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a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

resolve racial inequality, that inequality continues to exist in terms of economics in particular. Bell asserts that social class...

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

crime. In so many ways they are simply victims and yet are incarcerated because of this. Belknap seems to argue that much of this ...

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

are fair, and just-and that in turn suggests that when things are unjust in society, the entire interlocking mechanism of sustaina...

differed so that the young offender will have time to make amends. Other forms of mediation are found within the prisons themselve...

seems perfect in its design. Of course, nothing is perfect, and one criticism of it is that it is old. It is no longer applicable ...

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

the legal product that is promoted by the tobacco industry should be better regulated. But understanding the rationale for the fu...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

people do not commit more crime but rather they are perhaps caught more often when they do. In other words, a white man is less li...

& Associates, n.d.). This was the temperature advised for optimum taste of the coffee (ATLA, n.d.). It was also determined that ot...

talks of having a bobcat and javelinas as pets (Marie, 1985). She rode horseback and even learned to drive a car by the age of se...

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

a telling story related by economist Hannah Arendt that concisely conveys the basic philosophy of the Catholic Church in regards t...

and arbitrary. His critics notwithstanding, Jefferson set out and ultimately accomplished what no political leader had considered...

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...