...Civil Disorder By Kevin Penn CRJS305 Unit 2 ~ IP American InterContinental University February 21, 2013 Abstract In this assignment I will be looking at and giving examples of three totally different types of and yet still civil disorder researching and describing what happens when a situation with civil disorder happens within the United States, what plans are in place and how civil disorder is handled in this country. I will look at the different countries of China, and Saudi Arabia, as to how they handle civil disorder as well as show their contrasting methods of handling civil disorder. I feel that it is imperative that I will give a little history to each of the countries that I have chosen to show how their methods of dealing with and handling civil disorder have come about today. In closing I will show the similarities that all the countries have in common as well as make a brief statement on the country that I feel holds the civil rights of people closest to the United States. The United States (U.S.) would deal with problems related to civil order control in two or three different ways depending on the size of the civil disorder. In a worst case scenario; in order for the United States to maintain civil order and control they must use The United States Civil Disturbance Plan (Operation Garden Plot). The...
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...1869, was one of the world’s most influential figures. He led many protests that revolutionized the idea of civil disobedience, or non-violent protest. Gandhi rallied thousands to disobey the oppressive and racist British government as an Indian nationalist movement to free India. Under his leadership, the Indian Congress launched a series of mass movements: the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Non Cooperation Movement in 1920s and 1930s. The former was triggered by the historic Salt March, when Gandhi led a group of followers from his ashram on a 200 mile march to Dandi on the west coast in order to prepare salt in a violation of British law. Gandhi soon earned the title “Mahatma,” or Great Soul. In August 1942, the Quit India movement was launched. The British resorted to brutal repression against non-violent protesters. It was evident that the British could only maintain the empire at enormous cost to themselves. At the end of World War II, the British began to transfer power to the now sovereign State of India. Throughout the major events of his life, the concept of Satyagraha, or non-violent, peaceful resistance remained a foundational basis for all of his major movements. Gandhi’s philosophy of Satyagraha encompassed his most central core value and belief of the truthful pursuit of non-violence. This idea is displayed through the formation of his ideas on civil disobedience, his implementation of the historic Salt March, and his reaction to the Quit India movement. Satyagraha...
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...African-Americans receive a diagnosis of schizophrenia, compared to 1.4% of whites. What accounts for this? Is it because African-Americans have a biological predisposition to schizophrenia? Is it because clinicians from majority groups either intentionally or unintentionally misdiagnose African-Americans due to their cultural differences? Or maybe it’s because of the fact that African-Americans have always been on average economically disadvantaged compared to whites. The reasons are most likely a combination of these factors, and others may exist. The idea of “racial schizophrenia” dates back to the 1960’s at the Ionia State Hospital for the criminally insane in Michigan, one of the nation’s most notorious insane asylums. During this time, the civil-rights movement was in full force. The author, Jonathan Metzl, researched the diagnosis of schizophrenia among many of the patients admitted to this hospital over the years. He also published a book about it called, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease. He discovered in his findings that many African-Americans during this time were admitted for armed-robbery, and property destruction, and considered insane, ultimately leading to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. These short court sentences were eventually turned into a lifelong incarceration. The Diagnostic Statistical Manual 2nd Edition (DSM-II), which was the version used at the time, listed symptoms of schizophrenia by using words such as “hostility” and “aggression”...
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...Social Policy: Texas Mental Health Elizabeth Awad University of Texas at Arlington Social Policy: Texas Mental Health Historical Background A recent change in the Texas law was passed for the Code of Criminal Procedure under the 84th Legislature, Under Texas Law Article 46B.102. CIVIL COMMITMENT HEARING: MENTAL ILLNESS is covered when (a) the court determines that the defendant may be a victim of mental illness, then the court shall hold a hearing to determine whether the defendant should be court-ordered by the state of Texas to mental health services under Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code. And (b) Proceedings from the committed defendant determine that they should be court ordered mental health services that are governed by Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code. “Mental Health does not respect zip codes, mental health affects everybody and formed the Texas State of Mind to ensure that Texans can have access to mental health help when they need it” states Tom Luce, Chief Executive Officer of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute who decided to advocate for court ordered and non-court ordered state funded mental health treatment for all Texans (Texas State of Mind., 2015, March 24). Texas Mental Health has been a longstanding concern for Texans and Americans altogether. In 2014, The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute initiated to help serve Texans. Back in July and August of 2012, The Meadows conducted a quantitative research project to its previous...
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...Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy wanted to secure and protect progress on civil rights in the United States. King is recognized by two Christian churches; A Baptist minister, and King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott in which he used his ability and skills to get black and white support. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, King raised public agreements of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest speakers in U.S. history. Through this peaceful...
