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Review of 'Perceived purposes of sport among recreational participants: The role of competitive dispositions' Article

Previous research has determined that involvement in organized sports caused the development of both negative and positive percept...

The Boy Scouts of America

have ended their programs with the Scouts: the "Los Angeles City Council asked all city departments to review their relationships ...

Peremptory Judicial Challenge and Racial Minorities

exclusively white legal society (Scherer 655). Political scientist Samuel Krislov agrees, adding that minority jurists reflect mi...

Texas and Wisconsin Judicial and Constitutional Structures

states and joining the Union. One of the features of the United States government is that individuals can disagree yet stil...

Case Disposition and Drug Offenders

of drug case is processed across the state (OSCA, 2004). For instance, a drug offender might be assigned to a treatment program du...

Does The High Profile Status Of A Criminal Case Affect Investigators' Decisions?

complete ban of courtroom photography and radio broadcasting. It was some fifteen years later that the ban was to also include th...

Appealing Against an Unfair Statute or Unfair Implementation of a Statute

This 9 page paper looks at a fictitious statute which has been applied unfairly by a commission set up under the act. The writer c...

Justice and Ethics

Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....

Policy Analysis of Alaska Senate Bill 56

direct violation of a defendants Sixth Amendment rights (AkRepublicans.com, 2005). In effect Blakely v. State of Washington resul...

Public Administration and Management

specially built for government use and their costs went up accordingly. President Reagan actively sought to reduce government was...

Judicial Misconduct Judged

decisions, Massachusetts Judge Maria I. Lopez was formally charged with six counts of judicial misconduct in August of 2002 in ord...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

The Positive and Negative elements Within the US Government

This 6 page paper gives an overview of a few aspects of the US Government. This paper includes the pros and cons of The Constituti...

Opposition to Illegal Immigration Arguments

of fields. A few of these points are: * "Each year more than 1.3 million legal and illegal aliens settle permanently in the U.S. ...

Styles of Making Legal Decisions

who also figure prominently in the decision-making process by virtue of the arguments they offer for courts consideration and the ...

U.S. Judicial System and Racial Minorities

as being subordinate to their white counterparts. This perceived image in the testing arena, where individuals are forced to perf...

Conservative Judicial Nominees of George W. Bush

nominee was subjected to his direct approval before and after vetting and prior to any official selection announcement (Miles, 201...

Federal Sentencing Guidelines

The law, as well intended as it is, can vary in regard to its application. The law is not always black and white in terms...

North Carolina Judge Qualifications

both judges meet this qualification, and little more can be said. Because of the electoral system in North Carolina, record is som...

Comparative Analysis of the Judicial Systems in the US and Libya

law of the land, rather than a superfluous document ("Judicial" ). Of course, Libya does have a Constitution, but it is seemingly ...

Sources of International Law

from being true law (Hart, 1994). He states there is an argument that this cannot be the case as the evolution is different; there...

Book Review of Child Victims Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice

by many experts to be a "breakthrough" book - for the most part, while studies of victimization of adults of crime have been print...

U.S. and UK on Lifting the Corporate Veil

is where there has to prevent fraud or where there is a parent company that controls and dominates their subsidiary company. It wa...

Walker's Battered Women Syndrome and the Frye Rule

be categorised as admissible once it is seen as "generally acceptable" in its field. As Grossman points out, however, since the co...

Government Branches

Introduction There are numerous forms of government around the world and the United States government is just one of those forms ...

The Biological Theory of Crime: The Social Implications

to criminal behavior are not so far-fetched. This paragraph stresses the risks of being too aggressive in intervention of "crimi...

Courts And Privatization

anticipating needs and devising ways to meet diem. It is also important to note that government agencies of small, often isolated...

Political Structure of the State of Texas

Governors and Lieutenant Governors serve for two-year terms. The main purpose of this branch is to help enforce rules, regulations...

Internet and the US Supreme Court

and useful information about the Supreme Court, and how it is both dealing with and using the Internet. Recent Court Cases ...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...