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    they are both working together. This is linked to police legitimacy by how the community feels about the police. If there is a negative feeling towards to police than the people are going to be less likely to follow the laws‚ and not obey the people who enforce them. Legitimacy is the feeling that you need to follow the laws set forth‚ this sets the standard at which people go away from their self-interests and allow people to appeal

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    2014). Public opinion and perceived actions of the police are what formulate if the public thinks the police are being fair or unfair. Legitimacy is only one part of how the public perceives police and perception of fairness and open communication also play an important role for police to effetely do their job (Bain‚ Robinson‚ & Conser‚ 2014). However‚ legitimacy seems to play a critical role in substantial

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    Legitimacy enables a state to depend not on shear force or coercion‚ rather the idea of consent of the governed. Consent of the governed is a principle that goes back to the English philosopher John Locke‚ stating that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and legal when it is consented by the people or society that the power is being exercised over. Consequently‚ this makes legitimacy an integral component of any successful modern state. Various forms of political

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    Law is the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties. Law consists of the rules that govern human relationships ion a civilised society. Laws are made and enforced by the state to enable people to live together in freedom‚ safety and order. They protect the weak from the oppression of the strong and reward the good and punish the bad; therefore‚ laws are made by the state and enforced through

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    ----------------------- December 1st 1955 Black African American citizen‚ Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat when the bus was filling up. She was allegedly arrested for violating bus segregation laws and behaving in disorderly conduct. 1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott April 23th 1956 The Montgomery bus company decides to implement a policy of desegregation after the U. S. Supreme Court dismisses the appeal of a federal appeals court ruling outlawing bus segregation

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    does not work. To add to the concern‚ the cost of these institutions is devastating to the American taxpayer. “Prisons are an enormously costly failure for controlling and reducing crime. . .” (Rentschler). “A single prison cell with its basic features costs between forty-five thousand and one hundred twenty-five thousand to build. And a single prisoner costs between twelve thousand to thirty thousand dollars each year.” (Rentschler). The costliness of these institutions is of no benefit to society

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    A short essay exploring key feature of a personalised learning environment commenting on different aspects that may improve a pupils levels of achievment For this assignment I will be discussing the concept personalised learning‚ analysing and commenting on aspects and key features of the personalised learning environment that I have devised for pupils in key stage 3 and 4. Addressing how the learning needs of the pupis will be met‚ including reference to reading‚ I have chosen to focus my

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    Crime is an issue that has existed for many years‚ however for individuals to carry out research and create theories into crime as a ’social science ’ has only emerged within the last few centuries. It is true to say that there are many factors and influences that may lead up to any individual person committing a criminal or deviant act‚ whether they are biological‚ psychological‚ sociological‚ cultural or gender based. It is necessary to take into consideration these factors to discuss the existence

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    “conditions which are totally unsuitable” (Humphrey and May‚ 1997)‚ and a moral crisis. The latter agrees with orthodox account but claims the reason we are at a ‘critical juncture’‚ is because there is this internal and external legitimacy crisis. The cause of the crisis of legitimacy is the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal. We don’t know ourselves as a society why we are imprisoning people anymore. If it is about rehabilitation‚ then question arises of where the resource are‚ and how do we go about

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    Event-driven programming is a flow of programs which are determined by events like user actions for example mouse clicks‚ sensor outputs‚ or messages from other programs. There are a lot of key features that are used in event driven program. Without these feature then certain event can’t happen. The key features of event driven programs are service oriented‚ time driven‚ event handlers‚ trigger functions‚ events‚ form‚ user interface‚ event loops‚ flexibility‚ suitability for graphical interfaces and

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