... conducted in the United States and internationally has clearly documented the following facts: (1) female officers are less likely to use excessive force; and (2) more female officers will improve law enforcement's response to violence against women. Although a number of studies document police officers' and community members' concern that women are not strong enough or aggressive enough for police ... thus go a long way toward transforming their focus to one that emphasizes interpersonal skills and cooperation with the community by hiring and retaining more women. More Female Officers ...

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... to the concept of there being a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws by quoting St. Augustine: "an unjust law is no law at all." Recognizing the inherent ambiguity in deciding whether a law is "just" or "unjust" based upon the scant amount of information he has provided, King's next step is to define the terms "just law" and "unjust law." The basis of his definitions is that just laws are ... moral and rooted in the law of God, whereas unjust laws are immoral and go against the word of God. The inclusion of God in King's definitions is intended to provoke feelings of ... mainly phil...

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... 's activities in life after death. Together both divine court and the court of conscience should define law. Civil disobedience is not a scientifically specific concept. As previously stated, it is the refusal to obey a law that is itself unjust. Gandhi and Thoreau were not just disobeying the law, but protesting law and policy by doing so publicly. Their actions were of speech as well as disobedience ... individuals who sat in at shops that refused to serve blacks. A example act of civil disobedience includes: Refusing to follow a law believed to be unjust, or supportive of injustice, p...

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... If one person helps another and the first person is benefitted from that help as well as the second one, is that also classified as unjust? Another situation that is questionable is when there are connections invovled between different parties; when two parties' affairs are interconnected, say an agricultor and ... a merchant of agricultural goods, they are forced to "meddle" in each other's businesses. Yet this doesn't signify injustice; why would it be unjust to get involved in the affairs that affect one, directly or indirectly? If an agricultor who grows potatoes decided to raise th...

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... undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that ... and values, termed as anglophilism. Sophie Mol is an example of how western culture is more respected and cherished rather than their own values. This unjust treatment and favorable attitude towards Sophie Mol, due to her western inheritance and attire, evokes rebellion in Estha and Rahel to dislike Sop...

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... is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is ... several rules and canons natural reason hath drawn for direction of life no man is ignorant." (Eccl. Pol. i.)* * Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. THE LAW OF NATURE: [II. 6] 6. But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have...

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... every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be Unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law: where no Law, no Injustice. Force, and Fraud, are in warre the two Cardinall vertues ... make designs of force upon other people. Locke bases his theory upon several assumptions about morality and justice, which he believes to be inherent in natural law. The state of nature, according to Locke is a state of perfect freedom, in which every man is independent of every other man: "A state ...

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... highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of the two men with regard to positive verses natural law, a subject's duty to obey the law, how law should or should not be used to promote the common good, the harm to others principle, and the roles paternalism, autonomy ... guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"" (SullenToys, 2011). Martin Luther King implied that he felt that law had not been used to promote the common good of all men equally and that due to the heavier burden carried by the Negro without the .....

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... The ruler, therefore, is justified in doing whatever is necessary to maintain the country, even if it is unjust. On the other hand, Plato argues a ruler can never be unjust. In spite of the fact, Machiavelli is greatly influenced by the Greek and Latin classics, and by the ... practice is essential in keeping the orderly nature of the republic. Machiavelli disqualifies any interference from private citizens in enforcing the rule of law because of the notion that the citizen, given the opportunity, will act with malignity in pursuit of his self-interests. Another untoward ... This min...

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... qualitative development, in other words a balanced striving for all human values, whether material or intangible, in harmony with nature. The old vision of the "affluent society" had resulted in an unjust and ardent "consumer society". The new vision proposes a "sustainable society" as the attainable model of a just and prosperous world. In reality, what happened was that misconceptions were abandoned and ... assent. But it has also had a firm basis as the product of systemic science. Agenda '21 has gone beyond the analytical reasoning of the past and has united Development Law with Envir...

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... illegal. Tax avoidance can be in the form of claiming deductions or credits. For example, if a corporation claims deductions and credits, they are practicing ethical business and are obeying the law. It becomes unethical when a corporation uses multiple business activities (which are legal) as a tax benefit (CRA, 2005). A tax benefit is defined as "a reduction, avoidance or deferral of tax ... this equality. This undermines democracy in two different ways: Firstly, it destroys the wealth redistribution and secondly, it creates biases amongst citizens. Destroying Wealth Redistribution Ta...

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... illegal. Tax avoidance can be in the form of claiming deductions or credits. For example, if a corporation claims deductions and credits, they are practicing ethical business and are obeying the law. It becomes unethical when a corporation uses multiple business activities (which are legal) as a tax benefit (CRA, 2005). A tax benefit is defined as "a reduction, avoidance or deferral of tax ... this equality. This undermines democracy in two different ways: Firstly, it destroys the wealth redistribution and secondly, it creates biases amongst citizens. Destroying Wealth Redistribution Ta...

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... and North Africa have for many years adopted laws and policies in the name of combating violence or "terrorism-, which are not in consistency with their obligations under human rights law and standards. However, in recent years some governments have also taken some positive, albeit limited, steps towards improving human, including enacting laws which provide greater safeguards, ratifying ... militant strain of Islam motivated and inspired involvement in the brutal terrorists attacks made on the U.S... However, the question surrounding the Egyptian Government is related to that of corrup...

