To enforce this law the police have the special powers to stop, detain and search people on 'reasonable suspicion' that they are in possession of a controlled drug. The laws controlling drug use are complicated. The Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) regulates what are termed controlled drugs. It divides drugs into three classes as follows: 1.2 The new ten-year drug strategy (2008-2018) aims to restrict the supply of illegal drugs and reduce the demand for them. It focuses on protecting families and strengthening
The film Gone Baby Gone raises many deep moral questions surrounding our morality and our ability to make decisions based on ethics. The film, directed by Ben Affleck, centers around the investigation led by the police and two private investigators looking for an abducted girl. The girl’s family is distressed, although their ability to take care of the girl is questionable. It is made obvious that her mother has addictions to various drugs, and that her and her boyfriend owe money to a drug lord. We learn the backstory of a head of police; his daughter was also abducted and killed many years ago.
An informal survey of major newspapers conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found 105 reports of babies abandoned in public places in 1998, of whom 33 were found dead ( Grossman). Although the leader of children abandonment in garbage cans, parking lots and other unsafe places is Texas, legislators in 35 states have passed so-called Baby Moses laws. "The idea of this law is that it discourages mothers from taking this drastic action in the first place," said Dan Nelson, press secretary for Brulte (qtd. in Sussman). The principle of functioning of Baby Moses law is very similar everywhere.
As a result, a law was put into affect known as the “mandatory reporting” regulations (findlaw). Theses regulations require certain professionals like doctors, teachers and administrators to report to the police any suspicions of child abuse (findlaw). You would think with the creation of these regulations that we would have so many cases of child abuse reported yet still we have five children every die at the hands of their abusers (childhelp). And what is so alarming is that eighty percent of the children that die are under the age of four (childhelp). Although statistics state that five children die everyday from child abuse, there is evidence that more child abuse cases are ruled as natural death.
For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying 10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to the study above According to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying This is one reason, one out of many on why you should not bully. These people are depressed and from personal experience you are always down and you do not care about anything. Some people don’t care about other people’s feelings.
This is a crime against persons and punishable in all but four states by life in prison or the death penalty. Kidnapping is considered a Mala in se or inherently evil crime was originally a misdemeanor under common law but the Federal Kidnapping Law of 1932 (Lindbergh Law) made it a federal crime to transport victims across state lines to collect ransoms or rewards (Lippman M. 2012). In 1974 Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by a group
• Parents of a child who has ADHD are three times as likely to separate or divorce as parents of non-ADD children • Teenagers with ADHD have almost four times as many traffic citations as their non-ADD peers. • Teens with ADHD have four times as many car wrecks and are seven times more likely to have a second accident. • 21% of teens with ADHD skip school repeatedly. • 35% eventually drop out of
This form of trafficking, involving children, is also refereed to as “DMST” or (Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking) (Kotrla 1). Recent studies have shown that there are “currently at least 100,000 DMST victims in the United states with up to 325,000 more at risk for becoming such victims”(Kotrla 2). Children become easy targets for traffickers because of their vulnerability and helplessness. On average these children are being trafficked between the ages of 11 and 14, although a few are found to be as young as 5 (Kotrla 2). Although the victims of this trafficking varies, statistics show those who have been thrown out of their homes, those who have a history of abuse, or are being handled by the government through foster care or child protective services are most likely to get pulled into this industry (Kotrla 4).
Though hard to determine rather antisocial behavior and genetic makeup is linked to being inherited, or just a product of a learned behavior; criminologists have tested the effects of inheritance on crime [ (Siegel L. J., 2011) ]. One way that it has been tested is through adoption studies. This study suggests that if a child’s behavior is closely in line with his or her biological parents rather than the adoptive parents; the idea that criminality is genetic can strongly be supported. A study conducted by Barry Hutchings and
Article Summary The translation of legal theories into actual legislation is often a difficult process due to issues involving language and ethics. In the case of laws that regulate pornography, these problems arise in the way law defines pornography and the crimes the commit and initiate. In the article From Theory to Practice: Catharine MacKinnon, pornography, and Canadian law, Alexandra G. Bennett addresses some of the issues with pornography laws, such as whether not the laws in some way contradict the theory, and what is lost in the transition “from the theory to practice” (Bennett 215). By exploring Catharine MacKinnon’s the theories on pornography, how it should be handled in law, how these ideas were translated and adapted into Canadian legislation and the problems that arise with these laws, Bennett sheds some light onto the past and prevailing issues of pornography in law. Bennett begins by addressing the many discrepancies in the way society, legislative bodies, and Catharine MacKinnon define pornography.