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Essays 1981 - 2010

Concepts in Short Stories

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

Prison Privatization

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

Social Justice and Democracy in Education

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

The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime and Justice by Belknap

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

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

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

Refocusing Housing Public Policy: An Environmental Impact Study

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

The Welfare System: Failure

the English Poor Law tradition, the nations welfare system has been through a maze of change since its original inception. Indeed...

Justice and the Wife of Bath

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

Something is Rotten in Hondo; An Ethical Case Study

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...

Political Questions

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

Juvenile Crime Approaches and Restorative Judgment Value

groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....

Justice and Truth in Death and the Maiden by Dorfman and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

protagonist comes to this conclusion in Chapter ten at the paint factory. In Dorfmans Death and the Maiden, Pauline is the main c...

Nationalization Dispute Settlements and International Law

of their investment and work. Both perspectives are very understandable but are not agreed upon widely. One example for how the...

Punishment and Its 5 Purposes

if there were few laws on the books, there would be anarchy. People would basically do whatever they wanted. They might rape the g...

Short Stories by Nawal El Saadawi and Ihara Saikaku on Social Justice

the perspective of Japanese culture, particularly in regards to "proper" conduct for women. From the beginning of the tale, Osen...

Health Care and an Application of Distributive Justice

Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

Ethical Analysis of Liebeck v. McDonald's

& Associates, n.d.). This was the temperature advised for optimum taste of the coffee (ATLA, n.d.). It was also determined that ot...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

talks of having a bobcat and javelinas as pets (Marie, 1985). She rode horseback and even learned to drive a car by the age of se...

Jose Maria Arguedas' Deep Rivers

to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes tha...

Justice as it Respects Hobbes and Plato

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

Female Genital Mutilation, Women, and Global Justice

impossible for her to ever derive any enjoyment from the sexual act. This practice is suppose to ensure that women remain chaste a...

Europe's Integration Theories

a shares idea of what they future should be. It is worth remembering that Winston Churchill, following the Second World Wear fores...

Protecting the Public Following Enron and Arthur Andersen Corporate Debacles

who led others astray" (Booth and Fowler 52). Enron spiraled into bankruptcy because Arthur Anderson notified Enrons offic...

Magistrates of Australia and Options for the Sentencing of Youth

or not a specific practice reduces recidivism or has some constructive impact on those who are addressed by the criminal justice s...

Elder Justice and King Lear by William Shakespeare

Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...

Economics, Globalization, the Environment and Social Justice

the social justice advocates and academicians who claim that this isnt necessarily the case, as well see in this paper. Be...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

South Africa and the Impact of Nelson Mandela

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

Prison and Juveniles

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

Restorative Justice and its Dangers

increasing problem with native youths. The courts were dealing with increasing numbers of young offenders, with high level of re-o...