Essays on Self-Defense

The “Son of Sam” Case

The Nature and Type of Defenses Used The main type of defense that was used in this case is the insanity defense. The insanity defense is a common-law excusatory defense under which a defendant in a criminal case asks the court to excuse them from criminal responsibility for their conduct. According to Math, Kumar, and Moirangthem (2015), the insanity defense rides on the assumption that at the material time, the accused person was ailing from a mental illness making them incapable of differentiating right from wrong behavior or appreciating the nature of the crime. The test for establishing the ...

Essay 1.

The universal formula of the categorical imperative is an objective law which proceeds from a subjective maxim – action and will. That is, when a given ethical consideration presents itself, a person must ask whether the action of his will agrees with nature (Kant 38). By its definition, the categorical imperative is the basis of duty. By nature, Kant means that which is objective, and that which exists as a part of nature – abiding by the laws of nature (Kant 38). Kant continues by stating that in ethical considerations, or duty, one must act subjectively through one’s will to ...

Introduction

Law enforcement has turned out to be extremely challenging in the contemporary changing social and cultural climate. It has continued to experience a range of challenges that are generated by the existing environment. The law enforcement practices, as well as policies, have received a lot of public scrutiny. Terrorism, large-scale population movements, globalization, and entrenched social problems have made the enforcement of the law, especially by the police, more challenging. The contemporary policing is primarily marked by the uncertainty and broadening of crime deterrence problems. Among the law enforcement officers, the police have been scrutinized heavily by the public. ...

Part 1 – Assault and Battery

The terms “assault and battery” are often used together although these are two separate crimes. An assault is defined as an action that causes a person to feel the threat of impending violence. An action such as raising a fist or moving menacingly towards the intended victim constitutes an assault, even if no physical contact has occurred. The crime of battery occurs when there is physical contact. Grabbing a person’s arm or punching or striking a person constitutes a case of battery (Baldwin, 2007). Simple assault or battery, where there is limited threat of violence or a minor ...

One of the peculiar aspects of criminal law is the ability to essentially increase, or decrease, depending on the particular factors of a case, the punishment that an offender would normally expect to have imposed after a conviction (Justia, 2016). These circumstances, which are formally known in criminal law as aggravating and mitigation circumstances, are often used to take into account important aspects of the case that may not have been properly addressed during the trial or plea negotiations. Aggravating and mitigating circumstances are normally applied under the discretion of the sentencing judge; however, for some crimes they might ...

The discussion on the rights and control of guns has elicited controversy among many people, especially because it has lifestyle, geographical as well as cultural implications. The argument for and against the gun rights and gun control has seen people and governments differ greatly. As the society progresses to become more diversified and people being more individualistic, there is a further course for misunderstanding each other, especially people with different opinions and cultures. The controversy revolves around the relationship between guns and crime rate, and the use of guns as a means of self-defense. With fewer laws restricting the ...

ABSTRACT

Gun Control is a very serious and regularly debated issue in this modern area. Some feel very strongly that the resolution to gun violence is to restrict guns from the public and therefore lessening gun related crime and accidental injury. However, that is not how all Americans feel. They see gun control measures as a direct infringement on the Constitutional rights, it would leave Americans defenseless and would, in fact, increase crime rates not lessen them. The bulk of research tends to lean toward the reality that gun control will not have the desired effect that gun control supporters ...

Introduction

Gun control refers to as laws and policies that have been enacted to regulate the manufacture, transfer, possession as well as the use of guns by the civilians. Gun control in the United States came at a time when massive shooting, killing, suicide, and gun related violence was on the rise in the United States. It is because of this that President Barrack Obama and his committee decided to propose the gun control policy. The annual review of public health statistics shows that gun related deaths tally to approximately 33,000 annually (Wintemute and Garen 9). For information on ...

The series of mass shootings in different states has intensified current debate over gun control. For decades, gun control has been an issue of conflicting influences between supporters (particularly powerful ones, including, most notably, National Rifle Association) and opponents in formal, partisan and informal, public settings. Needless to emphasize, current presidential election has but highlighted gun control, adding more dimensions to what has in earlier decades been a strictly legal debate. There are, however, rising voices among supporters of gun ownership to enable minors to have guns. This is, indeed, a new development which has far broader implications well ...

