When you mention gun control, many things come to mind. School shooting, the Brady Law, second amendment rights, and kids killing kids, these issues have prompted a controversy over guns and whether they are a menace to society. There are many types of guns and each contributes to crime differen...

THE OUTSIDERSThe novel "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton was based on two juvenile gangs. These gangs were divided by economical and social background, the lower East side where known as the "Greasers", and the upper West side were known as the "Socs". The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thi...

"Old North Durham" The living condition in North Durham has changed dramatically since my adolescent years. As a child I lived on 908 Gurley Street, located off the corner of Dowd Street. My neighborhood was called North Durham. Many different areas of Durham were known as the Southside, West End,...

Nick BrownEnglish 1003/5/01Word count: 1,186In an Age of ViolenceSchool shootings in Moses Lake, Washington; West Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Littleton, Colorado spark some serious questions throughout the US today. Schools beefing up security all over the country strive to protect ...

Al CaponeThe Great Depression had strong effects on many families in the early 1900's. Many people were left with out jobs or homes to reside in. Most unemployed workers turned to the West, such as California, to search for new jobs to support their families. Realizing once they had gotten there tha...

Capital Punishment Introduction: Think for a moment about the fall into sin. Think about the people in Noah's day. Sodom and Gomorrah. What is the punishment inflicted upon all of them by God? Death. The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the first and harshest penalty for ...

Society must accept responsibility to control anti-social behaviour among adolescents, in order to limit youth violence. Four theories of child anti-social behaviour are neoclassical, biological, psychological, and the economic/ sociological theory (Hoge & Andrews, 1996). Individuals need to recog...

The old west and the days of prohibition perhaps were dramatized back when we were kids when we would play Cowboys and Indians or Cops and Robbers. But, today the drama is much more serious and the issues about handguns can be debated until both political parties declare war on each other. In what h...

In a small town in Kansas a family of four were murdered for no apparent reason. The murderers ran for a few years and finally they were caught, tried, and accused for murder. In 1965 they were hung for the crime. In the story a family was killed for no reason. This well respected farming fami...

For as long as I can remember I have always been fascinated with the procedures of law. I would watch Judge Wapner everyday after school. When I graduated high school I was not sure what I wanted to do. It was not until I read about the school shootings out west, and I was shocked and horrified to l...

Capital Punishment The most severe sentence used in our nation is capital punishment, or execution. Most of the executions were for murder or rape. However, federal, and military laws have conferred the death penalty for other crimes, including robbery, kidnapping, treason, espionage, and de...

S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is an epic tale of a hoodlum's life. There are surprising occurrences that take place throughout this story. The author holds suspense during the entire narrative told through the main character's viewpoint. Ponyboy Curtis, the main character, has to ove...

Typically, there are four justifications for punishment that are still used today in the United States: Retribution, deterrence, incapication, and rehabilitation. There are many ways of reaching these justifications besides prison today, which are made to help the current problems in the criminal j...

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Gun control is the limitation of the use and ownership of guns. Guns are a big part of American history. The first guns in America were used by the colonists for hunting. Later, the colonists used their guns to gain their independence from England. The Revolutionary war, along with all the other war...

You Call That Punishment?A serious question has been posed as to whether or not children should be treated as adults when they commit serious crimes. Unfortunately, no one knows the answer. Each case should be handled based on its own facts and circumstances surrounding the crime that was committe...

The majority of crimes committed in the United States were accompanied by a weapon, which was usually a gun. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research dedicates its service to prevent gun-related deaths and injuries. Studies have proven that in 1997 there were 32,436 gun related deaths w...