Once you allow the government to censor someone else, you cede to it the power to censor you, or something you like.... Government regulation of media would possibly be the beginning of stripping people of their right to free speech. ... In fact, the government even censored stuff that could encourage collective action around figures who the government supported! This analysis implies that the Chinese government will happily track open criticism, and that it will closely observe dissidents' connections to each other but crack down on anyone who tries to build a power base that it can...

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While the realities ex-criminals face after paying their debt to society are not color based, they are just as harsh as those faced by blacks post slavery, Alexander therefore correctly likens the struggles of these ex-criminals to those of free slaves during the Jim Crow era. ... This is astonishingly similar to the denial of housing based solely on race that blacks faced in this country 100 year ago. ... These actions are a far cry from a government who seeks to help and protect its citizens. ... Through poll taxes and literacy tests, the government effectively silenced a whole group o...

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Conduct In Military Housing Government housing or as some call it, on-base housing, serves as a benefit to our military families. ... There are soldiers and family members with criminal records, multiple acts of misconduct, poor living practices, and acts of prejudice that reside and attend schools on base. ... Not performing these actions allows soldiers that have family members at their present duty station the opportunity to sign for and occupy government housing. ... The housing office should also contact previous landlords, or other military housing offices, for past rental histo...

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The government can conceal or tell the truth on whatever it wants society to know about leaving us in question on what to believe and what not to believe. Yes, it is understandable for the government to hide things from us but they should have done it in a more fashionable way. ... The government itself has its own society that no one other than the government is involved; and for Americans not to be involved in this society makes one feel that we are being lied to everyday on important issues that we should know about. ... It seems as if the government hides a lot of minority issues an...

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But Aboriginal laws and customs had lasted hundreds of years, based on traditions such as kinship ties and rituals. ... Public law is an individual versus the Australian government, for example, criminal law, constitutional law and environmental law. ...

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This anarchist-based organisation also became active here in Melbourne in 1982 and was accountable for 96 reported cases of criminal damage. ... Deputy commissioner, Mr Sinclair explained, "The government has never voiced any words to us about the operations of that unit. If the government wants to ask us, we will tell them what the group is doing. There is absolutely no secret between us and the government in that regard." ... According to some reporters, police apparently hold the government in contempt and their actions are an affront to democracy. ...

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Racism can be broken down into three basic categories: economic, governmental, and societal. ... Lastly and most importantly the racism in societal is the labels we put on people based on their skin color. Societal racism is the most harmful and influential because it involves economic and governmental racism. ... Tatei Thomas says "Racism, especially in our society is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. ... Societal racism is the most important because it has an aspect of economic and government racism, and can be see...

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The majority followed government and state laws, but gangs began to form all over New York - the largest becoming the mafia. ... The mafia still remains in business today even with the government's plans to stop them such as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act passed in 1970. ... Matthews ranks the top five mafias or organized crime groups based on their income. ... Russia and China are working together to steal money, government employee identities and U.S. military secrets so they can build up a stronger military. ... Criminals are acting either in groups ...

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Canada has developed policies and laws that are based on the principles that terrorism must be prevented, perpetrators of terrorist acts must be brought to swift justice, and terrorists should be denied sanctuary and support. ... Solutions to the new challenges posed by information technology are inherently horizontal in nature and require an inclusive approach to policy development, involving a wide variety of stakeholders both inside and outside government. Within the federal government, departments dealing with law enforcement, national security, criminal justice, the private sector, fo...

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Feingold argued against capital punishment based on the theory that the government made too many mistakes and is more likely to let an innocent suffer. ... IF anything, it affirms the value of life by proving to the criminal how precious life is when the government strips him of his own. ...

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It is believed to be the first case in the nation in which the government has sought to take control of a gang's identity, via its logo, through a court order. ... Loy and Alan Mansfield, an attorney with the San Diego-based Consumer Law Group of California, successfully challenged the Justice Department's last effort to seize the Mongols' trademark through the tool of asset forfeiture. Citing the government's, "unlawful action based on an ungrounded and unsubstantiated legal theory," a federal judge also ordered the Justice Department to reimburse the attorneys ...

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Therefore, my position regarding the righteousness or justice of the death penalty is based on neutral grounds from which I am unable to set a concrete conclusion. ... The Retributive Argument is based much more on vengeance than the betterment of society. ... In many cases, our emotions rule over our morals creating a demand for our government to 'get even.' Is there then any real progression or is the government merely stooping to the killer's level? Since birth the majority of Americans are taught that 'two wrongs never make a right', and yet the government sa...

