997 Search Results for Law and the Legal Systems
Indiana Code
The author of this report has been asked to complete two major tasks as it relates to the Indiana Assembly code of law. The first activity will be to list three websites for the Indiana government, one for each branch of the government. Continue Reading...
Saudi Arabia's International Business Law
Saudi Arabia and Socio Economics
Oil wealth, which led to dramatic standard of living increases in the Gulf for much of the second half of the twentieth century, no longer is enough to ensure the prosperity Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is will probably be known as one of the most significant change to federal securities laws in the United States since the New Deal. The act was passed after a series of corporate financial scandals made the national news, w Continue Reading...
When the public is notified of a sexual offender moving into a neighborhood, they are often ostracized, which may exacerbate their problems and increase their risk of reoffense. "Rejection by the community may lead people to despair of ever living a Continue Reading...
Three Strikes
High crime rates are a societal problem that has changed the manner in which society functions. Recognizing the adverse effects that crime has on communities the state of California has implemented a three strikes law designed to deter Continue Reading...
While an individual can sue or make a claim that his or her benefits were illegally denied, the "decision of the plan administrator may often be reversed only if it was found to have been arbitrary and capricious, a very difficult standard to meet. Continue Reading...
Business Law
Justice at Bat
The Story of Three Strikes Legislation
It has been said that only two things are certain - death and taxes. Yet to these two inevitabilities, many Americans would add a third -- crime. The fear of becoming the victim of Continue Reading...
DNA Technology in Law and Public Policy
The technologies of DNA science have revolutionized modern criminal law in every respect, from crime scene processing and case investigation to prosecutorial strategy and post-conviction appeals. The lightning Continue Reading...
Part 1: Criminal Case Brief
Name of case
U.S. v. Madoff, 08-MAG-02735
It should be noted that Bernard Madoff’s scandal attracted several lawsuits. Some of the main cases include SIPC v. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, SEC v. Madoff, an Continue Reading...
American criminal justice system evolved, and will examine three cases, judged by the Supreme Court, which have impacted individual rights as opposed to public order.
Evolution of the Criminal Justice System
Early American colonizers brought with Continue Reading...
Technology and Criminal Justice System
The American prisons are known to be hosting some of the highest number of prisoners in relation to the entire population. The criminal justice system has over the years proven to be punitive and offenders have Continue Reading...
Police Systems and Practices Question Set
Discuss how temperament can impair communication?
The ability control one's temperament at all times while working as a police officer is crucial to the performance of daily duties, because there are many i Continue Reading...
Juvenile and Adult Justice
Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems
Similarities and differences: Juvenile and adult criminal justice systems
The goals of the juvenile justice and the adult criminal justice systems are fundamentally distinct. The go Continue Reading...
Civil Rights
Jim Crow
Jim Crow laws were a set of "black codes" designed to perpetuate a system of racism and near-slavery for African-Americans, predominantly in the South. The Jim Crow laws existed from the end of the Civil War until the Civil Ri Continue Reading...
Innocence
Presumed Innocence
The notion of presumed innocence is meant to ensure that a fail trial is received by all who are accused of crimes in the United States' criminal justice system. If there was a presumption of guilt, or even if there was Continue Reading...
Environmental Crimes and Health and Safety Law Violation
With the current changes in weather patterns, strange climatic conditions and other uncontrollable natural disasters, there has been a lot of attention directed towards the environment and the Continue Reading...
(Luhby)
As a result, a variety of states such as Wisconsin and Ohio have passed legislation that will restrict the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions. At the same time, it is seeking to give administrators greater control over h Continue Reading...
More precisely, especially in old towns and villages, the members of the community which are the citizens of that small society are also the ones who are directly deciding on issues which affect their community. Thus, town hall meetings usually are Continue Reading...
During the first era of American policing, constitutional standards of criminal procedure including formal policies of arrest, interrogation, evidence procurement, and the treatment of prisoners was substantially subject to local authorities and va Continue Reading...
