Is it a problem if one percent of Americans possess 50% of American wealth and assets? Kelvin Howard PHI 103 Informal Thinking Instructor Stephen Krogh February 25‚ 2013 One percent of Americans possess more cash‚ stocks and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. How could it be that 400 people have more wealth than half of the more than 100 million U.S. households? The distribution of wealth pertains to allotment of wealth in a given place and/or time. It measures
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Criminal Justice In The Next 50 Years Jon Scott CRJ 201 Introduction to Criminal Justice Daniel Malvin 5 March 2011 This week are tasked to discuss three subject in criminal justice that will change in the next fifty years. I have chosen to discuss police technology in police vehicle‚ less-lethal weapons‚ and cybercrime. I’m going to discuss if what changes have already happened in the last several years and was is expected in the future. The question if these changes will be beneficial or
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Outline and assess the role of the police in the social construction of crime (50 marks) Social construction refers to the way in which crime and deviance in society might be created and shaped by society and social institutions. This can occur in a number of different ways. For example‚ they can influence public perception and definitions of what establishes crime and deviance‚ deviants or non-deviants. They can also influence the amount of crime in society by amplifying it therefore clamping
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NORMTRONICS AUTHOR: SFC NORMAN M. VANCE MAP READING Determine Polar Coordinates Maptech® USGS Topographic Series™‚ ©Maptech®‚ Inc. 978-933-3000‚ www.maptech.com/topo Copyright 2001 Maptech‚ Polar Coordinates Plot Azimuth from a known point. Plot distance from the know point along the azimuth line. The polar coordinate is at the end of the azimuth/distance line. STEP 1. PLACE THE INDEX MARK OF THE PROTRACTOR AT THE CENTER OF MASS ON THE POINT FROM WHICH YOU ARE MEASURING. PNT 1 STEP 2
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Modern life is very different from life 50 years ago. Some people think the changes in our lives have been very positive while others think they have been more negative. What do you think? Fifty years ago life was simpler and some people think things were better back then. While it is true that life today has some negative aspects‚ I think the modern lifestyle is better than the way people lived in the past. Some people like my grandparents say there were a number of positive things about life
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Paraphrasing S. Kathleen Kitao Kenji Kitao When you write a paper‚ you use some information that you have read in books‚ journals‚ on the Internet‚ etc. Your teacher might have told you‚ “Use your own words.” In other words‚ even when you use someone else’s information‚ you are not allowed to use the words they wrote. You have to use your own. You have to say the same thing in a different way. This is called paraphrasing. For example‚ if the book you are reading from says‚ “John Adams‚ who was
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Outline and assess the usefulness of official statistics in measuring crime (50 marks) Crime is behaviour that breaks the law. Crime itself is deviant. Deviance refers to the behaviour that most people see as differing from acceptable social norms or standards of society – as abnormal or immoral. Official statistics is crime reported by the public and recorded by the police (or detected by the police themselves). Records are published every three months. The process involves the witness discovering
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Definition: A tort‚ in common law jurisdictions‚ is a civil wrong which unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act‚ called a tortfeasor. Tort is derived from the latin word “Tortum”. Although crimes may be torts‚ the cause of legal action is not necessarily a crime as the harm may be due to negligence which does not amount to criminal negligence. The victim of the harm can recover their loss as damages in a lawsuit
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Honeywill & Stein-v-Larkin Brothers [1934] 1 KB 191 Balfour-v-Barty-King [1957] 1 QB 496‚ [1957] 1 All ER 156 Biffa-v-Maschinenfabrik Ernste Hese [2008] EWCA Civ 1257‚ [2009] 3 WLR 324 EMPLOYERS’ VICARIOUS LIABILITY FOR EMPLOYEES Liability for torts committed by employees in the course of their employment. EMPLOYMENT STATUS Note the approach taken by the court in establishing a person’s employment status. Ready Mixed Concrete Ltd-v-Minister of Pensions [1968] 2 QB 497 Hall-v-Lorimer [1994]
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In article 35‚ the government must make sure a child is not abducted‚ or sold. And the last article that stood out to me was article 34; the government must protect a child from any form of sexual abuse. With that said; my question is then why are 50% of sex traffickers kids?1 In the Philippines‚ 15 year old Maria looks for a job so she can help send her sick dad to the hospital. Maria met a man who said he can find her a job. But this man‚ this devious man forgot to mention that her job would
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