org/journal/aasoci) DOI:10.4236/aasoci.2012.21007 Is Street Art a Crime? An Attempt at Examining Street Art Using Criminology Zeynep Alpaslan Department of Sociology‚ Hacettepe University‚ Ankara‚ Turkey Email: z_alpaslan@hacettepe.edu.tr Received February 1st‚ 2012; revised February 29th‚ 2012; accepted March 13th‚ 2012 A clear and basic definition is the fundamental element in understanding‚ thus explaining any social scientific concept. Street art is a social phenomenon‚ characterized by its
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Poetic Justice: A Look at King and Anthony Every society determines what laws are necessary to preserve the natural‚ moral‚ and ethical rights of its constituents. Laws are social structures put in place to maintain order and balance. Often‚ however‚ there has been a discrepancy between the justice served and the justice deserved as the law has been manipulated by a powerful group to exploit a weaker group. For example‚ during the mid 19th Century there was a steady increase in efforts for women’s
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party followed similar paths‚ but the two movements leave behind different legacies. Both grew out of grassroots movements‚ enjoyed brief popularity and are now widely disliked by the electorate. These Americans were angered and grew into spontaneous and leaderless populist uprisings where momentum fell short. Both claimed to represent a large portion of normal Americans‚ yet their ideologies and demographics could not have been more different like their influences
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American Justice System Punishment vs. Rehabilitation Melinda Colon Kaplan University CJ101-12AU William Patterson January 17‚ 2010 Justice 2 The United States correctional system uses both punishment and rehabilitation when dealing with offenders. There are many ways that the justice system handles these punishments such as incarceration‚ probation
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Leadership Midterm Chapter 1 Introduction 1. Leadership- a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. 2. Trait vs Process Leadership- innate characteristics that individuals are born with vs properties possessed that one is able to develop. 3. Assigned vs Emergent Leadership- based on occupying a position within an organization vs an individual perceived by others as most influential member of a group regardless of individuals title
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“book smart” or “street smart.” On the one hand‚ some argue that being book smart is more intellectual than being street smart. From this perspective‚ they say that doing well in school and being educated on things that we consider academic is how to be intellectual. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that being street smart is more intelligent than being book smart. In the words of Gerald Graff in Hidden Intellectualism‚ one of this view’s main proponents‚ “I believe that street smarts beat out
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Research show‚ street criminals were more likely to be caught and be sentenced to more severe penalties than white-collar criminals. The distinction between white-collar and street criminals is key because it is uncertain that whether punishment is established at the level of the specific offense or is established generally for all crime types. Before analyzing whether street and white-collar are similar or different‚ a brief overview of the perceptual literature regarding white-collar crimes are
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Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Dominia Harmon CJA/374 October 8‚ 2013 Mark Reinhardt Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections The juvenile justice system can be a difficult process to understand. Many may believe that the system has many similarities that of an adult system‚ but that’s not the case at all. The juvenile justice system is more of a process than a system. The intake of the juvenile after arrest will be explained along with the court process‚ punishment‚ rehabilitation
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and what duties they ought to fulfill. Retributive justice becomes a large part of the Aeneid because some individuals are doing what they ought not to and not fulfilling their duties. In fact‚ the defining factor in my argument is the different concepts of justice in The Aeneid‚ the New Testament‚ and the Old Testament. I argue against the claim that the Aeneid was a pre-cursor of the New Testament based on the fact that its constructions of justice are markedly
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When a person is introduced into the criminal justice system‚ the process is different for both white-collar and street criminals. There are several differences that makes the process display what appears to be preferential treatment towards those that understand and commit crimes that are not to be considered street crimes. It is that treatment that makes many in the general public believe the criminal justice system works only for a certain group of people. DISCUSSION: There are many differences
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