“Australia wants, and will welcome, new healthy citizens who are determined to become good Australians.”- Arthur Caldwell, Australian Minister for Immigration, 1945. During the years of 1947 to 1953 more than 170,000 emigrants were assisted by the Australian government to flee their country onto the safe shores of Australia. During these times Australia was extremely xenophobic and horrid towards those who were considered ‘different’ in society. We often hear on the news the biased opinions of many Australians towards migrants and how they are invading our country with their beliefs and cultures. It may have been that many Australians were and still are chauvinistic, fearing those who are different.
One of the main reasons Colorado refuses to pass the law is due to the cost of jail and lifetime surveillance - money of course outweighing the safety of children - enough said. Also, the reduced prison sentences are worth every cent because every year a violent sex offender or pedophile is in prison is a year protecting children from them. An understandable pitfall of Jessica’s Law is that it makes it nearly impossible to find homes for registered sex offenders due to the clause that states they cannot live within 2,000 feet of a school zone, park or where children gather. I concede that this makes it difficult and could be counterproductive since many become homeless and unable to keep under a close watch. This is a valid concern and can be dealt with state by state, the government spend astronomical amounts of tax payer dollars on nugatory programs.
Summary and Response In Peter Moskos’s “In Lieu of Prison, Bring Back the Lash”, he argues that prisons are an ineffective and expensive form of punishment and suggests corporal punishment be used as an alternative. Moskos points out that prisons are severely overcrowded and come at an astronomical cost. He then gives a quick history of the prison system, stating it was created as a more humane option to replace corporal punishment, which was viewed negatively in our new country. Moskos states prisons were intended to rehabilitate criminals much in the way hospitals heal the physically or mentally ill. The author describes prisons as internment camps used for practically free labor and says while some criminals need to be incarcerated, most do not.
National Referendum: Should the Constitution be ammended to allow direct democracy? By: Maxie Bolton PLS 135 - 22H American National Politics Mr. Walter Zeller April 14, 2015 Shortly following the signing of the Constitution, in a response to a woman’s inquiry, Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government the founders had created for us? His reply was “ a republic, if you can keep it” (Forefathers.com). In his book Citizen Lawmakers, David Schmidt tells us that Thomas Jefferson’s “strong support for establishing the process was based on his belief that the people are sovereign and should be the ones to agree to and approve any change to the one document, the consititution, that dictated the laws in which they would have to live
The demographic group most affected by the war on drugs and the incarceration boom are the juveniles. Youth who turn to drugs and alcohol abuse are faced with harsh reality at YSI Facilities, another branch of the private prison industry. Rather than being charged with fines appropriate to their offenses and being sent to rehabilitation or other forms of drug treatment, non-violent offenders are locked away with long, harsh sentences. This profit-driven war on drugs and other substance abuse ruins the lives of the inmates, turning them into harder criminals by exposing them to such environments. According to a project run by The Huffington Post, 40% of juvenile offenders sent to private prisons on account of drug related crimes are arrested and convicted of harsher crimes in less than a year from their release (Kirkham).
It’s pervasive, even when we’re pretty sure we believe in equality we find it hard to make calls on whether abuse in a relationship is conflict or mutual or something more sinister. We know that men who abuse tend to blame other people, alcohol or circumstances for their violence. And it’s not just abusers who have that attitude. A 2009 National Survey on Community Attitudes to Violence Against Women found that 18% of Australians thought that ‘relationship violence can be excused if it results from temporary anger’. Similarly 1 in 5 categorised ‘yelling abuse at a partner’ and ‘controlling a partner by denying them money’ as either ‘not that serious’ or ‘not serious at
Most of the children that were removed did not receive a proper education, resulting in lower levels of employment in todays society. Also, many of the removed children experienced some form of abuse, which has resulted in high levels of mental problems, such as depression, alcoholism and more, within aboriginal groups in Australian society. Over hundred years after all this happened, the stolen generation got apologies form the federal and state or territory governments. On February 13th, 2008, the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered a formal apology to indigenous peoples for the Stolen Generations. Since the stolen generation is an issue for Australia, the country had done a lot to help the people.
Breadwinners are lost, families destroyed, more kids grow up without fathers or mothers, welfare costs increase, the entire sex ratio is thrown out of balance and prisoners face grim prospects when released. The hyper-incarceration statistics for African-American males are much worse. We incarcerate one in nine African-Americans between the ages of 20 and 34. In 2003, it was calculated that "At current levels of incarceration newborn black males in this country have a greater than a 1 in 4 chance of going to prison during their lifetimes, while Hispanic males have a 1 in 6 chance, and white males have a 1 in 23 chance of serving time." By 2007, just four years later, the U.S. Department of Justice
This gang youth are considered vulnerable as are 60 times more likely to be killed than the rest of the population. Sanders et al. (2009) considers gang youth to be a vulnerable population “because of their relatively poor social and economic backgrounds, and their increased likelihood of participating in risk behaviors once part of the gang" (Sanders et al., 2009, p.347). This Sanders et al. (2009) manuscript bases the identification of gang youth as a vulnerable population “on the fact that they have characteristics common to other vulnerable populations, whether related to socio-demographic characteristics, increased
Introduction: The Employee Free Choice Act (HR.1409 /S.560) was introduced for the 111th Congress in the Senate on March 10, 2009 by Representative George Miller (D-CA) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA).The proposed Employee Free Choice Act is a legislative bill presently being considered in the United States Congress. The latest version was introduced into both chambers of the U.S. Congress on March 10, 2009. The Bill's purpose is to, “amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations [unions], to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.” The Bill would, firstly, allow a union to be