State laws are not always just. State violence is not always legitimate. Discuss these issues in relation to protest and dissent. In his 1918 essay Politics as a Vocation‚ Max Weber described the monopoly of state violence as an essential characteristic of modern governments. (1918 p.1) State violence is monopolised towards the pursuit of societal compliance‚ which according to political history‚ is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy. (1918 p.2) As Tolstoy points out‚ history has
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How Profiling Affects Humanity Profiling is a heuristic psychological tool used to assess human behavior by generalizing individuals as members of a specific group‚ class‚ or social structure. Profiling is a functional tool in criminology because without the ability to classify people according to appearances‚ it would be nearly impossible to bring any given investigation to a conclusion. However‚ there are negative byproducts‚ such as prejudice and biased interpretations‚ associated with profiling
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Popular Culture: Racial Stereotyping in American Society Race is a division concept of humankind that is harnessed through a paradox both visually and invisibly. It is based on the cultural background‚ language‚ skin color‚ and creed. It can be understood as a concept to symbolize sociopolitical interests and conflicts in reference to different types of people. The perception of race determines the value of self-respect that people have towards one another. People are exposed to racial stereotypes
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Introduction: This assignment was relatively easy for me to write. I have read several books and studied several cases that involved criminal profiling. By no means am I an expert in the field‚ I merely looked at a profiling template and had to imagine a scenario in which a profile could be used. Writing is an essential skill for an individual that builds a criminal profile‚ as illustrated by my example. It is important to be able to write clearly and organize the information in a way that an investigator
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‘Race’ is a term with many negative connotations‚ one can’t help but think of the conflicts and atrocities that have occurred throughout history as a result of racial classification. As a result race has been retired as a valid representation of human biological diversity. Far more common in lay persons day to day life‚ the term ethnicity has become prominent as a replacement ‘politically correct’ term for classifying an individual’s ancestry‚ migration status‚ nationality‚ citizenship‚ religion
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The Unraveling of Affirmative Action Racial preferences spring from worthy intentions‚ but they have had unintended consequences—including an academic mismatch in many cases between minority students and the schools to which they are admitted. There’s a better way to help the disadvantaged. By RICHARD SANDER and STUART TAYLOR JR. Jareau Hall breezed through high school in Syracuse‚ N.Y. Graduating in the top 20% of his class‚ he had been class president and a successful athlete‚ and he sang
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Is the death penalty a service that is justified and valid form punishment? One would say there are two arguments to this topic with several different reasons or explanations. One being prevention‚ while the other side is saying there is a potential execution of an innocent man; and the other says justice and punishment; and last one says execution is murder. Murder as we know is clearly part of our society‚ and surely it is evident that something needs to be done about it. A variety of felonies
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Yes‚ the government is always justified when immersing itself in the lives of its citizens‚ as the benefits of this practice will always outweigh its consequences. This question had a very definite answer when great men like George Washington‚ John Adams‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ John Hancock‚ etc. found our great nation of America: no. Back then‚ it was very obvious that government should not spy on its own citizens and make decisions for them. This was actually the philosophy that the nation was based
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In the short story “the most dangerous game” Rainsford was justified in killing general Zaroff. Rainsford was a writer and a hunter and he was on a boat they were near by a island called “ship wreak island” they crashed but only few died but Rainsford was the only one to live after the terrible ship wreak Rainsford swam to the island than he found a house but it was more a big one than he went there wondering is anyone was there and that where he met general zaroff‚zaroff was also a hunter
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For those who spend their lives working to prevent and end wars‚ whether and how war itself can be justified must be an urgent question. Of course‚ war’s justification is an ancient tradition. Bizarrely‚ Just War theory was formulated within the Christian church‚ whose founder chose a donkey instead of a war horse and taught his followers to overcome evil with good. Not only is the theory still mainstream among churches but‚ as Dan Smith‚ head of an important NGO working for conflict transformation
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