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    Ethnicity And Sexuality

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    purity‚ used the idea that some sex was dangerous and negative. These activists had ideas on sex that affected people of different ethnicity as well. In addition to being exclusionary‚ this movement allowed for sexual practices of people from different ethnicity to be deemed as dangerous. In her text titled “Ethnicity and Sexuality.”‚ Joanne Nagel writes that “ ethnicity and sexuality are strained‚ but not strange bedfellows. Ethnic boundaries are also sexual boundaries-erotic intersections where people

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    Observation in a courtroom trial For this service learning project I went downtown first to the Daley center‚ then to the Circuit Court of Cook County. While there‚ I observed various criminal court cases‚ most which dealt with domestic violence and abuse. There was one particular case that stuck out to me the most. Torense Arnold vs.Latrarice Johnson was the second criminal case‚ with the man being the defendant against charges of domestic battery‚ burglary‚ and felony. Latrice Johnson had described

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    JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE INTRODUCTION An independent judiciary is necessary for a free society and a constituent democracy. It ensures the rule of law and realization of human rights and also prosperity and stability of the society. The independence of the judiciary is normally assures through the Constitution but it may also be assured through legislations‚ conventions and other suitable norms and practices. Following the constitution of United States‚ almost all constitutions lay down at least the

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    ARTICLE VIII JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT Section 1. The judicial power shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such lower courts as may be established by law. Judicial power includes the duty of the courts of justice to settle actual controversies involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable‚ and to determine whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the Government. Section

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    Discrimination and prejudice are conflicting to the aims of supporting a child or young person’s development and progress. Both children and adults can behave in discriminatory ways‚ which if seen should be challenged. When working within a childcare setting‚ there should be strategies in place to challenge what is said or done. It is important to support the person who has been subject to discrimination‚ but also important to try and support the person who has been behaving in a discriminatory way

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    previous times. JUDICIAL REFORMS Judicial reforms are the complete or partial political reform of a country or a country’s judiciary. These reforms are often done as a part of wider reforms of the country’s political system. Judicial reform usually aims to improve such things as law courts‚ advocacy (bar)‚ executor process‚ inquest and record keeping. Valery Dmitrievich Zorkin (2004) in his article “Twelve Theses and legal reforms in Russia” said “there was collaboration between judicial reforms and

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    In the 1825 case of Eakin v. Raub‚ Pennsylvania Justice John Bannister Gibson declared that the judicial branch of the government had no right to influence or control the actions of any other branch of the government. Thus‚ Justice Gibson declared the act of judicial review unconstitutional and in disagreement with the proper role of the judiciary as inherently defined by the constitution. The proper roles and powers of the judiciary branch of the government‚ as conveyed to it by the constitution

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    Explain Judicial Review using two case examples. As soon as civilizations created constitutions‚ actions were being called unconstitutional by those who opposed them. In some instances‚ unconstitutional acts were the subject of revolution‚ regicide‚ or as happened in the American political system‚ the declaration of a Judiciary body. American judicial review can broadly be defined as the power of this such judicial branch of the government to determine whether or not the acts of all branches of the

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    Penny Thripp 6-O-PAL Methods in Context Covert Observation and Court Proceedings Assess the strengths and limitations of using covert observations as a means of investigating court proceedings. (15 marks) Using covert observations can both be useful but also unethical. As the judicial system is quite particular in what is in the public domain‚ and what is not‚ covert observation could be a great method to use to get an idea of what really goes on. Even though most court activity is open to the

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    The Courtroom Case Study

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    The Courtroom The agency of Child Protection Services (CPS) has a distasteful reputation within society due to corrupt publicity from the news media. Consequently‚ this student agreed with the ill reputation of CPS from the information provided by the news media. Yet‚ becoming educated first-hand by a CPS employee has converted the perspective that this student once had of the agency. The following events that took place in the courtroom has impacted the future of this social work student in hopes

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