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Police Organizations and the US Government: Exploring the Relationship

a complex and often ambiguous relationship between the federal government and police organizations that operate on the state and l...

A Tool Against Child Abuse

This paper considers A-1654, a new New Jersey law requiring the education of new parents about what constitutes child abuse and ho...

A Review of Motorcycle Helmet Laws

of those deaths being attributed to head injuries. The argument over helmet laws does not concern whether or not helmets save live...

Cyberbullying and Internet Privacy

Tyler Clementi. Clementi of course is the Rutgers University student who recently committed suicide because he was taunted. Clemen...

Comparing DuBois and Baldwin in Early African American Literature

of history. The text is certainly auto-biographical in nature, but it frequently delves into historical and sociological topics su...

Law as an Evolving Institution

This research paper discusses the way in which law can be viewed as changing to match the understanding of societal paradigms. Thi...

The Iron Triangle of Healthcare Reform

Healthcare reform has been a national focus since President Baraq Obama first entered the national spotlight as a potential presid...

THE WORKPLACE AND BREASTFEEDING

of choice and need are pitted against each other in the debate over breastfeeding in the workplace, the winner has historically fa...

Social Work Then and Now

According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the first social work class was offered at Columbia University...

The Law as a Living Body and Due Process

a way to state that the law is ever changing and adapting much in the same way that living entities do. The law will change accord...

Congressional Legislation

The early framers of our government designed a federation system where neither national nor state governments would get their powe...

Fiction v. Reality of Law Enforcement

that the general public sees portrayed in television shows and in film are entertaining, often inspiring young viewers to investig...

Do Copyright Laws Encourage Creativity

the lawsuit in 2003 (Knowles, 2011). There are many people, in fact, whole organizations who oppose copyrights altogether; they th...

Tasks for a Citizenship Course

the main source of conflict in the future will be cultural. The idea is based on the concept that in the future the main clashes w...

Case Information About Specific Crimes

can detain and frisk suspects if they have a reasonable suspicion that criminal behaviors have or will occur. The case found that...

Courtroom Role of Law Enforcement Officers

subpoenaed to testify during this trial and his professional, well-documented testimony was instrumental in securing the convictio...

The Responsible Use of Technology in Law Enforcement

fire small barbed electrodes into a targets skin, and then send an electrical current passing through their body. This has the eff...

Mobile Phone Use by Drivers

if talking with someone in the car and not on the phone. A meta-analysis by Brace, Young, and Regan (2007) found that talking on...

Communication and Law Enforcement

as effectively as possible because the nature of the crime is so severe. A teenage male has been shot at a corner gas station in a...

Injuries and Tasers: A Review of Research

may not actually achieve this end. This, then, is the topic of this research inquiry, which takes as its hypothesis: The use of ta...

Healthy People 2020 and the PPACA

Medicare and Medicaid and reforming private insurance (DeVille & Novick, 2011). For example, PPACA mandated policy prohibits cos...

Senior Housing and Issues of Legality

of the law as they apply to this particular case. This paragraph helps the student present a summary of the case study. One case ...

The Deaf are Disadvantaged

The ADA law is briefly presented. The writer reports the deaf are disadvantaged because they lack political power. The writer repo...

The Affordable Care Act: A Look at Policymaking

facilities that it was intended to achieve. Looking at more specific indicators, however, one can see from the literature review ...

QUESTIONS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

More and more, however, federal dollars are being dedicated to fighting the root cause of poverty (i.e., lack of training). Its be...

Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice

get abortions (National Abortion Federation, 2010). This means that women could see certified physicians instead of finding quacks...

Creating Security in a Small Legal Firm

to the legal responsibility of lawyers to provide for the confidentiality of their clients and to "preserve inviolate the secrets"...

Past, Present, Future/Evaluating Learning

should adapt the following example answer to reflect the reality of the students past personal experience. On entering the degre...

Legal Ambiguities and their Import

can be difficult to make a proper ruling, even with established guidelines that purport to cover all contingencies. In such a case...

Educators and Copyrights

or translating copyrighted materials for visually handicapped persons (NLS, 2010). Prior to this amendment, authors and publishers...