Essays on Custody

Introduction

Bank typology has grown more complex as more formerly niche banking services gain greater customer bases, encouraging different banks to shift focus from the traditional retail banking format to a more complex and specialized arrays of banking services. Moreover, large banks, particularly multinational companies, maintain their retail operations while serving non-retail accounts, such as businesses, investors, and purely online customers (Pritchard, 2016). Further, certain organizations offer banking-like services to its members, such as credit unions and savings and loans associations (S&Ls). Thus, to manage this typological complexity, this explorative paper covers only primary forms described in its most typical ...

Cases of inappropriately handled evidence are of common occurrence. The custodians of evidence in law enforcement agencies are often to blame for the mishandling, misplacing, loss, and destruction of evidence. Sometimes, the custodians do not take the appropriate care of their property rooms. Consequently, problems arise from the lack of accountability for evidence from the initial process of evidence collection through to the documentation process. Hence, it is crucial to document as many details as possible to avoid scrutiny of evidence during the trial process.

Evidence Collection

Collecting evidence in a systematic and careful sequence is crucial. The initial step in ...

Interpersonal Conflict

Only a year ago I had a falling out with my best friend, a man I’d known for well over ten years of my life. When we first met he was single, without children, and a borderline alcoholic. He had a steady job, a stable home, but no one else in his life save for friends who were either drunks or habitual drug users. We met by happenstance since we lived in the same apartment building, and he had seen me coming and going more than once. When he invited me to his apartment for a drink with ...

1 a. According to the Women’s Charter, Chapter 353, Section 95, either party to a marriage may file for divorce on the grounds that the marriage is irretrievably broken (The Law Commission, Women’s Charter, 2013). The Charter sets forth certain situations that may constitute a finding of an irretrievably broken marriage. The following facts, according to the Charter, would result in a finding of an irretrievability broken marriage by the court:

Adultery has been committed by the defendant and plaintiff find it intolerable to live with defendant

Defendant behaves in a way that plaintiff cannot reasonably be expected to live with defendant Defendant has deserted the plaintiff for a continuous period of at ...

Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

Introduction

The United States Constitution was framed without a Bill of Rights, and subsequent amendments came to be parts of the Bill of Rights, although this was framed amid the lack of confidence of an oppressive regime. The fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments provided rules to safeguard individual liberty. The Sixth Amendment protects citizens against unfair denials of life and liberty by ordering the federal government to give protections to all suspected criminal offenders (Chhablani, 2008).

The Fourth Amendment protects citizens against unpredictable violations of privacy by government authorities. This protects ...

Introduction

Fathers should be treated equally as mothers in family court decisions as too many times the mother is favored because of the nurturing stereotype. Fathers are denied the opportunity to take care of their children in a situation where nurturance and care are needed. As such, the stereotypes are helpful in the evaluation of the unambiguous nature of the fathers in nurturing children. Mothers have been favored from time to time following their ability to take care of their children. Upon a court case, the mother is viewed as the favorite in handling the children in case of a ...

A single parent as per Hetherington (2014), is an uncoupled person who spends most of the days’ responsibilities raising a child or children. The term can also be used to refer to a person who is unmarried, widowed or divorced but has a dependent child or children. The primary caregiver of a single family structure is the mother. Single parent structures are as a result of calamities such as death of the partner, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy. Currently in the United states single dads make approximately of 6% of the entire households while single mums make up approximately a ...

An ethical dilemma is often referred to as a complicated situation which involves two conflicting mental ideas. In most of the cases, the issues addressed in the conflict are often based on moral imperatives. This, therefore, creates a situation where honoring one ideology means that the other one will have to be disgraced and in the process causing a great misunderstanding between the two parties involved. In some occasion, a situation like this is called an ethical paradox (White, 1992). In some of the cases, ethical dilemmas are often invoked in a bid to refute the moral code in ...

