Essays on Breaking The Law

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The prison system in the United States has followed a system where prisoners are locked away from the rest of society and their families never to be seen nor heard from ever again, it has become a common theme with prison systems. Prisoners are forbidden to see their families, watch movies, and have certain times when items need to be returned so as to eliminate a possible threat against prison staff; many prisons in many states have restricted the rights of all prisoners. Prisoners in California prisons are a shining example of said treatment, it has gotten to the ...

(The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by, Michael Lewis.) The group of people that the book focuses on shows how they sold bonds to investors that were packaged as a safe bet. It shows the great lengths they went to in order to lure in investors, although they knew in actual fact the bonds were extremely risky investments. The group were also aware that in case of a Global Financial Crisis, the government would bail them out, and thus, they could get away with trading in this way. In a way the author shows readers that this kind ...

Laws are established in a country so as to maintain order in the community. Laws are mainly written by leaders and failure to follow the laws leads to punishment by law enforcers or the judicial department. One may wonder whether or not citizens should follow the law without any objections. The obedience and lawbreaking issues appear to be a crucial issue in the real world as people struggle with enforcing and obeying laws stipulated in various institutions or nations. Some famous philosophers such as Socrates have played a significant role in the world of philosophy. Socrates defined and considered ...

Social control normally encompasses all the cycles of day to day beliefs that are put in place to prevent people from breaking the law. In simple terms this guidelines do not apply to every group in a community equally and tend to be specific to either gender or age. In this case the emphasis is put on historical control of girls in the society. This paper will seek to give an overview of tradition of abuse and discrimination, look into the ways girls are abused and discriminated and connect this to resultant delinquent behavior. In the same note the institutions ...

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Illegal immigration continues to draw many issues in the world today. It is worth noting that illegal immigration affects countries in various ways. As a matter of fact, illegal immigration is an unethical act from the beginning. Law guides business ethics in most cases, and on the same note provide the basic framework whereby businesses will choose to follow. In fact, hiring illegal immigrants affects business ethics in various ways. The controversy of hiring ethical issues and its effects in business ethics based on the fact that there are those who support illegal immigration while other are against hiring of ...

Breaking the Law For the Sake of Justice details an incident where 2,500 protested illegally trespassed onto the property of a Washington D.C. coal-burning plant to protest that fact that these types of plants contribute to 40% of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. Feeling that a significant amount of environmental damage was being caused by the plants, the demonstrators felt a social need to break the law. It was their belief that breaking the law in this instance would benefit society and be for the greater good by discouraging the use of coal by power plants which contributes significantly ...

Law

Introduction Criticism of present-day medical ethics is seen as fallout of the relationship between stakeholders in theory and practice. While efforts continue to re-establish the relationship, the conflicting interest of the two stakeholders continues to create a perception of increased risk of bias or poor judgment. Again, when it comes to researchers in the healthcare sector, they should have a professional and ethical interest in what they do, but sometimes, these interests are compromised by the lure of financial gains. It is such a case that PharmaCARE has been guilty of. The aim of the law and the common good ...

I. The City 1. What is a city? A city is a place where people come together to share common interests and resources. It is a group of interacting people living in the same location. A city is built on how people live and interact with other people within the community. Cities allow citizens to participate and experience life events together. It is a sense of identity and provides citizens with a feeling of belonging. They are built with a set of principles which allow people to come together. It is normally a group of people who are organized under common shared values. A ...

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Curfew for minors occurs as one of the topics that have and continues to create an intense debate across various contexts in the society. Often referred to as juvenile curfew, curfew for minor place restrictions on minors; persons under the age of 17 from being in outside at night. However, is of the essence that there are some exceptional circumstances that may allow minors to be out at night such during cases when minors have school travels. In the recent past, various individual have raised questions on whether juvenile curfew are constitutional. Those opposed to juvenile curfew often argue ...

