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    Encounter is performed by a team of Police officers with proposes to eliminate notorious terrorist or criminals. Although it has come to knowledge of court and public at large there are vast criticism on style of eliminating individual or group of individuals without actually having complete authority from the honourable court to perform such duty. Technique cowardly performed by police officers to eliminate human being. Most of the times‚ the head of operation would take such individual or group

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    . In the United States‚ the criminal justice system is an important tool used to provide justice for all. The criminal justice system creates a median for protecting societies innocent civilians and punishing the guilty who committed heinous acts. To follow understand our justice system‚ we need to look at laws created throughout history that became influential to our modern law as we know it today. For our laws have been adapted from historical societies‚ whose thoughts and ideas were way before

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    number of people arrested spiked. By ninety-ninety‚ there was over one million‚ one hundred thousand‚ one hundred‚ seventy-nine thousand‚ two hundred prisoners. Federal law’s set a trend that was overdone; he was wrong for his ninety-ninety-four criminal bill. Many of our prisoners begin incarcerated for many small misdemeanor crimes that had longer sentences‚ mandatory minimums to spend a long time in jail. If they do not have money to bail out of jail or have someone that is willing to bail

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    Racism and the Criminal Justice System Is the justice system really racist? I do don’t think so and here’s why. In the 1950’s‚60’s‚and 70’s the criminal justice system was a little racist. But now a days from the mid 80’s to present i don’t think the justice system is racist. If a white and black man commits the same crime. Let’s say murder‚both men are going to prison‚ but however the crimes could have been committed differently. The white man killed someone‚ then admitted to it the next day. The

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    (03178) Poverty in the Philippines Poverty in the Philippines has not improved in the past 6 years. Olchondra (2013) stated: “Economic growth over the past six years hardly made a dent in poverty incidence in the Philippines‚ as the percentage of Filipinos living below the poverty line remained practically the same between 2006 and 2012‚ official statistics showed.” (2013). This problem can be solved by looking at how other countries solved it. It can be solved by education‚ anti-poverty program

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    The criminal justice system today is just a redesigned way to limit the freedom of African Americans. Today‚ even though African American men only make up a little over 6% of the population‚ they make up over 40% of the people that are incarcerated. Part of the reason this stat is so disproportional is because of history. Historically African Americans have been oppressed first through slavery‚ and then through the Jim Crow laws and segregation‚ and now through the criminal justice system. The criminal

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    Conflict Theory A. What is Conflict Theory? Farley (2000:73) contends that conflict theory arose primarily from the work of Marx and was continued in the work of C Wright Mills and Ralf Dahrandorf. The general underlying assumption associated with conflict theory is that society is made up of groups with competing self-interests. Often the competing groups have unequal power. People compete for resources that are in scarce supply. Generally‚ the resources that are in short supply involve wealth

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    Fight Poverty Many people here in the United States‚ are forced to live a life in poverty. Poverty in the United States is getting worse each day and not enough is getting done about it. There are people who want to help the poor‚ but no one knows exactly how to help them. Those who are against poverty agree that something needs to be done‚ but they do not know how to go about getting things done. A primary reason for people not taking action is because of lack of information that is provided

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    Introduction Poverty is an important issue. It testifies to the human condition. This issue is worthy of studying in order to take preventative measures. Many communities are stricken with poverty and many are not sure about what poverty is. Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is a societal ill that can be minimalized. The research question that will be addressed is the following: “What are the main causes and

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    Numerous study have found widespread racial bias in US criminal justice system. A new report issued by a coalition of civil rights organizations calls the "massively and pervasively biased" treatment on blacks and Hispanics by the US police and courts the major civil rights problem of the twenty-first century entitled "Justice on Trial : Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System." The study finds that minorities in the US face discriminatory treatment at every stage of the judicial

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