When you first start reading Kitty Calavita ‘s Introduction to law and society you begin to wonder what the book will truly be about. She starts off telling you about the history of the study of law and society. She then begins to tell of how society defines law and how a definition is hard to establish. As you continue through the book you discover that Calavita is trying to make three main points. These points I would argue are law is created by society and guided by society, Law allows society to hold back individuals and even create tensions between laws and the society, and lastly that law that those in society who interact most with the law tend to shape the outcome of the laws and the system itself.…
Judy stated that Robert has been doing good. He has adjusted well to this program and love it here at the Light Guild International program. Judy stated that she reached out to the residence and she hasn't gotten a response. There is a few paper work missing from his file and they need documentation stating this Robert is a Willowbrook class client. MSC informed her that she will send her paperwork.…
North Shore Community College celebrated “Law Day” this year by having noted criminal defense attorney J.W. Carney as a guest speaker. He began his speech by addressing how his own Paralegal makes his job easier by keeping him organized, and having him stay on track by telling him what needs to be done. He gave the advice of “follow your dreams” to anyone starting out in the legal profession. Attorney Carney stated the reason he became a lawyer was inspiration from watching the show “The Defenders,” and from movies like, “Gideon’s Trumpet.” In the beginning of his career, he worked for five years at the public defender’s office, five years as a prosecutor and now is in private practice.…
Ian Haney Lopez, a Professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley primarily works in the areas of racial justice and American law. Lopez is also the author of White by Law, The Legal Construction of Race, which presents a critical look at how race has been recognized by law and it’s legal actors such as judges and policy makers throughout history. The author mainly focuses on analyzing prerequisite cases that in affect, have changed the way that race is perceived today. The book particularly focuses on the legal and social construction of whiteness.…
At the Court, the state of Louisiana argued that “the law was a constitutionally mandated use of the state’s power to secure the public good by preserving the peace and health of the community” (Foote). Plessy argued that the state law which required the railroad company to segregate trains had denied him his rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Plessy’s lawyer insisted that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments created affirmative rights and that the autocratic assignment of racial categories to people perpetuated the features of slavery. The justices were not convinced by this argument. In the seven-to-one majority opinion on May 18, 1896, the Court rejected Plessy’s arguments based on…
Bryan stevenson claim “our criminal justice system treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.” In fact, the law criminal is created to maintain order and justice in society without discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age or political opinion. For that raison anyone , there is criminal law a system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes. Therefore, each country set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which all population, regions, states or other organization is governed. The purpose of my research is based on justice in the United States.…
Civil laws are laws that are set in place to help protect people rights when it comes down to person to person. One example might be landlord, tenant situation where the tenant is failing to pay rent which was agreed upon, and an agreement was signed. This is where civil law would step in and assist the landlord. As described in our book, Criminal law is dealing with wrong doings against society. These laws are put in place and have consequences.…
Throughout this semester, Diversity in the Criminal Justice System has taught me to think critically on the fact being presented to us on a daily basis. Mainstream media in America has influenced the way society has viewed race relations. Media, the platform controlled by a small group of corporate business entities, who are constantly lying and telling society what to think. Minorities, especially people of color are being told that they are the victims of mass racism nowadays. Problems such as mass incarceration, police brutality and/or poverty are being painted as issues only minorities are facing.…
Diversity is a driving force of the world today, and immigration leads to this diversity. People from different parts of world move to various countries for a better life or simply better lifestyle. Individuals and families leave comfort of their own home and move to a foreign country for a better living, fear and challenges that come along with this are beyond imagination. East indians are the second most asian originated population in US, isolation from their own cultural group to settle into a new one is well explained in Anderson’s “Breaking Bread” where Soni Gupta and Najia Pathan recall their childhood memories and relate to cooking then versus now. Cooking is an art of living in east indian families, time and effort that is invested…
How can our government be benign if we depend from it as much as it depends from us, the citizens? I don’t think it would be a good idea to aggravate the general population that in a way has much more power than the government it self. I feel like if there would be a day were the government would take advantage of its people, then that would be the day when the people of this country would stand against its government. In any matters where the people feel aggravated by its government am pretty sure the people will have a solution, and if that solution is to overwrite the way our government works then we shall do it. But talking about how or government treats us is very pleasant compared to other countries that only utilize they’re citizens to exploited them in hard labor…
No one can predict the future relationship between multiculturalism and the criminal justice system. However, the futures looks much better than it did 10 years ago. We are seeing more minorities working at all levels in the field, the gradual end of ridiculous racial profiling, better police and community relationships, and reductions of some long sentences that mainly affected minorities. This will not be an easy marriage, but one that will take the cooperation and patience of everyone involved.…
Forced Diversity: Detrimental Effects. With the rise of civil rights movements in 1960’s the first diversity trainings started taking place. They were educating people to make them culturally aware, showing the oppression people were facing in their daily lives.…
In the workforce, many have been engaging to expand in more diversity. Yet we have this challenging issue in the law enforcement, especially where we want more diversity so they can represent their community. The decades of research show that members of the community believe the law enforcement represents and responds to them. When the community perceives the law enforcement as fair, legitimate, and accountable it enhances the trust the community to the law enforcement. The trust the community has towards can defuse tensions, solve crimes, and create a system where the community sees the law enforcement as justice and fair.…
Over the years, judicial diversity has been an issue of concern for Wales and England. Reform initiatives and debates for judicial diversity are critical features of various common law jurisdictions. The country faces gender and ethnicity diversity as the major dimension of inclusiveness in the judicial system. Critics have raised general arguments in rationalizing judicial diversity as well as the essence of having judicial appointments and procedures adhering to the requirements of equal opportunity laws and equality. Diverse compunctions of the judiciary have higher capacitates of responsiveness to experiences and needs of different legal system subjects.…
Considerations in the early days are known to be difficult to be defined with simple words. However, in Bunn v Guy it is defined as “ loss or inconvenience suffered by one party at the request of the other ”. Furthermore, in Thomas v Thomas it is stated to be defined as “some detriment to the plaintiff or some benefit to the defendant”. It is also stated in a well known definition in Currie v Misa which is also the one that has drawn criticism that consideration is “some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other “. For instance if I contract with A with my phone for $1000, I will be gaining the benefit of the $1000, but at the…