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Pragmatically, the deviant behaviour of white-collar criminals provides students of sociology a different exploration of how human nature works in clandestine operations in plain view. Society, at least superficially does not suspect a so-called white-collar individual of criminal behaviour in general, as stereotypes tend to lead people’s thoughts in the direction one way or another. While, the dishevelled, unkempt, anti-social “looking” individual exists as suspect of deviant behaviour by his/her mere appearance including labelled as a criminal in some regards, the white collar individual stands in society appearance wise as an upstanding citizen (Goode 2008).

Historically, the concept of white collar is not so new:

Edwin Sutherland created the concept of ...

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As we all well know, the jails are becoming more and more crowded with each passing month, and it has gotten to the point where putting a criminal in jail is not an option anymore. Ultimately, judges as well as other officials are aware of the limited capacity of the jails not just in their jurisdiction, but in others outside of their own as well. Some criminals or even first time offenders feel relieved at the fact that they can get away with murder, and no one can stop them. If they are stopped then they are instead let go, ...

Not everyone will agree with me that social profiling exists in our society today. As a nation we have walked a long hard road on matters racism and many consider it a thing of the past. But that is not true considering some of the happenings we see in our society with regard to a rough and unfair treatment that black drivers receive on the highways. When looking at this issue of “driving while black” one cannot afford to assume that black men are discriminated against because of the way in which they are treated. It is a common happening for black males of ...

There exist many examples and scenarios that present issues that challenge and bring a dilemma not only to juries in making decisions, but also other parties in the criminal justice system at large. Law has to be followed to the later as required, but in the event of doing so it challenges ethical and moral obligations that exist in the society that might have led to the development of a case and scenario that lead one to be pronounced guilty. The society at large has contributed to the various challenges that lead to people breaking the law. The prejudice, stereotype and ...

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Violence by and against children is completely unacceptable and against their fundamental rights. It is imperative that institutions and government agencies ensure they design policies, programs and initiatives that are efficient and progressive not only by preventing juvenile delinquency, but more significantly by protecting the society from errant delinquents. Many theorists and scholars have placed more emphasis in drafting these policies to reflect a social approach to the problem of juvenile delinquency rather than adopting a judicial approach. It is a fundamental obligation not only to the criminal justice system, but also to the society at large to prevent juvenile delinquency. The ...

As the authors point out in the opening chapter of Moral Issues in business, "Stories of business corruption and of greed and wrongdoing in high places have always fascinated the popular press, and media interest in business ethics has never been higher" (Shaw et alt, 4). Part of this fascination must stem from humans interest in "bad new" of disasters terrorism and threats to peaceful living. Some of the interest might be a self defense mechanism that seeks to guard against unwanted circumstances that could happen in people's lives through protection themselves of the knowledge of what has happened to ...

A criminal defense attorney is a professional who mainly defends people and other entities accused of criminal conduct. A criminal defense attorney operates either as an individual or as a group of individuals. When operating as a group, the attorneys form a firm under whose name they operate. Additional defense attorneys can be employed by the legal firm and serve to present their clients in court. Most of them are in private practice although majority may start out working for the government. Their work consists of providing legal assistance and representation to people accused of breaking the law. On the other hand, a ...

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Drug trafficking as defined by the UNODOC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) refers to the illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture and sale or distribution of drugs in contravention of the law prohibiting the handling of drugs. This vice has been in operation for quite a whole now. This saw Clinton’s drug czar Barry McCaffrey retort that drug trafficking has been in place from as far as 1996 (Suddath, 2009). The truth is that drug trafficking has been a global issue for over 40 years. The war on drug trafficking was instituted in an early stage. Mora (1996) ...

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Over the years the growth and development of the internet has brought many opportunities for businesses and individuals to gather personal information about other users and to direct their advertising at these people. However, the means by which these things are done give rise to many ethical issues. For one thing, there is the question of whether an individual’s browser history is his or her private property, or is it something which others should be allowed to share? Another issue is at what point are companies being simply unethical? At what point are they breaking the law? At ...