...about was the time before government. He believed that by nature human beings were passionate and reasonable. That by nature we are all capable of taking care of ourselves. To Hobbes there was no such thing as justice. Everyone has the right to defend themselves. In my opinion he believed in the theory of due unto others as you would have done unto you. So for example if you didn’t want someone to steal from you, you shouldn’t steal from them. If someone did threaten you in anyway, then you were able to defend yourself by any means necessary. Hobbes believed that if there were no rules in place at all that everyone would just kill each other. So there needed to be some sort of government to help enforce those rules. He just wasn’t sure how to go about getting that government set up. He thought that a government should in place basically to help us keep our promises to each other. A government wouldn’t really had out punishment but just enforce the rules that we had already set. Those rules I believe were set by each individual. What I might think is the right thing to do, may not be the right thing for someone else. It depends I think on how you are raised and what you morals are. Therefore it was hard to enforce rules that are different for everybody. Locke was nicknamed “the father of empiricism”. His theory on the state of nature has three forms. A state in which there is no government. A time when there is a partial government. Lastly the there was an...
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...provide jobs, housing, and resources that people need. The unemployment rates in urban areas tend to be extremely high especially for individuals who are new to the city. Many urban areas in developing countries not only suffer from high unemployment rates but also from transportation and housing problems. As the urban population increases the resources become limited and eventually nonexistent. Because of the severity of problems with urban growth, countries such as China are trying to regulate it. 6. An effect of the expansion of cities is the growth of urban crime. Urban crime is constantly growing. Urban crime is an obstacle of economic development. Corporate investors, international development agencies and merchants are discouraged from starting or supporting economic activity by the threat of crime and violence. A major crime prevention obstacle for developing countries is the lack of funding. The governments of these countries do not have an extensive budget for police, jails, and prisons. The United Nations has...
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...2.0 Defination Read phonetically Dictionary - View detailed dictionary Government Transformation Programme (GTP) is the blueprint in Malaysia and designed to provide all Malaysians access to improved public services irrespective of race, religion and region. GTP was devised in accordance with the principles of 1Malaysia, People First, Performance Now. 3.0 Objective 1. To transform the Government to be more effective in it delivery of services and accountable for outcomes that matter most to the rakyat. 2. To move Malaysia forward to become an advanced, united, and just society with high standards of living for all. This is in line with the national mission of achieving Vision 2020 – for Malaysia to become a fully developed nation. 4.0 Strategy Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak (Prime Minister of Malaysia) introduced a series of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in order to measure and improve the efficiency and quality of government services as well as realizing the 1Malaysia concept. KPIs were implemented to ensure the public satisfaction which is they are satisfied or not about the government’s service and whether the government had solved their problems. Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak has identified six major policy areas in which KPIs will play an especially important role in improving the effectiveness of the Malaysian government. These are known as National Key Result Areas (NKRAs). Challenges within each area have been divided into...
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...Every nation and country needs a government and a leader because without one everything would be a chaos. The government is important because the purpose of our government is to make laws for the society, provide for their citizens with public services, take charge of the economy and protect their freedoms. The government purpose is to organize the whole society by making laws, so we can follow them. Without the government people will do anything they please either harming themselves other people or properties, because there’s no laws or authorities that are there to maintain the order or enforce obedience. Laws can also reduce crime to a lower level and prevent crimes that can happen on a daily basis like robbery, fights, sexual assaults etc. That’s why is very important for the government and their laws to make sure the society be safe. One of the government purposes is to protect our freedoms. One of the most is freedom of speech which is the right to express ourselves about anything. Another is freedom of religion which is the right to practice whatever religions one choose, people religions and beliefs are very important in a person or families life, and they always should stay protected by the government. Freedom of movement the right to move, travel, work, reside where ever a person wants. No one should be held in a place where they don’t want to be. That’s why the government protects it, so people could have the liberty to stay or leave in whatever...
