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    Creative Thinking By: Natasha Heyward Course:HUM/111 Instructor: Anne Cox Date: 07/07/2013 1. How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing this topic? The way I can use these strategies is evaluate the situation at hand. In order to know the cause into why President Obama and President Bush was in in addressing the issue by standing together. By how they going to help bring

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    The article Effects of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse on Criminal Offenses was a very interesting article and it also brought up some interesting facts. It talks about people who have a mental illness are overrepresented in jails and prisons. In the article it says that these people with these mental illnesses need treatment and not punishment and I think that is so true (4). I work in a prison and most of the prison population is mentally ill. I feel that if they would have given these

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    The Offense Principle claims that individual liberty is justifiably limited to prevent offensive behavior. I believe that the Offense Principle provides the correct liberty limit n principles that the state should invoke. The state should prevent behavior that causes shame‚ embarrassment and discomfort from pornographic material and cts.<br><br>There are three conditions that are typically understood to be part of the Offense Principle. The first condition states that behavior must be significantly

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    To view how Canadian legislation has treated rape is to look at the Canadian criminal code. It was only in the 1892 that the Canadian legislation pronounced the act of rape to be a criminal act. This is because before 1892 the act of rape was considered a norm. Members of the society could rape another member without dealing with the consequences‚ or a man raping his wife without dealing with the consequences. These actions were considered a norm before the 1892. It was also said that a man could

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    the argument. Another debate is bad people can make more bad people and vice versa. The Oklahoma Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935 stated that any male convicted two or more times or if incarcerated in Oklahoma would be sterilized. This law excluded crimes such

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    Criminal Acts and Choice Theories Response CJS/200 Choice theories apply different aspects that pertain to actions of criminal activity under study. The main goal of choice theory is to regulate actions of criminals that would explain why they do what they do. These theories generate factual information based on a persons inherent tendencies‚ background‚ social standing‚ Psychological temperament‚ and environmental influence. There are multiple factors that promote criminal activity. It is

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    The Youth Criminal Justice Act is the law that governs Canada’s youth justice system. It applies to youth who are at least 12 but under 18 years old‚ who are alleged to have committed criminal offences. In over a century of youth justice legislation in Canada‚ there have been three youth justice statutes: the Juvenile Delinquents Act (1908-1984)‚ the Young Offenders Act (YOA) (1984-2003)‚ and the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) (2003-present). A set of amendments to the YCJA was adopted by Parliament

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    Criminal Acts and Choice Theories CJA/204 December 13‚ 2011 Bob Bennett The choice theory has a substantial part to perform when contemplating the argumentation proceeding to criminal vivacity. The choice theory has its intrinsic significance while composing a plan of action for managing or decreasing crime. It is essential to recognize the theory and in what way or manner it influences the potential of an individual engaging in lawlessness and in what manner would an effort to manage crime

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    their medical care. For this freedom to be meaningful‚ people must have the right to make choices that accord with their own values regardless of how unwise or foolish those choices may appear to others.”[2] R v Blaue[3]‚ a famous causation case in criminal law‚ brings to foreground a thought-provoking debate about whether an individual’s religious beliefs and other psychological values could be included in the ‘thin skull’ rule and whether the refusal to take lifesaving medical treatment breaks the

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    Russell Kirkscey used thematic analysis to code and categorize the data used to write his research article “The Cycle of Omission.” Kirrscey‚ a student at Texas Tech University with a concentration in technical Communication and Rhetoric‚ and his interest in research is rhetorical analyses of power and medical rhetoric. Kirkscey chose three children’s books nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award. The books’ are of an assort of reading levels and writing styles. They were chosen based off school

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