Course Paper: The final course project is a 500-word project worth 10% of your total course grade. Your project will be based on one Serial Murderer of your choice. Additional details of the course project will be outlined below in this syllabus.
Course Paper:
Your project is a case summary and analysis of a serial murderer. You can do your project on any one person you like. Your text lists hundreds of murderers and you will find no shortage. This project will account for 10% of your overall course grade. Your paper will be required to be a minimum of 500 words, double spaced, not including works cited. You must document your sources in your work, MLA format. Your paper will be due in Week 14. Students who do not turn in a paper will receive a zero. Send me a message advising of your chosen paper topic by week 2.
The paper should be structured around the following sections at a minimum:
Introduction: Case facts. Describe the subject and the nature of his/her crimes, including any identifiable pattern to their offenses. Describe what lead to your subject’s apprehension or arrest.
Historical Background: Describe the subject’s life history. You may wish to include their childhood and family upbringing, events leading up to the commission of his/her initial offense. Present your analysis or factors that you think may have contributed to the murderer’s homicidal actions.
Profile Type: Based on your course text and research, characterize your murderer using the typological descriptors employed by police profiles, I.e. organized vs. disorganized type; nature of motivation etc. Discuss whether your subject is a psychopath, has an antisocial personality disorder or any other type of major mental disorder such as schizophrenia, bipolar, major depression, alcohol or drug dependence.
Conclusion: Briefly summarize what you have learned about your subject.
References: Your references need to be on a separate sheet of paper. Provide all the references you used in preparing your report in a proper format.
I would like to write my paper on Todd Kohlhepp
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/details-todd-kohlhepp-emerge-captive-woman-rescue/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Kohlhepphttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/chilling-amazon-product-reviews-south-carolina-todd-kohlhepp/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3912382/South-Carolina-serial-killer-Todd-Kohlhepp-left-chilling-Amazon-reviews.htmlhttp://people.com/crime/south-carolina-serial-killer-todd-kohlhepp-pleads-guilty-murders-wont-face-death-penalty/5. Course Paper:
Pick one Drug-Alcohol-Crime topic issue of your choice. You can do your project on any one topic, your text lists hundreds of topics and you will not find a shortage. This project will account for 10% of your overall course grade. Your paper must be a minimum of 1000 words, double spaced with works cited (at least 4 different resources cited, Wikipedia is NOT a proper resource). The minimum required will get you a grade of C. If you would like a higher grade you will need to present more in your research paper. You must document your sources in your work and present your paper using the APA format with the word count coming only from the body of your paper (not counting the title page and references). Your paper will be due April 29, 2018 (Week 15). You will find a drop box titled “Course Paper” in the lessons under week 15. Students who do not turn in a paper will receive a zero. I require that you email me your chosen paper topic by February 11, 2018. This will give me time to review your topic and advise if it is approved or not. If it is not approved, I will let you know when your next choice will be due by. Again, DO NOT copy and paste information into the paper. Doing so will result in a grade of a zero. You may cite information and quote a sentence or two to support your position but papers that just use copy and pasted material will not be accepted. The research papers are designed to be in your own words to show what you learned about the topic. Papers that have a Turnitin.com similarity rate higher than 30% will receive a zero as a grade.
I would like to write my paper on the failure of the war on drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/opinion/failed-war-on-drugs.htmlhttps://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/four-decades-counting-continued-failure-war-drugs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/19/war-on-drugs-statistics-systematic-policy-failure-united-nationshttp://www.ibtimes.com/war-drugs-total-failure-statistics-prove-it-291447http://reset.me/story/five-startling-numbers-failed-war-drugs/Doug Lederman, “Drug Law Denies Aid to Thousands,” Inside Higher Ed, September 28, 2005, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/28/drug.
Coyne, Christopher J. and Hall, Abigail, Four Decades and Counting: The Continued Failure of the War on Drugs (April 12, 2017). Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 811. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2979445
The Failure of The War on Drugs
Daniel Lehmann
Eastern Florida State College
The Failure on the War on Drugs
Abstract
For more than 40 years the United States Government has waged a war on drugs. Rather than domestically, the U.S., under President Nixon, focused this war on the eradication of the supply. Nixon attempted to use the policies of prohibition to achieve his objectives. The following essay will show the factual reasons
.We conclude that prohibition is not only ineffective, but counterproductive, at achieving the goals of policymakers both domestically and abroad. Given the insights from economics and the available data, we find that the domestic War on Drugs has contributed to an increase in drug overdoses and fostered and sustained the creation of powerful drug cartels. Internationally, we find that prohibition not only fails in its own right, but also actively undermines the goals of the Global War on Terror.
The Failure of The War on Drugs
Daniel Lehmann
The War on Drugs began under President Nixon in 1971. The “War on Drugs” concept was that drugs were bad, and that they should be difficult to obtain, thus making it more of a war on the supply of drugs. As a result of the war on drugs, local law enforcement, federal agencies, and the United States military expanded their efforts and authority to combat illicit drugs.
