Violent non-state actor

Excessive Force in New Jersey State There are several laws governing police misconduct including current laws pending in legislation statewide. Ethically, all laws must focus on the overall “good for everyone”. Police officers should not be excused from holding up to their professional standards. Deontology systems of ethics is said to deal with intentions and motives. Deontological ethics is concerned with acts-- if it is intrinsically right or wrong. According to the State of New…

winter, illustrating how history tends to repeat itself. When pointing to the Holocaust, a commonly held belief is the Holocaust will never repeat itself, however, certain aspects of the Holocaust continue to repeat over human history. In the United States after 9/11, racial targeting, profiling, and discrimination turned toward people of brown skin color. A group targeted due to their appearance were Sikh Indians. Sikh Indians wear turbans to cover their hair due to religious reasons and after…

products. He points out that “the things you own end up owning you” (Fincher) meaning that the population is at the mercy of companies who sell them things. The whole movie is scarily prophetic at anticipating the uprising of millions in the United States that see the culture they live in has merged New Age spirituality with consumerism, benefitting few and dehumanizing the rest. It delves into the lives of the hopeless, angered Americans who have been cheated by the system. In Fight Club, these…

Barack Obama is the first African-American President in the Unites States. According to NBC News, in 2013 a poll indicated 52% of Americans had a positive view towards race relations. Throughout the first term of President Obama, about seven in ten Americans stated the issue with race relations was good. Shortly after President Obama was elected as President for the first term, 77% of Americans gave a positive assessment on the issue. However, during President Obama’s second term of office,…

system peculiarities can influence the shape), by gender (peaks are shallower for women than for men), by type of data (convictions data peak later than arrest data, which peak later than self-report data), and by type of offence (violent crimes peak later than non-violent crimes) (ibid.; McAra & McVie, 2012). This last phenomenon, according to Farrington, probably reflects crime switching by established offenders, instead of a new group starting their criminal careers (1986). Other variations…

In Australia Aboriginal people are far more likely to be arrested than non-Aboriginal people, and account for a quarter of all deaths in custody. It has been said that “the Justice system of Australia still has a long way to go in responding effectively to the needs of Indigenous people trapped in the cycle of the criminal justice system and, more particularly, in preventing deaths in custody (Corrin and Douglas, 2008, p.531). Reasons for this can be attributed to the mistrust of the police,…

end of geopolitical analysis in an era of ‘everywhere war’. (Gregory, 2011). Derek Gregory’s report, ‘The Everywhere War’ (Gregory, 2011) explains that the nature of war has changed, with war no longer being confined to the battlefields. He further states that since the terrorist attacks on…

is a horrific thing that no student wants to think about. That’s the problem with American “intervention” the only answer to ending violence is by adding more violence. Instead of spending billions of dollars in foreign land, why doesn’t the United States use that money to add self-defense programs at public intuitions, instead saying “go buy a gun and if someone tries to shot you, shot back.” Or why not increase school funding’s to ensure that college campuses nationwide have an accurate amount…

public opinion. Public opinion “consists of the views held by the population of a state that influence those in power” (SparkNotes Editors). According to Willam Biano and David Cano in American Politics Today, public opinion matters for three reasons: (1) citizens’ political actions are driven by their opinions, (2) public opinion helps explain the behavior of candidates, political parties, and other political actors; politicians look to public opinion to determine what citizens want them to…

examined throughout the essay. Finally, a conclusion will be given. The political rationale of the civil disobedience in the framework of the theory of the constitutional democracy was offered by Rawls, who framed the concept as a form of non violent public democratic opposition that is affirmed by the principle of majority (Rawls, 1971). Importantly, the agents of civil disobedience have to appeal to the community’s shared conception of justice in their actions, and to demonstrate their…