If the questions where am I underage drinking or similar to that then I would answer truthfully. But if it was a fact of I was underage drinking or using illegal narcotics and in truth I was I would probably lie. The reason being is that if the survey was not anonyms then it would basically being a written confession in my mind of hey I do use drugs that are deemed illegal. The next issue would have to be well what types of drugs are we talking are we speaking illegal over the counter prescriptions, and when we talk prescription are we talking abusing stealing some one elses what factors are involved. Criminal behavior would all be situational are we assuming that I’m a law abiding normal citizen or what.
Abstract The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) summarizes the drug to crime relationship in three ways: drug defined offence, which are violations of law prohibiting or regulating the possession, use, distribution or manufacture of illegal drugs, drug related offenses, to which a drug’s pharmacologic effects contribute; offenses motivated by the user’s need for money to support continued use; and offenses connected to drug distribution itself and the drug using lifestyle, a lifestyle in which the likelihood and frequency of involvement in illegal activity are increased because drug users may not participate in the legitimate economy and are exposed to situations that encourage crime (ONDCP 2000).The effects of drugs and alcohol on our society are becoming more and more evident as the years pass. Even though drugs and alcohol have been around for centuries, they are becoming more popular. Along with the major drugs like cocaine, crack, and heroin, the alternative or
With a degree from these types of colleges a graduate usually will make their way into upper echelon of the United States workforce. However, Asian Americans only hold less than two percent of top corporate jobs. The average income of an Asian American in the year of 2009 was approximately $68,780, which is the highest among all race groups. However, the poverty rate of Asians in 2009 was up to 12.5 percent from 10.6 percent in 2007. Researchers, supported by Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and Time Warner, conducted 2,952 surveys of working-aged men and women and gathered qualitative and quantitative data to conclude that many Asian-Americans, whether immigrant or native born, find it hard to "fit in" the upper management ranks.
2) The middle class White family, about 72%, owns their homes, while only about 46% of the middle class Black family owns their homes. 3) Unemployment is for Black people is double then it is for White people. 4) Some companies hire mostly White people. An example is Microsoft. In the 2000, there were 20,000 White people working for Microsoft, and 544 Black people working for Microsoft.
The 7.6 Richter measurement of the 1811 quake is less than the 8.5 reading in the 1964 Alaska quake or the 8.3 calculated for the 1906 San Francisco quake. But scientists say that the New Madrid quake was actually more severe because of differences in the fault zones.-With a network of about 30 seismological stations throughout the New Madrid area, Mr. Morrissey and his team of 10 have recorded more than 800 quakes, about 5 a week, since they began recording in 1974. Most were too small to have been felt by residents. (New York
The government’s most recent drug survey, the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, “over 800,000 adolescents ages 12-17 sold illegal drugs during the previous 12 months preceding.” (NSDUH). Marijuana has damaged and brought chaos to lives of many young Americans. Medically, it is not addictive, but some people say that they begin to form a habit, and it becomes a psychological, rather than physical, addiction. Although marijuana is less harmful than other substances that are legal, chances are that if more people smoked marijuana because it became legal, there would be an increase in health problems. A study was done by the DEA in 2004 in which 19.1 million Americans aged 12 or older used illicit drugs in the 30 days prior to the study.
This experiment on studying how family characteristics correlate with teenage heroin abuse is scientifically relevant. Some researchers say the underlying cause of teenage heroin abuse is first and foremost the family, while other researchers say that abuse is cause by psychological factors and a low educational drive. All of these theorists would disagree on which one of these factors is the main cause of teenage heroin abuse. Since there is a discrepancy, this research question was developed in order to find what the main cause of teenage heroin abuse is. When finding an answer to the research question, it will put a stop to the inconsistency of previous
First, females are rarely sentenced to death and executed, even though women committed 20 percent of all murders that have occurred in recent years. Second, a disproportionate number of nonwhites are sentenced to death and executed. A black man who kills a white person is 11 times more likely to receive the death penalty than a white man who kills a black person is. In Texas 1991, blacks made up 12 percent of the population, but 48 percent of the prison population and 55.5 percent of those on death row are black. Before the 1970's then the death penalty for rape was still used in many states, no white men were guilty of raping nonwhite women, whereas most black offenders found guilty of raping a white woman were executed.
In 2008, 40% of the prison population was black, even though blacks only made up 12% of the US population. A study conducted by the Rand Corporation shows that black Americans and Hispanics generally receive longer jail sentences than white people convicted of similar crimes. Black males have a 32% chance of going to prison at some point in their lives, compared to only 17% for Hispanics and 6% for whites. A study of the death penalty showed that the odds of receiving a death sentence are 3.5 times higher among those whose victims were white, as opposed to victims of an ethnic minority. Despite these surveys, little has been done to change the justice system.
Cameron Booker Criminology Dr. Anadi November 12, 2013 However, in 2002 about a quarter of convicted property and drug offenders in local jails had committed their crimes to get money for drugs, compared to 5% of violent and public order offenders. Among state prisoners in 2004 the pattern was similar, with property (30%) and drug offenders (26%) more likely to commit their crimes for drug money than violent (10%) and public-order offenders (7%). In federal prisons property offenders (11%) were less than half as likely as drug offenders (25%) to report drug money as a motive in their offenses. College student victims Overall 41% of violent crimes committed against college students and 38% of nonstudents were committed by an offender perceived to be using drugs, 1995-2000. About 2 in 5 of all rape/sexual assaults and about a quarter of all