Watchmen

A prostitute in the 18th century was anyone who engaged in sex for money or favors. It is important to note that people could engage in prostitution without it being their sole career. Prostitution could and was most often a side job, used to help supplement low wages in domestic service or other occupations. Those that were career prostitutes were often picked up by a procurer, usually an old woman who would either trick or coerce the adolescent into performing sexual acts for money. These…

Community policing has been an innovative policing philosophy that worth to be examined deeply. This kind of organizational strategies is seen to be different from the traditional policing at various aspects, since the targets and approaches of community policing is nearly opposite to those of traditional policing. Yet, both models of policing are sharing the same goal, which is to maintain social order by reduce the harm brought by crime in the society. Community policing achieves such aim by…

in the “State of the Nation”. He insists that the ones with the power of government are susceptible to human nature and that “entrusted with them have infinite temptations to abuse them, and will never cease abusing them. […] Who are to watch the watchmen? –the people themselves […] without this ultimate safeguard, the ruling Few will be forever the scourge and oppression of the subject Many.” Montesquieu outlines various forms of government like Despots which are inherently bad and corrupt…

allow non-mainstream ideas to flow. Instead, the internet becomes another administered power system. Foucault would view the loss of freedom on the web as the web becoming another tool of oppression. Surveillance turns people into their own internal watchmen (Berard,…

Madison Verschleiser Social Studies The Victorian Man, Sherlock Holmes In 1887, Conan Doyle introduced, arguably, one of the most famous literary characters into the world, Sherlock Holmes. Even decades after the original publication of the series, Sherlock Holmes as a character still resonates with people around the world. Today people are drawn towards Sherlock Holmes as a polarizing character whom they can live vicariously through and be drawn into a world of a man so different from the…

profit as soon as the opportunity arose. So, just a little after one on January 17, 1920, a truck load of masked gunmen pulled into a railroad switching yard in Chicago. When the truck stopped, the six masked gunmen got out and grabbed the six night watchmen and tied them up. After locking them up in a shed, they broke into two freight cars and stole $100,000 worth of whiskey marked ¨For Medicine Use Only.¨ Also on the same day but somewhere else in Chicago, a truck loaded with whiskey was…

immigrants in the United States has been a major hot button issue for politicians as they are making their runs for offices. This is not a recent issue in the US. The problem of people entering the US illegally has originated since 1904 where mounted watchmen from the U.S. Immigration Service patrolled the border of El Paso, Texas preventing illegal Chinese immigrants from entering the United States. The U.S. Border Patrol was officially established in 1924 and charged with the duty of securing…

The Juvenile Justice System has been around for quite a while. There were even forms of a justice system before the actual system was set in place. A juvenile is a male or female that is under the age of eighteen years old. The history of the system has great importance to how the system has become today. There have been many changes made and new acts and programs introduced to better support the juveniles well-being. Without this system in place the youth of the world that have been committed…

19 – Unsure The memory of Idmaer plagued Edoma, preventing any semblance of a good night’s rest. He had looked so helpless in shackles. She knew him to be anything but, even bound in chains she could see his mind working to figure a way out of it. But there wasn’t such a way. He was no longer the man she had loved, if that man had ever even existed. To think he had stolen the grimoire from the First Priest’s tomb, all those years ago, and never told her about it. And then he had used the magic…

Crime and punishment are like peanut butter and jelly. Back in London during the 1800’s London's crime rate went up from about 5,000 per year in 1800 to about 20,000 per year in 1840. The Victorians were firm believers in punishment for criminals.The crime in London was starting to rise during the 1800’s. And the punishments started to get more civilized. In order to understand crime and punishment in London during the 1800’s one must examine crime,punishment,social class, and the judicial…