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Essays 961 - 990
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...
ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
differed so that the young offender will have time to make amends. Other forms of mediation are found within the prisons themselve...
structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...
and having managers responsible for planning the work while workers are responsible for carrying out those plans (Encyclopedia of ...
is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...
the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...
be a state trooper whose jurisdiction covers and entire state, and not just one single town. Then there is law enforcement individ...
are fair, and just-and that in turn suggests that when things are unjust in society, the entire interlocking mechanism of sustaina...
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...
important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...
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...
Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...
was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
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 ...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
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 ...
U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...
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...
A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...