Sciences POL/215 Version 4 State and Local Political Processes Course Start Date: 09/25/2013 Course End Date: 10/23/2013 Group ID: NWELECT27 Campus: Northwest Learning Center Copyright © 2011‚ 2010‚ 2009‚ 2005‚ 1997 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides students with an introduction to the organization‚ administration‚ and functions of American state and local governments. The relationship between state and federal governments is also analyzed
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century‚ hanging was the main punishment for serious crimes. Prisons served as lock-ups for debtors and places where the accused were kept before their trial. By the 1830s‚ many areas in Australia were refusing to be the ’dumping-ground’ for Britain’s criminals. The answer was to reform the police and to build more prisons: 90 prisons were built or added to between 1842 and 1877. By the mid Victorian Period‚ there were two distinct prison systems in England. There were the county and shires gaols‚ administered
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Abstract The Quakers impact on prison conditions set the stage for today’s society and how we deal with criminals. The five general principles helped deal with criminals so they would be punished for their crimes‚ but also be able to be reintroduced to society. The Quakers sought a more humane way of dealing with criminals other than the guilty just being put to death. This paper looks at all these points and also introduces you‚ the reader‚ to how the first American prison system got its start. The
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you. Do you understand these rights I have just read to you? What is the difference between misdemeanor and felony o A misdemeanor is generally a crime that is punishable for a year or less in prison‚ or only in a county or local jail. o a felony is a crime for which the punishment in federal law may be death or imprisonment for more than one year Habeas corpus o Right to know what charges are brought against you Based on existing law o the right of every prisoner to challenge the
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Should the United States Abolish the Federal Reserve System? The Federal Reserve System was instituted on December 23rd‚ 1913 by an act of Congress and serves as the central bank of the United States (“Federal Reserve System”). It is made up of twelve Reserve Banks with its headquarters in Washington D.C. The Board of Governors consists of seven members and two of them are designated and confirmed Chairman and Vice Chairman. The Chairman and Vice Chairman serve for four year terms while the other
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The Eastern State Penitentiary was built in 1829‚ to imprison and punish criminals in America. Knowledge isn’t something you can easily define or explain. “Knowledge is to gain facts‚ information‚ and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.”(Oxford) Knowledge doesn’t have one correct way of explaining because the way humans interpret knowledge changes from a person’s experiences. Knowledge is what causes us to understand
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side within human beings expressed when placed in a position of power or control. Those who are not in that position expect those who are to act with a moral conscience‚ but it is easier said than done. The Abu Ghraib scandal and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison experiment demonstrate the powerful role that a situation can play in altering human behavior. Abu Ghraib and the
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up the criminal justice system is the corrections system. This week we will examine corrections‚ the major goals of contemporary sentencing‚ who is sentenced‚ and how these sentences are formulated. Please respond to all three of the following prompts: * Define‚ then compare and contrast the prison and the jail systems. Jail is a place of detention‚ a place where an individual convicted or suspected of a crime is tained. Jail holds people accused under federal‚ state ‚ county and or city.
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Outline and Briefly Explain the Federal Court System The U.S. has a dual court structure. To be exact‚ we have a federal judiciary system and the systems that are operated by each of the states. This dual court structure is a unique feature of the American judicial system. Although most cases are tried in state courts‚ the federal court is playing a larger and larger role in finding resolutions to disputes. Partly‚ this is because congress in recent years has enacted a range of new laws that grant
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A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity. The central government is supreme‚ and the administrative divisions exercise only powers that the central government has delegated to them. Units are created and abolished‚ and their powers may be broadened and narrowed by the central government. They don’t have independent legislative and judicial powers. In federal systems‚ political authority is divided between two autonomous sets of governments‚ both of which operate directly upon
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