Introduction

The issues of whether or not to treat juveniles or minors the same ways as adults when they commit a crime is a delicate one and has been debated for decades. Many authoritative figures believe they should be treated in a similar manner. However, there are many researchers that feel differently, believing that charging a child with what many consider an “adult crime” could affect the rest of their life and leave them with no hope of redemption. When making such a life-changing decision a judge or jury should already understand the social, biological, and psychological factors that differ ...

Introduction

People commit a variety of crimes on a daily basis. Some crimes are minor incidents that do not have an extensive consequence or sentence to uphold by the offender. There are crimes that are committed that are in a higher bracket and these crimes have a more serious sentence. People often commit a crime for a number of reasons. Some crimes committed were not even done by the person who was charged in the incident. There needs to be proof or evidence that can place the alleged criminal at the crime scene when it accrued. It is important that ...

Introduction

Deng Xiaoping's rule in China marked an important pivotal point of political and economic development in the country, which had begun under the reign of the first generation leaders. Even after the death of the former, the political and economic achievements of China continue to impress across the globe. However, at the dawn of the post-Deng era, there has been a growing trend of economic and political development in different regions. As a result, it has alluded to the important question of what is the state of affairs in China amidst some current issues, which questions the growth of ...

Today we are in the middle of a seeming “race-war” between civilians and law enforcement. Allegations are flung wildly, almost on a daily basis, concerning the use of excessive force by police officers as headlines continue to report abuse, and even deaths at the hands of those who are sworn to protect. It is considered more disconcerting because it is over twenty years after the 1992 L.A. riots, which brought the public’s attention to serious issues within law enforcement, and demanded change. Today, we are not seeing much of that change and the majority of the violence, if ...

Charles Wilkinson and his famous book “Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations” provide a brilliant description of the life of American Indians and how Indian tribes' could lose their sovereignty in the 1950s that was the turning point in the history of Indian nations. The author of the book characterizes Indians as passive victims of dark pages of their history. In fact, the author provides the description of separate stories which prove how American Indians became the active creators of their own history and moved from dispossession and darkness to well being and flourishing. Wilkinson accurately demonstrates ...

CONLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES

Conflict is interference between groups of people or individuals with different values, aims, purposes and expectations. Conflict is a clash of interests, beliefs or ideologies which are opposing. External conflicts are conflicts originating from outside the organization. External conflicts arise due to intervention by third parties (Charles 2006). External areas of potential conflict in U.S. court system include: when there is a disagreement between the lawyers and the court system on the circuit split. This occurs when some lawyers suggest that it is the Supreme Court which should solve a particular case while the judges have a different opinion ...

There are two tests that have been used over time to analyze and test an individual’s psychopathology and characteristics. The first test is called the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The second test is known as the Rorschach Inkblot Test and was designed to assess and analyze thought process disorder. Both of these types of psychological testing have had different views and opinions. There has been great praise in the resourcefulness of these tests in many findings. In contrast to the positive reviews, there have been negative reviews as well. The findings of these tests have been controversial ...

Two needs for forensic assessment in civil forensic cases

Two important types of civil cases in which forensic psychological assessment may be required are worker’s compensation and custody hearings. In the former, the client is usually asking for some sort of monetary compensation for damages that have been caused by their employees. In the second one, there is usually an underage person whose custody is being determined by the courts, as his or her parents are going through a process of separation. Obviously, these are caricatures of the complex real cases that real forensic psychologists have to face. Nevertheless, they will serve as models to explain the ...

Abstract

This paper evaluates several sources to try and determine whether the needs of youth in juvenile detention facilities are being met. While most youths consider counselling to be effective, more than half of them do not have the pleasure of working with professional mental health personnel. The education system used in most of these facilities tends to be ineffective because the needs of detained youth are different from the needs of their counterparts in the general population. Further, there are various disruptions, including court proceedings and security procedures that take up plenty of time that would be used for ...

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Three elders were killed when a house in Mapleash Avenue, Columbia, Tennesse exploded and burned after a profane space heater was accidentally knocked off the house’s wall.

