Research Topic Ideas: Law


Instructions

If you are interested in one of these topics for your research project,
make a choice:

  • Focus on one of the specific questions listed
  •  OR
  • Focus on the topic, with the questions helping guide your research

  •   Death Penalty
    Is the death penalty fair to all ethnic groups?
    Do the poor have fewer ways to avoid the death penalty?
    Does the death penalty actually deter violent crime?

    *image coutesy of blog.kir.com

      Immigration reform
    What is immigration reform trying to accomplish?
    Why does this country have illegal immigrants?
    What impact would an amnesty plan have?

    *image coutesy of www.destination360.com

      Insanity plea
    What is the history of the use of the insanity plea?
    What happens to those who are found innocent by using the insanity plea?
    What are issues when people using this plea are back in society?

    *image coutesy of www.undertheiceberg.com

       Welfare reform
    What are health care issues related to welfare reform?
    How would welfare reform impact single mothers and child care?
    How do welfare reform ideas provide for education of the jobless?

    *image coutesy of www.publicagenda.org


        
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    last updated 05/07/2007