Basis for Victim Compensation According to Victimology‚ victim compensation takes place when “the state‚ rather than the perpetrator‚ reimburses the victim for losses sustained at the hands of the criminal” cite. Advocates of victim compensation believe it’s the government’s obligation to compensate citizens who suffer harm‚ and they justify this view by using two distinct philosophical positions as a basis for their reasoning: The social contract and the notion of social welfare. The Social Contract
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The Homeless The legal definition of ‘homeless’ according to the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994 is those who have inadequate access to safe and secure housing. The Australian Bureau of Statistics recognises that there are three levels of homelessness. The first‚ ‘primary homelessness’ refers to people who do not have any form of conventional accommodation and so are living on the streets‚ in parks‚ or in improvised dwellings. The next level‚ ‘secondary homelessness’ includes people
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why the New Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) was so controversial. There were many arguments raised about the poor law amendment act of 1834‚ this Act was thought to be the most contentious piece of legislation passed during the era of the Whig’s. At the time‚ it was a lot about saving money‚ the upper class did not want to pay towards the poor law‚ as they believed they were lazy and unworthy. The taxpayers‚ and ratepayers believed it to be wrong they should be paying to help the poor. The workhouse
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and Environments of a Human Service Organization Vicki Gold BSHS 462 July 22‚ 2013 Latera Davis Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization The Young Men’s Christian Association‚ more commonly known as the Young Men’s Christian Association is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization that is committed to helping people and communities to grow and learn. Their contributions influence both our nation’s culture during times of profound social change to the individual support
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approach is needed; that involves partnering companies (corporations) with the lowincome community to innovate and achieve sustainable win–win scenarios. The low-income need to be actively engaged and‚ at the same time‚ the companies providing products and services to them are profitable. Aim: The objective of this report is to critically analyze C.K. Prahalad’s notion that involving lowincome population in economic system is more profitable and sustainable in overcoming poverty in the long-run.
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The article that I choose as the one for deeper study was the article‚ “Writing and Retelling Multiple Ethnographic Tales of a Soup Kitchen for the Homeless”. The reason that I choose this article is because it relates to my own area of interest Ethnography and the study of culture-sharing groups. By taking this study I began to break it down into the characteristics of qualitative approaches: Focus: The article is very successful in defining who the target group for the study is to the reader.
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It is unfortunate that in America there are approximately 3.5 million people without a home‚ forced to live in shelters and on the streets. Of the millions that are homeless‚ 1.7 million are children (PBS‚ 2009). Though there are many agencies and organizations available to provide what assistance they can‚ it is not always enough. Advocacy groups in particular‚ strive to help people meet their basic human needs‚ such as food and shelter. For these people‚ advocacy can change their lives. These
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Impractical II. Introduction We are living in a society where there are rich‚ not so rich‚ and poor people or we can say that we have the class in the society called the upper class‚ the middle class and the lower class. In reality we have this stratum. Many of us believe that those rich people become richer and those poor people continuously become poorer. It is one of the reason why the concept of Karl Marx about the classless society is ideal wherein there
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advantage relative to other social networking companies? Advertising accounted for 98 per cent of Facebook’s revenues in 2009‚ 95 per cent in 2010 and 85 per cent in 2011. Facebook offered advertisers the opportunity to segment and target its users based on their demographic information‚ expressed interests and social connections. Another part of the revenue was generated by its payments business‚ which came almost exclusively from the sale of virtual goods used in social games sold through the online
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Introduce your community to your colleagues New alternatives is a program that is offered through Lutheran Social Services and assists 18 to 21 years old adults with learning to live independently. Through this system young adults with mental illness are offered a chance to learn how to live independently with 24 hour staffing in this group home environment. Staffing this facility 24 hours offers security along with case management‚ counseling‚ nursing care‚ and assistance with medication administration
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