What to do if you Ever Get Arrested If you ever get arrested do not struggle with the police. Be polite and avoid fighting or swearing even if you think they have made a mistake. Resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer are usually separate crimes that you can be charged with even if you haven't done anything else wrong. Give your name, address, and phone ... number to the police. Otherwise keep quiet until you have spoken to a lawyer. You may be searched, photographed, and fingerprinted. Notice carefully ... what is being done but don't resist. If any personal property is taken from...

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... with young offenders when they commit the property crimes How much more of taxpayers must spend to make these young teenager's lives such that they can become model citizens when they returned to the society. Canadian jails are too soft compared to other countries such as Iran. For example, the prisoners can have computers, television, radio etc in the jail. This is an enjoyment not a ... and physically way for the youth. First, the young adults are not mature enough to realize their crimes and they are easily to be influenced from the people and the environment around them. They might ...

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... while helping to expand medical knowledge. Finally, one can see this principle working in some court cases. In O. J. Simpson's case for example, the intelligent jury noted that the world needs another violent and famous football player. Numerous Simpson supporters also believed in his innocence despite the unimportant incriminating evidence. One student, who religiously followed the court case, really stated that, "He ... can't be guilty because he was such a cutie." Instead of wasting away in jail, he actively contributes to society by supporting himself, instead of feeding off of tax ...

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How to Improve Crime Rate Crime does not occur in only one kind of community or only one region of our nation. There is no one solution to the problem, but we must do something to reduce the crime rate in our community. The only way we can make our streets safer is by working together -- teachers, families, law enforcement, businesses, youth and faith-based ... , the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that violent crime rates in the United States were 21 percent lower in 2000 than they were just four years earlier. Although crime rates continue to decline, I believe we must do even more to ...

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... and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." These are the words of the second amendment as written by our forefathers. Many laws have since been passed on the right to bear arms. Currently laws are being drawn up to give the right to citizens to sue gun manufacturers. If this is passed who will be next, car manufacturers, toy companies? The cause of a crime needs ... are motivated by the best of intentions. Although, their quest for a gun free society is not the route to stopping violent gun crime. The prosecution of those people who deliberately use weapons in an illegal manner is a must. ...

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... them with victims of their greed." Prisons do not accomplish anything. Some people commit crime because they need the money or they are trying to feed their families. For others it "comes natural." The author continues to explain that there are more people in jail during hard times than good times. For instance, the coal and gas companies raise their prices in the ... winter. People can not afford it and have to steal it. As a result, they are sent to jail simply because they are poor. Furthermore, they can not afford ... good lawyers and they end up in prison. In other words, it is a ...

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... has a deterrent value because it removes the criminals from society so they will never be able to commit any more crimes. Also, future criminals must understand the consequences of committing a crime. Citizens of the United States have long argued that deterrence is little more than an assumption, and that most murders cannot be stopped by any penalty, including death. They are crimes of passion ... . I respect their beliefs, but I still believe if the punishment was severe enough, like death, it could prevent them from committing a crime no matter how angry they are. I believe the seria...

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... , when Jesus was hanging from the cross with two other criminals, both of them ask Jesus a question. One asked him if he was really the Messiah, and if he was, that he should have power to save him and the two criminals. The other criminal asked "Remember me, Jesus, when you come as king", then Jesus responded "I promise you ... example is like when some of the criminals go to the confessional, after they have committed a crime, to ask God for forgiveness for the criminal act they have committed. I believe that God forgives the people who have rebelled against them all their lives becaus...

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... how minor, to insure that the youth do not continue to larger troubles. What is juvenile court doing? Are they just full of empty threats that the youth know not to take seriously? In an article in the Birmingham Post written by Paul Groves, fifteen year old Daniel, who has been in trouble since he was eleven years old claims "They (the courts) tried all these different ... serious action and try to stop this wave? I strongly agree with Kramer when she exclaims "It is time to acknowledge its failure and restructure the system so that juvenile justice ceases to be an oxymoron" (Kramer). ...

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... Prisoners in 1997. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 1. Retrieved from http://www.marijuana.com). Federal prisons have now resorted to using smaller, local state jails to house serious criminals, and even then both state and federal prisons are overwhelmed with the capacity of people that are incarcerated. The country's prison population consists of these minor offenders, keeping murders, rapists, and ... Keeping violators behind bars is estimated at $8.6 billion. In 1969, President Nixon spent $65 million on this so called war against drugs, and by 1998, Clinton raised that amount to $17.1...

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"It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered" Aristotle Justice; the word in itself means to conform to the law. But who or what does the law have to conform to? In the novel, "A Time to Kill" by John Grisham many questions are answered such as, do people have the right to take justice into their own ... hands? And, is the Criminal Justice system colorblind? Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten year old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men when she is brutally raped and left to die. The mainly white town reacts with shock and horror at this inhuman...

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... that and destroy the successful gun control laws? Perhaps it is because they want to defend the pore, defenceless taxpayer who gets the bill for the implementation of these laws? Well, the average Australian taxpayer is a little more concerned with the safety of themselves and their family rather than the easy access they could have to firearms in which potential criminals would ... also gain. A study has found that before Australia's gun control laws were implemented (before Port Arthur) about 10% of the population were gun owners, averaging 2 guns each, and ... reduce the number of at...

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... and friends. He moves away, finds a low-level job and starts to lure men in his apartment to kill them and as if this was not enough, he would have sex with their corpses and cannibalizes them. Still, there are people who do it on purpose even though they have reasons for killing that person, it is still not forgivable because they took a life on ... mess with my family. I mean, who wouldn't want justice to their family members if they were harmed or worse, killed. Of course we would want the same thing to happen to the person who did it. We would want vengeance because I believe that a...

