Glasgow’s most affluent citizens, those in the top 10% of income distribution, die significantly younger than their counterparts in other British cities. At best, according to the epidemiologists’ calculations, deprivation accounts for less than half (around 40%) of Glasgow’s “mortality gap” compared to the rest of the UK. The other causes are unknown. The grim record has prompted calls for a wide-ranging public inquiry into drug abuse in Glasgow. MPs, bereaved parents, health professionals and junkies themselves say radical measure are needed to stamp out the city’s problem – the worst in Europe.
Contemporary Issues: The Death Penalty Contemporary Issues: The Death Penalty The death penalty is said to be the greatest deterrent to crime in the United States. However, in recent years those states, which still use the death penalty, have seen a marked increase in crimes where death is a punishment. Is the threat of being put to death still an effective deterrent? According to FBI statistics (2008), the national murder rate per capita was 5.4 in 2008. With a national population of over 304 million people, that is around 16,000 murders for 2008 alone.
Since the low class poor people are not usually educated, they often easily “pushed” into the crimes by the high class people. Usually the upper class people are invisible and at the end the poor is the ones who get blamed. Certainly the rich benefit more than the poor. That has always and will always be the case in every society the world has known. Very often the rich push the poor by removing workers rights, by limiting corporate liability, by instigating war.
The government has created a form of discrimination to combat previous discrimination; this is not even a levelheaded thought, programs and or laws supporting it such as Affirmative Action are immoral and should be abolished. How reverse racism negatively impacts Americans. Discrimination has been affecting America and its citizens for as long as we have been a country. From the Civil war to the Civil Rights movement to present day, it is an infectious plague. Today, hundreds of thousands of less qualified citizens are hired for jobs over other citizens, who are more than qualified for that position, all because of race (www.adversity.net).
For example, if the maximum prison term for armed robbery is 15 years and that conviction is doubled, the city has to pay for an extra 15 years of housing to inmates. That would be over $300,000 just for one inmate. This is one of the reasons we are so broke now. Another reason why I feel this is a bad bill is because I don’t think this idea will deter the rate of this crime. Minorities or bums are more likely to commit these crimes.
This topic is of importance to the people of the United States because there are around 12 million illegal immigrants living and working in this nation. Though these people should not have come illegally into this country, nevertheless now that they are here our economy is more bountiful because of it. More than a third of all non-legal immigrants are working in just three cities; Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. This alone takes out a lot of the argument from people who think that illegal immigrants are stealing their jobs. Furthermore these immigrants are taking whatever jobs they can find, and because of this they are doing some of the most undesired jobs in the nation.
In this paper, I shall take into account ten years (2002-12) of data on forcible rape and analyze and explain the myths and realities of violent crimes with a focus on forcible rape. The myths this paper will be covering includes the one that Barkhan and Bryjak discuss in chapter 2 of their book. The first myth is that public believes crime is rising when, in fact, it is not; secondly, people think that most crime is violent when, in fact, it is not; and lastly, people overestimate the involvement of people of color and youths in crime and underestimate their victimization by crime (B&B pg.13). If we take a look at the table, we can see that from 2002 up till 2012, the number of forcible rapes reported has gone down slightly with exceptions to year 2004 and 2012 where the number were higher than the one from the previous year. We can also see that at the same time, the number for total arrest also went down.
Overflow The Prison system is wrong! We all know that it is messed up, yet we don’t do a darn thing about it. The facts speak for themselves and they are really absurd. The United States population makes up about 5% of the world population and still America makes up 25% of the world’s prison population. Not to also mention, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world (Senator James 1)!
Most end up helping the governments plans. 4. the right to vote - too many people use it, not enough look behind it all. The U.S. president does not control the economy. But we do, and the president controls most people, as they do not look past things. 5. drug deals - the government funds countries such as Peru who import tons of cocaine into america
A lot of people state that gun control would be the obvious solution and many would agree with this. Yet this solution doesn’t seem to be as beneficial as one may think. An article published by the New York Times stated that 60 to 65 million Americans own over 200 million firearms. According to Firearms and Ammunition Industry Economic Report 2012, weapon manufactures employ over a quarter of a million people in the United States. Not only would us the people suffer, but also so would the government and our whole economy.