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Contemporary Western Penology Issues

The best proof as to the full validity of this suggestion is the fact that, throughout the course of Western civilization's history, the concept of corporal punishment never ceased continuing to transform, in order to [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3074

Marginalized Youths in Australia

This conflict mainly between the police and these minority youths as Cunneen explains, has been caused by the unequal distribution of the country's resources; the pursuit of social networks and the massive youth unemployment which [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2080

Researching Conflict of Laws

So what is conflict of laws? "Conflict of laws is a set of rules of procedural law which determine which legal system and the law of which jurisdiction apply to a given legal dispute". And [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

Juvenile Detention and Desistance from Offending

A support of the latter can be seen through the fact the congregation of areas that constitute evidence of failing social and economic conditions, the result of which is a threat to social order.
  • Subjects: Juvenile Justice
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1807

Criminal Investigation: The Murder of Brianna Denison

There is full adherence to the law in which the police officers are supposed to get in detail the root of the case and be able to have supportive evidence to the accused person.
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1454

Correctional Law: Amendments in the US Constitution

In an incident in which the prisoner was searched by a female officer in the absence of a male officer while in prison, the Fourth Amendment of the prisoner was not violated, because the female [...]
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1188

Knowledge-Based Policing

The rapid advancement of the information era has altered the nature of policing which now plays a key and essential role in the management of information regarding the safety of the public.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3316

Alternatives to Juvenile Detention Centers

They refer to diverse types of supervision, treatment, reintegration, control, and support programs for the youth involved in the juvenile justice process.
  • Subjects: Juvenile Justice
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1701

Personal Application of Criminology

I rushed home quickly and found the door to the house ajar and, as far as I could remember, I was the last to leave the house and there was no way that I could [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1970

Separation of Powers in Australia

Examples of past Acts include the Aquaculture Act of 2001, which was enacted by the Australian parliament to act as a guideline in the handling of issues related to aquatic life, the Adoption Act of [...]
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2250

Tillotson Extracts and Factortame Litigation

Nevertheless, the role of private parties in the infringement of Community law is underlined in the paper in order to point out the ability of such doing by a Member States at the national level.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 548

The Right to a Fair Hearing in Taxation Disputes

The varied nature of this provision makes it diverse enough to support grounds that may be presented for the rejection of particular rulings and time and again a clause in the article may be used [...]
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3026

Concepts of Labour Relations in Canada

To ensure organisations respect workers rights and adhere to employment standards, the Canadian federal and provincial governments in the past thirty years have effected three main changes in the labour relations and Employment Standards Act [...]
  • Subjects: Labor Law
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2157

Sexual Assault and Its Effects

Some of the actions that may be termed to as sexual assault include; intended touching of the victims private parts like the genitals or breasts; voyeurism, subjection to exhibitionism, un-willful subjection to pornography; or the [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1766

Law Illustrations, Legal Rights, Law of Contract

At the same time, the customers of the company, and Thomas and Peter in particular, considered the advertisement to be an offer to the world at large.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1525

Employment Law: Dukes vs. Wal-Mart

He further recommended that the certification of the case "should not be construed in any manner as a ruling on the merits or the probable outcome of the case" Dukes v.
  • Subjects: Labor Law
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1751

Police and Racial and Ethnic Minorities

The view is that profiling is not only limited to what the police are engaged in towards the blacks but that the whole prosecutorial system is compromised.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1636

Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977

This is one of the provisions that force the company to take responsibility for the damage or loss of the goods.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

Concepts and Issues in Contemporary Employment Law

The Age Regulations provide apparent scope to the employers to defend their discriminatory conduct because of the presence of some controversial and uncertain elements in the Regulations.
  • Subjects: Labor Law
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3864

Analysis of the Unfair Contract Terms Act of 1977

According to the areasonableness' test of Section 11 enlarging on the extent of restrictions imposed on this notice, there are some misconceptions concerning the level of responsibility for the contract terms.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

Economy and Crime: The Relationship

Economic crime is a serious problem for the business world, and it has become more and more aggravating with the development of technologies and with the growing availability of internet access.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1243

Acting in Good Faith: Contract and Agency Law

To start with the validity of the contract should be analyzed; and in this case, the two contracting parties had agreed mutually to reduce the amount to a nominal amount of $150.
  • Subjects: Consumer Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 901

Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights

The idea by Anne needs protection and necessary remedy should be applied to those that have infringed the rights to the owner of the idea.
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1275

Illegal Tobacco Trade in Germany

However, the legal aspects associated with it and the diverse sanctions to control the use of the product are what have given birth to the illegal aspect of it.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1666