INTRODUCTION

The American criminal justice system is a very complex entity that most people hope to have little interaction with. Most people will tell you that it can also be incredibly confusing. People become most invested in court proceedings when they are high profile cases that garner a great deal of media attention; some that many are familiar with include Amy Fisher, Casey Anthony and, certainly, the O.J. Simpson trial. Another case that became the center of media attention is the trial of Jodi Arias. Jodi Arias is a 32-year-old woman who is currently serving a life sentence, without the ...

In this July 2013 trial, George Zimmerman stood accused of the second-degree murder of teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman had shot Martin in February 2012 after a confrontation between the two in Sanford, Florida. From the beginning, Zimmerman defense team did not deny that he had shot Martin but rather that he shot Martin in self-defense (Linder, 2014). Claiming self-defense is one of the fundamental principles of exculpation in criminal law. The theory underlying exculpation holds that in some situations although a person has otherwise acted criminally, their actions are justified and therefore should not be subject to punishment. In ...

One of the oldest sports is considered a fistfight. Even in ancient history in the era of the ancient Greeks during the Olympics athletes competed in the pankration, which is how they called their fist fighting competitions. Fist fights in a modern understanding are mixed martial arts or MMA (Mix Martial Arts), and not boxing, as the two are often confused.

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Since the antique times MMA lost its glory and popularity. Is place was taken by what e now perceive a traditional boxing, kick-boxing, judo, taekwondo, and other types of martial arts. For a long time MMA was in ...

Gun control

Part 1A: The proposal, The agent is California legislature acting for California supports the gun control. Where as the republicans disagree. The goal is that there will be specific situations to own a gun control in the U.S.

3A- Restrict the sale of guns, for example, by imposing waiting periods.

3B- Democratic Party introduced assembly bills 1663, 1664, 1673 and 1674, which restrict the sale of the guns. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton supports this proposal with other many politically powerful people. The agent is California legislature acting for California support the gun control. Where as the republicans disagree. The goal is that there will be specific situations to own a ...

During ancient times, the Greeks would turn to the gods for advice and intervention when presented with a problem whether it was to bring the rain to save their crops so that their families could eat or in the case of Oresteia, to decide whether or not a person accused of murder was truly guilty. The goddess they often turned to for guidance was the goddess Themis whose “ability to foresee the future enabled her to become one of the oracles at Delphi, which in turn led to her establishment as the goddess of divine justice” (Swatt, “Themis, Goddess ...

Terrorism as a global phenomenon is recognized to be the key problem of international security. However, at the national level, terrorism is not a new phenomenon. As a method of struggle, especially in conditions of limited resources of various opposition forces, the terrorist activity was quite common in world history. According to one theory, the concept of “terror” originated during the French revolution - Jacobin terror, which meant the public destruction of unwanted people to intimidate others. There are earlier mentions of such a method of waging of a war of aggression. The word “terror” means a state of ...

Question I

Gandhi, John Locke, and Karl Marx were all political philosophers, and their roles and opinions have forever influenced the world politics.

John Locke ideas and thoughts have been used a lot to shape the politics of various governments like the United States and the United Kingdom. In most occasions in his writing, Locke has avoided justifying the use of violence as a political tool; there are several incident as where he has indicated thy importance to war. War in the viewpoint of Locke is a state of destruction and enmity which has been caused by pre-meditated attempts by one ...

Jill Stein is an American activist that is a nominee for the Green Party nomination in the 2016 elections Stein has had previous stints as nominee for the Green Party’s appointment for an American President in 2012 (The Voter's Self Defense System 1). Jill has also challenged to be a governor of Massachusetts in the year 2002 and 2010.

Among her presidential standpoints is that one supports the cancellation of student debts.

Creation of wage jobs is another of her core campaign strategies that would be a transit point to a more green economy. Jill’s international relations policy is that of promotion of more relations between countries through cooperation with ...

