...English – 014 Problem & Solution Essay Drugs Drug abuse is rife in many countries. Billions of dollars are spent internationally preventing drug use, treating addicts, and fighting drug-related crime. Although drugs threaten many societies, their effects can also be combated successfully. This essay looks at some of the effects of drug use on society, and suggests some solutions to the problem. Drug abuse causes multiple problems for countries and communities. The medical and psychological effects are very obvious. Addicts cannot function as normal members of society. They neglect or abuse their families, and eventually require expensive treatment or hospitalization. The second effect is on crime. Huge police resources are needed to fight smuggling and dealing. Criminal gangs and mafia underworlds develop with the money from drugs. However, the menace of drugs can be fought. Education is important in the fight against drug abuse. Children need to be told at home and in school about drugs. Relevant literature and other forms of learning material about the use and abuse of drugs have to be placed at their disposal. People need to be aware of the effects so that they can avoid this problem. Radio and television programs where sufferers talk about their battle with drugs and how they cope could be used to educate the public. Knowing about this societal menace is vital in solving the problems it creates. A second approach is to increase police manpower to stop dealers and to...
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...Problem and Solution: Drug Abuse Essay Show or Hide Explanations Paragraph 1: Introduction Drug abuse is rife in many countries. Billions of dollars are spent internationally preventing drug use, treating addicts, and fighting drug-related crime. Although drugs threaten many societies, their effects can also be combated successfully.This essay looks at some of the effects of drug use on society, and suggests some solutions to the problem. Paragraph 2: Problem Drug abuse causes multiple problems for countries and communities.The medical and psychological effects are very obvious.Addicts cannot function as normal members of society. They neglect or abuse their families, and eventually require expensive treatment or hospitalization. The second effect is on crime.Huge police resources are needed to fight smuggling and dealing. Criminal gangs and mafia underworlds develop with the money from drugs. Paragraph 3: Solution However, the menace of drugs can be fought.Education is the first battle.Children need to be told at home and in school about drugs. People need to be aware of the effects so that they can avoid Show or Hide Explanations this problem A second approach is to increase police manpower and create effective laws to stop dealers.However the main target should be the user: Families and counselors need to talk to children and people at risk. Parents need to look at their children and help them to become responsible. Worthwhile jobs and housing are also needed to...
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...All police should be required to have tertiary qualifications. Why/ why not? Gaining tertiary qualifications is a large commitment but research has shown that police officers who do have tertiary qualifications, set, and have higher standards. Firstly this essay will argue that police officers with higher education are less likely to use force as a means for compliance. Secondly, police officers with tertiary qualifications display a greater understanding of human behaviour in regards to the community and societal issues. Lastly, this essay will argue that police officers with tertiary qualifications have overall better job performance and attitudes. Therefore this essay will show that police officers should be required to have tertiary qualifications as it allows for a better style of policing. Ensuring police officers have tertiary qualifications will reduce the risk of police officers abusing their authority, therefore societal fear should subside. Research conducted by Paoline III and Terrill (2007) using two data sets (the systematic social observation of police officers and interviews with those officers) shows that having tertiary qualifications will reduce the possibility of police officers using force as a means for compliance. The systematic social observation approach provided data comparing officers with high school education with officers with some form of college/university education and those with a bachelor degree. The results showed that those with a bachelor...
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...level of drug use between blacks and whites in the United States, three-quarters of the people incarcerated in American prisons for drug trafficking, dealing, or abuse are African-American. In social terms, one of the most troubling problems with America’s war on drugs is that it appears to be motivated at least in part by racism. As Mason (2000) notes, under New Jersey’s Operation Pipeline drug interdiction program, for example, eighty percent of the motorists stopped by police were black and just thirteen percent were white. Sentencing laws also appear to be racist, for they punish minorities more. Getting caught with four-hundred grams of cocaine requires no mandatory prison term, but possessing four-hundred grams of crack can lead to life in prison. One of the most blatant demonstrations of prejudice in the criminal justice system is racial profiling. According to critics, racial profiling is a unfair law enforcement strategy that enables police officers to stop and question African-Americans simply because of their race. According to Malley (2000) racial profiling is a process often employed by police, both officially and unofficially, and was considered by many people to have been a likely factor in the police shooting of Amadou Diallo in New York City. The use by state and local police departments in the United States of racial profiling has gained support over the last fifteen years and was expanded in practice during the highly publicized explosion...