Enforcement of Michigan’s Non-Smoking Law

This paper is aimed at identifying a plan and strategy for the enforcement of the Michigan non-smoking law that has recently been signed by the governor of this state.
  • Subjects: Administrative Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

Miranda v. Arizona: Case Brief

Although the court overturned the case because of the nullification of the evidence, later on, since he the court tried him using the real witnesses' evidence whereby the court found him guilty hence, convicted him [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

Criminal Law: A Young’s Case

The action of Young clearly gives a picture that he had arranged and executed a preparation to steal from the bank.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Police Search and Law Procedure

Although they fled from the place, the police could reach them with the help of the evidence. According to the Fourth Amendment, the authority should have a warrant if they have to arrest a person [...]
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 824

Tort Law: EMTALA

A liability on the part of the hospital was possible after amputating the first and second wrist because according to EMTALA, there is a need for screening of the emergency medical condition.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 545

Intellectual Property Valuation Methods

The currently available valuation methods of Intellectual Property can be grouped into three categories, which are the market approach, the cost approach and the income approach.
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

The Case of Commonwealth v. Pestinikas

In addition, considering contractual terms, the law had imposed on the two legal duties of taking care Kly, hence there had to be liable of the offense.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 704

The Role of the Federal Trade Commission

IPAMG is a firm that is charged with the role of passing information about financial planning and investment. This is unfair competition and it lead to a penalty for the IPAMG.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 635

Medical Record Retention Law

In the absence of certain state requirements for record retention, the provider ought to keep the information for a specific period.
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 633

What Is a Crime? Is It Possible to Prevent Crime?

Lots of writers have already tried to introduce a more or less clear explanations of crime, define its nature, clear up what anti-social behavior means, and find out the types of crime; with the help [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1129

Intellectual Property Law: Definition

The biggest challenge for them will be to prove to the court that the idea was actually conceived by them and that what the journalist and the other company are developing on is an idea [...]
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3865

Controversial Insanity Defense Assessment

The insanity defense is dependent on assessments carried out by forensic expertise who confirms that the suspect was not able to differentiate between the correct and incorrect thing to do during the time of the [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

“Most Important Thing Is Money Ltd”: Vaccination Development

Thus, necessary powers have been vested with the Secretary of State for Health in England, through the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation to enforce such preventive steps, through necessary programs that [...]
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 606

Capitol Records, Inc. v. Sharon Villarreal

SHARON VILLARREAL, Defendant The history of the case plaintiff had copied music and was taken to court and was sued. The defendant by searching and copying music is illegal and court was determined whether copying [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1336

Interrogation Techniques in the Criminal Procedure

The concept of lying is the most worrying one in the process of interrogation, since the facts on which the investigation may be based have to be well-checked and grounded otherwise they will be useless [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 657

Substance Abuse and America’s Prison Population

The Juvenile program offers an opportunity for the community to prevent the young people stay away from criminal behavior and efficiently rehabilitate the young wrongdoers.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 929

Value of the Business and Corporate Law

A statutory standard may require all the corporations to separate at all times the chairman and the chief executive officer, to give more power to the share orders, for example in the Delaware's chartered corporations, [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 987

Narcotics Investigations and Drug Enforcement

It may therefore be necessary for such an officer to first prove that this individual knew the whereabouts of the drug and that he/ she could access the drug.
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3609

The Introduction of the New British Supreme Court

The introduction of the new British Supreme Court has involved different constitutional implications, such as changing the role of the Lord Chancellor and creating a position of President of the Court of England and Wales; [...]
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1197

Post Conviction DNA Testing

The DNA was first presented as evidence in court in the year 1986 in the USA, and in the subsequent years it presented serious challenges in the court rooms, presently it is been accepted in [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Investigation
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1453

Environmental Law: Case Analysis

It was within his rights to greet and talk to whoever person was invited to the party. It is the responsibility of every person that is driving to obey traffic rules.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1185

Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading 2008

This paper assesses the extent to which the implementation of the requirements of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive by Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 has resulted in the general duty for fair trade.[3] [...]
  • Subjects: Consumer Law
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2814

The Case Study of Knarles: Contract

Chem who is a new customer to the business entered into a contract with Barkley on the belief that he is in the position of authority.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2035

Agency Termination and Process of Repossession

The termination of the agency is to be correctly fulfilled for the employer to protect his liability from the customers and employees; the termination process covers the following steps: mutual agreement the parties are to [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 572