Mayor Thomas Hillman of Anaheim was arrested last night on suspicion of DUI and felony possession of cocaine. According to a statement released by the Buena Park Police Department, police officers decided to stop a 2011 Mercedes CLS after it was observed to be weaving erratically on the road at approximately 11:30 last night. The driver, who was later identified as Mayor Hillman, was found to be driving under ...

Introduction

Forensic nursing has become an exciting field and one of the critical nursing specialties. In essence, the need for forensic nursing has particularly increased due to the rising awareness on the importance of appropriate forensic evidence collection and its preservation (Williams, 2005). In this paper, we assess why the knowledge on evidence collection and preservation is critical in health care. Also, the paper describes some of the procedures to be followed when collecting evidence in the ER.

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Why knowledge on evidence collection and preservation is critical in health care Increasing Cases of Patients Assaults There is an increasing number ...

Policy Positions Paper: Use of Medical Marijuana in Georgia

The use of marijuana (Cannabis sativa) can be traced back more than 5000 years ago related to medical, recreational, and spiritual reasons (Bostwick, 2012). The United States Pharmacopeia has included it since 1850’s, and until the 1930’s physicians provided prescriptions for it for a number of physical complaints (Narcanon International, 2016). In 1970, the United States Congress determined it had no valid therapeutic value and categorized it as a Schedule I illegal substance. However, a number of sources have stated that marijuana has no addictive properties (Samsha, 2016). The National Institute on Drug Abuse state this is ...

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Documenting and investigating a crime scene are important procedures to investigating a crime, and assigning culpability as an investigator documents, recognizes, and collects physical evidence as the scene of a crime. In order for a crime to be solved, and culpability assigned it is critical for the investigator to reconstruct the scene by putting each piece of evidence together in order to paint a picture of what happened at the scene of the crime. The principle that guides the crime investigation process is called Locard's Exchange Principle. This principle suggests that something physical is always ...

Issues Facing Portland Police Bureau

The Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, similar to other police departments, faces some policing issues that hinder the effective performance of its mandate. Examples of the salient issues facing Portland Police Bureau include ethical and effective policing issues, domestic violence issues, drug and substance abuse, gang problems, low police staffing, gun violence, hiring and training problems negative public perception of the bureau and high rates of crime.

One of the greatest issues facing the bureau currently is the low level of police staffing that has negatively impacted on its ability to effectively fight crime in the Oregon region. This ...

Part 1

One of the major risk factors of fraud is the assignment of a wide range of duties to each employee (Stone, 2009). This risk factor gives them numerous opportunities to commit fraud. An auditor should evaluate the level of this risk by checking the job description of each employee. The duties of each employee should be well defined so as to enable the auditor to see the loopholes in the company operations. These loopholes enable employees to commit fraud without being discovered. A good example is where an employee requests the supply of some goods to the company; the ...

What is the Constitutional issue being decided in this case (as delineated by Chief Justice Warren in section I)?

The Constitutional issue being decided in this case as delineated by Chief Justice Warren in section I is on interrogation, and the issues it has the capacity to bring with it. It involved the questioning of the defendants by the police in a room in which the defendants were completely cut from the outside world, while in police custody. The defendants were not informed of their rights at the onset of the interrogations. Oral admissions were elicited through the questions used during the interrogation process. The police ended up forcing the defendants to confess for a crime that they ...

Many people think that children are being a special population. They bring happiness to their parents’ lives. With their appearance in the world, it becomes a brighter and certainly better place. The primary responsibility for children lies on parents. They are obliged “to provide the child necessary maintenance, health care, education and support” ("NRS: Chapter 125B - Obligation of Support" n.p.). As children, due to their age, are often helpless, the government is aimed at protecting the children’s rights with the help of different laws. This paper will deal with child custody laws in particular. The system of ...

The case of Roper vs. Simmons is a case that involved the issuance of a ruling by the United States Supreme Court holding and arguing that imposing capital punishment on minors was unconstitutional. The case of Roper vs. Simmons had the punishment extents of juveniles involved in murder cases lowered contrary to an earlier strict ruling in cases involving minors. For example, in previous years, the Supreme Court issued stern decisions on cases such as Stanford vs. Kentucky case of 1989. Accordingly, the Supreme Court went ahead and overturned statutes in 25 states lowering penalties on minors. Also, various ...

