The Three Strike Law The policy that I have chosen to discuss is the three strike law. The three strike law was created to handle problems that occurred with habitual offenders. Commonly known in the 1990’s era the three strike law increased prisons sentences of habitual offenders. The three strike law is a statue that allows the courts to impose harsh sentences such as life sentences to individuals who are convicted of three or more major criminal offenses. Habitual criminals automatically qualify
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KIM BOSTOCK UNIT 6 M2) Explain how the action plan has helped support own development over the duration of the programme. In order to answer this criterion I will be explaining how the action plan has helped support my development over the duration of the programme. During the BTEC Health & Social Care programme I have gained great knowledge and that is something I did not think I could achieve. I have learned to research on certain subjects and gather so much information in order to complete
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and his contribution to the Pullman Strike. Both newspapers only recorded some facts that supported their newspaper’s views of the event that happened over the few month of the nationwide strikes. Eugene Debs was described
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Was the Hunger Strike Campaign of the 1980’s the most significant IRA action of that decade? The Hunger Strike campaign during the 1980’s were well known in Northern Ireland and Britain and some say this one action was the most significant of the IRA’s during that decade. In this essay I will be exploring how actually The Hunger Strikes were maybe not the most significant actions as during this decade the Brighton Bombings and The Long War were other‚ very momentous action plans the IRA put into
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The strike activities showed a decrease trend in recent years. Seen from the data of UK Office for National Statistics (2013) from 1974 to 2012. From 1974 to 1979‚ there were approximately 2500 strikes recorded in every year‚ and the total number of working days lost is more than 12 million annually. From 1980 to 1989‚ the amount of strikes reduced more than a half to nearly 1000 strikes each year‚ and the total number of working days lost is reduced to 6 million annually. The strike activities still
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She argues that with other forms of industrial action‚ the employer is technically able protect itself by employing other resources. Further‚ she contends that if tortuous picketing received protected status‚ it would be possible for a union to organise a total blockade of premises preventing the employer from any trade at all. While it is foreseeable that protection for such action would exceed the level of persuasive pressure anticipated by Parliament‚ it is this
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employer. Occasionally disagreements do occur and the two sides cannot agree. In these cases the union may decide to take industrial action. Industrial action takes different forms. It could mean an over time ban‚ a work-to-rule or a strike. There are strict laws which unions have to follow when they take industrial action. A strike is only called as a last resort. Strikes are often in the news but are rare. Both sides have a lot to lose. Employers lose income because of interruptions to production
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or eliminate trade union activity in their workplaces. Trade unions have to work within a legal framework and this started in Britain when they gained the right to organise in 1824 with the repeal of the Combination Acts and their right to strike without being sued for damages by an employer was enshrined in the Industrial Disputes Act of 1906. During the 1960s‚ however‚ there was a growing feeling that trade unions and their members were using their power in a way which was damaging to the
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conflict in this sense‚ as would purely individualized and even unconscious forms of protest‚ including absenteeism‚ frequent job-changing‚ negligence‚ and even accidents at work. Industrial sociologists have also regarded spontaneous walk-outs and strikes as examples of informal industrial conflict‚ as well as the constant opposition
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The movement in organized labor from 1875 to 1900 to improve the position of workers was unsuccessful because of the inherent weaknesses of unions and the failures of their strikes‚ the negative public attitudes toward organized labor‚ widespread government corruption‚ and the tendency of government to side with big business. After the Civil there was a push to industrialize quickly‚ and the rushed industrialization was at the expense of the workers as it led to bigger profits for big business and
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