African Americans have suffered from police brutality in the United States since time in memorial. It is disheartening to see unarmed African Americans suffer in the hands of white police with many either sustaining serious unimaginable injuries or even in extreme cases losing their lives. It is quite unclear how racial discrimination continues to haunt even the new century with more fatalities recorded in the civilized era where governments have enacted policies to protect each person from all sort of discrimination. Police brutality is and has been an increasingly notorious act of discrimination of the colored skin people, mostly ...

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a combat sport that incorporates a wide range of fighting skills and techniques drawn from a combination of martial arts cultures and non-cultures. These skills and techniques are also used in competitions. The people taking part in these fights are not allowed to use arms. The rules and regulations that govern the game are always set by the relevant commission and they are subject to any applicable restrictions. This sport started in the United States in 1993 and later on it was taken up by other countries. The main styles that dominated the sport ...

Men’s violence in an intimate relationship from a feminist perspective

Domestic violence and violence in an intimate relationship is an age-long phenomenon. This paper argues that men’s violence in an intimate relation from a feminist perspective mainly because of social norms of male superiority and feminine learned weakness as well as alcohol abuse in most homes. According to feminist views, men will inflict violence when women show weakness and are unwilling to report their case to the law or seek help from getting abused in an intimate relationship. Men have been indulged in domestic violence making their wives subjects of abuse and out of shame or humiliation, women ...

Colombian conflict - asymmetric warfare, which began in 1964 (active - since 1966) and continues at the present time, between the Government of Colombia, paramilitary groups, criminal syndicates and leftist guerrillas (FARC, ELN) for influence in the country. It is believed that, historically, the civil war has become a continuation of la violencia - armed struggle between conservatives and liberals in the 1948-1958. The victory of the conservatives in this struggle led to the unification of liberal and communist militants in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Causes for the outbreak of conflict, each party interprets to their ...

Gun control is a very thorny issue in the United States and over the years has posed as a big challenge on how to control gun use and ownership. The greatest challenge in tackling this issue is uncontrolled gun rights inhibiting the government’s duty of protecting its citizens from unnecessary deaths and crime (Jacobs, & B.J, 204). Two groups always at loggerheads over this issue are gun control activists who claim to keep firearms from the hands of criminals creates safer communities, while gun rights activists say ownership of firearms by law-abiding citizens reduces incidents of crime. Gun right ...

Gun Control

The politics surrounding Gun Control is controversial and the matter hasn’t been settled quite yet. With the rise of serial homicides by some normal person, as ordinary as you or me, it remains to be seen whether it is the fault of the machine in their arms or the insanity in their minds. Both the sides of gun control have almost equal supporters. The people who are for gun control claim that widespread ownership increases the crime rate whereas the people who are against gun control claim that crime rate cannot be reduced by just reducing the number ...

INTRODUCTION

In 2001, New York City wakes up to horrific attacks caused by the al-Qaeda terrorist of September 11, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon buildings. As a result, the political leaders declared a "war on terrorism" which was to include more than 60 countries as enemies and planned to last for fifty years. In the same year, President Bush allocated $379 billion in Pentagon budget that included $48 billion for fighting terrorism. The parameters and nature of the war on terrorism, however, continue to be frustratingly unclear. The war on terrorism contained elements of war and non-war. ...

The basic most concept of morality taught to people revolves around the dictum that human life is sacred, and it has great value. This is the very reason death comes as a shock to people, chiefly because life is a gift and it is cherished by every soul. Throughout the history of mankind, people have killed and have been killed over various disputes. The death penalty has been a major form of punishment given to people in order to penalize them rightly for their crime. The executions were carried out in various forms where torture, beheading at the gallows, ...

For a six-day event to cause problems that last for decades is not a common occurrence. However, the six-Day War started by Israel on June 5 1967 against its neighboring Arab countries led to problems that have lasted for over forty years. Although the damage that the war had caused was not clear at the time, the outcome cast a shadow over the Middle East while also attracting the attention of other countries that had strategic interests in the region such as the United States. In the course of the war, the Israeli forces defeated Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian ...

