Law in Contemporary Society

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Some Crimes Are Black And White

-- By GenesisSanchez - 01 Mar 2018

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 To combat this unfair treatment of crimes that affect the general public, I would propose that whenever an individual is stopped for driving under the influence the prosecution is forced to pursue at least add a minimum mandatory sentence as provided for in a statute. The sentence could be forcing the driver to take AA classes, revoking the driver’s license, adding mandatory community service and reeducation classes, and monetary damages. There should also be a two-strike law where if you are caught driving under the influence twice, there are harsher punishments for it like a revocation of licenses and driving privileges for a set number amount of years along with some potential jail time. Driving under the influence is a serious offense and should be treated as such. Crimes against the public should be treated more seriously than crimes against oneself.
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The most important route to improvement is a strong language edit, both to remove words that are taking up space without doing work and to straighten out occasional grammar tangles.

On substance, it's not clear why you use an essentially "internal" legal analysis to show what happens in DUI cases and an essentially "external" social stratification explanation (it's about blackness, or not being white median-incomeness) to describe what happens in drugs in the car cases. Both forms of explanation may be valid, but that only makes it more important to understand in which context to use them. Other external or sociological forces seem to me to shape both kinds of cases in may respects, while I agree with you that the most important issue is evidentiary: drugs in defendants' possession can be weighed and tested, while without a breathalyzer test result in a DUI case, there's nothing on which to base a significant charge.

 
You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable.

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