Avoiding & Settling Disputes Under Sales Contract Law

The major peculiarity of this problem lies in the following: the seller of the car officially disclaimed any liability for the injuries and repair costs caused by defects in the vehicle.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Discussion of the Issue of Criminalization

For example, in a developing country, polluting the environment by the transport industry may not be criminalized because it is very basic and the people do not have a choice but to use transport means [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1482

International White-Collar Crime

Globalization and the harmonization of the European Community, two logical outcomes of the belief in free markets and value theory Adam Smith espoused in The Wealth of Nations, has also eased of movement of humans, [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

Medical Malpractice Actions in Alaska and Montana

In comparison, Alaska sets a limit of two years from the date the person discovers or should have discovered the existence of the cause of action, for the commencement of medical malpractice actions.
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 665

Oral Contracts in the US

But contrary to the oral contract, the voyage took in excess of 22 hours to deliver the oysters, occasioning great loss to the plaintiff and death to the oysters.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1165

Physician Assisted Suicide – State Laws

This authorization may be given by the family members to the medical personnel irrespective of the fact that whether the death is imminent or not within the stipulated period of one year. In contrast to [...]
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 600

Brain Links With Aggression and Criminal Violence

These tendencies are repressed because of a long period of socialization that comes as a result of the fact that the major tendencies that are present in society remain to be curbed.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1393

The New York State Consumer Protection Board

They go on in stating that it is not the credit crunch or the subprime meltdown crisis that developed out of the reach of the law and thus made it necessary for it to be [...]
  • Subjects: Consumer Law
  • Pages: 25
  • Words: 6133

Changes into the Copyright Law

In more detail, the amendments offered by the Copyright Office in the document titled Recordation of Notices of Termination of Transfers and Licenses; clarifications concern mainly the order of filing notices of termination, the mailing [...]
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 580

The Creation of the Uniform Law

Initially, the dispute over the uniformity of laws regulating IP relations has been the result of the controversy that aroused from the different rights that the inventors or patent owners could have in various countries. [...]
  • Subjects: Intellectual Property
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 542

Gambling: Debate Against the Legislation of Gambling

More significantly, the Australian government has so far adopted a conciliatory and indulgent attitude towards most kinds of gambling, which has been the main reason for the rampant growth and proliferation of both forms of [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1189

International Comparative Criminology

To evaluate the effects of the judicial treatment of human rights violations on the democratic process, it is necessary to consider whether, in spite of the covert amnesty of the due obedience law passed during [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1316

Contemporary Biosocial Criminology

Biosocial criminology is dynamic in that it explains human behavior in the different paths of development. To them crime was a way of showing that they are in control.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 883

Democratic Principle: The Constitution of the US

The two major democratic principles are closely interrelated and the parties involved into them can actually change places from time to time: the minority has the right to become the majority, thus the latter becomes [...]
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 624

Itemized Deductions. Financial Research

The objective of this system is to help the government in the collection of revenue from the public. The investment income is tax deductible only to a limit of the individual's net income from the [...]
  • Subjects: Taxation Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1196

The Philosophy of Sentencing in the USA

O'Shea states the following fact in his research: "The length of the prison term depends upon multiple factors including the severity and type of the crime, state and/or federal sentencing guidelines, the convicted person's criminal [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

Discussion of The Right to File a Lawsuit

My father and my friend's mother agreed that the right to file lawsuits can be seen as a protection, and a "representation of freedom", explaining that without such right we would not have been among [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 967

Arbitration and Its Role in Dispute Resolution

The factor is that the regulation of domestic arbitration has a distinguished enforcement mechanism, while international arbitration can be seen lacking where the implementation of the awards can be more than difficult in "cases where [...]
  • Subjects: Law Practice Management
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1006

Tort Law: Redress of the Costs Incurred

Consequently, there arises a burning issue in the legal practice concerning the questions of who should bear the responsibility for causing the harm, what kind of responsibility should be imposed on the guilty party and [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1313

Criminal Law: Sociopathic Offenders

His type of offenders report committing a series of crimes and have a very outstanding characteristic in society; politically commanding a lot of attention because of the excessive number of crimes they commit; and psychologically [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 629

Tort Law: Lawsuit Against the Church

That the actions of the church made the society to have a negative attitude towards the parents. The parents in this case can be said to be the legal owners of the child.
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 851

Illegal Labor in the United States

The contract is the document, where employers and employees state the conditions under which they are doing to continue their further business relations.
  • Subjects: Labor Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 543

Prison Gangs’ Evolution and Solutions to Them

Prison gangs develop in prison environments and sore of increase in disturbances in prison such as that experienced in the United States in the early 1990s may point to more prison gang activity, according to [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1006

Crime Factors & Levels in South Africa vs. Canada

Developed and developing countries have different level of crime and crime control from the developing countries. This crime is concentrated in the urban of Ontario, British Columbia and other areas like Quebec.
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2039

Business Law Violation: Jettison and Big Ben Inc.

