In this essay I will discuss the comparisons and differences of the three models of theory and learning as identified by MacNaughton‚ Conforming‚ Reforming and Transforming (MacNaughton‚ 2003). This essay will look at how these theories are explained and can be applied individually or together within the learning pedagogy. My discussion will be of a reflective nature and include how I have understood these three models in relation to the early childhood learning environment and how I may relate
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Effects of Longterm Imprisonment While the average time served in US prisons is 34 months‚ many inmates are serving sentences longer than this. According to a 2009 report by the Sentencing Project‚ 140‚610 out of 2.3 million inmates are serving a life sentence. However‚ with the possibility of parole‚ not all life sentences mean inmates spending their lives behind bars. Some inmates will return to society and face many challenges. One issue with long term imprisonment is the effect on family
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Restorative Justice is a great way to help stop crimes in our country. Restorative justice will help decriminalize the criminals in our jails and will help our earth become safer. Instead of just putting people in jail and leaving them there won’t help them‚ however‚ teaching them laws will help us all. If people in jail are taught restorative justice than they won’t commit crimes when they get out. Restorative justice is not about punishing the offender‚ but rather it’s about the offender working
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Topics in Criminal Law May 25‚ 2010 Abstract Strict liability crimes require no culpable mental state and present a significant exception to the principle that all crimes require a conjunction of action and mens rea. Strict liability offenses make it a crime simply to do something‚ even if the offender has no intention of violating the law or causing the resulting harm. Strict liability is based philosophically on the presumption that causing harm is in itself blameworthy regardless of the
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Although this is true‚ it has been proven that as a whole‚ the country has become exponentially more punitive‚ sentencing individuals at a far greater rate than in decades before. Nicola Lacey explains in American Imprisonment in Comparative Perspective that America is on an imprisonment “binge”. Until 1980‚ 110 people per 100‚000 individuals were behind bars whereas today the numbers are increased to 740 people per 100‚000. We live in a society of mass incarceration in which 1 out of every 100
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The Color Of Imprisonment “1 in 36 Hispanic adults are currently incarcerated‚ as is one in nine black men aged 20 to 34. One in three black men will be imprisoned in his lifetime. Although illegal drug use is equally prevalent among white and black males‚ a black man is five times more likely to be arrested. A higher percentage of the black population is currently imprisoned in America than in South Africa at the height of apartheid.” (Gordon) The Justice system in America is one that is
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4.2 Strict standards Furthermore the research on finding new antibiotics is strictly regulated under standards‚ licenses and regulations‚ which make the process of finding new antibiotics very hard and non-lucrative for companies [9]. Most antibiotic trials are based upon an equivalent already existing antibiotic. These trials underlay very strict standards‚ such as that the antibiotic which gets tested must achieve equivalent or similar efficiency as the older version. The amount to which the efficacy
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DEFENITION: STRICT LIABILITY RYLANDS V FLETCHER CASE i. FACTS ii. DIAGRAMATICAL REPRESENTATION iii. JUDGEMENT iv. EFFECTS OF THE CASE v. EFFECTS OF THE CASE IN INDIA vi. CONCLUSION vii. ESSENTIALS EXCEPTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY STRICT LIABILITY • A person may be liable for some harm even though he is not negligent in causing the same or does not intentionally cause it or is careful or has taken steps to prevent the same. • e.g.‚ The defendant is liable to the neighbor
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“False imprisonment is the unlawful restraint of a person against their will by someone without legal authority or justification” (False Imprisonment). False imprisonment can be caused by a number of factors. These include eyewitness misidentification‚ improper forensic science‚ false confession‚and snitches‚otherwise known as an informer. Eyewitness misidentification are 75% of exonerations. “An exoneration is when someone is freed from guilt or blame” (Exoneration 1). Eyewitness misidentification
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Evaluate the claim that the use of imprisonment should be reduced or abolished. Imprisonment is the harshest sanction that can be used by the courts when deemed necessary in punishing those who partake in criminal offences in this present day. When imprisonment first developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth century it was initially a place where people were held before trail or before punishment‚ imprisonment itself was not used as a form of punishment. At this period of time prisons were very
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