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Unjust Treatment of Female Victims of Violent Crimes

assertive women. Women who file claims of rape must first be subjected to a battery of evidence collecting tests to determine the...

American Blacks and Political and Social Justice

In four pages this research paper chronicles the history of blacks in the United States in a consideration of their quest for soci...

Obstruction of Justice and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

In seven pages this paper examines crime in Canada and charges that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is responsible for...

Marx, Engels, and Locke on Social Justice

was in opposition to the patriarchal theory that conferred divine-right grace on any sitting monarch. Locke emphasized human stre...

Fundamentals and Criticisms of John Rawls' Theory of Justice

In six pages this paper discusses the basic components of Rawls' justice theory and also examines the modern criticism it has gene...

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...

The Republic and the Justice of Cephalus

Justice is the idea of focus in this paper that looks at The Republic. The dialog between Cephalus and Socrates is discussed in de...

Revenge and Justice in House of Atreus

A conceptual analysis of the House of Atreus story focuses on revenge and justice in 5 pages. Two sources re cited in the bibliog...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

New York City Police Department and Overseeing Problems

In five pages this paper argues that the way to solve the NYPD's problems is to have the police force overseen by the Justice Depa...

Free Speech Issues Delegated by the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts

This paper examines First Amendment cases seen by The Supreme Court under different Chief Justices. This five page paper has one ...

Using Plato's Apology to Find the Truth

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...

Justice as Viewed by the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

America's System of Justice and the Influence of the British Examples

during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...

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...

Juvenile Crime Approaches and Restorative Judgment Value

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

Welfare State, Power Transformation, and Managerialism

for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Order, Law, and the Salem Witch Hunts

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

Maintaining Order Through Law

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...

Justice and the Triportite Theory of Plato

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

Life and Career of Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

B, however, would prove enduring and she would return to continue her education at the age of 13. In her childhood memoir, OConno...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

John Rawls, Nozick, and Adam Smith on Business Ethics

actually benefited society. This is no longer true. in todays society, corporations use these and other precepts to pass on their ...

Justice System and the Poor Speech Example

Today in America there is a great but subtle poison that has worked its way into the minds of those who recline nightly in their c...