So, 2000 = 30000/Square root of sample size. Solving for the Square root of sample size, we get Square root of sample size = 30000/2000 = 15. Taking its square, the sample size is found as 225. Chapter 9 Exercise 1 No it is not a good defense. If you choose 40 random employees from the corporation, the standard error would equal 6/Square root of 40 = .95 days.
A much more practical and morally palatable sentence for crimes of a more severe nature would be life without parole. The practice of the death penalty is undoubtedly a timely and significant matter, considering that lives are at stake and extensive amounts of Floridians and Americans taxpayer’s money is being invested in a punishment which is not proven to be entirely moral or fair. The longer the death penalty exists and is legal, the more people will lose their lives. The first reason, and the most easily commutable due to the readily available statistics, is the issue of money. The average length an inmate in Florida spends on death row is 12.68 years prior to execution [1] and about $24 million is spent on each inmate/execution [2].
The bill was written on October twentieth at eight p.m. and signed into law October twenty-first at four-thirty p.m. This law basically spit in the face of any jurisdiction any court in the United States had. Where was the due process? Due process is the idea that laws and legal proceedings must be fair. The Constitution guarantees that the government cannot take away a person's basic rights to 'life, liberty or property, without due process of law.'
The civil tort suit is completely different and therefore does not fall under double jeopardy. Whether Armington is guilty or not guilty in the criminal trial Jennings can bring a civil suit against Armington to recover damages. Jennings was injured during the crime so he has the right to pursue a civil case to cover his injury. References Lectlaw.com (1995-2012). Double Jeopardy.
Expects say, the estimated cost of this project is around 150 million dollars (Deb Dryer). All that money could be put to a much better cause than the building of a casino. Plus there is already a the existing casino of equal size or bigger that’s only 10 miles away from the proposed location of the wild rose casino. The casino will bring in around 650,000 dollars to the city of Ankeny but cost 150,000 million dollars to build. According to Gillian Pensive an accounting professor at ISU, she believes that this casino is just too large and expensive for the city and will take too long to bring in revenue and develop.
wooden bat debate relates directly to economics, namely cost. A good aluminum bats cost approximately $250 and will last at least one season if not more. A good wooden bat, on the other hand, costs approximately $80 and can last as long as one at bat or for several games. For cash strapped amateur leagues, this can have a huge impact on their operating budget. Due to wooden bats breaking at a much higher rate, they have to be replaced more often.
Pros and Cons of Plea Bargaining Everyday 90% of all criminal cases resolve in some sort of agreement to a plea, leaving about 10% going to actual trial. With the huge numbers favoring a plea there must be a reason and more importantly what is the better option for people either accurately accused or falsely accused of a crime. Judges have incentives in agreeing to plea-bargaining because of the lack of judges available to hear trials compared against the ever-growing numbers of criminal cases and the rise of criminals serving time in prison. Judges also realize the amount of money needed to fund a criminal trial is much more than agreeing on a plea, even if that plea is only a fraction of the time the offender would face in prison if convicted
Police chiefs recognize that death penalty cases are particularly burdensome in the early stages. Two-thirds of the police chiefs polled said that death penalty cases are hard to close and take up a lot of police time” (15). So in essence, the cost of man-power in capital cases is very high, however over time it costs millions less than keeping a criminal imprisoned for life. It is said that capital cases leading to the death penalty cost approximately sixty thousand dollars a year for six years while life imprisonment cases cost thirty-four thousand a year for around sixty years (Costanzo 15). Personally, I don’t want my hard earned tax money being used to keep a vicious criminal alive.
"Bring Back Flogging" was published on February 20, in 1997 in the Boston Globe. In this essay, Jeff Jacoby describes the weak points of today's criminal justice system, and claims that flogging should be our option because it is a much quicker, cheaper, educational, and a more effective way than imprisonment. In his argument, Jacoby does show a good amount of evidence, but he does not seem to support his points. He points out that about 1.6 million Americans were in jail that year (1997), and that this number was 3.5 times larger than that of 1980. This seems to show the weakness of the criminal justice system.
When comparing these aspects from foreign countries to aspects of the United States, one side is clearly more preferable. If one is looking for a prevailing quality of life, the United States is the inferior one choice when compared to other nations. When evaluating quality of life it is difficult to clearly have set criteria to base it off of. If evaluating quality of life, wealth of the nation does not overshadow other aspects for this concept. For example, “The main reason the United States if richer is because...they work about 20% more hours per year than Europeans (newfederalist).” Based off of this study, we see that while Americans are wealthier, they are working a lot more strenuously to make this money.