The Penal Treatments of Offenders Prof. Dr. Ayman Elzeiny A:- The Ideology of Treatment : 'The abandonment of the word "punishment" in favor of "corrections" was a reflection of a trend favoring an approach to the offender much the same as would be made to the mentally ill, neglected, or underprivileged. It was based on a more humane ideology, a treatment model, in which criminal behavior is seen as a manifestation of pathology that can be handled by some form of therapeutic activity
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A FRAMEWORK FOR PRUDENTIAL REGULATION AND SUPERVISION OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR BY DR. OWEN JEFFERSON Recent developments in the financial sector has catapulted the issue of the safety and soundness of the financial system into the forefront of discussions in Jamaica. While not necessarily providing any consolation for us, it is important to note that this issue has also been plaguing many other countries and has become a matter of international concern. The number
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Government Professor Jamie Boyd October 12, 2009 The U.S. Government is composed up of three key branches, the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch. Each branch has its own powers, functions, checks, and balances. First, we will look at the history of the Constitution. During the 1600’s many Europeans left Britain in search of economic, political, and intellectual freedoms. However, they remained under the power of Britain, which functioned under a unitary system
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dealt with some meaningful cases that have shaped the course of this nation. We live in a nation were the Constitution gives us certain liberties such freedom of religion and expression by the 1st Amendment, the right to bear arms by the 2nd Amendment, and the right to a speedy trail by the 6th Amendment. The Court has dealt with cases either philosophically, constitutionally, or both. “ The Supreme Court is distinctly American in concept and function, as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes observed
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the November 2 elections right around the corner, there has been a lot of debate about the numerous propositions that are on the California ballot. One of the most controversial proposition is Prop 19; the legalization of marijuana. This is not the first time that a proposition regarding marijuana has been on the voter’s ballot. In 1996, California Proposition 215 (the Compassionate Use Act) passed, allowing the use of only medical marijuana. Proposition 19 takes marijuana legalization a step further
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registered voter. Let me take you back to a critical time in America’s history. Let us begin by talking about the time or the civil war. It started in 1861. By the time of the Civil War, most white men were allowed to vote. In 1869, the 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote to black men, with most women of all races still unable to vote. Before the civil rights movement, which started in 1955, only free, rich, white men who owned property could vote. Although freed African Americans could
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Is it our job to decide who gets to live and die, and more importantly, is something as severe even evident through written laws? Here are some of the cons why capital punishment should be abolished from our civilization. Playing God ? First off, is it our duty as civilians, or humans for that matter, to play the role of God? I believe that death is a natural occurrence that is not something we can chose for another human being. Why should we kill someone who killed someone to show them
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once did. The third amendment states that no soldier, in time of peace, can be quartered in any house without the owner’s consent. The British parliament was guilty of this with the Quartering Act in 1765, resulting in the aforementioned amendment. It stands to reason that the root of the second amendment, adopted in 1791, was to uphold the third, which was introduced in 1789. Here lies the reasoning behind my conviction that the right to bear arms is an outdated amendment. Should a foreign
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pay Penn Central $1 million for each year of construction and $3 million each year after that. Penn Central and UGP jointly applied to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for permission to build the proposed office building atop the Terminal. The first plan, Breuer I, called for a 55-story building to be cantilevered above the existing façade, but was denied as the Commission thought a building of such great height would not only look outlandish on top of an 8-story historical landmark, but would
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Capital Murder I think capital punishment has its ups and downs. I deem some instances you should use it and some you shouldn’t. I’m going to give you both sides and my opinions on capital punishment also facts on this controversial punishment. The first side I’m going to give you is that capital punishment is ultimate denial of human rights and that two wrongs don’t make a right. What this means is that by killing the person doesn’t change what he did and by killing him goes against everything we
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