Jail Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Henry David Thoreau and Dr. Martin Luther King are two people who helped to change America for the better with their actions and their words. Henry David Thoreau, in both is writing and in his social practice, developed a new form for citizenship and civic action called Civil Disobedience. He developed Civil Disobedience in response to his government’s support of slavery, but also its support for the Mexican-American War. Over the years, many great leaders of important social movements, both within and without America, have been inspired by the example of the life and social practice Henry David ...

Introduction

Socrates is considered one of the greatest philosophers in the history of Western Europe. Virtually every person that goes through the education system must come across his name, his works, or his demise story. Greek official had previously put Socrates in jail for the charges of ‘corrupting the mind' of the Athens' youth. In the eyes of the wealthy and the influential, Socrates was making a fool of them by empowering the young people with new information about the society and its leadership among other things. When put to jail, he was scheduled for death in a few days, ...

For many years Socrates was an adorable teacher and a well-known philosopher in Athens. However, one of his speeches had an unexpected result on his career and life. At the age of nearly seventy years Socrates was sent to the prison by a court jury of 501 Athens’ citizens. He was accused in atheism, which was mentioned in one of his speeches. At that time the punishment for such a crime was an execution to death. So, Socrates was sent to the jail to wait for his death.
While the philosopher was in the prison at the small Aegean island of ...

This study aims to identify reasons for growth in female prison population in China and propose possible solution to the problem. One of the difficulties of this study is that little research and data is available on China’s women in prisons.

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Female offenders constitute a small fraction of total number of people in China, however this number is dramatically increasing which is alarming and cannot be negotiated. According to the statistics provided by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, the percentile of female population in prisons significantly increased over last years ("China | World Prison Brief", 2016). Number of women ...

Torio S. James

Saint Leo University
The Problem
The last two decades left the United States of America’s detention centers flooded with juvenile offenders. The rate at which juveniles get themselves in detention facilities for rehabilitation is at its peak demanding attention from the justice system of the country. Statistics show that the young people are perpetrators of violent crimes inclusive of murder, rape, armed robbery and several other crimes more than ever before. Further studies accentuate that the greater percentage of inmates in jails currently throughout the US comprises inmates in the age bracket of 17 and 21 ...

Oppression can target incarcerated individuals in many different ways, but minority groups are particularly at risk for oppression via incarceration. Individuals who are gay, bisexual, or transgender are significantly overrepresented in the American criminal justice system, according to Moodie-Millis (2015). In the criminal justice system, transgendered individuals can be oppressed by a system that requires them to identify with their birth gender rather than their selected gender (Plushnick-Masti, 2013). The system can also lead to fear of “coming out” as gay or bisexual due to fear of reprisals by staff, officers, and other inmates in the institution (Plushnick-Masti, 2013).
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Abstract

Business ethics is a form professional ethics that addresses moral problems that arise in business environments. Ethics in business encompass avoiding breaking the law, avoiding actions that may result in legal suits being filed against the business and avoiding actions that may damage the image of the company. The scandals that rocked several American companies in early 2000, revealed rampant self-dealing, mismanagement, erroneous accounting procedures and other unethical business practices. In an attempt to restore investor confidence, congress initiated the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in 2002. This paper seeks to critically analyze the business ethics issues as contained in the SOX ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was considered to be one of the greatest leaders of the Civil Rights era. In his letter, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is writing in response to a letter that was written to him by eight Alabama clergymen. In their letter, the eight clergymen expressed a dislike for the activism of Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They believed that the demonstration that Dr. King was participating in was “led in part by outsiders” (Carpenter et al.) Additionally, the clergymen seemed to praise the police of Birmingham. In ...

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There is no denying the fact that humans faces with a lot of hard decisions every day in their life. Moreover, some of these issues are always highly important ones. For instance, the role of the government and laws in the person’s life and environment is one of the most crucial problem nowadays. In fact, people differ greatly towards this issue. Many of them consider that modern governmental rules cannot satisfy everything that citizens needs from them. Others believe that the relationship between person and government is much more complicated one. ...

The 1990s in the United States saw a significant increase in two crucial factors. The first one was the increase in the number of juveniles in the nation. It had increased seventeen percent compared to the previous two decades. The second aspect was that the increase in firearm related crimes among juvenile offenders. The 1990s were host to forty-four school shooting incidents that cost the lives of 65 students including the infamous Columbine High School massacre. The firearm violence among juveniles was as high as the time of the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1970s. The trend during the 1990s ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been given a mandate by the Congress, through legislation, to protect the environment for the people of the United States. The parent act establishing the agency gives it the power to make delegated legislation that would be essential in helping the agency carry out its obligations efficiently. Drafters of the Constitution, in their wisdom, saw it fit to advice Congress, and indeed encourage it, through provisions of the Constitution to establish agencies with regulatory power to carry out specific functions. Indeed, Congress cannot be heard to legislate on everything because it will be overwhelmed ...

Question one

If the agents of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were to walk into Skywalker’s store and arrest him, it is our argument that the EPA can neither fine nor jail him for the alleged violation of the law. In answering this question in the negative, much consideration has been given to the wording and the text of the legal provisions creating the offence. It is my submission that there is no disclosure of an offence known to law as to attract any legal sanctions. In particular, the law stipulates that all glass top coffee tables are banned in ...

The individuals of the same sex vividly use the term homosocial to implore an assortment of situations and the relationships mutual. This although virtually is used to in the various instances to exclusively refer to the relationship between men which has the sexual inference in an angle that depicts the contrast of the term homoerotic. The contrast that is derived in the two terms helps vividly to explore the and explain the cloud of contrast that is being derived in the connotations that the various scholars try to link the two terms together.
The term, which on the ...

The letter by Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” targets the white ministers in the city of Birmingham. King writes this letter to the 8 white ministers who criticized his actions as a clergy in a statement which was published in the newspaper, after he violated the law of the city and had to be jailed. The purpose of the letter is to address issues in the city which subjects African American towards injustices and segregation. The author seeks to address the plight of the Negroes who have suffered under the whites for a long time (Fahey ...

Justice is the quality of being just or fair. Additionally, can be defined as the exercise of administrative law; the act of determining and assigning rewards or punishments. Moreover, justice is significant in determining how governance in a country can be judged. On the contrary, injustice can be termed as the quality of being unfair and biased especially in governance by the use of unjust laws which promote favoritism and inequality in resource distribution.

Conscience, the sense of right and wrong, in most cases is used as a guide in obeying just rules and disobeying unjust rules. Martin (1), who was ...

Michael Pichinte, 39, and his nephew Christopher Pichinte, 20, were arrested in San Bernardino County, California on October 31, 2012 and charged with murder, carjacking and robbery. Their victim was Eduardo Martinez III, 40, of Victorville, California, who was found dead along the side of the road. Police gave out no real details about the suspects or their motives and only stated that they had “found evidence linking the two to the murder.” Sabrina Martinez praised her deceased husband as “the most loving, sincere, respectful, honorable and loyal person that I have ever known” and said that “his whole ...