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Criminal Rights Essays and Term Papers
Racial ProfilingMrs. Kirkland
Racial Profiling
Racial profiling is defined as any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being, or ...
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Should The US Use Torture On Terrorist SubjectsShould the US directly or indirectly rely on torture to extract information from terrorist subjects? Why or Why not?
Many countries throughout history have taken the "initiative" to torture suspected terrorist in an effort to extract information from them. The justification for such measure ...
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Labeling Theory In Criminology and Policy MakingAn Analysis of the Implications of Labeling Theory for the Discipline of Criminology and for Policy-Making Purposes
The labeling process of bygone centuries left a mark on the poor that has never completely disappeared. People still speak of the 'poor but honest,' and what this phrase expresses ...
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Mitchell V. Wisconsin: Why Mitchell V. Wisconsin SuckedOn June 11, 1993, the United State Supreme Court upheld Wisconsin's
penalty enhancement law, which imposes harsher sentences on criminals who
"intentionally select the person against whom the crime...is committed..because
of the race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national ...
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2nd Admendment Pro-Gun OwnershTitle: ip
What does Lenin, Stalin, Hilter, Mussolini, Idi Amin, Mao tse-tung, and Pol Pot have in common? When they came to power, they took all guns from the civilian population. For this reason my specific goal is to encourage gun ownership. Introduction: The gun 1st appeared in Europe's ...
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The Application of International Law to Wars of National LiberationThe Application of International Law to Wars of National Liberation
BY
Noelle Higgins, Law Lecturer, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University; Ph.D. Candidate, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Introduction
The PLO[1], KLA[2] and PKK[3] ...
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Modern TortureThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 states in Article 5 that "No one shall be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
Yet, almost fifty years after the declaration, physical and psychological abuse of men, ...
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DjiboutiDespite 1992 constitutional changes that permitted the creation of four political parties, President Hassan Gouled Aptidon and the People's Rally for Progress (RPP), in power since independence in 1977, continued to rule the country. 's two main ethnic groups are the politically predominant ...
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The Ethical Delimma Of Journalist
Society must have media law to protect confidentiality of people and organizations, as moral principles would not sometimes rescue them from journalism greed. The example of rape case would powerfully explain how important of media law is, in order to protect the victim. Furthermore, public ...
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Gun ControlGovernment 2301
02 November 1996
A Well regulated militia, being necessary to the
security of a free State, the right of the people
to keep and bear arms , shall not be infringed.
Amendment II, Bill of Rights ...
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The Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI)The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The agency now known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation
originated from a force of Special Agents created in 1908 when Attorney
General Charles Bonaparte appointed an unnamed force to be the
investigative force of the Department of Justice (DOJ) under ...
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Protecting The InnocentAmy York April 24, 2000 Capital punishment should be abolished in the United States. There may have been a time when capital punishment was needed and acceptable, but that time is far behind us. The concepts and beliefs supporting capital punishment are outdated and have no place in our modern ...
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Court Case Number 15: Bowers V. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)Court Case Number 15: Bowers v. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)
In August of 1982, Michael Hardwick was charged with violating the
Georgia statute criminalizing sodomy by committing that act with another adult
male in the bedroom of Hardwick's home. Hardwick then brought suit in the
Federal District ...
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Gideon Vs WainwrightThe framers formed this country with one sole document, the
Constitution, which they wrote with great wisdom and foresight. This
bountiful wisdom arose from the unjust treatment of King George to which
the colonists were subject. Among these violations of the colonists' rights
were inequitable ...
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Capital Punishment: Is It RequiredLooking out for the state of the public's satisfaction in the scheme of
capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today's system of
capital punishment is fraught with inequalities and injustices. The commonly
offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes. "It was ...
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The Use Of The Second Amendment In The HomeThe United States Constitution says that U.S. Citizens have the
right to bear arms. Even though this guarantee was written with no
constraints, there are now laws that limit certain aspects of gun
ownership. The reasons for gun control fall under the flag of public
safety. Though there are ...
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Capital PunishmentMany distinctive doctrines in criminal law originated in efforts to restrict the number of capital crimes and executions. For instance, in the late 18th century, when all murder in the United States was punishable by death, Pennsylvania pioneered in dividing murder into two categories. The state ...
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Law: Gideon Vs WainrightThe framers formed this country with one sole document, the Constitution, which they wrote with great wisdom and foresight. This bountiful wisdom arose from the unjust treatment of King George to which the colonists were subject. Among these violations of the colonists' rights were inequitable ...
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Fourth Amendment ExceptionsThe Fourth Amendment to the Constitution states that people have the right �to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,� but the issue at hand here is whether this also applies to the searches of open fields and of objects in plain view ...
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Computer Security And The LawI. Introduction
You are a computer administrator for a large manufacturing company. In
the middle of a production run, all the mainframes on a crucial network grind to
a halt. Production is delayed costing your company millions of dollars. Upon
investigating, you find that a virus was ...
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