American Kidnapping Case Study

Question 1 The offense of kidnapping is defined as the “unlawful taking of a victim and the nefarious motive such as obtaining a ransom” (kidnapping.uslegal.com). In order to fight one of these cases in a court of law you must be able to prove intent, which happens to be the decisive element of the crime. For one to commit a kidnapping there must a physical taking of a person from his or her home or other public place where someone can lawfully be such as a bus stop. An example of a kidnapping case is the case of Jaycee Dugard. Jaycee was 11 years old at the time of her taking. She was walking out to her bus stop for school when a car came up, a man jumped out, hit her with a Taser and dragged her into the car and sped off. Jaycee’s step father …show more content…
Patriot Act is used to gather information on terrorists in the United States. The U.S.A. Patriot Act stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. The Patriot Act was enacted shortly after 9/11 to further help America to prevent terrorist attacks on American soil. This was signed and enacted by president George H.W. Bush. What the Patriot Act does is it “allows NSA to facilitate a reason to look into you in they find or suppose you might be a terrorist” (Wikipedia, 2016). The Patriot Act allows for penalties to be increased for those who commit terrorist acts that directly impact America. However there really is no way to quantify this because there are so many things being done to keep America safe. Every year this act must be renewed and it has never been denied. Despite all of the good this Act does some people believe that we should no longer have the Patriot Act in place as it violates their personal privacy. I believe that there is no violations to peoples life because this is keeping America that much safer and as long as you aren’t doing anything illegal then there shouldn’t be anything to worry …show more content…
Drug abuse can come in many forms such as, prescription drug abuse, illegal substance abuse, alcoholism, and inhaling things that you probably shouldn’t be such as sharpies and spray paints. In the United States along there are roughly 23 million people a year that are using and abusing drugs. In the U.S alone it costs about $197 billion dollars a year to use drugs and to fight the growing drug problems. Some of the biggest drugs being used are heroine or other opiates, marijuana, and others that are all around the same number of users. To fight or control the flow of drugs coming into the United States has the DEA stopping shipments coming from Mexico and other countries, however hard they try they will never be able to keep up with ever growing number of drugs flowing into the United States. Some of the hardest drugs to control are prescription drugs because doctors are writing prescriptions and handing them out like they are nothing. It’s hard to control these because the police can never find where the prescription are coming from and there are so many pills that are out there you cannot track them