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    [1] Simone de Beauvoir’s short story “The Age of Discretion” the career and familial problems of an aging woman‚ who is left unnamed. Her main conflict resides with her son Philippe - he drifts away from the life she desires for him toward that which his wife‚ Irène‚ desires. The narrator is also faced with other troubles‚ such as distrusting her husband and poor reception of her book‚ but these are overshadowed by the main conflict with her son. Beginning at birth‚ Philippe’s life is shaped by his

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    ensure a peaceful society and avoid disorder. The government enforces law through the police‚ courts and other agencies. Power can produce many positive results‚ but this power the government controls is often abused and in many cases they enforce law with brutality which is completely different from its original purpose. Law was established to benefit the people but sometimes through the abuse of power like police brutality‚ its enforcement defers its original purpose. The concept of law is very

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    Police Curfew

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    This paper will discuss the offence status and then discussing the perspective of a police officer that is on routine patrol that encounters what appears to be three underage individuals that is in violation of the city ordinance regarding curfew. The officer will provide a list of offenses that each underage individual violated. The officer will classify how each will be treated and why the officer made that decision. Furthermore‚ the officer will discuss how it might handle an uncooperative

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    Improvements 6 The effect of exercise on the heart rate and breathing rate Introduction Aim: Finding out how exercise affects the heart rate and breathing rate. Hypothesis: Exercise exists in different forms and has many benefits; it improves the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood‚ development of bones‚ strengthens muscles and the lungs capacity plus it can make you feel good. There are different exercises and intensities for different benefits. Lower intensity exercises are not designed to work

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    Police and Ethics

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    The Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department is a small police department in New Jersey‚ just west of the Hudson River. It has less than 3o officers who patrol an 11-mile stretch of the Palisades Interstate Parkway. In 2010‚ a PIPPD officer named Vincent Roberson had a sexual relationship with Gail Lawrence. The majority of their involvement was conducted while Officer Roberson was on duty. Over the next year‚ there would be complaints filed‚ allegations‚ and an ultimate forced resignation

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    Police Reforms

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    ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE INDIAN POLICE:     CREATING AN EXTERNAL COMPLAINTS          AGENCY  Written by: Adam Shinar August 2009 1 Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Normative Source and Structure of India ’s Police Force III. Attempts at Reform A. The National Police Commission Model Bill B. Other Reform Attempts IV. Instances of Police Misconduct A. Torture and violence B. Disappearances C. Corruption D. Failure to observe due process E. Non-registration of FIR V. Accountability

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    and the Police Part I: Outline Eileen Garcia CJA/344 Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice June 17‚ 2013 STEPHEN HUMPHRIES Police corruption and citizen complaints relative to ethnicity I. Introduction A. Police corruption Police corruption has become an international problem. This was initially a common practice during the period when the police institutions were being developed but the effect has been felt by many people‚ even affecting peacekeeping operations. The police abuse

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    Exercise 29

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    detailed in the study design. In previous research‚ groups have most commonly been matched for age‚ gender‚ ethnicity‚ diagnoses‚ and status of illness. Matching the groups strengthens the study design by reducing the effect of extraneous variables controlled by matching. Groups are also dependent when scores used in the analysis are obtained from the same subjects under different conditions‚ such as pretest and posttest study design. In this type of design‚ a single group of subjects is exposed to

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    Candy Burtle CJA/214 Memo Espinoza Police History Paper 09/30/2013 In 1828 Sir Robert Peel began the establishment‚ which was later known as the London Metropolitan Police. The Metropolitan police were the first modern police agency. Officers were employees of the state and not just citizens assisting in apprehending criminals. They were required to wear uniforms and badges with their identification information on them. These

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    Police Brutality

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    There is a widespread and persistent problem of police brutality across the United States. Thousands of individual complaints about police abuse are reported each year and local authorities pay out millions of dollars to victims in damages after lawsuits. Police officers have beaten and shot unresisting suspects; they have misused batons‚ chemical sprays‚ and electro-shock weapons; they have injured or killed people by placing them in dangerous restraint holds. This is the first paragraph of an

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