Essays on Illegal Actions

The case Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP addresses the scope of the retaliation provision under Title VII that enables protection for the employees against the illegal actions of the employers. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 permits retaliation cases in order to decrease the exposure to the discriminatory activity in actions of the employees. Meanwhile, this article states that the retaliation should be understood as the situation when the employee of the firm was fired or reassigned as well as he was deprived of the certain range of the benefits if the employer considered them ...

Proponents of the theory of deterrence believe that people make their choice on the matter of obeying the law or violating it after considering the outcome of their actions. They believe that an individual makes a choice whether to commit a criminal offence or not after meticulously evaluating the punishment and the gain of their actions. However, this proponent has been criticized basing on the fact that only the offenders end up being deterred hence we have no explanation as to why other people choose not to offend (Homel, 2012). General deterrence can be explained as the effect created ...

Nowadays, Edward Snowden is the person, whose activity connected with the leak of top-secret documents about a variety of the classified N.S.A. surveillance programs, who is widely discussed all around the world from ordinary people to high-ranking officials. Being a computer system contractor for the N.S.A., Snowden collected a pile of documents linked with the U.S. surveillance activities towards ordinary Americans (Smith). The whole society was shocked with his revelations, though an overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens approve the act of Snowden, people who are in minority ask themselves: ‘Why Edward Snowden is a hero? (Turley)’ The answer to this question can ...