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Essays 1801 - 1830

Social Functioning and the Role of Justice

In five pages the social role of justice is evaluated by employing the philosophical views of Plato and Immanuel Kant. Four sourc...

Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren

In twelve pages Earl Warren's life and role as Supreme Court Justice are discussed with a consideration of whether the President c...

The Republic by Plato, Morality and Logic

In five pages The Republic by Plato is examined in a consideration of Books I and II in a discussion of Socrates' extended dialogu...

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and the Concepts of Justice and Law

In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts of law and justice are featured in the play's famous courtroom scene. There a...

Justice and What it Means

In twelve pages this paper examines how the meaning of justice is conveyed in the theories of Plato, John Locke, Friedrich Engels ...

Past and Present Political Tradition Principles

In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...

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...

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...

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...

Implementing Change in the Organization

significant alteration of their position when an organizational change occurs (Wiersema 25). Also, integrating technologies into a...

Mistakes in Trials Worldwide in the Last 200 Years

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

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

Work Relationships From an Aristotelian View

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

Challenges to Criminal Justice

liberties that are guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution are not lost in the process of addressing this problem. Commentator...

The Trial of John Hinckley Jr.

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

Should The United States Become A Member Of The International Criminal Court?

open itself up to unyielding vulnerability. Madison addressed the inherent need for mans activities to remain under some semblanc...

Does Oedipus Receive Justice?

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

Injustice in "Les Miserables"

because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...

"Arc of Justice" - Justifiable Homicide

huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...

Ethical Decisions - Case Study

their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...

Sustainable Development Objective of Social Justice

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

Corporate Crimes

is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...

Criminal Justice Similarities and Differences

be a state trooper whose jurisdiction covers and entire state, and not just one single town. Then there is law enforcement individ...

Elements in Plato's Republic

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

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...

What is Plato's Republic Really About?

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 ...

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...