Sexual assault within the boundaries of university campuses is a subject that has drawn widespread attention from both scholars, researchers, government agencies and non-governmental organizations (Gunraj 4). It has also elicited a strong reaction from various public forums including online encyclopedia writing platforms such as Wikipedia. For example, the article “Campus sexual assault” on Wikipedia is an example of a reaction from the public in regards to the topic. The article is accessible online on the Wikipedia website through the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_sexual_assault#Explanations.Unfortunately, public opinions expressed in articles on online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia are not peer reviewed. Therefore, they ...

In order to properly address the pertinent legal issues to the parties, it is important to break up the potential tort liability to each individual party. This paper will be broken up into the potential torts faced by the intruder, Sharon & Daryl, and Spring Field Arms Apartments. This way, each party will have a clear understanding of where they may in fact be liable.

The Intruder:

The intruder will be potentially liable for burglary. Additionally, the intruder is also potentially liable for battery and assault charges based on the injuries sustained by Sharon & Daryl who were arguably combating the intruder by ...

Crimes occur every day throughout the whole world, and sometimes it is hard to identify the motives and the reasons for committing this or that crime. There is a wide range of crimes starting from small robberies and non-substantial financial frauds and finishing with mass murders, terrorist attacks and huge fraudulent activities that lead to serious consequences. Different motives drive criminals to commit terrible things: whether a greed for money, a desire of revenge, a need to become famous no matter for what, pure anger, psychological problems, etc. It is often a challenge for the investigation team from special ...

Introduction

The Trayvon Martin shooting of 2012, in which George Zimmerman shot a 17-year-old black youth whom he believed was acting in a threatening manner. The controversy surrounding the murder and its subsequent trial brought up intriguing and complicated discussions surrounding Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws, which stated Zimmerman had the right to defend himself with deadly force if he felt threatened. Stand Your Ground laws have encountered a great deal of discussion in recent years due to this case and many others, in which the issue of being able to defend yourself with lethal force is taken into ...

The Okichitaw is an indigenous martial arts system based on the traditions of the native Cree warrior societies living in the Canadian plains (Okichitaw Martial Arts, 2015). The aggressive combat movements embodied in this system are grounded in the ancient Cree custom of preparing warriors for battle by teaching them the tactics used to overpower adversaries under often brutal war conditions using traditional weapons such as the tomahawk. While its techniques remain somewhat unchanged, the aim of teaching it has changed drastically since the old days. Today, the underlying principle behind teaching Okichitaw is instilling courage and self-confidence by ...

The Concealed Gun

Introduction The carrying of the concealed gun poses the sphere of the interest for the contemporary society in the United States of America. In 2015 several units of the USA were requested to consider the controversial proposals which may provide the legal framework for the concealed carrying of the guns in the college campuses and in the other educational facilities. Despite the importance of the issue, the laws have not been adopted by the Congress so that this issue is submitted for the consideration today. With that, the concealed carry should be understood as the practice of the holding ...

Introduction

Nowadays world’s ‘multipolarity’ creates the great conglomerate of interests and world views, which are of great importance, when they arise on the international arena. According to the main principles of the UN, they are to be respected and balanced so as to achieve so-called sustainable development. Otherwise, the consequences could be rather negative for the rest of contemporary multipolar world. According to Mearsheimer, multipolarity is more likely to cause potential conflict dyads, that the previous bipolar world, when the conflicts could be generally caused by two great existing powers (Brown, 1998). That makes the study of the causes ...

1, Introduction

The news media carries stories almost monthly as shooters attack masses of people unknown to them. On February 20, 2016, six victims were killed and two more seriously injured in an attack outside a restaurant, apartment building, and car dealership in Michigan (Associated Press, 2016). Four days later in Kansas, a gunman killed four people and wounded an additional 14 people (ABC News, 2016). Incidents similar to these are fueling the debates concerning whether gun control laws should be stricter or whether citizens should be allowed to arm themselves in self-defense. In the next section of this paper, a ...

