The Constitutive Power of the Law: An Inquiry into Legal Consciousness and Legalization Implementations of law are subject to discrepancies between intended and actual results (Garth & Sarat, 1998: 1). This discovery has prompted academics to shift the scope of social inquiry beyond mere black lett...

I have chosen the United States Federal Court System as my topic of research. I believe the U.S Federal Court System is paramount to our criminal justice system. Today the Federal Court System is a complex structure of courts and actors working together in an imperfect process to deliver justice. Th...

Actors in the Criminal Justice system face ethical dilemmas more often than the average person due to their interaction with the public and because of authority given to them by that same public. The police, arguably, might be subject to more ethical dilemmas than any other branch of the Criminal J...

CONVERSION Conversion, as it is described in Black's Law Dictionary, as an act of changing from one form to the other; the process of being exchanged. Giving the more narrow definition to the term, it states that in Torts, "conversion" can be defined as the wrongful possession of d...

A View From The Bridge (Discussing Alfieri's role) Hundreds of years ago, the ancient Greeks produced the theatre. This theatre had no actors, and the numerous chorus figures told the whole story, which was usually a tragedy. Later, in the 6th century B.C., Thespis( the Narrator) introduc...

EQUALITY The word "equalityâ€" has many different meanings. It can mean, for example, the sameness or equivalence of numbers, quantity or different measures. It can also mean equality in size, or likeness in status or quality. One can also discuss the equality of rights, either soc...

Try to picture this scene: your favorite movie stare is caught with drugs on his person after being stopped by the police. Before even being take to trial, your celebrity is treated as if he didn't do a thing. The trial comes around and because of his status as an actor the charges are ...

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How does Hedley Bull's conclusions on the pluralist/solidarist debate help us understand the issue of human rights during the Cold War? Hedley Bull's conclusions on the pluralist and solidarist debate helps are understanding of human rights issues in the Cold War in terms of why the USA...

Characterization plays a major part in most movies, this is what gives the audience insights into a characters personality. The film 12 Angry Men relies more heavily on the use of ...

The Department of Culture and the Arts is committed to providing services to communities throughout the State. This is to ensure that all states have access to quality arts activities, cultural experiences, and information services. The arts are not the problem, they are the solution. And this is be...

Community Development in Culture and the Arts The Department of Culture and the Arts is committed to providing services to communities throughout the State. This is to ensure that all states have access to quality arts activities, cultural experiences and information services. The arts are not the p...

Discrimination has been defined as the unequal treatment of each individual\'s civil rights. Discrimination is expressed in obvious behavior, while prejudice is expressed in attitude. Ethnic discrimination in this country is closely related to historical patterns of immigration and migration, parti...

Anarchy is seen as one end of the spectrum whose other end is marked by the presence of a legitimate and competent government. International politics is described as being spotted with pieces of government and bound with elements of community. Traditionally, international-political systems are tho...

Both Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in Crime and Punishment and Richard Wright, in Native Son look to men who have been pushed beyond reason into murder, and both authors ask us what justice means in such a context. The answers that the authors provide are quite different - which should ...

Barker White MC-400 WED Privacy: Chapters 7 & 8 What is privacy? What makes our lives private? Privacy is a law today that has not been known for very long. The idea of privacy that everyone has running through their minds is just to be left alone. In reality...

Protection of privacy is an important issue and one that has often beenpassionately debated in political, social and business circles sinceprivacy is no longer a free commodity. There was once a time when we couldtake privacy for granted but with advanced technology and better modes ofcommunication ...

Alternatives to criminal justice system have been the growing part of the debate surrounding the theory of criminology. Shaming: In this arena of alternatives to criminal justice system, the most distinctive contribution has been John Braithwaite's theory of regenerative shaming which conjec...

The advent of Venezuela's constituent assembly of 1999, and with it, a new Constitution, with a whole new organization of the different branches of government, has drawn to public attention the preponderance of the political power that one particular branch -the Judiciary- had attained with this new...

Does veto power have a future in the United Nations Security Council? Perhaps the answer to this question would become clearer if it was reformatted to reflect the true question that lies at the heart of this matter. Will the major powers' that possess veto power relinquish that authority for the sa...

The Supreme Court and its Members By Nathan Hall and Lee White Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court The Supreme Court of The United States is the court that heads the judicial branch of the American government. It is undoubtedly the world's most powerful court system. The court's unu...

One of the most important components of the global context for IHRM is employment law and regulation. This chapter is about employment law and labor standards and ethics in the global economy. International standards, national trade agreements, commercial diplomacy efforts with governments, and vary...

An important project that was in its early stages at GR&AP dealt with commercial sex workers. The department undertook to write a comparative paper on laws related to commercial sex work around the world. I was originally asked to do the research for Canada, and later on was assigned New Zealand, Th...