Why do you believe that mental health (or illness) is stigmatized? Is the shame, guilt, and embarrassment about mental conditions limited to the United States?
Paragraph 2: Do you think there are some social groups that bear more of a burden of stigma related to mental conditions than others? If so, who and why?
Paragraph 3: What can be done on an individual, community, and national level to promote mental health?
Paragraph 4: What role does the Affordable Health Care Act have in this?
The United States Criminal Justice System
Criminal Law in the United States
The History of US Law Enforcement
Compare different police patrol procedures
Law Enforcement Jurisdiction
Analysis of a Supreme Court Case (Student can select any US Supreme Court Case that impacted police producers or protocols)
Federal law enforcement (select only one agency)
Police Patrol Procedures (select one are to focus on)
Local Police/Law Enforcement (Select a state, county, or city department)
Technology used to enhance police patrol strategy
History of US Jails
The State Court System (Students are free to select the state court system they write about)
Corrections
Legal positivism is an influential theory concerning the nature of law. Legal positivism is traditionally understood to include a commitment to and defense of the following three theses:
• Pedigree Thesis: Legal validity is a function of certain social facts; in particular, legal validity is a function of how the law was historically generated.
• Separability Thesis: Law and morality are conceptually distinct. While some laws may reproduce moral obligations, it is not necessary that law incorporate or include moral content.
• Discretionary Thesis: Judges decide difficult cases by making new law in an exercise of discretion. In hard cases, the judge has a “quasi-legislative” power.
The most powerful and influential defense of legal positivism to date is found in H.L.A. Hart’s classic work, The Concept of Law. In that work, Hart argues that law is best understood as the union of primary rules of obligation with secondary rules of recognition, change, and adjudication (p.155). (a) First, explain the core components in Hart’s model for understanding law as the union of primary and secondary rules. What are these different kinds of rules? How are they related to one another? According to Hart, how does their combination give rise to a legal system imposing distinctively legal obligations on individuals? (b) Second, indicate how Hart’s model for understanding the nature of law seeks to give expression to “the pedigree thesis,” the “separability thesis,” and the “discretionary thesis.” (c) Drawing from the readings by Fuller, Dworkin, Altman, and/or Feinberg, identify what you consider to be the two most important objections to legal positivism and explain how, if these objections are true, legal positivism is undermined (or weakened). (d) Finally, given the objections you consider in part (c), do you believe legal positivism provides a compelling account of the nature of law? Why? Why not? Explain.
read constituent letters written to Senator John Sherman Cooper about his role in sponsoring the Cooper-Church Amendment in 1970. You will submit a short reaction paper that addresses how political, ethical, religious, gender, or racial perspectives can explain these reactions. In all, what do these letters and their various backgrounds tell us about how the writers saw their individual and collective civic responsibility?
Provide a Journal about ASPA and PA Times. Provide comments of your research tied what ASPA is, in your view why is the code of ethics is important and include a synopsis of one of the articles from the PA Times tied to Human Resource Management that you find interesting.