Abstract

Over the years, there have been endless debates over implementation of gun control laws in the United States. These debates have been precipitated by horrendous acts of gun violence committed by licensed gun holders. Consequently, the issue of gun control has become a major public policy issue in a nation caught between gun violence and resistance to limitations on private citizen’s ability to bear arms. The most ethically interesting discourse in this debate is whether, in modern times, the state should regulate the ability of civilian to purchase, own and use arms. This paper has evaluated this issue ...

Introduction

In the United States of America in the most states it is illegal to use a deadly force in defense of your property. Every state differs from the specific law, but the allowance to use a booby trap is almost in all illegal and a person using it is tangible for the lawsuit. Based on the common law the duty owed to invitees is higher than the duty owed to trespassers. The individual has also the duty not to harm anyone with traps with an intention. Pre-planned traps are no legal and are punishable by law. In the country ...

Since time immemorial, the issue of Gun rights vs. Gun control has been a hotly debatable topic across the United States. The issue is divisive since it is faced with sensitive arguments between those advocating for gun rights and the supporters of gun control. The supporters of gun rights believe that the constitution guarantees the right to purchase a firearm as stated in the 2nd amendments. Contrariwise, the advocates of gun control believe that the private ownership of guns contributes to a high crime rate, and also, careless deaths occur as a result of gun rights. The debate becomes ...

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Abstract

Recent news of police engaging lethal force to contain seemingly non-dangerous situations has dominated headlines in the news. News such as the shootings of Kajieme Powell, Michael Brown and countless others and the seeming impunity that the system grants the accused proffer that the system will use any avenue to impose the upper classes’ will on the lower class in the guise of crime control. However, rather than project a racist slant, the research also looks on the possibility that the police officers, in the line of duty, must be given enough latitude in determining the situations that ...

Thesis: Despite the ostensible need for Stand Your Ground laws as an effective means of self-defense, the issues and complications related to their implementation are far too problematic to be workable. II. DEFINITION OF STAND YOUR GROUND LAWS

Evolved from English Common Law (Wallace, 2006)

Expansion of Castle Doctrine in Florida Provides protections from prosecution if citizen defends themselves from “presumed criminal attack” (Wallace, 2006) If person is not involved in unlawful act, and is attacked, they are given the right to fight back with deadly force (Roberts, 2012). III. BENEFITS OF STAND YOUR GROUND Stand Your Ground Laws permit people who practice self-defense to be ...

The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States envisages the right of the citizens to bear arms. This Amendment has attracted a lot of controversy since its inception.

The Firearms Control Regulation Act, 1975 was passed in the District of Columbia. This Act restricted the owning of handguns (by prohibiting the registration of handguns) by residents post 1975. The Act also laid down that all firearms of registered users had to kept unloaded, disassembled or secured with a trigger lock. The complainant filed the case on the grounds that the preceding stated provisions of the Act violated ...

Burton Leister’s article, “The Death Penalty is Permissible”, delves on the importance of imposing the death penalty in order to ensure the general peace and order of a given society. Mainly, Leister’s contention is that “the death penalty is necessary to prevent the American people from taking the law into their own hands” (Leister 728). The author also cites the Eighth Amendment, which emphasizes human dignity, in opposing death penalty in that human lives are not “objects to be toyed with and discarded” (729). On the other hand, Hugo Adam Bedau’s article, “No, the Death Penalty ...

Introduction

In general, gun control is a term that denotes the policies and laws introduced for the manufacture, production, trade, transfer, ownership, alteration, or utilization of firearms. These laws and policies are significantly different in every country. In the United States of America, the gun laws administer the regulation of trading, employing, and possessing of assault weapons. It is significant to note that there is a remarkable variation in state laws pertaining gun control with either a restricted or broader extent when compared with the federal laws. Gun control and gun ownership have turned out to be the hottest issues ...

Generally speaking, police officers must exercise some amount of force when they are involved in the arrest of persons of interest in the criminal proceedings. Force is permitted as it is necessary under specified circumstances including defense against perpetrators and cases of self-defense. Of course there are no universal classifications or definition on the extent of the force that these police officers use as each case of arrest is different and the perpetrators will respond in different ways. Nonetheless, the governing bodies such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police have created a structured definition of force as ...

