Essays on Selling Drugs

Essay # 1

When companies have to deal with data breaches it is financially devastating. The financial devastation is a result of money being stolen from the company and potentially clients. Therefore, clients may want to sue due to trusting the company with the data. Some lawsuits may materialize and this can indeed put a financial dent in the company’s profits. Furthermore, the company will have to hire lawyers to investigate and figure out who actually breached and hacked the data. This can cost a lot of money as well. According to research “These costs include revenue lost due to the ...

Claim

Is it permissible for organizations in the pharmaceutical industry to engage in aggressive product promotion using nonfactual fictional information to woe clients at the expense of their health?

Explanation of the claim

In the recent years, there has been stiff market and product competition in the pharmaceutical consumer goods; the increase in the number of the products in the market due to increased technological advancement which has made production easy. Easy availability and affordability of technology to manufacture pharmaceutical products in the 21st century has made it easy for new producers to enter the market which has increased the production of substitute pharmaceutical ...

The War on Drugs arguably has been a war against the puritan ideals within the United States versus those who want to consume drugs. To be forthcoming, I am not advocating the use of drugs recreationally; however, I feel that where the United States has committed a major error is by not allowing drugs in because what has transpired as a result is the creation of bodies of crime that have caused a great deal of violence. To call this a “war” is a gross exaggeration. The reason for this is that a “war” involves the Untied States combatting ...

Criminal Law

Introduction This paper looks at the claim by Cullen and Gilbert (1982) that “Rehabilitation should be the major goal of any correctional system” (p. 5) and seeks to determine if rehabilitation is the most efficient method to attenuate crime. From the onset of the 20th century, efforts to combat crime have seen a rise in the implementation of rehabilitation as a preferred philosophy or methodology enacted by the justice system in order to reduce this societal challenge. The treatment of criminals was perceived as both efficient in terms of crime prevention and also the treatment of offenders was considered a more ...

Film Studies

The House I Live In is a compelling account of the manner in which America’s War on Drugs has devastates families and individuals especially those belonging to the minority community. It has targeted the poor and the jobless. The film portrays touching anecdotes of those directly impacted by drugs – be it the grieving mother to the drug dealer, the senator to the narcotics officer, the federal judge to the prison inmate. The film highlights this as a serious human rights issue and urges people to speak against the injustice taking place in this country. The film in fact portrays ...

CHAPTER I

I. INTRODUCTION A. Conflict Theory and Racial Profiling in Drug Related Cases The problem of racially biased arrest is getting more serious. According to the New York Times Editorial Board (2013), updated federal data show that this problem “is far more extensive that was previously known — and is getting worse.” On a national average, the Blacks are nearly four times as likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana as compared to the Whites. This disparity is even more pronounced in Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, states where Blacks are eight times as likely to be arrested compared to other ...

Since the beginning of time man has competed to be better than his counterpart. It is this competition that causes Cain to murder his brother, Abel; it is what separates Abraham and his nephew Lot; and it is what drives gluttony in the minds of people like Bernard Madoff. Most people when they think of the “American Dream” they think of money; more often than not, it is the power that blazes the trail to their success or failure. A common thread shared by the rich is ostentation; no one wants to be subtle with his or her wealth, ...

Introduction

Criminal activities among the youth and women are high in areas with low incomes like slums and poverty-stricken populations. A Rage in Harlem (1957), by Chester and ‘’The Corner’ by Simon and Burns focus on the criminal activities taking place in inner cities. A Rage in Harlem focuses on sexual and violence among the youth in the City of Harlem where majority of its population is black who live in congested dwellings, feeding on each other’s throats. This shows how poverty is prevalent in among the blacks living in Harlem while the whites are living in mansions on a ...

Proposal for Research

Teen Gang Violence in the Community

Teenage gangs sometimes called juvenile gangs have been a historical problem in the United States (US). That is because some change in society starts the rise or the fall of certain types of gangs and also affects their membership numbers. One of the causes in the US has been immigration which causes two basic types of gangs to band together: the local teenagers already living in the area and the new teenage immigrants to the area. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines the difference between street gangs and the neighborhood or local gangs ...