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    Bob Daniel 5 December 2013 Persuasive Outline Breed Specific Legislation General Goal: To persuade. Specific Goal: I will persuade my audience to oppose breed specific legislation in the United States. Thesis: Breed Specific Legislation is ineffective and should be outlawed in the United States because breed identification methods are flawed‚ no dog breed is truly more dangerous than another‚ and the cost to enforce breed specific legislation is high. Introduction The American Pet Products

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    Troy Gladney Persuasive Speech Outline Comm 110 I. Introduction A. Attention getter: A lot of times Breed Specific laws ban pit bulls and even require that a pit bull be put down. In this game‚ you are giving a death sentence to one dog. Will you choose the right one? [Can you find the pit bull on line game] B. Relation to audience: By a show of hands‚ how many of you have a pet you consider to be part of your family? Think about how you would feel if a law banned the breed of

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    Finding Specific Heat Capacity of a Solid using Method of Mixtures | VISHWASHANTI GURUKUL Department of science-Physics Year: 2012-14 Level: HL | Name of candidate : ……………………………………………… Date: 08/01/2013 Name of Teacher: Chandra Sekhar Mogilisetti “Professor Lieber notes that using copper in the manufacture of coffee cups is not the wisest choice.” Specific Heat Capacity of Solid In this lab you will

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    History Of Deterrence

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    Law enforcement teaches offenders that crime is punished. However‚ deterrence is the exclusion of commit a criminal act for factors as such as fear of sanctions or punishment. The history of deterrence begins by the end of the 1700s in the work of Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham‚ but the interest in deterrence and rational choice theory developed by the mid-1960s. Specific deterrence view that if experienced punishment is severe enough‚ convicted offenders will be deterred from repeating their

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    Breed Specific Legislation (BSL): It’s the deed not the breed. A mother grows tired as her infant child lies sleeping on the sofa of their small apartment. The mother not wanting to disturb the napping child surrounds the boy with blankets and pillows so he will not fall off the sofa during his nap. Never one to miss an opportunity to rest‚ the mother retires to her bed in the other room to take a nap. Moments later‚ the mother startles awake to the screaming of her little boy. She rushes to

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    Northlink College: Drama 2 | Task 1: Site Specific Contents 1 Theoretical perspectives of site specific ------------------------------------------------- Evaluation of the meaning of site specific 2 ------------------------------------------------- Misconceptulisation 2 ------------------------------------------------- Site specific or not site specific 2 ------------------------------------------------- I am site specific‚ who are you? 3 -------------------------------------------------

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    The deterrence theory can be dated back to the early 1600’s‚ with combined research from Thomas Hobbes‚ Cesare Beccaria‚ and Jeremy Bentham. The information obtained by these theorists did not coincide with the current European legal practices‚ which stated other reasons for crime control. Deterrence is when a person fears punishment therefore they do not commit crime. Hobbes argued that punishment for a crime must be greater than the benefits of committing the crime in order for an individual

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    Pogarsky On Deterrence

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    The article‚ “Identifying deterrable offenders: implications for research on deterrence‚” proposed a unique framework from which to understand how deterrence operates. The article argued that most research has not adequately explored the proposition that deterrence operates for only a subgroup of the general population. In light of this‚ Pogarsky focused on more efficiently testing the effects of the certainty and severity of sanctions by dividing a sample into three subgroups and then analyzing

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    Deterrence Theory Essay

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    during the cold war with regard to the use of nuclear weapons but overall it was a strategy intended to persuade an adversary from taking action first. Deterrence theory assumes that crime can be prevented if potential offenders weight the pros and cons of the crime (Zimring and Hawkins 1973). Three concepts that play an important role in deterrence theory are the certainty‚ severity‚ and swiftness of punishment. The deterrent effects of crime prevention programs and policies are a function of a potential

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    Dui Deterrence

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    “Have one drink for the road” was‚ until recently‚ a commonly used phrase in American culture. It has only been within the past 20 years that as a nation‚ we have begun to recognize the dangers associated with drunk driving (Sutton 463). According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration‚ this year 519‚000 people‚ or one person per minute‚ will be injured in alcohol-related accidents. 10‚839 people will die in drunk-driving crashes this year – that is one death every 50 minutes. The

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