998 Search Results for Social Justice
Babylon and Yellow River Valley Civilizations Compare and Contrast Political Religious and Social Aspects
The history of the ancient world is mainly the history of the five great civilizations: Egypt, Babylon, China, Greece and Rome. These civilizat Continue Reading...
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For many the ability of a client to participate in pleading insanity is controversial. Many contend that this ability shows that the person is rational and should be punished accordingly. While others argue that, the ability of a pe Continue Reading...
Twelve Angry Men
Criminal Justice
Courts and procedures in the film version of Twelve Angry Men (1957).
The title of the film Twelve Angry Men (1957) is somewhat misleading: there are actually eleven angry men depicted in the film and one rational Continue Reading...
Aboriginal Activism in Australia
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the centuries of new exploration; the scientific discoveries had allowed Europeans to build better ships and navigation system and to explore the new worlds. The French, Continue Reading...
Substance abuse greatly impacts many, if not all, aspects of an individual's life and is typically linked to behavioral, economic, educational, legal, medical, psychological, public health, and social problems. In the past 10-15 years, attention has Continue Reading...
Foucault called prisons "complete and austere" institutions because of the way they function in society. A prison is complete because it completely strips from the inmate basic rights and liberties, freedoms, and also humanity. One of the central fea Continue Reading...
There is an open drug culture on the island that celebrates the use of marijuana, and no one knows how much of the plant is grown on this island, alone. As one drug enforcement manual notes, "Tiny Jamaica has been known to produce upwards of 300 met Continue Reading...
During the trail, the prosecution is liable to produce sufficient evidence against the culprit, and it has to be proven that misrepresentation was false, but that the thief knew of the falsity. The opinions and puffing are not included in false pre Continue Reading...
CICC and GIWG Compared
The Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC) is criminal intelligence body that is responsible for gathering intelligence information for the U.S. government. This organization is tasked with the responsibility of ens Continue Reading...
Criminological Perspectives: Sentencing and Criminology
The justice system in the United States has always incorporated the study of criminals in an attempt to reduce offenses in the country. Many theories are used in fostering our understanding as t Continue Reading...
Reducing Crime Through Crime Prevention
Crime prevention can be an effective way to reducing crime (Tiley, 2014). Increasing prison sentences, on the other hand, can be a costly means of keep criminals off the streets. Indeed, the most recent study Continue Reading...
Policy reforms split movement coalitions, and fracture and demobilize movements. Because participating groups enter social movements with a range of goals, it is not surprising that they would view acceptable outcomes differently. Coalition dynamics Continue Reading...
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was the big court case in the post-war era: it changed the dynamic of schools from one of racial segregation to integration. As Klarman (2007) notes, integration was going to happen naturally on its own, as the wa Continue Reading...
Diverse Nature of Psychology
Psychology has not been around a terribly long amount of time, dating back only a century or two. However, the diverse outgrowths and subsets of psychology that have emerged and flourished in the years since is nothing s Continue Reading...
Religion, Spiritual Activism, Feminism, Reproductive Justice
The concept of reproductive privilege is central to the proper interpretation of Amy Everhart's poem "Accidents." In fact, one may successfully argue that Everhart's poem is actually about Continue Reading...
Then, there are sites like Just Answer! In which actual lawyers answer basic questions for under $50. While their advice is not legally binding, it nevertheless can steer a person onto the right course. The Federal Government even agrees that there Continue Reading...
Jacobs and Bouvard
History and social science is interesting in and of itself but also when the reader understands the cultural perspective of that population. Much historical discourse centers on the culture clash that occurs when an indigenous pop Continue Reading...
As suggested by the study into the effects of divorce and other emotional losses in the home, negative experiences outside of the educational environment have a profound influence on the risk of dropout as well (Gerein, 2009).
Counselling Strategie Continue Reading...
On the other hand, many sources of environmental threats are somewhat predictable, especially through modern meteorological techniques.
As demonstrated by the tremendous differences between specific localities similarly impacted by Hurricane Katrin Continue Reading...
