In essence, capital punishment is the lawful taking of a person's life after conviction for a crime. ... Among these are that capital punishment is "cruel and usual", "epitomizes the tragic inefficacy and brutality of violence", "denies due process of law", "violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection", "is not a viable form of crime control", "wastes resources" and "is a violent spectacle of official homicide" (Bedau). ... Quite to the contrary, capital punishment does not reduce crime. ... Closer analysis of each state reveals that during the last two decades, the homi...

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For many, the response to crimes of a violent nature is calls to "get tough on crime". ... The term 'capital punishment' is derived from the Latin caput, meaning 'head'. ... Australia is a world leader in seeking the abolition of capital punishment. ... Nor does it mean that it cannot be imposed on Australians traveling overseas, as illustrated by the double execution of Barlow and Chambers who were hanged in Malaysia on 7 July 1986 for drug trafficking.( Rehav, Giroa (1989), 'Homicide and Death Penalty: A Cross-sectional Time Series Analysis', International Journ...

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Although, this brought forth the idea of developmental differences in youth the 20th century has experienced a higher amount of violent crime and in response has manipulated the juvenile justice system to result in allocating stricter policies and punishments. ... Crime & Delinquency, 35 (4), 546-561. ... The probit regression analysis was conducted to draw conclusions about the sources of support for rehabilitation versus the death penalty. ... The telephone survey and the probit regression analysis concluded that citizens held only one view on one side of the spectrum. ... Friedma...

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Crime and Punishment: Getting Off "The Hook" Repercussions for one's own actions are a common theme throughout literature. Adverse reaction as a result of action takes place in Plato's Five Dialogues, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Marq...

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Instead criticism and analysis must be based upon what is best for the Black community in this country. ... However, Butler does cite past and contemporary administration of the death penalty, disparities between punishments for white-collar crimes and punishments for other crimes, more severe penalties for crack cocaine users than for powder cocaine users, and the high rate of incarceration of African-American men.2 All arguments regarding Butler's thesis must be framed within the context of these problems, if not directly addressing them. ... Kemp, the defendant introduced a comprehensi...

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When addressing such a wide societal issue such as criminal behavior, one needs to think outside the box, and think more theoretically about the different institutions and structures that are involved and connected to personal crimes of deviance. ... The process of theorizing is very important because it forces one to look beyond theories that are already published, and make use to them to craft a deeper analysis. ... The usage of such questions to help start the process of analysis is what the best social analysts have used. ... There are a lot of different ways punishment can be looked at th...

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On Fear and Freedom The dawn of Orwellian Era: An analysis of USA Patriot Act and its implication on Telecommunication By Tafheem Bari My paper is on the legislation passed by the congress known as USA Patriot Act. ... Because my intended audiences are telecommunication class 605, my analysis will be confined to the portions that deal with telecom and its effect; it will also touch on the fourth amendment right guaranteed in the constitution. ... At this point I will give an analysis of Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and ...

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However these traits in the modern world would drive these same people to commit crimes. ... It was at this time he began to defend the actions of these people and stated that the government had a duty to adopt a more humane attitude to crime and punishment. ... His solution to this problem was to develop he prevention of crime through the development of a science of eugenics. ... During the same time Lombroso was working on his atavistic theory, psychology and psychiatry were demonstrating the relationship between crime epilepsy, and crime and insanity. ... Lombroso did not disagree with ...

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Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state governments are separate entities and have formal authority over the same area and people. With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. Civil rights are freedoms and rights ...

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These proclamations were chosen to represent the suitable language application, in order to carry out the analysis. ... Theoretical Framework and Analysis Method The thesis draws on the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and primarily follows the concepts of CDA as asserted by Norman Fairclough (1989, 2003) and Teun A. van Dijk (1983, 1998, 2001, 2008). ... The important aspects of the proclamations that support the fundamental argument and also connect with the relevant CDA concepts will be identified and subsequently evaluated. 1.1 Critical Discourse Analysis To define Critical Di...

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Abstract Modern medical technology has made it possible to extend the lives of many far beyond when they would have died in the past. Death, in modern times, often ensures a long and painful fall where one loses control both physically and emotionally. Some individuals embrace the time that moder...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...

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INTRODUCTION "The ability of the World Wide Web to penetrate every home and community has both positive and negative implications - while it can be an invaluable source of information and means of communication, it can also override community values and standards subjecting them to whatever more may or may not be found online .... The Internet is a challenge to sovereignty of civilized communities, states and nations to decide what is appropriate and decent behaviour."" Judging by the impression one receives on browsing through articles in the media, it would seem that the Internet will ...

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In a research study that was conducted to give an in depth analysis on the definition of a civil war, Gersovitz and Kriger (2013) explained civil war as a "politically organized, large-scale, sustained, physically violent 4 conflict that occurs within a country principally among large/numerically important groups of its inhabitants or citizens over the monopoly of physical force within the country" (p. 3). ... Though some may argue that war is necessary to create lasting peace and stability, war is in reality a crime against innocent people. ...

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The members of Westboro Baptist Church ("Westboro"), led by Fred Phelps, picketed near the funeral to demonstrate their view that "the United States is overly tolerant of sin and that God kills American soldiers as punishment." ... Phelps, the fact that the time, place, and manner of the Phelps' speech did not violate criminal laws does not affect the legal analysis of whether tort liability violates the First Amendment. ...

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Austin: Positivist Identity of law: what makes the law the law Law (is) = Rules + (issued by a) Sovereignty. Rules = General Commands A command is an expression of a wish backed by a threat to inflict an evil (=sanction, like telling the child to get the toy is not a command unless it is backed b...

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Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender viol...

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This is consistent with the belief that crimes have to be punished regardless of the personal and public merits of the criminal. "No ordered republic would all the demerits of its citizens to be cancelled out by their merits; but, having prescribed rewards for a good deed and punishments for a bad on and having rewarded someone for doing well, if the same person afterwards does wrong, it punishes him, regardless of any of the good deeds he has done" . ... In consonance with the strict observance of the rule of law, Machiavelli stresses that the administration of justice and punishment must b...

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Proponents of legalizing prostitution believe it would reduce crime, improve public health, increase tax revenue, help people out of poverty, get prostitutes off the streets, and allow consenting adults to make their own choices (http://prostitution.procon.org/). ...

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Introduction Terrorism, often specific to the area in which it occurs, is a special domain for the exercise of state sovereignty and, in this context, the comparative study of anti-terrorist legislation is a fruitful line of study. Can we combat a nationalist terrorism whose structures are founded on national historical and ideological roots, in the same way as international terrorism whose strength lies in the capacity of its perpetrators to have access to modern communication methods to convey their ideas and achieve their goals? And if and when several forms of terrorism emerge in the same ...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink,...

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These are to preserve property, to set up a body (legislature) to establish the settled known law from the common consent of the people, to provide umpires' (not indifferent judges), and to be a policing power to execute punishment and sentences. ...

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