Unethical behavior that a few years ago would have been considered appalling has become acceptable. Dishonesty, cheating, lying, and sexual misconduct, is not only common, but in most cases is expected" (Ramirez 2006).
In order to reduce police bru Continue Reading...
(Sampson, R. 1987) in one of the exhaustive juvenile crime studies that exist today, Professor Laub from the university of Maryland followed the lives of juvenile delinquent and non-delinquent boys at age 14, 25 and 32 respectively. All the boys wer Continue Reading...
Clinger-Cohen Act Defines Information Technology as:
Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, Continue Reading...
Racial Profiling
Enforcement of law and order in the most efficient manner is one of the crucial and most challenging tasks. In order to keep the social environment peaceful and progressive, it is important for the law enforcement agencies to functi Continue Reading...
Seatbelt Laws:
Matter of Choice or Conscience?
Motor vehicle accidents are the number one killer of America's youth. Sadly, taking 5 seconds to buckle a seat belt could have prevented such senseless accidents and saved thousands of lives. While no Continue Reading...
Introduction
One of the crucial criminal-law appeals is R v. Le, which brings up questions about the kind of privacy interests protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ Section 8. This section protects against the police&rsqu Continue Reading...
Employment Law
An employer should monitor technology usage because it will cut down on waste, in particular of employees wasting time when they should be working.
Employers should also monitor technology to reduce their liability risk as well. Ther Continue Reading...
Employment-at-Will Doctrine
A lot of controversy surrounds the question of whether California is still an at-will state given all the exceptions it has made to the doctrine over the last few decades. Simply stated, the employment-at-will doctrine i Continue Reading...
Spartan and Athenian constitutional and political systems. In the first part, an introduction of Athens and Sparta has been given. In the second part, both the forms of governments in Spartan and Athenian lands have been discussed. In the final part Continue Reading...
Ethical Theory
Ethics in law
Ethical theory: Utilitarianism, deontology, and the Golden Rule
To some extent, to define what is not 'ethics' is easier to define than what is 'ethics.' Ethics are not based in personal feelings, given that it can be Continue Reading...
Healthcare Reform
The subject of healthcare reform set the country ablaze last year, proving to be one of the most contentious issues that has swept through American political discourse in recent decades. One reason that healthcare reform might have Continue Reading...
Transaction Under Each of the Five Ethical Theories
Ethical fundamentalism:
Juanita's behavior is clearly in contravention of a normative code of ethics since each of the world's religions proscribe bribery. The Bible, for instance, as does the Ko Continue Reading...
Criminal justice is about the laws which are related to criminal behaviour. Criminal justice includes the area where judiciary is involved for e.g., police and lawyers. Lawyers are directly associated with the crime because they can defend or prosecu Continue Reading...
In presenting their case to the U.S. Supreme Court the company articulated that the usurpation of the authority of a seniority system is not justifiable under the ADA provisions, and as such Barnett was not wrongfully denied the opportunity to maint Continue Reading...
Sentencing in Criminal Justice Systems
Sentencing Philosophies:
The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has several purposes, among them to: a) "establish sentencing priorities and practices for the federal courts"; b) help the executive bra Continue Reading...
The responsibility for adequate medical direction under the Ohio Revised Code and the Toledo Municipal Code was given to the Director of Health as long as they were a licensed physician, licensed dentist or licensed veterinarian, otherwise it would Continue Reading...
Change them often; (2) Use disposable instruments or clean them thoroughly before and after handling each sample; (3) Avoid touching the area where you believe DNA may exist; (4) avoid talking, sneezing, and coughing over evidence; (5) Avoid touchin Continue Reading...
Describe your understanding of criminology
Evidently, criminology deals with crime, which may be described as human behavior in violation of any local jurisdiction, state, or government’s stipulated laws; the entity in question should be author Continue Reading...