Courtney Weidner Legitimacy of Corrections Chestnut Hill College Abstract This paper will attempt to define legitimacy in the context of corrections and the overall criminal justice system. A study will be introduced that will reflect the correlation between compliance and perceived legitimacy while incarcerated. Specifically‚ 202 adult inmates were randomly assigned to serve a 6-month sentence at either a military-style boot-camp or a traditional
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imposed (Article 21) No felony shall be punishable by any penalty not prescribed by law prior to its commission. Note: Article 21 simply announces the policy of the State as regards punishing crimes. This provision prohibits the government from punishing any person for any felony with any penalty which has not been prescribed by the law. Article 21 - Is not a penal provision. It neither defines a crime nor provides a punishment for one. It has simply announced the policy of the government
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having to wait nearly 100 years to win a right you strongly believed in. Well women in the 1800s-1900s could imagine‚ they were denied access to vote even after they protested and fought for their right. Women demanded to be seen as full citizens of the United States. Even though women had to wait quite some time to get these rights‚ they still changed the course of history. I know it changed the course of history because it’s 2016 and women can vote. Sojourner Truth strongly believed that women had
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The present study focuses on the way in which error correction is done and the significance of errors in the Romanian context. In designing it‚ I did not use my knowledge on causes of errors as I was not interested to find out whether it can be established a correlation between students’ mother tongue‚ the target language and the production of errors. I oriented this study towards a narrower issue: the attitudes of teachers‚ students and native speakers of Romanian towards error correction. In order
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reference to one or two cities in the ‘Fertile Crescent.’ The history of civilization has been one of the most significant fields of study for a very long time. After the agriculture revolution the number of population grow rapidly‚ civilizations were formed and cities were being built to accommodate the growing populations of the ancient civilization. Architecture has always been a vital part of the civilizations throughout the history of mankind. As Nations become powerful and prosperous their
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While history is the study of past events‚ particularly related to human affairs and activities‚ the Oxford dictionary defines philosophy as‚ “the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge‚ reality‚ and existence‚ especially when considered as an academic discipline.” From the definition itself‚ one can easily see areas that overlap between these two disciplines. When Dionysius of Halicarnassus said‚ “History is philosophy learned from examples”‚ he certainly meant that studying about the history
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In the 1800s‚ women did not have the same rights that they do now. Because of this‚ feminists fought for women’s rights. Feminism is defined as the ideology and movements that have the goal of creating equality between men and women. Feminist movements in the United States have given women many more rights than they previously had. Some of these rights include the right to vote and reproductive rights (Feminism‚ 2017). Women have benefited greatly from the feminist movement‚ but nowadays‚ most feminists
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Many Chinese were drawn to California due to the gold rush; it attracted Chinese miners and contract labourers. Unfortunately‚ Asians were excluded from getting their citizenship in the states. However‚ the law was later removed after World War II‚ and new laws were put into place in order to allow them to enter the United States freely. When they first entered North America‚ they arrived in large
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When America won its independence from Britain‚ its people created a nation and built it up into a strong‚ independent place for many people to live in peace over time. However‚ at the beginning of the nation‚ not everyone that lived there was safe or free to live in peace. African Americans were often brought to America as slaves to work for people rich enough to buy them. They were treated terribly and considered to be property. As time went along‚ more white people were starting to decide that
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are women’s rights and how it was different in the 1800s and now?Women rights are rights given to women to be equivalent to men. In the 1800-1860s till now changed dramatically over time.Women Rights commenced in 1848.Women Rights changed over time throughout everywhere.Around the world‚ women have been treated differently‚ discriminated‚ and didn’t have opportunely throughout time. Do you think women had opportunities In the 1800-1860s? In the 1800s women were treated as a property and housewives
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