“Their way is not our way!” INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND INDIGENOUS OVER-REPRESENTATION IN AUSTRALIA’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND - The Lucky Country? Hidden from the eyes of the world‚ two thirds of Aboriginal people in remote communities in Australia live in circumstances comparable to those 700 years ago in Europe. Health and mortality statistics in remote Aboriginal communities are some of the worst in the world. Despite decades of government
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remains one of the most significant figures in political philosophy‚ because of his theories on social contracts‚ the state
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A person cannot talk about John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau first defining what each contract theorist means when he talks about the state of nature. For Locke‚ his state of nature involves “ungoverned humans pursuing their individual interests with respect for one another’s rights and even cooperate with one another with their interests overlap” (Portis‚ p. 103). These ungoverned humans are rational‚ resources are unconditional‚ and there is no threat from any external source. In Rousseau’s
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The social cycle theory is the theory that history is full of patterns that simply repeat themselves over and over again. In this theory‚ there is social progress‚ but there is also an underlying cycle of major events that define the course. Sociological theories such as this are hard to scientifically prove‚ but there is apparent evidence that supports the cycle theory. The world today is having strikingly similar problems as the world was having in the sixties. One of the first things that Kennedy
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John Locke said that it is very important for society as well as a place for government to have a grasp and control on its people‚ by being able to us land and private property as limits toward various extents. For Marx‚ he was on the other hand very against
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The purpose of a Social Contract is to keep society in order. Ways of keeping society in order are human rights‚ the constitution‚ police departments‚ and education in which all contributes in having a progressing society. Human rights have to be protected which are the first 13 or 14 amendments that’s states people’s rights. If humans didn’t have any rights of their own we would feel enslaved due to that we have no freedom. The Constitution contains laws that every human being has to follow unless
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Each theory of justice has its own process and objective. As a result‚ the outcomes of crime differ. The purpose of this paper seeks to examine a crime through the lens of four theories of justice: retributive‚ utilitarian‚ restorative‚ and parallel. Moreover‚ the paper will elaborate more on each theory of justice‚ including the theory’s procedural and distributive justice‚ through its hypothetical application of a criminal case in Fairfax County‚ Virginia. These various theories of justice arose
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The two passages dealt with religious tolerance‚ each from a different perspective. The first passage‚ John Locke’s "A Letter Concerning Toleration" from 1689‚ was written from the viewpoint of a man under a king’s rule in England. The second passage‚ "The Blind Men and the Elephant‚" is a Buddhist parable. Locke’s reasoning for religious tolerance is all over the place. He first explains that no man has any right to enforce his beliefs on another man‚ stating that faith comes from within one’s
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govern themselves. With a “caring” and “fair” ruler they could be saved from the burden of their own judgement. In contrast‚ Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke‚ Baron De Montesquieu‚ Mary Wollstonecraft‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought that people were born pure and only were bad from the “corruption of society”‚ thus they should have a say in
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Locke on consent and tacit consent Note for Philosophy 166 Locke holds that one becomes obligated to obey political authorities only by one’s free and voluntary consent. Or does he? Locke: “The difficulty is‚ what ought to be looked upon as tacit consent‚ and how far it binds‚ i.e. how far any one shall be looked on to have consented‚ and thereby submitted to any government‚ where he has made no expressions of it at all.” Locke‚ later: “And to this I say that every man‚ that hath any possession
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