Abstract

A plea bargain has defined the court proceedings in the recent history of the criminal justice system. As such, prosecutors and judges have adapted to the policy to carry on activities while practicing copping plea arrangements so as to reduce the number of pending cases and the pile that characterizes most of the district magistrates’ courts. On one side, the idea of a plea bargain has greatly enhanced the efficiency of the legal systems. This is because it has reduced the time for prosecutors to work on various trials as well as reducing the instances of overcrowding in jails ( ...

This study aims to identify reasons for growth in female prison population in China and propose possible solution to the problem. One of the difficulties of this study is that little research and data is available on China’s women in prisons.

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Female offenders constitute a small fraction of total number of people in China, however this number is dramatically increasing which is alarming and cannot be negotiated. According to the statistics provided by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, the percentile of female population in prisons significantly increased over last years ("China | World Prison Brief", 2016). Number of women ...

Introduction

The cases below were presented in the court of law and their decisions were a foundation on which other similar cases could be based on. Law in its course is a very tough discipline more so for the individuals who have not trained well in that field. All the cases presented below addressed different types of crimes. Judges give verdict on cases by interpreting the law basing on judgements of previous cases similar to the one at hand. Two of the cases below address disorderly conduct, one entails threat communication and the other addresses the act of escaping from ...

Reduction of crime is the dream of any criminal justice system. In the era where the rate of crime has significantly increased due to the use of sophisticated weapons and technology, there is an increasing necessity for the government and other stakeholders to ensure that such crimes are minimized. Having strict punishment mechanisms is one of the strategies geared towards the reduction of crimes. In Canada, this approach is the most common. Its proponents give a two-fold argument about its role in reducing crime. First, they argue that the offender is ‘locked behind bars’, hence temporarily separated from the ...

Question 1

(1) A word child was identified as legitimate child, there is a gap in arguing in case of illegitimate child. (2) It was concluded that if a woman is not a lawful wife of a father and this child is his legitimate child, than this child cannot have illegitimate mother

Question 2

(3) Graham-Perkins JA argued that (1) supports the fact that a child can be legitimate child of his father and cannot have illegitimate mother, while the primary argument of Smith JA puts parents in a different situation regarding the custody. (4) He argued that if the situation (2) occurs, ...

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Introduction In the United Kingdom, the Youth Justice Board is responsible for overseeing the youth justice system in the country. According to the law, children and adolescents (10-17 years of age) are subjected to custody if found involved in criminal activities. Violence and theft are the most common crimes for which juvenile offenders are convicted. As far as the major purpose of the youth justice system in UK is concerned, it is to make sure that the young offenders are managed properly. It needs to be mentioned here that the UK youth justice system stresses on ...

Domestic violence refers to a situation where a spouse uses a particular pattern of emotional, physical, sexual abuse, financial depravation or a combination of these behaviors to control or threaten the other. Although this form of abuse is directed to one of the partners in a relationship, children also become victims because they stop feeling safe and secure. The children also stop seeing their home as a place where they can find refuge and support whenever they feel threatened by the outside world. Accordingly, violent experiences have profound impact on the life of the children as well as their ...

Though many family courts are against the act of child kidnapping, many rows that are as a result of custody dispute often lead to a tug of war between parents. Many parents often resort to snatch and grab as their only option especially after the courts make a ruling that did not favor them. However, this act is viewed as a crime, and it is referred to as parental kidnapping. Parental kidnapping is subject to the laws set by several states to address this category of crime (Greif and Hegar 1993). Kidnapping means that the child is restrained from ...

