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Title: A crime is anything
Author: Lazar, Steven
Pages: 5 pages
Text (O): Part One Do I agree with Freda Adler’s quote that “[ a] crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit”? In the context of our American democracy, Adler’s quote is pretty close to an exact deﬁnition of how an act that is perceived to be wrong is codiﬁed into a body of penal laws.1 An elected body of legislators, i.e. the “group in power”, determines what public wrongs should be deemed wrong enough to be labeled a crime and, as such, carry along with them punitive measures. When A...
PID: apw:12352592
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-15T21:37:04.415Z

Title: If not for felon disenfranchisement
Author: Lazar, Steven
Pages: 5 pages
Text (O): If not for felon disenfranchisement — “Al Gore would have been elected President of the United States rather than George Bush.” 1 Beginning with the latter portion of the quote that felon disenfranchisement “is consistent with American constitutional norms”, section two of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the right to vote of all United States citizens twenty-one years of age, “except for participation in rebellion, or other crime.” Thus, the Constitution ap...
PID: apw:12352598
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-15T21:37:11.4Z

Title: Over the past thirty years
Author: Lazar, Steven
Pages: 5 pages
Text (O): “Over the past thirty years the adult prison population in the United States has skyrocketed from around 300,000 to 2.3 million — it is now the largest prison population in the world.” 1 The United States not only has the highest incarceration rate in the world, but the lengthy nature our criminal justice system’s sentencing structure also makes it one of the harshest.2 Lawmakers, law—enforcement agencies, politicians, and prosecutors all tout lengthy prison sentences as a way of showing they...
PID: apw:12352604
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-15T21:37:18.128Z

Title: Worst trade deal since NAFTA
Author: Lazar, Steven
Date: 2017
Pages: 5 pages
Text (O): PS 1281: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN POLITICS RACE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE I SYSTEM (INSIDE-OUTSIDE Fall 2017) Student: Steven Lazar Essay Question: Reflect on the below quote by John Pfaffe. What tradeoffs would you be willing to make, if any? Think creatively. "What if a reduction in prison populations would allow 100,000 children with at least one parent in prison to now have both parents at home, but at a cost of 5 percent rise in aggravated assaults [or even some murders] -- is this a fair...
PID: apw:12352768
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-16T02:33:37.777Z

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