criminal justice system. Yet the marking criteria requires candidates to “Comprehensively and accurately evaluate how sentencing and punishment attempts to balance the rights of victims‚ offenders and society”. Poor question. This question starts after an offender has been found guilty and is to be sentenced. This is the key part of the Legal Studies syllabus that pertains to the question: 4. Sentencing and punishment • statutory and judicial guidelines • the purposes of punishment: deterrence (specific
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was not being pretty‚ defendant’s failure to promote the plaintiff and decision to terminate her employment. The court’s finding that there is not sufficient evidence to support the claim. “Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment is granted.” The legal principles The plaintiff filed a charge against the defendant under Title VII and U.S. Code Section 1981. Title VII protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of race and color as well as national origin‚ sex‚ or religion
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they have the moral rights nonhuman animals? What kind of legal status should we give them? This debate has become hugely confusing. Some activist animal rights maintain that we must allow other animals have the same rights as humans. Of course‚ this is absurd. There are many human rights are simply not applicable to non-human beings. I would like to propose something a little different. A sensible and coherent on animal rights theory should focus on only a right for all animals: the right not to
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Should a Woman Have The Right To Choose? I was raised to believe Abortion was wrong. There were always other options. My best friend‚ Kimberly‚ had a sister who used abortion as a form of birth control; we were aware of three before graduation. If she had only known her choices‚ she might have saved innocent lives. In 1994 a friend of mine found herself in an unwanted pregnancy. She had only one year of college left; she knew she couldn’t disappoint her parents by going to them with the dilemma
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“The right of a competent‚ terminally-ill person to avoid excruciating pain and embraced a timely and dignified death bears the sanction of history and is implicit in the concept of ordered Liberty.”(ACLU amicus brief v. Quill). The law of Physician-assisted suicide is legal in 5 US states. According to CNN‚ “Individuals must have a terminal illness as well as a prognosis of 6 months or less to live.” Patients should have the right to die because patients should have control of their lives and should
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Ronald Robillard Prof. Jane Curth Personal and Community Health Section 012 06/11/13 Medical Marijuana Medical marijuana less harmful than most other legal tobacco products and has the ability to reduce the pain within ailing people. Marijuana also has the potential to raise the U.S. out of their tough economic struggle as well as lower crime rate and create more jobs for many more people. Marijuana should be legalized for medical use across the country. Marijuana has a negative stigma attached
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federal elections. These violations effectively exclude legitimate voters whose votes are diluted‚ and they must be shortened. Voting is a notorious representation in American community life. Besides standing for public office‚ American citizens don’t have any more civic obligations than those that are derived from their ability and responsibility to help shape the community policy. The privilege to vote is an essential vehicle for exercising civic obligations. That is the reason the augmentation of the
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Should animals have rights? A lot of people would say no because humans are the top 10% of the food chain‚so does this give us the right to take away animal rights? The answer is yes ‚ imagine a society where humans‚ who are superior to animals‚ have to abide to the same rules as an animal. Animals should not have a bill of rights because God gave humans superiority over other animals‚ Animals don’t respect our rights‚ If animals have rights‚ then so do vegetables‚ and humans and animals differ greatly
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extent to which the law reflects moral and ethical standards.” As societies morals and ethics constantly change the law must adapt to meet the needs and standards that society holds valuable. To ensure that the wider community is content with the legal system it is important for individuals to investigate how the law deals with certain categories of crime‚ as well as how well the law is dealing with the prominent issue. Societies changing values influence the process of law making and the implementation
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Legal Studies. Man jailed for crime spree A man from Gin Gin‚ west of Bundaberg in south-east Queensland‚ has been jailed for stealing more than $32‚000 during a seven-month crime spree. Anton Michael Janezic‚ 39‚ pleaded guilty to 34 charges including fraud‚ theft‚ drug and driving offences between September 2009 and April last year. Of the fraud charges‚ 15 relate to activity in the bank account of Duingal man‚ Robert Pitman‚ who was found dead in his caravan after a fire last April. Magistrate
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