ABSTRACT

Brenda Spencer, at age 16, killed two people, injured a police officer as well as several school children when she opened fire on an elementary school across the street from her home while students were arriving for class. Brenda made startling proclamations about the school shooting. She claimed the shooting made her day better, and that the shootings were fun. After being sentenced to twenty-five years to life, she has been denied parole since the incident and remains incarcerated today. There is no comprehensive explanation for the crime of Brenda Spencer. Yet, her mental condition and the positivist theory ...

Introduction

According to Beverly (2013, p. 1), parental alienation refers to the situation where one parent is irrationally rejected by their child, usually because the other parent has influenced the child negatively towards them. There are cases where the cases are severe that the case of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) develops. In this scenario, the symptoms mentioned repeat themselves and the behavior are affected. The causes of this problem are usually triggered by both parents, especially those that provide the child with a hostile living environment. This environment could be triggered by parents who are undergoing a divorce or parents ...

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This paper was prepared for Name of Subject taught by Professor Name of Professor Abstract Divorce of the parents is in most cases a stressful event in a child’s life. There are both short-term and long-term effects of divorce on children. The difficulty of these negative effects is determined by a set of factors: age and sex of the child, the extent to which the child was involved into the marital conflict of parents, the socioeconomic well-being of the family, and the level of support and understanding established in the parent-child relationship. In this paper the most important ...

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Executive Summary

Recent news reports on racial minorities being shot and killed by the police, or by those taken into custody and are reported to have died while in that situation, pose a grim reminder that the relationship of law enforcement and the racial minorities in the United States have been one filled with tension and conflict, mistrust and suspicion, fear and force, and domination and struggle. This is not a civil rights position paper; rather, this is a research geared to proffer that the instance of encounters between racial minorities and the police have been generally characterized by conflict ...

Ricardo and Sue were married in 2002 and separated in 2005. Tom’s gross income is $100,000 and Sue’s gross income is $120,000. Ricardo applied for spousal support, and his claim is granted.

$120,000 - $100,000 = $20,000 is the difference in the gross incomes of Ricardo and Sue x 3 = 4.5% to 2 x 3 = 6% 4.5% x $20, 000 = $900 per year to 6% x $20,000 = $1,200 per year = range of $75 to $100 per month

What will be the Duration of the Support?

x .5 / 3 x 1 = range 1 ½ to 3 years Ed and Tim ...

A brief account of the patient/client assessment

Drug misuse within state prisons has persistently been a major problem for the healthcare personnel. The treatment of misusers within these units is however a challenge for those concerned and this is attributed to a host of factors which dependently or independently leads to fragmented measures of managing this population. These challenges range from the vulnerability of the prisoners to self-harm and suicide cases while in prison; the occurrence of death upon serving their term due to intentional or accidental opiate overdose; the lacking measures of counseling as part of an integrated withdrawal system; the non-adherence to national and ...

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Background of the Scandal:

Organized crime has been the most worrying thing that has been haunting the experts of governance and public management as it can be very hard to trace and even harder to avoid. Rather than doing their jobs, the law enforcement agencies like police and related other institutes can be made a part in the organized crime in order to ensure that the criminals get protected when caught or worse yet, do not face hurdles in their operations. Drug addiction has been one of the biggest problems that the policy makers and governance specialists have ever claimed to ...

Introduction

Much debate has been around the income and bail bond system in the United States. There have been expressed concerns of inequality among detainees based on their wealth and possession. Criminal justice system in the United States is confronted with the increasing number of the incarcerated population. The focus of the paper will be on presenting the arguments why the bail bond systems do not work for low income defendants. The fairness of the criminal systems has been questioned based on the disproportionate affect the bail bond has on the poor detainees.

Bail bond system

Bail bond payment is a money payment ...

Retributive rationale and Utilitarian Rationale

In retributive rationale, the idea of retribution is to ensure that an act of wrong is balanced in the form of punishment inflicted on the offender (Blackburn, Fowler and Pollock, 2012). It is important to note that retribution does not involve a revenge mission as the people giving the punishment have been given the authority to do so by law. The process of deciding the punishment to be done on the offender requires a certain specific procedure to be followed (Blackburn, Fowler and Pollock, 2012). The victim cannot be granted the power to provide punishment for the offender as ...

