Why We Need Laws - to provide a code of behavior, how to act, what is acceptable and unacceptable... - to keep society functioning, without laws there would be chaos (social cohesion)... - laws give members of society rights and obligations - laws should reflect a communities values and change if the values change The Characteristics of an Effective Law - known to the public - able to be understood - acceptable to the community (reflect values of the majority) - able to change to meet changing demands - stable (consistent) - able to be enforced Criminal Law and Civil law Crimin...

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Many issues facing the world today arise from philosophical views of morality and humane behavior. ... Abortion is one of the largest social problems facing America today. ... In the early 1800's, the practice was morally acceptable and common, but from the middle of the 19th century to its completion, the practice slowly became entirely illegal throughout the United States. Legally, abortions were acceptable in the beginning of the 19th century as long as the mother had not yet felt any fetal movement in the womb. ... Furthermore, there was a shift to more conservative tendencies in term...

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This section of the report deals with the connection between political and social violence in Palestinian society and the manner in which each of these forms of violence interplays with the other. ... Women's rights promote political, social and economic equality for women in a society that traditionally confers more status and freedom to men. ... They are the result of "culturally inherited" values that are put upon women and are said to be expected behaviors for them to follow but of course it's derived from prevailing patriarchal norms and standards (wclac.org). If women and girls...

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" Children are exposed to so much now because of social medias and technology which causes them to encounter such images. ... Women go through a menstrual cycle every month it is nothing out of the "norm" so why has the social media instagram repeatedly removed the image of a women in stained trousers? ... Because they are doing this in public and are showing their breasts it is seen as wrong yet when there are pictures of female breast (that do not show the nipple) in magazines it is socially acceptable. ... Some studies investigate behavioral blame, which concerns the victim&#...

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Researchers at the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology claim that aggression in animal behavior reflects competition for resources and its benefits vary in relation to the characteristics of the resources – such as abundance of them, controllability, and spatial distribution – while the costs vary based in relation to how the animals choose to fight. ... Another factor to take into account when considering the acceptability of torture practices is the so-called "ticking time-bomb scenario.... Torture may be relegated as a last resort, but it is a resort that the world's go...

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Researchers at the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology claim that aggression in animal behavior reflects competition for resources and its benefits vary in relation to the characteristics of the resources – such as abundance of them, controllability, and spatial distribution – while the costs vary based in relation to how the animals choose to fight. ... Another factor to take into account when considering the acceptability of torture practices is the so-called "ticking time-bomb scenario.... Torture may be relegated as a last resort, but it is a resort that the world's go...

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Whether through the organizational structure of the United Nations, NATO, or other supranational institutions, the new norm of acceptable intervention stresses the use of multilateral or collective intervention in response to the demands of a collective security. Acceptable collective intervention includes both responses to illegal (under international law) acts (e.g., Iraq's invasion of Kuwait) as well as intervention taken for humanitarian purposes (e.g., UN action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia) or in response to threats to the collective security of a region (e.g., collective intervention...

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Whether through the organizational structure of the United Nations, NATO, or other supranational institutions, the new norm of acceptable intervention stresses the use of multilateral or collective intervention in response to the demands of a collective security. Acceptable collective intervention includes both responses to illegal (under international law) acts (e.g., Iraq's invasion of Kuwait) as well as intervention taken for humanitarian purposes (e.g., UN action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia) or in response to threats to the collective security of a region (e.g., collective intervention...

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A.J Ayres, as with other situational ethicists, views this criteria (logic, validity of data, and the consequences) as an acceptable substitute for "objective" standards. ... This is analgous to the photon which has a dicotamy of both particle and wave like behaviors infused within it. ...

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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. ... In 1990, the UN's Economic and Social Council adopted a resolution recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women stati...

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