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When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...

seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...

strangles his wife thinking that hes squeezing a grapefruit." There were those who painted him as an all American type young man, ...

crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

role to play, on its own it does not give a moral framework, only a legal framework. However, in the opinion of Devlin it was more...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

of these primitive cultures. At the same time, when sifting through some of the information on these societies, while there is no ...

justice has been entrenched in three areas which are offender accountability, victim restoration, and the reintegration of the of...

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

differed so that the young offender will have time to make amends. Other forms of mediation are found within the prisons themselve...

seems perfect in its design. Of course, nothing is perfect, and one criticism of it is that it is old. It is no longer applicable ...

are fair, and just-and that in turn suggests that when things are unjust in society, the entire interlocking mechanism of sustaina...

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

This paper discusses the five-stage model developed by the Vera Institute, which describes the process used to enter adolescents i...

the legal product that is promoted by the tobacco industry should be better regulated. But understanding the rationale for the fu...