Introduction

Criminology refers to the branches of Sociology and Law which are focused on the way a country comes together to institute their criminal justice system and deal with crime and criminals to ensure the harmony of the society. Every society has its own system of detecting, trying and convicting criminals. The purpose of this essay is to examine the main institutions of the criminal justice system of England and Wales. This will include the identification of the roles of the different institutions and how they work together to achieve control and reduce crime in the country. Officially, the aim ...

When Greece defeated the Persians in the Persian Wars, a new style of government had begun to emerge in Athens which is the rule of the people: democracy. In the 5th century B.C., the great king Pericles had commissioned Iktinos and Kallikrates to construct a building that will reflect the new style of government; this was the start of the Parthenon construction on the top of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates were merely architects who designed the Parthenon layout but it was Phidias who executed the creation of the luminous and humanistic marble sculptures depicting many ...

Gender Differences and Inequality

Patriarchalism was once the founding principles of all social relationships in society as women were under the tutelage of their fathers and husbands. Men were responsible for representing women in the public sphere, within the family and they controlled women’s sexuality and labour roles. This essay will argue that gender differences and gender inequality have been socially constructed, scientifically quantified and institutionally justified throughout history. There will be an examination of how gender differences and gender inequality was socially constructed and institutionally justified by examining three different examples of how these gender differences were approved: Quito, a South ...

Introduction

Diplomatic association is found to be a central element of governance when it is present in two or more independent economies. An increasing requirement is identified for economies interested to launch a basis which could help different countries to associate and collaborate in their regular engagements. The subject activity has been performed in numerous methods and they are considered official between two or above states through contracts and offering initials of treaties. It is important to note that the subject activity was not reported in the twenty-first era, nevertheless with the span of periods, significant achievements have been acknowledged ...

1. Introduction The paper will present the gender gap in the Chad based on the Global Gender Gap Index report from 2015. The report ranked the 145 economies based on the female participation in economic, educational, health and political indicators. The inequalities between genders are seen all around the world, but the issue is even more concerning in developing countries than in developed ones. The inequality between genders has severe impacts on every aspect from economy to personal ones. The World Economic Forum in his reports since 2006 onward includes almost all countries in the world and based on ...

Overview of Kris

The file on Kris suggests that the shoplifting incident is his first offence as an adult. However, he might have offended as a juvenile since the Intensive Supervision Probation Program is for repeat offenders and it is also for offenders with a more violent criminal history. Kris is from a low-income family since he was unable to make bail. His offence also suggests that his economic condition is unstable. He pled guilty during his time in custody and the subsequent sentence suspension indicates that he completed probations successfully in the past; probably as a juvenile. Kris is in an ...

Psychology; My Identity to Gender.

I am a Korean. I came to the United State of America two years ago to pursue my studies. I am twenty years old. The life in Korea is somehow different from the lifestyle in the United States of America. The essay that I write below is how I came to identify with my gender while I was in Korea. Gender is usually confused with sexuality of an individual. Sexuality is the act of being male or female while gender is the roles that are assigned to people on the basis of either being male or female (Franklin, 822). ...

Identification Procedures Line ups and Show ups

The Lineup is a technique that is used in criminal investigations and is an act where the police shows an individual who has witnessed a crime, nevertheless the person is a victim or not, a line of people and require that the witness recognizes the perpetrator among them or not. Why lineup and not only showing the suspect to the witness? Science (cognitive psychology) and practice have proved that mental processes like attention and memory are quite relative and uncertain phenomena. Imagine that the witness saw a woman with blond short hair and green skirt quickly going out from ...

Internal Control Report

Walmart Stores, which is operating as a retail business, has been trying to turn around its decreasing profits through breaking down its existing clients and as a result, it has brand aspirational customers. They fall into low-income groups but are obsessed with brand names such as KitchenAid. Other customers are wealthier shoppers that are satisfied by the company deals and the volume price shoppers that like low prices. That is they cannot afford much more prices. However, Walmart offers the following products (Corporate.walmart.com):

Beauty products Electronics Automotive products Sporting products Garden items Pet suppliers Housewares Furniture The internal ...