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...According to the State Bar of Texas, involuntary commitment is “…the use of legal means to commit a person to a mental hospital or psychiatric ward against their will or over their protests” (“Committed to Healing: Involuntary Commitment Procedures”). Involuntary commitment blatantly disregards the principles of bodily integrity and basic civil liberties upon which the United States was founded. Additionally, the medication typically forced upon involuntarily committed patients seldom successfully improves their mental state. The U.S. Supreme Court should declare involuntary commitment of the mentally ill unconstitutional because it violates the civil rights of mentally ill persons and coercive medication rarely succeeds in effectively treating...
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...human service organization that will focus on the treatment of behavioral and mental health disorders. The organization will provide services to individuals of all ages in the community who have been diagnosed with a behavioral or mental disorder. The organization will help treat some common conditions such as anxiety, mood disorders, dementia, personality disorders, bipolar, trauma issues, obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD), and many other psychiatric disorders. This organization is a for profit organization that will have counselors, psychiatrist, nursing staff, and a social services department who are trained to help individuals with behavioral and mental health disorders. The organization will also work with other human service organization to help clients and families meet their basic needs. The organization will accept private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. This organization will work federal, state, and local governments to receive financial assistance as well as other stakeholders to help the organization to provide care to the community. Mission Statement As the director of this organization it is my mission as well as the organizations mission to help its clients and his or her families to achieve the highest level of functioning and improve the quality life of each client and his or her family. The organization will help individuals with behavioral or mental disorders by assessing each individual and develop goals that will meet the unique needs for each...
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...The act of not conforming to a system that conforms your own beliefs defines the ideas of civil disobedience. Likewise, the notion of civil disobedience is display in Henry David Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail”. The two essays express a call to action towards the reality of our honest individual thoughts. The thoughts and actions of Thoreau and King have a great influence in America today and the ideas of civil disobedience are still widely spread. Furthermore, Henry David Thoreau’s ideas of civil disobedience have become a reflection of the American citizens. He discusses the importance of civil disobedience, when it becomes necessary. For instance, “But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it” (Thoreau 941). Similar to a game of chest, a government deciding to become unjust by constructing control over an apparent social division. The government unknowingly then, creates tension among the citizens. Furthermore, “I think we should be men first, and subjects afterward” (Thoreau 941). Individuals are becoming more thorough and coherent before any force...
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...paper investigates the neurological disorder of Combat Stress. Combat stress is a short-term affliction caused by the traumatic effects of war. The historical perspective of combat stress were considered. The effects of combat stress on physical, emotional, mental and psychological parameters were analyzed. The ways of medical and psychological treatment were also mentioned. The cost of war weighs tremendously high, especially if one considers the individual human suffering and not just the loss of government property. When soldiers find themselves in the extraordinary and life threatening conditions, there is a high percent of combat and operational stress from which they may suffer. Combat stress compromises the service-member's emotional, mental and behavioral well-being beyond the lines of the battlefield. Combat stress is a neurological disorder caused by the traumatic effects and accompanied by “melancholy, insomnia, weakness, loss of appetite, and anxiety” (Weaver & Steward, 1988, p3). It is relevant to mention that combat stress is not a continuous disorder but a short-term affliction; and in this case, should be differed from the post-traumatic stress disorder which is long-term and brings more serious consequences. Among the general symptoms of the combat stress are exhaustion, fatigue, fear, uncertainty, and the inability to concentrate as if the person is switched off from the world. Combat stress is the common disorder that has been affecting people since...
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...Evaluating the role of ethnic identity in explaining the occurrence of contemporary civil conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. High hopes for many newly independent states of Africa became diminished as the 1990s saw over a quarter of the continent's states facing armed insurgencies within their borders (Young, 2002: 534). Commentators often point to pathological, deep-seated hatreds in an African tribal mosaic as the bases of such conflict. The fact is, however, that the continent is awash with political grudges, ethnically-framed and otherwise, but civil wars rarely break out. Thus this essay seeks to take a more nuanced approach to understand the analytical challenge posed by such disorder. Starting out by countering the centrality of ethnic identity, it firstly seeks to demonstrate that ethnic identities do not exist primordially, but that they are constructed on weak foundations. Secondly it endeavours to show that where cleavages do exist along lines of cultural difference, simple heterogeneity is insufficient to account for the outbreak of conflict. Next, it moves to underline the fact that more important in explaining civil conflict is whether such conflict is feasible. This is understood both in terms of the perceived capacity of the state and in terms of the viability of insurgency for would-be rebels. A final conclusion will then be expounded that ethnicity is not a central factor, but that it is simply one of a number of strategies under which conflict may be framed...