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Our country is based on the belief that man is good until he or she is proven to be otherwise."... When infact the government says they only prosecute criminals and they are prosecuting society itself by wanting to take away guns....

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The problems in Les Miserables include: government corruption, poverty, and crime. ... The main idea of the French Revolution was to demand a change in the government systems due to government corruption. ... Some laws aren't based on truth and justice anymore; it is about the government using it as a way of keeping money for them. ... A government corruption leads to poverty, which leads to crimes. Government determines how people live by controlling their financial status. ...

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Criminal procedure is the process taken by the government that begin with a criminal charge and results in a conviction or acquittal. ... From the start of the case, the government decides how the case will be handled. ... Excessive bail is prohibited based on the 8th amendment (Samaha. 2015). ... Sometimes, cases are thrown out based on technicalities. ... While both models may be followed simultaneously, the government must first remember to protect individual rights in order to reach a conviction but also remember to protect the community. ...

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A good example that comes to mind is Blow, a Hollywood movie based on a true story. ... Obviously I can't base my argument purely on a movie, even the one based on a true story, so I personally spoke with 6 individuals who had spent time in Massachusetts state prisons. ... The most extensive job training program is provided by a little known government corporation called the Federal Prison Industries (FPI). Because of the complaints of labor unions and private businesses, by law the FPI can do business only with the government. ...

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Along with this demand, came the assessment of the type of sentencing utilized by the state and federal government. ... Determinate sentencing is defined as sentencing in which incarceration offenders are given a set term that could be reduced based on good behavior or earned time. ... Additionally, the determinate sentencing will permit the government to have more power, thus establishing a strict sentencing plan (Cullen & Gilbert, 1982). ... These demands were met with reassessments of the type of sentencing utilized by state and federal governments. ...

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These databases include, but are not limited to, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), Uniform Crime Report (UCR), National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and others. ... Since these interviews are conducted by government officials, people who may have been involved in criminal activity, may withhold information in fear that they may be charged. ... Many believe that the interviewer should not be a government official, but many also feel that people outside of the field of law would have trouble distinguishing the difference between criminal,and non-criminal behavio...

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The teenager was aboriginal, in past he had many conviction and a lot of problem in police history data base since age of 8. ... Nevertheless, the strategy has not escaped criticism from governments, agencies and academics. ... This strategy is funded by government where it covers all the unemployed aboriginal members and provides them with assistance in education and work place opportunity. ... Where this project is based on social approach to crime and preventative measures. ...

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By during this kind of act they are or breaking the 1st amendment, which states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. ... The 4th amendment states The Fourth Amendment prohibits the police and other government officials from searching people's homes or offices or seizing their property without reasonable grounds to believe that a crime has been committe...

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A London based institute stated that women everywhere are more inclined to be assaulted or harassed not by strangers but by their partners, neighbors, family members and colleagues. ... The government refuses to provide any details toward the issue but there have been reports of a growing amount of incest and gang rape. ...

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It was not until the early nineteen nineties that the federal government began to collect data on how many and what kinds of hate crimes are being committed, and by whom (Ibid). ... The dictionary defines a hate crime as "any of various crimes when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation)" (Siasco "Defining"). ... Racial hatred, resentment of ethnic minorities, religious discrimination, gender-base bias, ridicule for disabled people, and disdain of homosexuals are considered the most rampant factors. ... C...

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Given that more and more information about individuals is now being stored on computers, often without their knowledge or consent, is not reassuring that some citizens are able to penetrate these database to find out what is going on" Therefore, it is recognized that hackers have an important role in our society and centralized government by breaking into their systems and sharing information with other people. ... Another aspect of the problem is that companies, which are based on customers" confidence, are afraid to declare in public that are targeted by hackers. ... These are based on...

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In a nine-year span from 2001 to 2010, 8.2 million Americans were arrested and incarcerated for marijuana possesion with 90% of those arrests being based on possession(Wegman). ... Dispensaries and small businesses based on the distribution of the drug would open up, along with already established stores beginning to carry it. Based on a 2015 survey, it is known that 11% of Americans currently use marijuana(Gallup). ... Marijuana prohibition is a total waste of funds, time, and resources by the United States government when there is far more harmful and unacceptable crimes going on within the ...

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Graffiti has based its roots since ancient history during the emergence of hip-hop culture. ... Since 1990s, the U.S government has been setting laws that are meant to ban graffiti on public and private walls (Mettler, 2012). ... Most of hip-pop graffiti are drawn on public and private properties without the consent of the owner, or the government. ...

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