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...Eric Arthur Blair, with the pen name George Orwell, was a young man when he went to serve in the Imperial Police Force which was his firsthand look at colonialism (Larkin). After about five years, he abruptly decided to leave Burma and become a writer, and his first novel was actually set in the north of Burma. People from Burma think to believe that Orwell’s best works, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, are about the country itself (Larkin). While they may be about Burma, they were not just about the country, but how colonialism was affecting their society. Colonialism, as Orwell observed, was very harmful to the colonists and caused it’s people to become oppressed and hateful (Sobel). Because he was in authority he felt that he, even...
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...deciding whether people with mental health problems are at increased risk of committing violence. This essay will argue that people with mental health problems are modestly at an increased risk of violence but when influenced by substance abuse the risk of committing violence is at a greater risk. The scope of the essay will consider works from academic journals and empirical evidence on mental health and violence, which has influenced the debate of this essay. First, we need to consider that increased risk of violence is modestly greater than someone without mental health problems. According to The Lancet (1997), John Monahan and Colleagues from the MacCarther Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and the Law found the relationship of mental health to be modest contrary to societal belief. They did research with patients in hospital and those released had periodic visits within that year. To compare varying violence they surveyed a random selection of people in the general population. The researchers only found the findings to be modestly greater. They conducted a second survey showing that people with mental health were no more violent than the general population, except for those with mental health problems who had substance abuse problems. Looking at violence and mental health it is important to also look at other influential factors such as substance abuse. As mentioned by Howitt (2011) when people with mental health problems are taking prescription medication...
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...into the body also cause psychological and physiological effects that are not curative. Indiscrimanate use of drugs with no regard to their side effects is called drug abuse, commonly abused drugs include khat, nicotine, bhang and alcohol. Prolonged abuse of drugs can cause addiction. Drug abuse is rife in many countries. Billions of dollars are spent internationally preventing drug use, treating addicts, and fighting drug-related crime. Although drugs threaten many societies, their effects can also be combated successfully.This essay looks at some of the effects of drug use on society, and suggests some solutions to the problem. Drug abuse causes multiple problems for countries and communities.The medical and psychological effects are very obvious.Addicts cannot function as normal members of society. They neglect or abuse their families, and eventually require expensive treatment or hospitalization. The second effect is on crime.Huge police resources are needed to fight smuggling and dealing. Criminal gangs and mafia underworlds develop with the money from drugs. However, the menace of drugs can be fought.Education is the first battle.Children need to be told at home and in school about drugs. People need to be aware of the effects so that they can avoid this problem A second approach is to increase police manpower and create effective laws to stop dealers.However the main target should be the user: Families and counselors need to talk to children and people at risk. Parents...
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...are in Denial about Alcohol Abuse” and “The Battle of the Binge” “Too Many Colleges are in Denial about Alcohol Abuse” and “The Battle of the Binge” are both two unique pieces of writing that dig deep into the aspects of consuming alcohol, and drinking too much of it, referred to as “binge drinking.” They acknowledge the fact that drinking alcohol itself in proper moderation is not bad, but the abuse of alcohol is. “Too Many Colleges are in Denial about Alcohol Abuse” is similar to “The Battle of the Binge” by pinpointing drinking in college specifically, and stressing the problems related to binge drinking and how the change is going to be difficult; however, “Too Many Colleges are in Denial about Alcohol Abuse” is different from “The Battle of the Binge” by the using logos more predominantly throughout the entirety of the essay and placing less emphasis on personal experience than “The Battle of the Binge.” Both essays are similar to each other because they both focus on students drinking while in college, rather than in a different stage of life. They explain that there is a consistent and problematic rise of binge drinking in universities. In “Too Many Colleges are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse,” it is stated that “colleges have a serious problem with alcohol abuse among students, and it is not getting any better” and a survey by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching found that “college presidents viewed alcohol abuse as their top campus-life problem”...