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...Models of Organized Crime Executive Summary Bureaucracy is basically the government official documents use to make sure that I’s are dotted and the t’s are cross. It is used mostly by government officials’ and administrative, they are primary used through the bureaus division of labor system. With this it can be at ones advantage it helps with structure in which is needed to run successful organization, some advantage could be keeping structure and a strategic plan at hand. A disadvantage could be if an origination is not large enough it cause it to be difficult to keep everything in order, that is why the higher rank your origination is the better they have upper hand on creating their own rules and regulation verse an organization that is small and not have much ranking in any type of ideal that they may have to bring to the table. Bureaucracy can also be more on the line of the law and corporates helping to organized crime on how they operate and are succeeding so well. A patron-client organization deals with more of the people and how they interact with each other and the public relations part. They can also give information to each other and then send to the government officials’ and they work more with groups to of politics. Or a group of people who are all about social organization and tradition. On the other side they are also ones who practice on organizing crime that will help benefit them. Examples of bureaucratic would be corporate organization and category of...
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...Social Contract Theory of John Locke Luca D. Iaria University of Phoenix CJA 532/ Ethics in Justice and Security Professor: Cyril Vierra January 25, 2015 John Locke was a British Philosopher born in 1632. His most famous written work was The second treatise of civil government (written in 1690). This book focused on the natural state of man and how government should be structured. Locke was a fan of man to say the least. Locke describes man in his writing’s as being inherently good natured. Locke goes on to explain that man in a state of nature is peaceful. Locke contested that man should challenge authority by using self reason to search for the truth. He said that man shouldn’t just expect the opinion of the authority or be subject to superstition. By man choosing to use reason he can then find the truth and challenge the legitimate functions of institutions hence optimizing human flourishing for the individual and the society. Locke explains that without the establishment of a common political authority, man will remain in a state of nature. This is a clear example of how Locke felt about man and how he viewed them as a whole. Lock stated “All men in their natural state are in a state of perfect freedom (Locke, 1690).” The positive side of Locke's anti-authoritarianism is that he believes that using reason to try to grasp the truth, and determining the legitimate functions of institutions will optimize human flourishing for the individual and society both in respect...
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...Although both Orwell and Huxley both predicted that humanity would eventually deteriorate, they had contrasting views on how we would construct our own demise. Orwell feared “what we hate will ruin us;” meanwhile, Huxley “feared what we love will ruin us.” Both authors truly believed that “it is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” Postman’s view accurately details why Huxley’s prediction of the future is a much more plausible projection in relation to our modern day society in the United States. Orwell’s main character in 1984, Winston Smith, is living within a society reliant and controlled by a totalitarian government. This government controls the past, present, and the future of each and every citizen through the various...
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...The Perfect Government Power is so useful that it needs to be distributed to everybody. While power is usually given to a general. If it would be given to the public and shared more likely the society would be relaxed. This choice and accessibility, makes this society way more superior. This power if abused would lead upon punishment. Pretty much every dictator with high power has been corrupted, and messed up everybody. According to history Julius Caesar and other Roman leaders have received this kind of high power and was still corrupt. This shows how it is risky to give one person with the great power a country can muster. Also Mussolini tried to copy these Roman leaders and instead of a dream it created a nightmare. This proves even dreams of leaders won’t work, and shows that...
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...Jeffrey White PADM - 620 Local Political Administration Week 6 Assignment Instructor Dr. Bagwell Department of Public Administration American Public University What problems are incurred when judges are elected? Some argue that elected judges is a part of democracy or that they are representation of the people who elected them. The judiciary system is one of three tiers in our government which also include the legislative and executive branches. These three branches work together to provide the people with a check and balance system of government and that all three are equal in power and authority. However, some argue that popular election of judges is a bad idea, and it opens up the judicial branch to the same partisan and commercial pressures that the legislative and executive branches of government already experience (Kiplinger, 2013). The concern is that judges may be bought by those with money forcing them to make decisions in benefit to those who bribed them. Another issue with financial side of elected judges is that elections cost money. Very few judges bank roll an election from their own pocket, therefore they rely on donations and fundraising to pay for election campaigns. But can a judge remain unbiased and non-partisan if they were bank rolled by someone who was seeking judgments to benefit them directly or the market they work or own businesses in. An article published in the American Journal of Political Science, stated that the article was...
