1. | Question : | Examine this situation: John: "I am thinking of selling my end tables from my living room." Mary: "If you were going to sell them, I would be interested in buying them." John: "Sold." | | | Student Answer: | | ( ) There is a contract and Mary is obligated to buy the tables. | | | | ( ) There is no contract because there was no agreed-upon price. | | | | (X) There is a contract and the UCC can provide a market price as the price for the contract. |
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According to Agas (2008), criminology focused on the study of crime, the causes of crime, the meaning of crime in terms of law, and community reaction to crime. It also deals with the scientific study of criminals and criminal behavior. Criminologists attempt to build theories that explain why crimes occur and test those theories by observing behavior. This course focuses on such topics as criminal jurisprudence, criminal sociology, crime detection and investigation, drug education and vice control
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2) Mental events may be elicited by events in the brain or they may, in turn, elicit brain events and so influence the course of our behaviour (I use here the word 'elicit' rather than 'cause' advisedly since the kind of causation here envisaged is so unlike familiar causation of the physical kind). 3) There are no such things as private, subjective, introspectible, sense-data. Hence there just is no problem. All that exists, in the last resort, are the physical events underlying the
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(2) Mental events may be elicited by events in the brain or they may, in turn, elicit brain events and so influence the course of our behavior (I use here the word 'elicit' rather than 'cause' advisedly since the kind of causation here envisaged is so unlike familiar causation of the physical kind). (3) There are no such things as private, subjective, introspectible, sense-data or qualia (e.g. that red patch that I am now staring at in the center of my visual field). Hence there just is no problem
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University of Warwick School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-05 LEGAL FORM AND MORAL JUDGMENT: THE PROBLEM OF EUTHANASIA Alan Norrie Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1577163 ABSTRACT In this paper, I want to consider the way in which categories of legal responsibility in the criminal law’s general part mediate and finesse broader moral issues around questions of euthanasia. I INTRODUCTION Euthanasia and its close cousin assisted dying represent
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History of Ethics: 1908 – Canon of Ethics 1969-70 Model Code 3 parts: 1. ethical considerations → what lawyers should do. 2. disciplinary rules → what lawyers must do. good 3. BAR _______________ acceptable set minimum conduct bad 1983 – Model Rules – most states follow. Set forth rules & comments akin to DR (set forth minimum conduct acceptable) 2000 – Ethics 2000 Commission ▪ California Rules of Professional Conduct – the only state to
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function of protecting the infant and leading to certain behaviours (seeking proximity, distress on separation, pleasure on reunion and general orientation of behaviour) There is a Primary attachment figure (PAF) EXPLANATIONS OF ATTACHMENT: LEARNING THEORY Learnt rather than inborn Classical: Association Proposes that food (UCS) naturally produces a feeling of pleasure (UCR). The feeder (NS) becomes associated with the food (UCS) when the infant is fed. The mother eventually produces the sense of
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Indian Reformatory approach I. The Child Welfare Committee(CWC) II. The juvenile justices board III. Police IV. Probation Officer V. State government | 16 | 8. | At present- Extent of delinquency in India-NCRB Report | 18 | 9. | Root causation of increasing number of juvenile | 23 | 10. | Role of the society | 26 | 11. | Judicial efforts | 27 | 12. | Recommendation | 28 | 13. | Conclusion | 30 | Introduction 42% of our population is children; the problem of juvenile delinquency
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April 9, 2015 In the article, Cyberbullying, Depression, and Problem Alcohol Use in Female College Students: A Multisite Study it discusses the effects of cyberbullying, depression, and alcohol use in college students. Cyberbullying can be described often as a way of bullying via the internet, cell phone, or any other electronic device. The effects of cyberbullying are increased levels of depression and emotional distress. Research has discovered that in addition to increased levels of depression
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Violence in Media As young adults, we experience the exposure of violence in all mediums of communication, such as TV shows, movies, video games, and music lyrics. We may have stopped counting how many crime investigation shows are in primetime or how many ways of killing people are in the Saw series. We just keep consuming those materials and even look for more violence as excitement. As we become so obsessed with the genre, we may have forgotten the importance of awareness to the issue. Statistics
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