PLEA BARGAINING Plea bargaining is defined as the process of negotiating an agreement among the defendant‚ the prosecutor‚ and the court as to an appropriate plea and associated sentence in a given case. The advantage for the defense is that less work is required on their part and they typically receive the same amount of money in return. An advantage for the prosecutor is they get a conviction and can alter the sentence any way they see fit as well as maintain an acceptable conviction rate. The
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Bargaining Power Model- The Laws of Human Resources Application of the Bargaining Power Model to Evaluate the Outcome of the New York City Transit Employees Strike of 2005 Background: On December 20‚ 2005 the Transport Workers Union (TWU) called a strike in the city of New York after initial talks to resolve issues on a new contract with the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) failed. The strike was‚ “Over wage rises‚ health-care and pension costs and the retirement age of employees.”
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Distributive bargaining‚ also known as a win-lose bargaining process is a competitive negotiation approach that is utilized to choose in what way a fixed resource such as money will be distributed. It is assumed by each person involved that in this method gains for one party’s interests will come at the expense of the other party for the reason that there is a limited quantity of resources obtainable to the parties with which to meet bargaining goals. (Holley‚ Jennings‚ Wolters‚ 2012 pg.257) In other
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1 NEGOTIATION SKILLS S2‚ 2012 WEEK 2: DISTRIBUTIVE BARGAINING 2 Today’s lecture: Distributive bargaining • • • • • The basic negotiation strategies Distributive bargaining scenarios Fundamentals of distributive bargaining Tasks to focus on Distributive tactics • Results from conflict management styles survey 3 Choosing a negotiation strategy • Distributive • Conflicting goals‚ fixed pie (“zerosum game”)‚ task is to claim value and maximize personal gains • Shared goals
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Plea Bargaining Alicia Aaron CJA/224 May 26‚ 2013 Donald Gregory Plea Bargaining Most cases are resolved through plea bargains. This is resulting from negotiations between the prosecutor and defense attorney. Plea bargains can be made at any stage of the criminal justice process. Plea bargains can be either a charge bargains or sentence bargains. There are advantages and disadvantages with plea bargains. With plea bargains‚ it can reflect the due process and crime control of the criminal
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Collective Behavior Spontaneous Collective Behavior 1- Watching a confrontation between two people in a public place while the crowd signals to people around them and tape what is going on. My husband and I were vacationing in a foreign country when we witnessed a physical altercation between two people. When two men began to fight in public‚ bystanders were immediately responsive to the situation. The first act of many was to call the police
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Collective behavior is a type of social behavior that occurs in crowds or masses. Riots‚ mobs‚ mass hysteria‚ fads‚ fashions‚ rumor‚ and public opinion are all examples of collective behavior. It is argued that people tend to surrender their individuality and moral judgment in crowds and give in to the hypnotic powers of leaders who shape crowd behavior as they like. Types and Examples of Collective Behaviour - The Crowd We attend the theatre and game events with a large number
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men wanted for sheltering AL Qaeda Members” (p17). This decision of is commonly used throughout the world‚ especially when it comes to military actions. This is what we call collective sanctions. A sanction by definition is a social control to enforce society’s standards. Thus‚ in order to maintain the orderly nation‚ collective sanctions are necessary. People value group identity‚ so it is the group’s responsibility to parent the individual members. People are always in a part to
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Collective collaboration Evolution of Web 2.0 and Social Networking Nowadays people often throw around these jargon terms like Web 2.0 or Social Networking. What do these terms actually mean? In order to have a basic understanding of these terms or concepts‚ it has to be broken down into three steps. Firstly‚ in the early and mid-90’s‚ websites “spoke” to website visitors and that was it. The websites had information and they provided it to the visitors and that is all that happened‚ hence one-way
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We can achieve success through collective effort rather than as Individuals. In mathematics we say One Plus One is equal to two. But when it comes to people‚ it is only partially true. Most of the times two people can carry out much greater tasks than the sum of the tasks they carryout individually. This is known as the synergy effect. For instance‚ the Canada Geese are migratory birds that fly in a ‘v’ formation. As each goose flaps its wings it creates an "uplift" for the bird that follows. The
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