there is no solid proof that the media causes violence, and although parents do a lot to help and protect their children, there are still some steps that can be taken to protect their children against violent and sexual material. Government intervention not stands for it. Violence starts at home, not on TV or in a computer game. America needs to stand together and fight youth violence and promiscuous sex without taking away the rights of citizens. We all want to help America's youth, but Government intervention (stronger enforcement of existing laws or new legislation) into availability of popular culture media would not help to reduce violence and promiscuous sex among America's
There are more whites than blacks on death row. Each year more whites than blacks are executed. If there was a shocking racial disparity anywhere, it is not in the punishing but in the committing of murder: Blacks comprise only twelve percent of the population, yet fifty percent of all homicides are committed by blacks.” The U.S. Justice Department conducted a study in 2001 on the racial bias of capital punishment. Based on the study of almost nine hundred death penalty cases, the Justice Department found that there was no evidence of racial bias. According to Attorney General John Ashcroft “black and Hispanic defendants were less likely at each stage of the department's review process to be subjected to the death penalty than white defendants," The study found that other factors contributed to what appeared to be racial bias.
This is definitely not a good combination. If a house is on fire, you don’t pour more gasoline into it; thus, why are teens allowed all of these defective influences at such a crucial point in their brain development? These violent TV shows and video games are what give teens the idea to commit crimes. They spend hours sitting in front of the monitor, impetuous of what is put into their heads. Twelve year old Lionel Tate was supposedly imitating his World Wrestling Federation heroes when he beat to death a six year old girl.
With the highest crime states out of the picture it left knowingly less violent states for Brady supporters to use as proof of decreasing crime. From 1993 to present year there has been a steady five to ten percent decrease in U.S. violent crimes. The FBI reported an estimate of 1.3 million violent crimes in 2009, of which 67.1% were aggregated assaults, but of that percent, firearms were used in only 20.9% of those assaults. So, let us for example ban guns and pretend no citizens have access to them, which leaves 46.2% violent assaults where a gun was not used (U.S. Department of, 2010). High numbers of violent crimes still exist even after firearms are subtracted from the
The film Boys of Baraka shows the story of four young twelve years old boys from one of the most dangerous and violent ghettos in Baltimore. Directed by Ewing and Grady, they used different themes and film techniques to show how the boys got a second chance in education and life. The theme that was carried throughout this documentary was that there is always hope and with help, you could go far in life. The film dealt with kids whose parents have failed them and those who are in risk of not graduating and in risk of going to jail early. One of them was dealing with a mother on drugs.
“Violence” is the intentional use of physical force against another person or against oneself, which either results in, or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury or death. Statistics state approximately one third of violent crimes occur in a street or open area. Big outbreaks have been taken due to violence against young African American men in poverty neighborhoods by cops. Take a look at the Ferguson Police situation and the big outburst of the country relating to Trayvon Martin. Also, taking a look at black on black crimes, which tends to happen more often rather than cop violence against blacks.
Which comes in, why kids shouldn’t be try as an adult. Most of us teens act pretty much like kids when were still 15-17 years old. In Adam Liptak’s article “Supreme Court to Rule on Executing Young Killers” published in The New York Times quotes “And jurors may not necessarily accept expert testimony concerning recent research showing that the adolescent brain is not fully developed”. Jurors have to accept the fact that teens brains aren’t develop and still may act like little kids. Also the fact that teens are so rough towards one another there brains aren’t thinking on what can happen if there physical towards people violently.
Death Penalty Nearly half of Americans say that the death penalty is not imposed often enough (Newport). Yet the number of executions in America continues to drop. There was about half the number of executions in 2009 than 1999 (Thornburgh). Some say that the death penalty should not be used at all because we are not sure if the person is guilty. In fact, the death penalty needs to be imposed more often because it prevents the murders of innocent people, and the punishment should fit the crime.
The suicide rate of children between the ages of five and fourteen is eleven times higher than that of twenty-five other countries. Some would say that the United States of America is much too violent. Abuse in America is very bad. An abuser is five times more likely to kill an abused woman if he/she owns a firearm. In addition, in the states with a higher rate of gun ownership, the gun death rate is seven times higher than other states
By doing so the school district, whether unintentional or not, alienated qualified teachers of other races. This includes the majority race of the students, in favor of white teachers. One major example of institutional racism is in our legal system. According to the FBI Homicide Table 3, in 2010 there were 4,849 white offenders convicted of murder and 5,770 black offenders convicted of murder. Considering African Americans make up only 13.1% of the American population, these numbers are astonishing.