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...Rondi Macias Professor Amabisca ENG 101 Essay 4 November 25, 2014 Another Child Gone As Laurie Roberts reports in the Arizona Republic in 2009. Another day, another horror to another Arizona child. This time it's 3-year-old Natalia Santillan, who had the nerve to have accidents in her pants. There, of course, could only be one reason that a three year old would engage in such behavior. She had to be doing it on purpose, right? At least, that's what Peoria police report that Ayrin Amber Vick and her boyfriend Joe Ramirez thought. Text messages between the two suggested that they thought the child was lazy and unwilling to get up and go to the bathroom because she apparently didn't have accidents while in the company other people, according to court documents released Thursday. Little Natalia was living with her uncle and Vick, their 10-month old son Dominick and Vick's eight-year-old daughter Alexis because her own mother was in prison On April 7, Peoria police say Vick texted her boyfriend around noon to say that the child had had multiple accidents and that she "cannot handle it anymore." Three hours later, police say she called 911 to report that Natalia had "suddenly collapsed" and wasn't breathing. The child was covered in bruises, including inside both ears, and had balding spots where her hair had been pulled out. She had a cut over her left eye and a burn in the process of healing under her right eye. She died an hour later at Phoenix Children's Hospital. ...
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...as well as all over the world. Domestic violence includes sibling abuse, elder abuse, spouse abuse, and child abuse. Domestic violence has many names; family violence, wife or child beating, and domestic abuse. Spouse abuse talks about abuse from a marital or a dating partner in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence is merely not just physical, but is any behavior that is intended to control another person through the use of verbal assaults. Domestic violence is a very important social issue because it has a large negative affect on the victims. Even though Domestic violence can be caused by either male or female it is usually caused by the male due to the large physical advantage. This essay will discuss the history of domestic violence, as well as explain the different types, and ways to prevent it. The history of domestic violence goes back to the beginning of man. Ever since life was created, inferior people were always taken advantage of by dominant people in society. Since men are stronger physically than women, the women were usually the inferior ones that were taken advantage of. If you go back to Roman Times, if a wife was to ever cheat on her husband in the past, she could be sentenced to death. During the middle ages, the husband had every right to abuse his wife. If you look back to the 1960’s and 1970’s, you will see that little was done to prevent or stop domestic violence. If the police were ever involved, they usually would leave it to be resolved by...
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...nevertheless also sets to endeavour in the detection and deterrence of crime. By utilizing these powers invested within the police constables in a fair and unprejudiced demeanour can result in positive response and impact on individuals’ freedoms. If fundamental principles are breached the use of these powers may impeach individual freedom. Furthermore, various laws are established which have regulated police power such as Police and Evidence Act 1984, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and the Terrorism Act 2000. Case law also implies in exercising these arbitrary powers, the primary concern of the courts is whether it infringes...
