Three strikes raises important questions about how sentencing laws need to achieve public safety. How are such laws made? Who do they target? And why did Michael Reynolds and Mark Klaas start out as allies and end up as bitter political rivals. Over the last two decades (1980-2000)‚ the US prison population has increased 450%. California has led the nation in prison growth since the early 1980s‚ and it incarcerated a higher percentage of its population than any nation on earth by 1994. The same
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The drinking age law is a law that is greatly debated. There are many pros and con to the drinking age being lowered. At the age of 18 you are considered an adult in the eyes of the public. Many think a young adult is not mature enough to have a sip of beer but somehow is old enough to fight for our country. The drinking age should be lowered because an individual is considered an adult at the age of 18‚ laws about drinking can be more harmful the good‚ and if you are able to all these adult things
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Three Strikes and You’re Out By Natalie Belyea May 7‚ 2013 Prepared for Mr. Ian Barrimond The state of California in 1994 passed the “Three Strikes and Your Out” law. This law sentences a third offence felony offender to a mandatory 25-years to life sentence. Although crime rate have dropped in California there are those opponents to the law who feel in certain cases that the sentencing is too harsh.
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article‚ "Three Strikes and You’re Out: California’s new mandatory sentencing law on serious crime rates"‚ by Stolzenberg and D’Alessio. This article looked at information gathered from cities where the three strikes law was mandated. The research looked at monthly data and found that the three strikes law had no effect on recidivism or crime rates. Personally‚ though some may agree with the three strikes law‚ I find it in some circumstances to be unjust. For starters‚ I feel as though this law does
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From the two policy options provided above‚ the best option would be for the government to create a strict gun law which forbids people to carry a gun no matter where they were unless they take a month long gun class. Doing so would make sure that the people with gun license do not have a background of committing a felony‚ crime‚ or have a mental illness. Taking the class would provide gun licenses owners to know safety measures and how to deal with a gun. People around gun owners would feel safe
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major ruling on gun rights in three years‚ ensuring our federally protected right to keep and bear arms in all 50 states. The ruling states that the right to "keep and bear arms" is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and applies to the states. No longer will State or local governments be allowed to ban most Americans from owning most types of handguns. The ruling effectively strikes down Chicago’s handgun ban‚ not unlike the Washington D.C. law that was already ruled to
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passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The first pro about the HIPAA law is that it protects yours or a patient’s security and privacy rights. Every patient must read and sign that hit the consent form which will allow the patient’s medical records to be released. The patient will also have access and complete control over their medical records. The second pro in the HIPAA law is that it allows Health Care providers to check the patient’s eligibility prior to
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Are law enforcement cameras an invasion of privacy? Pro Law enforcement cameras placed everywhere. In the supermarkets and in the small shops‚ in the public place and in the automobile. It helps owner to control the business and even help police to register committed crime. Contra. Sometimes cameras can picture you in the unattractive situation. The movie about you can be placed on the youtube without your permission. Like every things in our life the law enforcement cameras could
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Gun control in the United States has become a highly controversial topic over the years. There have been plenty of debates on the gun control laws and people have taken to being either pro gun control laws or anti gun control laws. One thing we can’t deny would be that gun control laws would keep us all safer and even save lives. Statistic show that more guns equals to more homicide cases. If more citizens have easy access to guns‚ they’re more likely to kill than if they didn’t have easy access
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2008. As a member of the authoritarian right‚ I believe there should be stronger immigration laws to prevent illegal citizens. I am for the prevention of illegal citizens entering our country who do not pay taxes and are earning benefits the unlawful way. Like many other authoritarian rights in our present day government and candidates during the 2016 elections‚ I am pro-second amendment. Stronger gun laws should be enforced and background checks may be necessary‚ but denying our right to own a gun
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