I, by no means, disagree with the initial idea that drugs are bad for people and that there is a drug problem. However, I do not agree with the idea of the war on supply. To curtail any problem, you must look at it backwards. By this I mean look at the drug abusers first. By fixing the problem from the bottom up you will eventually curtail the supply because nobody will want to use the drugs. This idea was evident with the “Just say no” program initiated in the 1980’s.
The war on supply was a goal that was too big to successfully implement. Global drug production and the drug trade is very difficult to accurately measure. A study published in 2013 found that despite efforts to limit the supply of drugs, prices have fallen and the purity has increased (Chabaldi). Between 1990 and 2007, the average price of heroin fell by 81%, the average price of cocaine fell by 80% and the average price of marijuana fell by 86%. This idea in itself shows a failure in the war on supply.
According to a 2011 report by Global Financial Integrity, illicit global drug activities are worth an estimated $320 billion dollars a year. The first failure in the war on drugs is the monetary cost incurred by the United States. The war on drugs started 47 years ago. In that time the U.S. has spent over one trillion dollars on interdiction and an average annual cost of $51 billion dollars.
The second failure of the war on drugs is the increase in arrestees. Some may view this as a positive direction for the war on drugs campaign but we must remember that it is a war on supply, not a war on abusers. This idea proves again that we must start from the bottom up and offer treatment. In 1980 there were 500,000 people incarcerated in America. By 2010 that number increased to 2.3 million with almost 51% of federal inmates incarcerated for drug offenses (Li). In 2016 there were 1.5 million people arrested for drug law violations with 84% of those being for possession. We must also remember that very few prisons offer drug rehabilitation treatment.
During this time the drug violation laws also had a greater penalty. These penalties have had a long-term effect on lot of people. Along with incarceration time for a drug crime, a person also gets penalized for the rest of their lives. If you have ever filled out an application for financial aid or for a job then you know what I mean. Every year approximately 60,000 students get denied financial aid services due to a drug conviction (Lederman). Also, many employers, public and private will not hire you if you have had a prior drug offense conviction.
Another failure of the war on drugs that we must look at is the global impact that it has created. Since 2006, 85,000 people in Mexico have been killed due to the rise of cartels from the drug trade. This is due to the increased United States pressure on the Mexican government to stop the supply of drugs coming from Colombia to Mexico and then across the border to the United States. Between 2008 and 2014 the United States gave Mexico $2.4 billion dollars for this effort. The United States also gave the governments of Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Brazil almost $1 billion dollars because the drugs that entered through the Mexican border had some point travelled through their borders. The United States also gave 15 Caribbean nations $400 million dollars and West Africa $60 million dollars to reduce drug trafficking to the U.S.
Another failed attempt on the war on drugs was in Afghanistan. The United States Department of Defense has spent billions of dollars fighting the war on drugs in Afghanistan due to its funding of terrorism. In the beginning the United States supported the idea of prohibition of opium, but also supported the drug warlords who were helping fight the Taliban. Then the United States began to actively combat the trafficking of opium inside the country. To this date the United States continues to provide financial assistance for the eradication of Afghanistan opium. Despite the efforts of the United States military, the cultivation of poppy in Afghanistan has tripled between the years of 2002 and 2013. Afghanistan officials used this money and began to eradicate the smaller opium farms and left the bigger ones intact. The Taliban began to realize this and became heavily involved in the funding of poppy fields. They were later involved in the cultivation and export the heroin. The Taliban would also offer protection to the smaller poppy farmers. The United States attempt to destroy the opium trade in Afghanistan eventually led to the resurgence of the Taliban enabling them to generate between $200 million and $400 million per year. The United States pushed for the criminalization of growing poppy. The illegal drug trade employs approximately 500,000 Afghan citizens due to the financial gains. “The criminalization of thousands of Afghan citizens jeopardizes the very aims of U.S. counterterrorism policy. By labeling these individuals as criminals, and putting their livelihoods at risk, prohibition breeds disaffected citizens more likely to sympathize with terrorists” (Hall). The United States involvement in the eradication of opium in Afghanistan has created two issues. First, with 500,000 citizens involved in some form of the drug trade, where they earn their primary income, has made the citizens depend more on the Taliban for protection. This creates a sense of alliance with the citizens and the Taliban making it harder for the United States to fight terrorism. Second, without the support of the citizens it is very difficult to establish a new government for the regions.
Lastly, the reason that the war on drugs failed is because of a shift of public attitude. In 1990, 73% of Americans belied in a mandatory death sentence for major drug traffickers (Hall). 57% of people also thought that police should be allowed to search the houses of drug dealers without a search warrant. In 2014 The Pew Research Center found that only 26% of the population agreed that prosecution should be the focus of the war on drugs and 67% felt that the government should implement drug treatment policies.
Conclusion
The public perception of drugs has changed since the inception of the war on drugs. According to the polling company, Rasmussen, only 4% of the American people believe that the government is winning the war on drugs. To todays date, 29 states have legalized the use of medical marijuana to include the District of Columbia. 22 states have also removed jail time for simple possession of marijuana.