The United States has seen in recent years accelerating rates of immigrant Arab Muslims. Driven out of Middle East countries for religious, economic, political or social reasons, Arab Muslim immigrants face major challenges in adapting to values in radical departure from original ones, not completely let behind but are remain, in fact, defining of Arab Muslim experiences in U.S. These experiences become particularly acute for young immigrant Arab Muslim women. If anything, immigrant Arab Muslim women experience challenges particularly because of being women not only by "natives" but also by family members, friends and acquaintances of same or similar ...

Parenting involves facilitating an infant’s development regarding physical, emotional, social, financial and intellectual aspects. A parent can be biologically related to an infant or not (Conger, 2007). Establishing a solid parental support system at home is the key to raising an upright well-rounded child. The goal for all good parents is to enable the child to feel competent and confident and to assist the child in developing a good passion and purpose. When parents fail to perform their duties as parents, they become guilty of child abuse. Ill-treatment of children can be explained by an action or failure ...

Question one

A dilemma refers to a situation where an individual finds him/herself in a position where they are supposed to make decisions concerning particular subjects and which in most cases will result in outcomes that may have challenging connotations (Post & Blustein, 2015). The case presented above presents an ethical dilemma in which urgent decisions need to be made to save the life of a 6-year-old child who has been affected by a bout of meningitis. However, there are challenges to the plan of care that is supposed to be given to the child since the parents have got conflicting views ...

A defendant is innocent until proven guilty. The structure of the legal system and process in the United States is to place the burden of proof on the government. The government carries this burden of proof as to every element of the crime the defendant is charged with. In order for a criminal defendant to be found guilty, the prosecution must establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt (In re Winship, 1970, p. 361). The reason for this high burden of proof is to guard against government abuse. Were the government not bound by any constraints, the respective positions of ...

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Children in Prison

In the definition given by the General Medical Council (2016), the term “children” refers to “younger minors who do not have the maturity or understanding to make important decisions for themselves.” In the same report, the term “young people” is used for individuals who are “older or more experienced children and are more likely to be able to make decisions for themselves.” The law holds that when an individual reaches the age of 16, adolescents have the ability to render decisions regarding their respective welfare and status, though there are differences with regards to legal investigations ...

Character Letter

X has always been and continues to be an ideal parent. His current struggle for Deven's (his son's) custody is not only an evidence of his dedication as a good father but also of his commitment and moral character as a responsible and dependable person. X has been, admittedly, incarcerated for around seven years. This incarceration is usually used against persons – particularly as in my ex husband's case – as an evidence of irresponsibility, if not outright moral condemnation. The historical and current state of affairs is proof to contrary. If anything, X has been and continues to be a ...

Report on Cocaine Haul Intercepted Along Java Road

This report was written by Agent Horowitz when he intercepted a haul of 100 kilos of cocaine. At 12:20 p.m. on November 18, 2013, I, Agent Horowitz, while on normal patrol along Java Road in New York State, intercepted 100 kilos of cocaine and also apprehended the suspect, Mr Alex Rosamilla (DOB O6/12/1986) who was transporting the haul. I took him to New York State custody but owing to the nature of his crime, I transferred him to federal custody (Barnas, 2013, p.84). I called Supervisor Agent Fallon and briefed him on the arrest. I informed him that I was ...

How does the bargaining in typical divorce cases differ from bargaining in divorce cases featured in the media? In what ways is Kramer vs. Kramer typical of the process? In what ways is it atypical?

Divorce proceedings are different in so many ways today from the divorce proceeding pictured in the movie Kramer versus Kramer. The movie was released in 1979 at a time when courts still applied the assumption that in divorce proceedings, children are better off with their mothers than with their fathers. Thus, in the movie, the judge awarded the custody to Joanna Kramer although there ...