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... coherence between effort and reward is fair met. Anarchism promised just such a society for her. So due to the denial of protection under the law, more and more workers turned to unions and strikes to intersperse their demands. Chicago and New York, especially the lower East Side became centers ... public opinion rose against Berkman and finally he was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Shocked by the severity of the sentence and the unjust treatment of Berkman throughout the trial, Emma`s long held prejudices about the state`s abuses of personal freedom became confirmed anew. With Berkman...

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... The writs of assistance were very vague and had no reasonable justification for search at all. Countless cases existed involving the unjust seizures of items and unreasonable searches. The need for privacy in one's own home and for a law against unjust search and seizure not only contributed to the colonists" strive toward independence, but was largely reflected upon during the composition of ... the fourth amendment (Albanese, 2001). The Fourth Amendment does not clearly state what exactly the term probable cause means. Many members of the law enforcement community consider it to be a ...

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... Thus all the construction for any extralinguistic reference is inevitably a fiction (fiction means creation). History is no more discernable patterns of human actions but a fiction of the historian. The law becomes jumble of words with indeterminate meanings (Anderson 1990:92). Sociologist Michel Foucault emphasizes that societies define "madness- to discriminate against and marginalize those minority social scapegoats arbitrarily (1977: 131 ... write a/theologies (neither theologies nor nontheologies but something from the interstice of the two) (Taylor 1984); Some adopt the total parado...

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... than a duty owed to another person (D III.36.292). Consequently, injustice could be the consideration of one's actions that might be construed to be against the republic. Formalities of law and practice would amount to the formation of an ethical standard which Machiavelli strives to meet by actively encouraging the condemnation of those who have broken the public trust (D I.45 ... them, but if they do not, they are at a constant risk of becoming slaves. From Machiavelli's perspective, the citizens in a republic must overcome the notion that ingratitude is always unjust and begin seeing...

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... the likelihood of authority of legal norms increases as the similarity between the cultural and behavioral aspects of authorities' increases (Turk, 1969). Law enforcement as a whole comes to an understanding about legal norms when their cultural and behavioral aspects are also on the same page. The ... the individuals (Sutherland, 1939). The way individuals communicate and associate themselves with other individuals can determine whether he or she becomes a criminal or a law abiding citizen. Again the individual's social environment becomes a factor because in a disruptive area an indivi...

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... and attention. Precedential opinion requires considerable amount of time, because this opinion decide the dispute between the parties and also set the course of the law in countless cases to come. Another issue is the trend to pass on essential aspects of the judicial function to staff. The increase in the ... most of the cases have minor errors in reasoning, easy to be corrected. There are other circumstances where the law is fair but the facts points to a result that the judge believe is unjust. In this case we can say that the judge cope with a conflict of duties. There is an obligat...

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... - poor representation of gender, their subjective opinions, race and class, lack of skill in dealing with complex cases as they are uneducated in law and are often unable to weigh evidence correctly and appreciate the significance of certain matters. Complex fraud cases are particularly likely to cause problems for ... be made into a statutory declaration, it is not yet law. If a jury feels a case has not been adequately made by the prosecution or that a law is unjust, they can acquit without explaining their reasons. Also the Jury adds a certainty to the law, since it gives a general ...

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... law should only be used to ensure that citizens are protected from the harms others would inflict upon them. Self inflicted harms and moral wrongs that do not harm any individuals should not be matters that the law should deal with. Whereas Patrick Devlin believes that using the law to enforce morality is not unjust ... . Both parties display opposite opinions of the law, and how the law should administer our lives. When taking into consideration an issue ... synopsis as to why prostitution should be legalized. Devlin was a legal moralist, he believed in a strong moral code, and he insist...

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... that protect individual's religion and ethnicity as examples to how the majority has discriminated against the individual. Rights that promote the rule of law, such as the right to life, liberty and security and the right to equality will be discussed second as examples to show how ... The Japanese who were sent to these camps were mostly all U.S. and Canadian citizens and were legally entitled to equal protection under the law. The government elites broke their own rules and laws through racially discriminating against their own citizens. In order for this to never happen ... Japanese...

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... to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. The theory argues that ... in matters that are "essentially" within the domestic jurisdiction of states, in practice the UN Security Council has moved increasingly towards an interventionist versus statist interpretation of international law du...

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... to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. The theory argues that ... in matters that are "essentially" within the domestic jurisdiction of states, in practice the UN Security Council has moved increasingly towards an interventionist versus statist interpretation of international law du...

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... of the National Front. He was Western-educated and was a pre-revolutionary writer who had reshaped Marxist ideology in terms of Islam. He had a deep respect for the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, basic freedoms, and respect for the individual. Although handpicked by Khomeini, these were two very different individuals. Most of what Bazargan cherished was rooted in Western political ... with joint national and foreign monopolies' capital, adoption of a land reform known an "clauses J and D", increasing minimum wages by 2.5 times, introduction of government control on foreign trade,...

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