One of the most important stages in achieving justice for the offender‚ victim and society is known as sentencing and punishment. It is always difficult to find the balance between the offender‚ victim and society so that equality and natural justice can be achieved. Three areas where this can be seen are in the purpose of punishment‚ factors affecting a sentencing decision and types of penalties. Protection of society and the rights of the individual will be clearly seen and discussed in the essay
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Legal Liability 0f Parents Parents should and should not be held legally responsible for their children ’s actions. Parents who are incompetent and parents who are in the system themselves should be held responsible for their children ’s actions. Parents who are handicapped and parents who are competent should not be held responsible for their children ’s actions. Parents that do not rear their children should be held responsible. There are parents who do not care what the child does as
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The Legal Drinking Age Kyra C. Lyons Bryant & Stratton College Phil 250 Mike Sulak July 3‚ 2012 Increasing or decreasing the legal age at which people can purchase and drink alcohol has been a controversial issue for quite some time now. Some people say that it should be lowered because teens drink anyway‚ some say that it should increase or the stay the same due to health risk. There are many other viewpoints to both sides and in this paper we are going to explore both sides to the story
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State‚ Government and Law 1. State An entity can be regarded as a state if it satisfies the following essentials of statehood 1. Population 2. Territory 3. Government 4. Sovereignty or Supremacy State can be unitary (only one govt. throughout the territory); federal(distribution of powers between central and state governments); monarchy(hereditary king as the ruler); republic(the head of the state is not a monarch but an elected person) etc. The ultimate aim of the state is
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Legal Forms of Business Tim Yeakley AIU Online Abstract There are three different legal forms of business and all vary in levels of liability‚ ownership‚ and P&L control. An inventor who has developed a new product needs to determine the proper form of business to establish. The inventors’ situation is unique and narrows his choices of business types due to his lack of financing‚ business skills‚ and family. The three types of business he would have to research are sole proprietorship‚
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Explain the legal procedure of showing Dan’s legal liabilities. This Essay will outline the legal procedure surrounding Dan‚ who is on trial for the attempted murder of his girlfriend‚ from the moment a neighbor reported the crime to the police. It will detail the time from the process of this report up to the end of his trial. The first step will be the investigation of the reported offence undertaken by a non legally qualified body‚ the Police. The Police will question the witness‚ Mrs Smith
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been a controversial issue to weather or abortion should be legal or illegal all over the United States. Women all over the United States has been given the choice to have an abortion in some states such as Oklahoma a woman who wants to get rid of the fetus must undergo a view of the ultrasound and listen to the fetus heartbeat and no abortion can be done after 20 weeks of pregnancy (procon.org). I believe abortion shouldn’t be legal at all because in the Bible it states in Exodus 20:13 the 6th
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Legal Abortion in China Introduction There are many problems that our world today has to face. Those problems don’t only have an effect to the country‚ but it can also affect us individuals. Those problems are drug addictions‚ murders‚ prostitutions‚ kidnappings‚ and etc. It also includes abortions. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously‚ in which case it is
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Abortion: Legal or Illegal PHI 103: Informal Logic Professor Craig Brewer June 5‚ 2012 While abortions are viewed as immoral and should be deemed illegal‚ women should have the right to choose what happens to their own body because abortions can be chosen as a way of getting rid of an undesired pregnancy for a rape or incest victim‚ abortions can be spontaneous or not planned at times‚ abortions have been around for centuries and abortions can also be medically induced due to medical issues
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the Drinking Age The U.S. has the drinking problem. The young people‚ especially the college students‚ drink in excessive ways that have dangerous and damaging effect. Many people say the best way for combat this problem is to keep the Minimum Legal Drinking Age‚ or the MLDA‚ for 21 years and older adults. They argue the worst thing is to encourage more young people to drink alcohol because this will cause more risky behavior and even more deaths‚ as from traffic fatalities. Of course‚ it is
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