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...internal investigation, has now lead to a formal police report. Can DDL be held be liable for damages in respect of a possible civil claim for harassment; if so on what legal basis and to what degree. Key words or phrases Harassment Protection from harassment Employer’s liability Vicarious liability Damages/sanctions in harassment cases Obvious sources/areas of law Halsbury’s Laws Practitioner texts Statutes Statutory Instruments Case law Client objective(s) To ascertain whether DDL can be held liable for any damages in respect of civil proceedings concerning the harassment alleged, notwithstanding that Oxbridge Essays www.oxbridgeessays.com their internal complaints procedure was complied with. If so, to what degree is there anything they can do to placate the issue, and are there any steps they should be taking now. Record of research undertaken SECONDARY SOURCES Hard Copy Sources Practioner’s Texts I looked in a text called Smith and Wood’s “Employment Law”, 9th Edition. → index – looked up “vicarious liability”, specifically relating to discrimination → pp 282 – 285 This reference related to sexual discrimination, not relevant in this search but noted that s 41(1) of the Sexual Discrimination Act makes the employer vicariously liable for discrimination perpetrated by the complainant’s fellow employees in the course of their employment, whether or not it is done with Oxbridge Essays www.oxbridgeessays.com the employer’s knowledge...
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...History of child abuse BSHS/408 February 15 2016 Chiffone N Shelton Abstract In order to discuss child abuse and neglect it is important to have a clear understanding of what child abuse and neglect is and the different form of child abuse. How the various types of child abuse and neglect are different from one another, ill-treatment of children comes in many forms, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional ill-treatment, and child neglect. Child neglect comes in many forms and occurs when a child is not given the care, supervision, affection, and support that they need; neglect can occur through physical neglect, emotional neglect, medical neglect, and education neglect. What are the implications of child abuse and neglect, For fiscal year 2011, States reported that 676,569 children were victims of child abuse or neglect While physical injuries may or may not be immediately visible, abuse and neglect can have consequences for children, families, and society that last lifetimes, if not generations . History of child abuse In this essay, I will be discussing the history and implications of child abuse and neglect. I will explain how the history of child abuse and neglect helped shape current policies and what the extent of child abuse and neglect is. I will address how various types of child abuse and neglect are different and how these types are viewed from different theoretical perspectives; I will also explain what the implications of child abuse and neglect are...
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...actions of pledges to the chapter, and hazing events. When asked about the actions of the Interfraternity Council, he responded “The IFC obviously knows that hazing is always going on but only really ever does anything about it until they think it will tarnish their image.” This quote supports the claim that hazing exists, but the IFC turns a blind eye to it. This is in part due to the inability of one organization to end hazing completely, but also because it is easier to be reactive rather than proactive in this situation. If the IFC can’t do much about hazing, who can? The former pledge trainer believes responsibility rests on the shoulders of the police and the leaders of the fraternity “As long as a fraternity collectively believes that hazing should be a tradition of the house, responsibility falls upon those offices… police should be more involved. It may make some houses take the consequences of hazing more seriously.” This quote further explains that if a house’s officers and president believe it is necessary to keep hazing practices, they should be held responsible by law enforcement. In a previous interview, we saw how the former president of a fraternity on campus believed law enforcement was superfluous, but the actions of IFC were proactive enough to prevent hazing from snowballing out of control. What caused this schism among fraternities on the U of I campus? What is the most effective way of taking care of...
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...Essay on Abuse of Human Rights Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, abuses of human rights have continued in the post World War II era. There are many atrocities that continued, however there have also been efforts to stop these abuses. Document 1 demonstrates the pass-system of apartheid in Africa. The pass-system was a system established by the English, where only the Native Americans had to carry a pass around with them in case they were stopped and checked by the English Police. This “pass-system” violated human rights because only blacks were subject to this system. If they were caught without a pass with them, they would be arrested. This was unfair to the blacks and violated their rights. Document 4 also states examples of how human rights were still being violated in the post World War II era. Document 4 is an article entitled “The Killing of Cambodia” published in 1982. It states that education and religious practices were not allowed. This violated the human right to freely practice religion and education. This article also states that families were broken apart in Cambodia, which is also another violation of human rights. Our Service Can Write a Custom Essay on Human Rights for You! A genocide in Rwanda violated human rights as well. Document 6 states that 500,000 people were carried out in the spring of 1994 in Rwanda. Thousands of Africans were raped, tortured and beaten. The international community did not do anything about these human rights that...
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