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... up people convicted of drug offenses and other non-violent crimes. Because of these initiatives prison populations have risen by three hundred and eighty percent. To put that in perspective the United States Census data revealed that the nation's population rose only thirty-three percent during the same period. Comparatively speaking, the number of people incarcerated in state and federal facilities has grown ten ... in the future while punishing them for their wrongdoings. However this system of sending so many people to prison is obviously not working as over forty percent of convicts...

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... not legally buy alcohol most people will find other illegal ways of getting it when they should be allowed to buy it themselves. Fake Id's which are very illegal are commonly used to get alcohol. This is a serious crime that these people would not have to resort to if them having a few beers was not illegal. Also since in our neighboring Quebec the minimum is 18 ... many people make the short trip to Hull and just simply bring it back. This is another crime a normal kid would ... buy it for them which again is very illegal. Letting eighteen year olds drink would definitely help prevent...

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... , when Jesus was hanging from the cross with two other criminals, both of them ask Jesus a question. One asked him if he was really the Messiah, and if he was, that he should have power to save him and the two criminals. The other criminal asked "Remember me, Jesus, when you come as king", then Jesus responded "I promise you ... example is like when some of the criminals go to the confessional, after they have committed a crime, to ask God for forgiveness for the criminal act they have committed. I believe that God forgives the people who have rebelled against them all their lives becaus...

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... did not have the luxury of referring to any books because King was not even allowed paper. The fact that King was able to put together a letter that structured and well thought-out under the circumstances he was in completely astonishes me. The "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is the most logical and thorough counter of someone else's argument I have ever experienced. I was a little uncertain how good the ... letter would be prior to reading it. The main reason would ... has. However, it was not an error by King because of the audience he was writing to. Again, I feel Dr. King's letter is...

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... are the judgements, values and beliefs of people and their attitudes about different issues. The "mockingbirds" in the novel are people but the true bird is a bird, which brings pleasure to people and does no harm. So the people like Tom Robinson and Boo are people who have not done anything to anyone except good things. Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are innocent people ... even seen him, let alone get to know him. For example, the children of Maycomb are scared of Boo because they assume many things about him. They assume he is a big monster that eats rodents. The children of Maycomb por...

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... . On reason that she is so nave at the beginning is because of how she was brought. Scout was nurtured by Atticus, who gave her a lot more than any other girl in Maycomb. Atticus taught her how to read, and shielded her from racism in the South. This was not all bad though, because as Scout grew up, she did not have contempt for blacks ... , she saw them as equals. There are many instances in which Scout shows both her naivety and how she changes throughout this book. A first example is when Scout attempts to find the definition of rape. When she asks Atticus, he replied by saying that ra...

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... are the judgements, values and beliefs of people and their attitudes about different issues. The "mockingbirds" in the novel are people but the true bird is a bird, which brings pleasure to people and does no harm. So the people like Tom Robinson and Boo are people who have not done anything to anyone except good things. Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are innocent people ... even seen him, let alone get to know him. For example, the children of Maycomb are scared of Boo because they assume many things about him. They assume he is a big monster that eats rodents. The children of Maycomb por...

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... a train station. The officer accused Aziz of physically and sexually assaulting Miss Quested. She stated that she was able to escape him and flee away just in time to see Mrs. Derek passing in her car at Kawa Dol. Immediately Aziz denies the accusation. He states that there must have been some sort of miscommunication or confusion on Miss Quested's part. Aziz is then taken ... . Aziz then patiently waits in a jail cell for his chance to prove his innocence in court. I believe that Aziz couldn't have committed the crime. This is because he had no time or privacy to conceive the crime. The...

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... juvenile offenders were incarcerated with adult criminals. In 1899, Cook County in Illinois established the first juvenile court. It took a long 30 years to have a juvenile court in every state. The difference in the original juvenile courts was that the court could concentrate on the youth, and not on the offense. They could promote rehabilitation and not punishment. At this time, also, ... more toward punishment for juvenile offenders. The 1990's brought a "crackdown" on the laws dealing with juvenile crime. The mounting problem led to a different mindset for the public and the judici...

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... often show the effects violence has on victims, and they glamorize the users of violence in almost half of violent acts. Perpetrators of violence have qualities that make them attractive to viewers, especially children. Children and young adults listen to music and watch television in extremely large quantities. The average American child watches 3-4 hours of television daily and the average American teenager listens ... way the entertainment industry operates. Media violence has negative effects on audiences. Hundreds of studies and surveys have found time and time again the connection ...

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... preventing crime in the future through the out the United States. Finally, the justice system plans to pay closer attention to suggestions brought forth by those who have seen firsthand what might build a stronger Juvenile Justice System. The most basic argument for punishment is that is preserves law and order and respect for authority. From this point of view, punishment does ... The Little Hoover Commission who examined juvenile crime, its roots, and it's regulations in a seven month study. The main conclusion was that punitive measures just do not address the more basic problems that ...

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... grandmother. He expresses his concern of justice and crimes fitting punishments. The grandmother, after a while, begins to feel compassion for him and touches him on the shoulder, at which time the Misfit shoots her. By this, O"Connor is telling us that love and compassion does not have to be just. The family is not perfect, nor is the Misfit, however the family loves each ... other hand he is also very crude. He is set on the concept of justice and getting what one deserves. The Misfit made many comments about how people have messed the system up and not being able to reconcile what he...

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