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...could have been avoided. Justification for killing in war is a very debated topic. Some deem it as necessary for freedom, but what is necessary about killing another human being? Liam O’Flaherty was a short story writer from the early to mid-1900s. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015) disclose that his various novels and short stories guided the course for other authors in the literary Irish Renaissance. In his story, “The Sniper,” O’Flaherty stresses the importance of the human feeling soldiers obtain when amidts battle. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland in the middle of a heated Irish civil war between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Free Staters. An IRA sniper has been...
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...you have a mental disorder that requires a stay in hospital. There you will have an assessment and be given treatment if needed. * This is only done when you are putting your own safety or someone else’s at risk. * You can sometimes be given treatment even if you don’t want it. * There are different sections of the Mental Health Act that have different aims. * You have certain rights under the Mental Health Act, including the right to appeal and the right to get help from an advocate. The Mental Health Act 1983 is the law which sets out when you can be admitted, detained and treated in hospital against your wishes. This is only done if you are putting your own safety or someone else’s at risk and you have a mental disorder. Because the Mental Health Act has different sections, it is commonly known as being ‘sectioned’. The Mental Health Act covers what rights you have, how you can leave hospital and what aftercare you can expect to get. The Act applies in England and Wales. The Mental Health Act defines the term ’mental disorder’ as ‘any disorder or disability of mind'. It includes mental health conditions such as: * Schizophrenia * Depression * Bipolar disorder * Anxiety disorder * Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) * Eating disorders * Personality disorders It also includes other conditions such as dementia, changes in behaviour due to brain injury, mental disorders due to drug use and autistic spectrum disorders. The definition...
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...Law Society of Western Australia – Personal Injury Law Update 8 October 2013 BULLYING AND PSYCHIATRIC INJURY; RECENT AND PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAW Geoffrey R Hancy B.Juris(Hons), LLB(Hons), B.Ec(UWA), LLM(Melb) geoff@hancy.net www.hancy.net Introduction 1 My paper covers: 1.1 Amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) to allow the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to deal with bullying claims; 1.2 Recent court decisions on claims for damages for psychiatric illness; 1.3 The nature of a recognisable psychiatric illness. Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) 2 On 28 June 2013 the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) was amended to incorporate, among other changes, express provisions addressing bullying in the workplace. 3 These provisions will come into operation on 1 January 2014. They are found in a new Part 6-4 B – Workers’ Bullied at Work (sections 789FA to 789FL). Bullying 4 A worker is bullied at work if one or more individuals repeatedly behave unreasonably towards the worker, or a group of workers of which the worker is a member, and that behaviour creates a risk to health and safety: s789FD. Reasonable management action carried out in a reasonable manner is not bullying: s789FD. Not to be copied without the express permission of the author -2- Criteria for and orders that can be made 5 If the Fair Work Commission is satisfied that : 5.1 The worker has been bullied at work; and 5.2 There is a risk the worker will...
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...Most human beings may already be experiencing disorders which is currently unknown to them. The two common disorders known is anxiety and panic disorder. Anxiety is a response to a situation, object, or person that the individual has come to fear through learning and experience (Doctor and Kahn, 1899). According to Hatloy (2012), anxiety is something learned in life due to the fact that probably one’s family may have had a tendency to see the world as antagonistic and unsafe and one figured out how to react in the same way. He also stated that some theories have suggested that one may inherit a tendency to be more anxious, and so it is a part of one’s personality. Panic disorder, on the other hand, is an abrupt surge of anxiety with a feeling...
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...depression and traumatic nightmares to Oleg? It is essential to satisfy the primary authority for psychiatric harm, the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) s 32 (CLA), which requires Oleg be an individual of normal fortitude, directly perceived someone being injured or put in peril, or he was a family member, and suffered a recognisable psychological disorder as a result of the BKFC’s failure to take reasonable care. Upon considering whether a father in Oleg’s position would reasonably feel shock and fear when seeing a large kite collapse near his daughter’s close friend, and later develop severe depression and traumatic nightmares following Ming-Lee’s serious injuries, his response may be considered reasonable. Additionally, the BKFC should have kept this class of persons in contemplation as there were many parents and young children present. However, this may be disputed when considering the hot air balloon accident Oleg was in earlier which left him vulnerable, suggesting he is not an individual of normal fortitude. Further, while not a family member, direct perception is evident as he witnessed Ming-Lee being injured and put in peril, i.e. screaming and lying unconscious, distinguished to King v Phillips wherein the mother did not directly perceive anything. What may be contentious is whether Oleg’s psychiatric harm is a recognised psychological disorder. While severe depression fulfils this requirement, his shock, fear, nightmares and flashbacks do not suffice....
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