Opposing Viewpoints


Delilah Calvo
Professor JoAnne Harris
English 1101- Section 30
1 April 2020

Racial Profiling
"Racial Profiling." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2020. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3010999266/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=199eedaa. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
            Racial profiling is a societal issue that we have been dealing with for many years and even now it still is present. Racial profiling is when you suspect someone of committing a crime based on their stereotypes tied to their race and in the United States this is a huge issue. We see it in law enforcement, education, our jobs, when you travel and just everyday life it unfortunately happens. It’s dated all the way back to when we passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1793, it set a course of other acts to come into play about putting restrictions on a specific race. Racial profiling was high in New York back in the mid-’90s when they had the power to “stop-and-frisk” anyone they had a suspension of. If you look at the numbers, it shows that the majority of the people being stopped were African American and Latinos and it wasn’t until 2014 that they issued that law enforcement could not stop anyone unless they had a weapon that served as a threat to the officers and after that, the numbers dropped dramatically. Senators today are reintroducing old acts to push the effort of stopping racial profiling, but Trump and his administration don’t see it as a serious issue. Instead, Trump placed a travel ban on countries that are majority Muslim because of the stereotype of all Muslims being terrorists and that is just wrong. Racial profiling is unfortunately never going to stop, but there are ways to limit it and we as a society are working towards accepting all races, ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.

Behavioral Disorders
"Behavioral Disorders." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3010999115/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=08cbca8e. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
Behavioral disorders are more common than we like to think, but it’s much more than a rebellious teen, or a disobedient child. Disorders like Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD) are the primary behavioral disorders found in adolescents and researchers say that it’s not the child’s fault that they act this way, but their upbringing that made this way. Everything that a child experiences in the early ages of life tends to affect who they become and how they act. Adolescents who are diagnosed with behavioral disorders typically have a risk factor linked to their behavior and it’s either biological, psychological, or social. Biological meaning that there is some family history of said disorders or they're exposed to unhealthy habits that are consistent in their everyday lives. Psychological factors are when parents are absent in their lives, or when they develop an unhealthy relationship early with their children. Social factors are linked to their environments, and children notice when they are living in a high poverty area or when their parents don’t discipline them correctly. All these can lead to adolescents hurting themselves or others. CD is more an aggressive behavioral disorder, where they act out more towards authority figures or blatantly don’t care who they hurt in their way. A lot of stigmas come into this, like with any disorder, and it makes it hard sometimes for anyone to seek help. When parents are presented with the possibility that their child might need serious help, they fear the judgment, the possible chance of being questioned by authorities and so it can lead to a long road of problems for the child. Behavioral disorders should be taken more seriously and when they are you see positive results, real changes and changed people.

Child Pornography
"Child Pornography." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2018. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3010999246/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=bfe227c6. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
            As disgusting as it is, child pornography exists, and it has gotten worse over the years. Child pornography is any sexual content involving minors under the legal age of eighteen and now is known as child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Any distribution, production, or possession of child pornography is considered a federal crime and it’s also a crime to try to persuade any minors in performing in any sexual acts or favors. Most of the children found in these videos are children that have been missing and organizations such as, the National Center for Missing Exploited Children (NCMEC), receive images of children and the numbers are in the millions. Organizations like NCMEC are working every day to depict images and find names for these children, trying to find where they are at. The predators don’t stop there. These predators coerce these young kids to start webcam feeds recording themselves doing explicit acts or having them send private photos to them. They use cryptocurrencies to pay these kids and stay under the radar and law enforcement use financial records to find who they are targeting. In 2006 the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act allows the public to view all sex offenders in their area, and that was to help any concerned citizens' minds. Law enforcement takes sexual offenders seriously and uses their best efforts to find these children and help them out this horrible situation.







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