drug addiction‚ class separation‚ and coping with life amidst the concentrated poverty of the public housing projects. These same problems occurred in most of the industrial cities of the north during the post-World War 2 era as many people were competing
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His article‚ “Legally Blind: Why I’m Against Legalizing Marijuana”‚ is to be presented as an opinionated article that explains why he is against legalizing the use of both recreational and medicinal marijuana. However‚ he is not against the decriminalization of the two. His irrational belief is that one should be able to possess the
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The Truth About Prostitution Prostitution. It is a powerful word‚ which‚ with just four syllables‚ breeds uneasiness. I have gone almost my entire life without understanding what lies behind it. We live in a society where pop culture and the media give us strong suggestions as to how we should see the world around us‚ and they have not been kind to the concept of prostitution. Hollywood has shown us that prostitutes are the foul-mouths in fishnets roaming the streets of Memphis in the movie
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