.... Atlanta, an inmate brutally stabbed a correctional officer to death with a homemade knife. This inmate is not allowed to possess or manufacture such weapons and has no need for such a weapon. Under the “Justice Model� this inmate is held accountable for the life that he had just taken by receiving the death penalty, but the “ Medical Model� would have sentenced this inmate to a number of rehabilitation programs believing that this decision to take human life was caused by the environment that the inmate lived in. Unlike the “Medical Model� the “Justice Model’� will not sentence a person to rehabilitation, but it wil .....

.... of the death penalty will act to dissuade other criminals from committing violent acts. Numerous studies have been created attempting to prove this belief; however, “[a]ll the evidence taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more than long prison terms do.�(Cavanagh 4) Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that “…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes…We could execute all three .....

.... understanding why they committed the crime? These young people don't have the mental capacity to distinguish between right and wrong. Some of these young people haven't even attended school, and here they are, being tried as adults. A person's childhood is where one learns about life. One learns right from wrong, good from evil, and how to control one's emotions. What would happen if the courts took away this precious learning time from a youth? The youth wouldn't learn exactly why he was imprisoned. His morals would never be formed correctly because he would never be able to learn society's moral standards. When, and if these child .....

.... be mixed with pregnancy. People may argue that marijuana is proven to damage the short-term memory, distort perceptions, impair judgement and complex motor skills. It can alter the heart rate, can lead to sever anxiety, and can cause paranoia and lethargy (Shalala 10). While all that is true, it does not compare to the effects of other harmful substances. For instance, alcohol’s cause of cirrhosis to the liver, and tobacco causes lung cancer and coronary heart disease. The plain fact that both tobacco and alcohol are carcinogens to speed up all cancers, are all good examples of how bad alcohol and tobacco can be. Alcohol is the sou .....

.... of the death penalty will act to dissuade other criminals from committing violent acts. Numerous studies have been created attempting to prove this belief; however, "[a]ll the evidence taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more than long prison terms do."(Cavanagh 4) Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that, "…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes…We could execute all thre .....

.... appearance but only on a small scale.Corporal punishment is also used because it is quick and in most cases effective.The mental condition of the person being affected may worsen not only resulting to utter madness but may also result in lack of moral strength.Most people nowadays feel that corporal punishment is not the best answer to enforce restrictions in society as they feel,that pain is not the best solution. Although Corporal punishment has its disadvantages it can also make people aware of the fact that wrong doing results in pain and agony.As more people know the effect of misbehaving,the fewer the mistakes there would be.Mi .....

.... of alcoholic beverages will dissuade young people from drinking alcohol. The laws that prohibit merchants from selling alcohol to persons under 21 are hard to enforce. Even if they are enforced by the authorities, the establishment that breaks that law is rarely punished severely. For example, in Belmont County in Ohio, the police conducted raids of 5-10 different establishments in 1993 that had liquor licenses and reportedly to sell alcoholic beverages to minors. It was proven that each business in question had indeed been guilty of the charges. What would one suspect happen to the business? Wouldn't one expect for them to lo .....

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.... the costs of the "War on Drugs," the most obvious is monetary cost. The direct cost of purchasing drugs for private use is $100 billion a year. The federal government spends at least $10 billion a year on drug enforcement programs and spends many billions more on drug-related crimes and punishment. The estimated cost to the United States for the "War on Drugs" is $200 billion a year or an outstanding $770 per person per year, and that figure does not include the money spent by state and local government in this "war" (Evans and Berent, eds. xvii). The second cost of this "war" is something economist like to call opportunity costs. Here, we .....

.... no documents of reliable scientific proof that marijuana has medical value. The Drug Enforcement Agency along with police departments all over the United States believe, with the legislation of drugs, crime will result in an increase in drug-related crimes. Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. The untold multitudes of dealers would be put out of business, and a major source of financial loss to the economy would become one of financial gain. It is difficult to say what effect this change alone would have on crime, however, since criminal .....