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POLICY MAKING, MORAL PANICS AND LACK OF EVIDENCE

is the media, which stereotypes the situation and expresses outrage over it (Cohen, 1972). Moral panics have ranged from fear of p...

Global Moral Panic After the Attacks of September 11, 2001

The role of the media in shaping the publics perception that some societal groups present a threat is indeed powerful. In his cla...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Social Security and Policy Making Models Reviewed

what are the problems of aging, whose problem it is and whose interests are served by solutions that are developed. Given ...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Four Issues Regarding the History of Australia

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

Great Britain and U.S. Moral Panic and Rave Parties

In six pages this paper discusses the moral panic associated with Great Britain and U.S. rave parties. Five sources are cited in ...

BANKING PANICS AND CREATION OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE

and Granting Annuities (Moen and Tallman, 2003). Still, the bank, during its infancy, created storms of controversy, as those in p...

Importance of Nurses using Evidenced-Based Care

time to actively conduct a research study, lack of time to read current research, nurses do not have time to read much of the rese...

Synthesis, Analysis of 3 Public Policy Articles

which specifically examined why theories pertaining to foreign policy change had received little scholar attention. Holsti focused...

Report from a City Inspector General

If a city lacks policies and procedures regarding any area of functioning, it makes it easier for employees to commit fraud. Josep...

Potential Solutions for a Troubled Property Company

Differentiation 1. Change the differentiation to appeal to a mass market. 2. Increase the attention paid to the differentiation o...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Analyzing Blowback The Costs and Conseqences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson

of our imperial stance may be for the rest of the world and for ourselves" (Johnson, 2001, p.16). Johnson explains that America th...

Canada's Global Views on Foreign Policy

problem that too affects North America. In January of 2000 U.S. Customs Service commissioner launched a Northern Border Security I...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

How Children Develop a Sense of Morality

that rules, in and of themselves, are not sacred or absolute (Crain, 2009). For example, if a child hears a scenario in which one ...

Moving to Evidence Based Practices

This paper reports one change that was made in a hospital. An announcement was made that nursing staff would be required to use ev...

Abortion as a Woman's Right Regardless of Circumstances Involved

In this paper consisting of five pages the abortion argument is framed around the book 'Causing Death and Saving Lives' by Jonatha...

Ethics and Profit in the Business World

is a need for an ethical approach, moreover, it is how much of an ethical approach may be required and how it should be implemente...

Reactions to Artical on Moral Decision-Making

Valasquez, Andre, Shanks, & Meyer, M. J. wrote an article entitled "Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision Making" in ...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

IWB-Latest technology for Schools

of programs and resources but there is still evidence that teachers are not using them to their full potential. One of the reasons...

Curfews for Young People

This 5 page paper gives an overview of curfew laws in the United States. This paper includes the lack of evidence that curfews pre...

Officer Behavior And Job Satisfaction

links the alleged perpetrator to the crime for which he or she is alleged to have committed. Strictly regulated as to how, where ...

Legal Precedents and Illegal Proceedings

"fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine follows from the "Exclusionary Rule," which says basically that "evidence illegally obtaine...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Politics and Empirical Evidence Regarding School Vouchers

more efficiently compete for students. The market forces principles that Adam Smith applied to economics more than 200 years ago ...

Devastation Associated with 'The Great Dying'

such mortality, postulating that death - in all its ominous forms - is truly nothing to ones existence but a component of rebirth....