Issue Brief

The issue of gun possession and its control is an emotive, passionate and divisive one that spurs heated and contentious debate among various audiences and interested or affected parties (Boylan et al. 3934). Following recent spate of mass shooting of civilians by privately owned guns in the US, the gun control debate has taken a new turn with the Obama administration seeking to toughen the law that permits average Americans to own guns. Historically, US citizens have had the right under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution to own guns for the purposes of self-defense and protection from ...

As a radical movement, the Black Panthers instilled fear in America at large, especially when members of the Black Power movement marched on the capital of California in Sacramento. The Black Panthers marched with guns to protest and testify to the prevalent police brutality against blacks in Oakland predicated on the rationale that if African Americans did not have the right to self-defense then they had no right to self-termination. As a result, the police were angered and seemingly had the opposite of the intended effects. Popular discourses proffered an image of Africans Americans carrying guns in the Black ...

Introduction

The Falkland War of 1982 was an undeclared war between the United Kingdom and Argentina and lasted for about ten weeks. The main reason for the fighting was because of two islands under British control that the Argentines insisted were supposed to be theirs since they were located only 300 miles from their coast (Ashton, 2018, 1). These islands were South Sandwich and the Falkland Islands. In response to the above prompt, the essay will look at the war in detail, both from the military perspective and diplomatically, to uncover why the war broke out and the liability that ...

The main belief behind the theory of self-defense as given by Judith Jarvis Thomson rests on the phenomena that a person must become liable to be attacked if somebody else is threatened by him/her considering that he/she is violating the rights of the defender who must not be attacked. Moreover, Judith also assumes that everyone as a human has a fundamental right that must be respected of not being attacked by the other person, but if this right is being violated then the other person loses this right of protection for himself. This means that if a person is being threatened of right ...

Identification of Crimes and Defenses

Fact Summary: After taking cocaine, Nino and Bill decide they want more. Nino comes up with an idea to “scam” some more from Thomas, the boyfriend of Bill’s sister. On the way to Thomas’ house, Nino explains the details of the scam to Bill. Before arriving however, Nino drops will off and gives him a steak knife and tells him, “I may need protection.” After waiting 45 minutes, Bill walks to Thomas’ house and knocks on the door. Nino rushes out and begins beating him and cursing him for not keeping to the plan. In the process of beating ...

Introduction

With respect to law of torts, any action carried out intentionally and that results in causing either physical or emotional injury to another person qualifies as an intentional tort. On the other hand, negligence tort entails causing harm or injury to a third party as a result of personal carelessness. According to Arthur and Barner (2007), civil law requires that every individual conduct his or her activities in a manner that induces no harm to surrounding persons. In this context, the need to conduct one’s affairs in a safe manner constitutes the element of duty. Failure to act safely and within expected ...

Introduction

Gun control debate has attracted heated debate on whether the use of gun should be controlled or should not in the United States. Different political sides have assumed hardline stands on the issue. This is evident from the proponents for gun legislation control and the opponents for the control of gun use. President Barack Obama has made his intentions clear on gun control in congress. This was exclusively after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Obama confirmed his proposal on the need of congress to pass the legislations that will check the ownership and usage of guns. The legislation should ...

Classic English Literature

Position on Animal Rights

In as much as PETA argues that all animals feel pain, pleasure, fear, loneliness, frustration and even motherly love, and that they all have rights, I think these rights should only go up to a reasonable extent. Like in a case where nature offers a promising upcoming generation of a particular specie, I think its ethical to use such species for food, clothing, entertainment or any other use that benefits mankind, because that specific specie will still be with us. Human rights come before animal rights.

Ingrid (2013) notes that when it is about love, pain, joy, fear and ...

Abortion refers to voluntary termination of pregnancy through removing the Uterus of the embryo or fetus prior to viability. In many countries, human abortion is illegal. Many people who oppose abortion rely on the argument that a fetus is a human being from since conception. On Contrary Judith Jarvis Thomson differs with this view and give several examples as a way of proving her point. From Judith's point of view, she argues that a fetus is not a human being from the time of conception. She likens a fetus to acorns which develops top become oak trees. She argued that simply by the fact ...

