What do you understand by civil society? Describe the main trends that describe the relationship between state and civil society. Civil society is the arena outside of the family‚ the state‚ and the market where people associate to advance common interests. It is sometimes considered to include the family and the private sphere and then referred to as the "third sector" of society‚ distinct from government and business. Sometimes the term is used in the more general sense of "the
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Legal Institution and Methods: Criminal and Civil Court Structures and Legal Personnel This assignment contains ..............................words Introduction This assignment will discuss and compare the court structure‚ legal personnel and their functions and the type of cases that are brought before criminal and civil courts. Criminal courts The criminal court system has many levels of superiority (refer to diagram 1.1 in Appendices)
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An Analysis of A Civil Action A Civil Action is a movie based on a real life case that took place several years ago. Several families of Woburn‚ a small town‚ were alleging that chemicals spilled by local plants had contaminated their drinking water. Reckless‚ careless dumping of chemicals at a tanning plant‚ they discovered‚ must have caused the chemical spill. This contamination‚ they believed‚ caused several children of the town to become sick with leukemia and eight of the children died;
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have the duty to do good to the world. In the movie "A Civil Action"‚ Jonathan Harr and Steven Zaillian‚ starring John Travolta‚ you see how hard it is to distinguish who wins when it comes down to social responsibility. Many people‚ mainly children‚ suffered and died in the city of Woburn‚ Massachusetts due to the city drinking water‚ from the river‚ being polluted. They named two companies that are to be held responsible for these actions. The companies who are responsible for the water pollution
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Stages of Civil and Criminal Proceedings 1. List and briefly explain each of the major stages of a civil proceeding‚ including starting the case and pretrial‚ trial‚ and post-trial activities. A civil case starts out with pleadings. A lawyer files paperwork with the clerk of courts for his/ her client. This paperwork states that the client was injured in some way‚ either by the person or the unlawful act that was committed. After the pleadings the case then goes to the pretrial
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Civil rights refers to the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality and is an important part of our history because for example when Frederick Douglass was a slave as a kid‚ his Aunt Katy wouldn’t feed him for days because of his skin color.Therefore‚ shows how African Americans even as kids were treated very poorly during slavery. Civil rights is also important to our history because when Frederick was a kid he was separated from his family and sold to another slave master
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seemed that the dream of Reconstruction might be realized.” (W.E.B Dubois). This explains that people‚ both in the south and the north have seen all the bad issues that happened after the civil war. The civil war has caused a large separation between the south and north. From all the damage that happened between the two states of slavery getting involved and separation made Lincoln make a reconstruction to make the north and south one big state at the end. The north had passed the 13th‚ 14th and 15th
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Running Head: JUVENILE V. CRIMINAL 1 Juvenile Justice System V. Criminal Justice System Ronda Cauchon CJ150-01 Professor Abreu Kaplan University October 9‚ 2012 JUVENILE V CRIMINAL 2 Juvenile Justice System V. Criminal Justice System In the earliest of times‚ juvenile offenders were treated the
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Running head: Compare and Contrast Civil with Criminal injuries Compare and Contrast Civil with Criminal injuries Nora Kelgin October 19‚ 2013 Tort Actions A tort actions is a form of civil law‚ which are intentional tort‚ torts of negligence‚ and strict liability torts‚ the vast majority of legal issues in the United State involve this‚ such as divorce‚ child custody‚ child support‚ domestic dispute‚ consumer problems‚ defamation‚ and injuries due to a person
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Shapley | Civil Law v. Criminal Law | Introduction to Criminal Law | Joanna Solis 3/2/2012 | Only a few people actually know “the law”. Others think that the criminal justice system is a body that only has one set of rules and laws and all act the same. Not to mention that because of television they think that every case is tried at criminal court with a judge and a panel of jurors. However that is not the case because there’s two specifically types of law‚ civil and criminal law. Though
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