Capital punishment in the United States

Costs of Criminal Justice Most of the criminal justice agencies in the United States run on a very tight budget with very limited resources. That means that most of the time they don’t have the things they need. In between 1962 and 2014 the F.B.I alone spent $178.3 billion mostly because they fought with other agencies for control of the war on drugs until the infamous day of September 11, 2001. That’s when they took the lead on the counter terrorism unit. Most of the money spent by the U.S…

The first item that we have to clarify is what classifies a mass murder. The definition that we will use is a perpetrator who intentionally kills at least three victims other than him or her self in a single incident. We will narrow the scope to those who used firearms as their choice of weaponry in order to exclude bombings, car accidents, and planes. The results were that from 1949 to 1998 there were thirty mass murderers. Out of those thirty twenty of them were committed during 1985. All the…

people were asked if the United States should intervene in a situation in which genocide has occurred. An impressive 65 percent said “always”, while 23 percent said “only when American interests are involved”, and only 6 percent said “never”. The study went on to ask if they would favor some intervention in the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides, a whopping 80 percent said they would be in favor of intervention…

The life that we live in this society is a gift. A lot of people may not see it that way, and for good reason. Our world as it rots is full of crime, war, evil harassment, rape, and murder. The innocent in this world pay the price for the wild actions of the insane, but the thing about all those horrendous factors of society, is that those people are given the choice to do what they want. What if you lived in a society where you are told what to believe? That you had no choice in a matter? Where…

Group polarization is relevant to the group processes seen in the film 12 Angry Men. This process could potentially have a disastrous effect on the group’s processes and ensure fairness does not prevail. Group polarization is the tendency for members of a deliberating group to move to a more extreme position with the direction of the shift determined by the majority or average of member’s pre-deliberation preferences (Forsyth 382). This shift is typically based on social influence processes…

The Potawatomi Nation was one of the many nations and tribes removed from their land during the Indian Removal Act of 1830.These members have traveled all over the states before they finally made home in present day Shawnee, Oklahoma. Where they came from, who they were, and what has changed in the Potawatomi Nation. First of all, The Potawatomi Nation was a great tribe that started in the Wabash River valley of Indiana. When the Indian Removal acts after the 1833 Treaty of Chicago they were…

“Who, exactly, gives us the right to kill? If killing is wrong, then why are we allowed to kill?” John Grisham, an author of A Time to Kill, once said this. He brings up a good point. If we have such strict laws against the killing of another, why then should we punish the breakers of that law by doing the thing we said they did wrong? Killing someone to punish a criminal is almost as bad as doing the crime yourself. I am a strong believer against the death penalty. Who says the government has…

I believe that the judicial process has its pros and cons. There are several ways in which the judicial process can be improved. I specifically believe the criminal justice system should be improved and the penalties for crimes should be more balanced, and logical. Today, our corrections systems have their flaws. I am currently employed as a Detention Deputy, and I often see people who are incarcerated that have severe mental disorders. Instead, of these individuals getting the proper mental…

Steven Pinker, published author and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, wrote an article for the New York Times that was published on January 18, 2008. The article was titled “The Moral Instinct” and was an attempt to shed some light on how morality really works. The article begins with a jarring comparison of Mother Theresa, Bill Gates, and Norman Borlaug and how the average mind probably automatically associates Mother Theresa as the most admirable, although she…

later Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. At the time Polanski was just a child, and spent most of his time on his own trying to survive the Holocaust. He began his career with Polish film Knife in the Water, and created several other movies in the United Kingdom. A huge turning point in his life occurred in 1969 when his pregnant wife Sharon Tate was murdered by members of the Manson family. Other friends of Polanski’s were killed, and Polanski stated his absence on the night of the murders is…