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...initially passed to preserve the integrity of telecommunication systems and peoples implied rights. In 1960, the government introduced the Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act 1960 (Cth) to protect individual’s privacy by illegalising the interception of telecommunication systems. The purpose of this laws have shifted as it now aims to protect society as a whole and disregarding the implied rights of individuals. This Act and other legislations governing the interception of telecommunications were replaced in 1979, with the Telecommunications (interception and access) Act 1979 (Cth) to incorporate...
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...are living in great misery. They don’t have even the basic facilities of life such as electricity, health, education and clean water for drinking instead there are masses of rubbish and pools of filthy water all around. The children of gypsies run here and there, naked and with dirty hairs and skin, the males are addicted and the ladies move towards the Bazars for begging and prostitution. Government must stop being negligent of these 700,000 people and has to provide them with space for housing, basic facilities of life and provide them with employment to sort out their financial problems. INTRODUCTION The Gypsies are one of the most segregated and neglected ethnic groups in all over the world are living a dejected life on the various margins of the globe. In this report the problems and hardships of the gypsies encountered particularly in Lahore will be highlighted. The major issues are improper settlement of gypsies, lack of basic facilities of life for them, lack of education, unemployment and poverty which results in increase in crime rate. The Governments mostly turn their heads from these settlements, regarding them as "lumps" in the body of society. We will discuss different means by which we can over come this problem of the society and help the Gypsies to live a better life. FINDINGS ❖ There are no exact figures for the number of Gypsies living in Pakistan. The numbers vary from 500,000 to 700,000, as the Gypsies often...
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...Intro Our founding fathers said if the government is not working in favor of the people to change it. To improve it. “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”- Declaration of Independence. Look at what some of these revolutionaries of the time said: “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”- Thomas Paine. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”- Thomas Jefferson. Misinterpretations I wanted to tackle some of the ridiculous views on anarchy. So, here we go. Many people have obscure or wrong views on anarchy. This is because of the government, the media and other such things. Example(s): According to wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn anarchy means a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government). According to the same website anarchic means...
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...The citizens who stood up against the government faced cruelty and dehumanization. Pregnant women would be held in prison until they were able to give birth (Robertson). Then when the child was born, the baby would be given to a military family and the biological mother would be killed (Biography). To begin, “children were tortured in front of their parents and parents in front of their children” (Hermann). “A particularly vocal critic of both left- and right-wing violence was Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who was arrested and tortured in 1977 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980” (Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). The cruelty and dehumanization against the citizens was horrific and scarring for anyone involved. Organizing the right and left wings helped the government plan on how to continue the bloodshed...
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...This article reports about the Western Australia government agency Healthway’s misuse of public funds, leading to the Corruption and Crime Commission delving deeper into the agencies affairs and increasing the spectre of charges against directors, board members and senior staff. Criminal Law Healthway’s directors, board members and senior staff members may face criminal charges for breaching their duties and codes of conduct, as the CCC’s investigation into the agencies affairs intensifies. Allegedly according to a Public Sector Commission report, Healthway grossly misused public funds in the procurement of thousands of tickets worth hundreds of thousand dollars, which in turn flawed to board members, senior staff and directors’ family...
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...Codi Monroy DBRA 100D/Rude Democracy: words sticks & stone Michael Lewis February 12, 2014 Sacrifice Bombings, national attacks, armed robbery and murders are just some of the terrifying events that take place all over the world every day. Constant battle between not only countries but mostly their citizens is what really affects a society. New technology though, has been able to help in the fight against crime. New gadgets such as the Mobile Scanner and the unknown cameras and microphones that surround people are ways in which the government can help protect citizens. Some people believe it is unethical and unnecessary for the government (gov.) to be provided with so much information; in my opinion, I believe that in order to be safe we need to give up some rights and freedoms. I think that in order to live in a safe world we need these extreme measures such as airport searches, communication control, and observation mechanism on the roads. Terrorism has been a problem for airlines and air travelers since the 1970s, when hijackings and bombings became the method of choice for subversive, militant organizations around the world. Although security at airports has always been tight, the 9/11 attacks awoke many people to a harsh reality. Airport searches are composed of identity confirmation, bag check, metal detectors, and full body searches. These few steps are seen by some as a violation of privacy but in my opinion it is extremely important. The reason as to...
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