... ways to avoid it. Date is commited by a person know to the victim. Date can happen to anyone. Both men and women can be victim of men are victims in approximately ten percent of all sexual assualts. Men report less than women. They fell embarassed and think that other will make fun of them. Research shows that women with low self-esteem are more likely to be victims of . It is never a victim's fault when a crime against him or her. Most rapes happen between two people who know each other. The F.B.I. says that several studies show that fewer than one in a hundred acquaintce rapes are reported to the police. ...

... consequences that may come of teenage drinking, The long term effects of teenage drinking, and some of the ways there are to get help to stop drinking. Teenage drinking is a preventable problem that needs to be stopped. It causes nothing but pain, suffering, and misery. Throughout the coarse of this paper I hope to voice my opinion on teenage drinking. I am just starting what are supposed to be the hardest years of my life and I think that teenage drinking is one of the biggest problems I will be faceing. Alcohol is a huge temptation that I myself have surcumbed to on a few occasions. I am not quite sur ...

... who are involved in its enforcement, as well as its victim."(Stewart 1) Perhaps the most frequent argument for capital punishment is that of deterrence. The prevailing thought is that imposition 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 ...

... say that the repercussion of placing children in adult prisons could be more damaging in the long run for the child as well as for society. Still these concerns are not a consideration when sentencing with many states stressing accountability rather than treatment as primary sentencing objectives. With younger children now facing the wavering process, many debates are surfacing questioning whether it is morally right to subject our young to adult prisons. History shows thousands of years of serious tensions between children and parents. In the U.S., parents and children both complain that they receive no respec ...

... encouraged adolescent boys and girls not to protest being sold into prostitution. The Roman government even went so far as to declare a public holiday honoring young prostitutes(Kahr, 1991). Sex with children in the modern era is alive and well, the power of an older person is so great that their young victims often never tell of the horrors that they have endured. There is also a pedophile enhancement movement, with confessed pedophiles insisting that their behavior is not wrong or immoral. Organizations dedicated to the social acceptance of sex with children are not new, yet have had a large upstart in memb ...

... states: The International Court of justice shall be the principal judicial organ of the United nations. It shall function in accordance with the annexed Statute, which is based upon the Statute of the Permanent court of International Justice and forms an integral part of the present Charter. The commands of international law must be those that the states impose upon themselves, as states must give consent to the commands that they will follow. It is a direct expression of raison d'etat, the "interests of the state", and aims to serve the state, as well as protect the state by giving its rights and duties. ...

... when a person makes the same decision, it is believed that there are forces beyond that person’s control that caused him/her to make the decision. For example, in the United States Penitentiary, 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 pro ...

... a total of 66,280 criminals in 1998(Orlando Sentinel). According to the Council on Crime in America, incarcerating one criminal in state prison for one year can prevent as many as 21 crimes (Swanson, 342). It can be argued that the “Three Strikes� law stops repeat violent offenders with the threat of longer sentences after each conviction. In agreement with the need for imposed jail terms, allowing three individual convictions to increase the sentence is a mockery of the judicial system. The “Three Strikes� law represents a faltering attempt at punishing violent criminals. “We have increase ...

... of Woburn were dying of leukemia in statistically unusual numbers that resulted in a leukemia cluster. Anne Anderson, a Woburn mother whose son Jimmy died of leukemia, drove authorities into investigating the water, which started the case against carelessness by big business companies. Finally, in 1979, two wells supplying drinking water to Woburn were shut down because health officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) thought they might have been contaminated by industrial wastes. The two main defendants were the W.R. Grace corporation, a chemical and manufacturing giant that built stainless ...

... no fewer murders on a per-capita basis in countries or states that do have it, then those that do not. In order for capital punishment to work as a deterrence, certain events must be present in the criminal's mind prior to committing the offence. The criminal must be aware that others have been punished in the past for the offence that he or she is planning, and that what happened to another individual who committed this offence, can also happen to me. But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to 1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions. Deterrence ...