The matter of this case is the inability of the latter company to pay its debt to the former one. The point is that offering great conditions of employment for the beginner, Big Bucks, Inc.needs [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 538

Community Service as a Form of Correction

Of these alternatives, community service has been one of the most employed and therefore opened a room for debates with the proponents feeling that the option is a remedy to all the prison problems while [...]
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  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2411

Age-Crime Relationships and Motivations

Of the three major factors outlined by basis theory, opportunities availability is the most determinant factor of crime commission among the youths as lack of jobs makes them engage in criminal activities in order to [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1895

Contract Law: Promissory Estoppel and Part Payment

In the case of promissory estoppel, consideration has centered on the notion of exchange or bargain as a reasonable basis for the elucidation of what is meant by promissory estoppel in payment of consideration under [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 910

Fingerprint Detection Techniques of Personal Identification

Research areas include a generalized approach to the detection and enhancement of fingerprints and the role of optical techniques. If fingerprints have been obtained through either chemical or physical processes, they are enhanced by appropriate [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1578

Processing the Crime Scene: Tools and Techniques

Processing the crime scene is one of the main parts of the investigation process and policy management. Legal statutes in many communities and states have even been extended to behavior that is widely believed to [...]
  • Subjects: Criminology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

Signing the Contracts, Being Not in a Sober Mind

According to the Plaintiff, the condition of Kean at the time of the procurement was not fit. It has been mentioned in the case that the plaintiff was under influence of intoxicating liquor at the [...]
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1649

Miranda v. Arizona: Constitutional Safeguards

In deciding to talk to the police it can be construed that Charles decided to waive his constitutional rights including that to remain silent, as well as that to have counsel being present.
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 603

Freschco & Crankit Legal Case and Contract Breach

It is important to note that Crankit was the cause of all the damages and losses incurred by the client due to the mistakes that were committed in the services that were rendered.
  • Subjects: Business & Corporate Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 675

Statutory Interpretation Methods Used by the Courts

The first of the methods is the so-called Golden Rule used in the majority of cases to dissolve the ambiguity of the words used in statutes or any other documented or oral pieces of information [...]
  • Subjects: Judicial Process on Criminals
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 1462

Human Rights Act 1998 in British Legal System

The safeguard of British liberty is in the good sense of the people and in the system of representative and responsible government which has been evolved".[The Business of Judging] Such an approach isolated British constitutional [...]
  • Subjects: Constitutional Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

Judicial Activism in Australia

This is where the judicial activism came about whereby even if it is not the duty of the judges to make a law, they can use the law to fit in a new situation.
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1494

Civil Procedures in New Zealand

However, under adversarial systems, the Courts, and more specifically the judges, act upon the evidence and arguments put forth by the attorneys of the contestants "Adversary theory holds that requiring each side to develop and [...]
  • Subjects: Common Law
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3146

Police and Policing – Change in Police Role

The new implementation of the act was encountered by public fears as the members of the public were not comfortable with the militaries that were deployed in mater to do with domestic affairs, as they [...]
  • Subjects: Homeland Security
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1868

Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication

Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication is the essence of today's conception of road safety. The process by which this is done in road safety is called Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication.
  • Subjects: Transportation Law
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2210

Medicaid Legislations and Cost Cutting by Government

The False Claims Act is one of the important mechanisms that are used to prevent the perpetration of fraud and to recover billions of dollars being stashed by government contractors every year.
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

Issues of Complaints by Patients

In the area of specialist care, the patients complain on the time it takes to see the specialist, the refusal of authorization to consult a specialist, less number of choices in the specialists available, the [...]
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 729

Importance and Limits of H.I.P.A.A

The "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act " was intended to give security to all American workers and enhancing easy to access, good quality and informed health insurance cover.offer protections for millions of American workers [...]
  • Subjects: Health Law
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2272

Detrimental Effects of Gender Influenced Crime and Interventions

Crime happens within social and economic situations in the life of individuals, criminal orientation has a socialization aspect in the sense individual attempts of crime appear in a gradual sequence, minor crime attempts precede major [...]
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1274

The Prevention of Crime and Community Justice

The psychological and physical developments are very frequent and that is why young people are always anxious and it is very difficult for them to make the decisions.
  • Subjects: Criminal Law
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 973