The issue with guns and their ownership is cornerstone today. There are two groups of people with different opinions for or against the legalization. The first one states that it is their constitutional right for the purpose of self-protection, whereas the second group states that gun ownership endangers normal peaceful way of life. In this respect, opinions differ, but the real threats are still surrounding people in everyday life. The government should ban guns for civilians in order to decrease the rate of crimes committed. Additionally, the administration should keep a strict eye on the regulation and distribution of guns ...

In a legal environment where attorneys formulated a “twinkie defense” to explain hyperglycemic homicide, it is no surprise that battered woman syndrome is a popular legal defense strategy. Domestic violence is a serious societal problem, which is often hidden behind closed doors. (Gillespie 4). When a woman murders her husband because he has been tormenting and abusing her physically and psychologically, defense attorneys often use the “battered woman defense,” which is a legal approach that focuses on emphasizing the woman as a victim who was only guilty of self defense (Wimberly). The condition can be used to help the court better understand the motives and experiences ...

Introduction

American history shows that people are unique and live together by the rule of law. As historical facts suggest, America's success as a democracy is due to its successful implementation of the rule of law. The rule of law is put into place as 'The US Constitution Bill' by the Founding Fathers of America. After the signing of 'The US Constitution' in 1787, the original law comprised of seven articles. Finally, a collection of ten amendments was made to 'The US Constitution' and signed in 1789 by our Founding Fathers who are known as 'Bill of Rights'. In this paper, we ...

As debates continues concerning gun laws and the amount of violence in the United States, many citizens have voiced increasing concerns about personal safety and the amount of force that is considered to be justifiable when faced with threats of violence or death. As a result, Stand Your Ground laws have been enacted in many states to establish the legal boundaries the rights afforded to individuals to protect themselves from imminent threats. The legalities provided by the Stand Your Ground laws gives pause to reflect on are laws of this nature necessary in this ever-changing world or do these laws ...

Political Science

Review of News Article Introduction In an article in The Diplomat (2014), Michael Green and Jeffrey W. Hornung have analyzed the myths being perpetrated in world media after Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe approved a proposal to end the self-imposed ban on allowing its military forces to exercise the right of collective self-defense (CSD). The authors have identified ten myths surrounding the announcement, and have proceeded to discuss and debunk each myth (Green and Hornung, 2014).

Review

Analysis Japan’s amendment of the scope of activity it envisages in the case of its Self Defense Forces, and resultant expansion ...

Black Boys and underachievement: Myth or Reality?

Introduction Since the decade of the 1960s, the families of black Caribbean boys have been particularly concerned about the academic performance of their children. The reason for this is due to an apparent gap between these Afro-Caribbean children and other students, especially white ones (National Union of Teachers | NUT | The Teachers' Union, 2007). Today, their scholastic success at the attainment at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) remains well below the national average. In 2006, 44.9 percent of these children gained five good GCSEs or their equal compared to 57.3 percent of white students (DfES, 2007). The figures ...

EXAM QUESTIONS ON BUSINESS AND SOCIETY

1. To what extent are companies justified in claiming that they are good corporate citizens? The key goal of any business enterprise is to maximize profits and minimize cost. The management must safeguard the social welfare of the employees. In addition, the company must respect the social and cultural values as well as providing quality products and services to the consumers. Therefore, corporate citizenship is the understanding of all stakeholders in a company or business enterprise that it has social responsibilities to the employees, the surrounding society and the consumers, who indirectly influence the company’s performance in regional ...

Abstract

This research is about the reasons why there is continued survival of the North Korean Country despite the harsh domestic and International conditions that have affected it over the years. The paper highlights the various problems that the country has gone through over the years especially as a communist country. The paper then focuses on the different survival strategies that the country has relied on in an attempt to survive. First, the paper looks at the conventional military brinkmanship strategy. The paper then focuses on the use of diplomacy as used by North Korea as a survival strategy. Here the paper ...