Code of conduct in business
Case study - 2 pages - Criminal law
As ECG becomes more successful with new implementation of the code of conduct, the business has been running more smoothly by having all employees engaged in training sessions concerning the ethical standards within the organization at ECG. Businesses tend to have a great success, but there are...
Code of Conduct: Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making
Case study - 2 pages - Criminal law
As a leader of an organization, there are many responsibilities that and leader must take on especially shaping the culture of ethics within the organization. Also as being a leader, operational management and responsibility play a bigger role in the organization when it come sustainability...
Police misconduct
Case study - 4 pages - Criminal law
Police misconduct can be described as a violation, by a police officer, of a legal, ethical, or moral code while on duty. Police misconduct can still occur while off-duty so long as the officer uses, in some way, their status as a police officer to break these legal, ethical, or moral codes....
Racial disparities in policing
Case study - 3 pages - Criminal law
Both institutional and cultural characteristics combine to contribute to racial disparities in policing, but it is my opinion that the institution is the stronger of the two influences. The structure of the institution promotes certain tactics, philosophies, and standard operating procedures that...
Split Brain: 'Puccetti Defense'
Case study - 4 pages - Criminal law
Sitting uncomfortably in the court room next to your public defender, you look around the audience to see who has come to support you in this unique case. Seth Shabo is quietly sitting in the second row, staring straight into the center of the courtroom, and Tyler Doggett can be seen in the...
Plessy v. Ferguson: Utilizing the technique of shepardizing to see relationships among cases
Case study - 6 pages - Criminal law
In 1890, the Louisiana State legislature passed Act 111, also known as the Separate Car Act. This required white and African American people to be given “separate but equal” accommodations on railway trains. It required that: “All railway companies carrying passengers in their...
Brown v Mississippi
Case study - 8 pages - Criminal law
Friday March 30th, 1934. A sixty-year old White planter from the Giles community in Mississippi, Raymond Stewart, was found mutilated at approximately 1 o'clock that day, in his house. The police had discovered his body, and requested a physician come. The wounds, large gashes that looked...
The defense of provocation: The implications of the House of Lords' decision in Morgan Smith [2000] 3 WLR 654
Case study - 5 pages - Criminal law
The defense of provocation is a partial defense, pertinent only to murder. If successfully pleaded, liability is reduced to manslaughter. For the defense to succeed there are three requirements: (i) There must have been some act(s) or word(s) of provocation (ii) The defendant must have lost his...
Organized crime: social scourge or auspicious atrocity
Case study - 8 pages - Criminal law
As Gus Tyler once pointed out in his introduction to Organized Crime in America, “…Organized crime is a product and reflection of our national culture” (Maas xviii). However, when the words organized crime is mentioned in almost any situation, thoughts of filthy men in fedoras and...