They may be sold to another owner after they arrive, and since most agreements are verbal, they are easily broken. Another startling fact in human trafficking is how many victims enter the trade willingly, because of the need to provide income for t Continue Reading...
Abstract
This paper discusses the issue of privacy in social networks with respect to advances in machine learning. It shows how machine learning protocols have been developed both to enhance and secure privacy as well as to invade privacy and collec Continue Reading...
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Social class status is something that can be projected onto a person based on superficial external characteristics or the situations of one's life including neighborhood characteristics or national identity. From the status that is projected o Continue Reading...
Racism
There have been several well-publicized incidents of blatant racism in the news lately, including the bigoted remarks by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, and the racist rant (suggesting that blacks were better off as sl Continue Reading...
Additionally stated is that substance abuse treatment admission rates among adults aged 55 or older "tended to be highest in northern and northeaster states...in 1999. (Reach of Louisville, SIG, 2009 ) It is reported that study findings have demonst Continue Reading...
History of Discrimination
Discrimination and prejudiced feelings and opinions against Native Americans stems back to colonial times, when colonists and living practices as well as governance policies did not adequately value "the culture, history a Continue Reading...
Amtrak Case Study
The tragic incident at the Big Bayou Canot Bridge saw the deaths of nearly 50 people after a barge hit the bridge and caused the rail line to shift minutes before a speeding Amtrak train was set to cross. Heavy fog made the conditi Continue Reading...
Reality-Based Education
Case #1
Nathan Rosillo should take his case to the highest levels of the Chem-Tech corporate ladder. And if that doesn't work, he should conduct some ground-level research, which will be spelled out in this paper. He not onl Continue Reading...
Nursing & Women's Roles Pre-and-Post Civil War
The student focusing on 19th century history in the United States in most cases studies the Civil War and the causes that led to the war. But there are a number of very important aspects to 19th cen Continue Reading...
Women face a higher risk than men of a drastic drop in standards of living at retirement age, women account for the majority of the over 60 population in almost all countries.
This could very well be because women generally are not involved in dec Continue Reading...
... She puts a robe on and stares at me. I can hear thunder in the distance and it begins to rain harder. She lights a cigarette and I start to dress. And then I call a cab and finally take the Wayfarers off and she tells me to be quiet walking down Continue Reading...
International Relations
According to the Oxford Bibliographies research, there is not one specific definition of "nonstate actors" that fits all situations. Nonstate actors are defined in relation to international law, because they are "…often Continue Reading...
Law and Women in Medieval Europe
Women have always been victims of various legislations and the way the law is applied concerning the crimes that they commit in the society. The suffering that women underwent in medieval Europe cannot be emphasized Continue Reading...
DOMESTIC VS INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: WHICH IS THE GREATER THREAT?
While many Americans today remember the events of September 11, 2001 when international terrorists flew aircraft into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and killed thousands, few Continue Reading...
Immigration Reform
The social justice implications of Immigration Reform
Strangers are behind the formation of the beautiful land of America. The American land has flourishes because it is being by different sources. This rooted on the varied nouri Continue Reading...
However, in contrast to others, I do not agree with the assessment methods of the FCAT. The FCAT is the statewide educational assessment for the state of Florida and is intended to measure a student's prior and current knowledge of given subject mat Continue Reading...
Ethics
Criminal justice is an inherently ethical profession. The judiciary ostensibly crafts laws that reflect the ethical sensibilities and social norms of the society, which are often embedded in the American Constitution. The role of the criminal Continue Reading...
Practice
What examples of the history of a particular social problem or construct could you use to illustrate the importance of an historical perspective to social work practice?
The prevalence of false confessions and coerced guilty pleas has rec Continue Reading...
Individuality and Community
Ethics
How Self is Integrated into the Global Whole as an Ethical Entity
The ethics of social justice is wrapped in the ideas of how individuals within a society are trained as ethical beings, and how they regard other Continue Reading...