Abstract
This paper examines the legal issues emerging from the Steven Truscott case of the late 1950s, a case that broke new ground in shaping and shaking popular understandings of the Canadian criminal justice system. Particular attention is focused on social and cultural factors - especially attitudes towards sexuality and media pressure contributing to a rush to convict - as contributing elements to this case. Comparisons are drawn to a similar case in the United States at this time - the Sam Sheppard trial - to illustrate how this situation is not limited to Canadian law but, in fact, reflects wider social and cultural realities. Increasing anti-institutional sentiments in both Canada and the United States have contributed to a revisiting of both cases, sentiments that both cases also played a role in shaping.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Culture and Sexuality
Tunnel Vision and the Issue of Disclosure
The Sheppard Case, Media and Authority
Conclusion

From the Paper
"One of the major legal problems to emerge from the Truscott trial was one of disclosure or discovery. As the Daum story reveals, the culture of the 1950s - which placed much more faith in the honesty and integrity of law enforcement officials than today -allowed law enforcement officials to effectively bury evidence that may have been of assistance to the Truscott defense. Indeed, it may be argued that cases such as Truscott contributed to an evolution in criminal law in such matters: "Rules of evidence today oblige the Crown and the police to disclose all the relevant information they turn up in the course of their investigations" (Sher 299)."

Tags:criminal prosecution, wrongful conviction, Sheppard sexuality disclosure

Abstract
This paper examines the legal issues emerging from the Steven Truscott case of the late 1950s, which broke new ground in shaping and shaking popular understandings of our criminal justice system. Particular attention is focused on social and cultural factors, especially attitudes towards sexuality and media pressure contributing to a rush to convict, as contributing elements to this case. Comparisons are drawn to a similar case in the United States at this time the Sam Sheppard trial.

From the Paper
"In Canadian in the early 21st century, our understanding of issues of justice and the law have been profoundly shaped and challenged by decades of social change and a corresponding revision in how the general public regards the institutions of justice. In particular, high profile cases of criminal prosecutions where intense media attention has corresponded with what were later determined wrongful convictions - in cases such as David Milgaard and Guy Paul Morin - have profoundly shaken public confidence in..."

Tags:law, canada, justice

Abstract
This paper analyzes Executive Order 12898 signed by Bill Clinton in 1994. The author's objective is to determine if Executive Order 12898 has assisted the Environmental Justice Movement in achieving environmental protection for all communities. The paper discusses in detail the responsibilities of each of the federal Bureaus and what they are expected to do under the Environmental Justice Act. The effects of the equitability of the Superfund Program after Executive Order 12898 was passed are also analyzed. The author includes a case study of the battle for environmental justice on Chicago's South side. The author concludes that low income families are still negatively affected even after Executive Order 12898 was passed.

Table of Contents:
Objective
Introduction
Background
Various Forms of Equity Described
Examination of Cultural Resources
Environmental Justice: Cleanup
Executive Order 12898
Effects of Executive Order 12898
Chicago Land Areas and Environmental Justice
Methodology
Results
Conclusion

From the Paper
"On February 11, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice: Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations. This order directs each federal agency to develop an environmental justice strategy for identifying and addressing disproportionately high and adverse human health, or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations. Monies were allocated to federal agencies and state governments assisting communities to develop strategies toward local environmental problems.
Executive Order 12898 reinforces the 45 year-old Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI, which prohibits discriminatory practices in programs receiving federal funds. The order also focuses the spotlight back on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a 40 year old law that set policy goals for the protection, maintenance and enhancement of the environment. NEPA's goal is to ensure for all Americans a ''...safe, healthful, productive, and aesthetically and culturally pleasing environment, NEPA requires a detailed statement on the environmental effects of proposed federal actions that significantly affect the quality of human health.'' (paraphrased)"

Tags:low-income, environment, protection, justice

Abstract
This paper explains that a socially just society, which relies upon the unity and equality of all believers, is visualized by the Quran. The author describes the ways Islamic moral and social justice offsets all kinds of oppression and exploitation. The paper stresses that, even though this social order is focused upon practical concerns that make the observance of Islam advantageous and just, problems occur when the Jihadis attempt to compulsorily extend this social order to the whole world by means of coercion.

From the Paper
"The Qur'an indicates that in Islam, no supremacy, no discrimination and no pre-eminence could be legally claimed by one over that of another other than with regard to the virtue of piety. All are alike in terms of their social status and this is completely apparent in the congregational prayers where there is no scope for designation and special advantage. All are alike in the eyes of God irrespective of being a caliph or slave. Prophet Muhammad viewed that all persons were equal similar to that of the teeth of a comb."

Tags:environment, sunnah, mission, equal, compulsion

Abstract
This paper discusses the point of view of different schools and presents different case studies of social order maintenance. It describes recent developments in many fields and focuses on terrorism and white collar crimes. It also examines how military power can be used to maintain social order. The issues of censorship during Vietnam and other wars is discussed, as well as media representation and its effect on social order.

From the Paper
"In a model society each individual would strive selflessly for the common good. In reality, various tactics need be employed on behalf of those granted power and by the majority in order to maintain such social order, against deviants that threaten to undermine it. How social order is possible and how it is maintained has been one of the most fundamental questions of sociology since its beginning (Dittrich et al., 2003). The same, however, cannot be said for the study of crime since crime and criminology have not always raised concerns for the maintenance of social order, but rather looked at what individual aspects make some people deviant from the norms set by society."

Tags:collar, control, criminological, criminology, power, thories, white

Abstract
This paper argues that IT possesses the capacity to radically alter social and political interaction in modern society; although not in the ways in which IT hypesters usually suggest. It will be seen that IT promotes, not increased democracy and social interaction, but escapism and anti-social activities. For this reason, modern technology can be said to be (de)constructive; as much destructive of social order as it is constructive.

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This paper gives an in-depth analysis of the link between modernity, postmodernity, and social order and how they have become part of an effort to create new forms of cultural action and political identity. Additionally, the paper points out how world religions have used concepts of good and evil, and right and wrong to create social order within cultures and communities. According to the paper, however, modernity and postmodernity are adding to the disintegration of social order within the Buddhist, Christian, and Islamic religions.

From the Paper
"Modernity, postmodernity, and social order have become closely linked in an effort to create new forms of cultural action and political identity (Vidal 80). World religions have used concepts of good and evil, and right and wrong to create social order within cultures and communities, however..."

Tags:buddhism, christianity, modernity

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In this article, the writer refers to Hellenic influence carried over by Philo and St. Augustine. The writer discusses various concepts of the citizen, social order and violence. The writer looks at virtue versus secular order.

From the Paper
"Philo of Alexandria (25 BCE - 45 CE) and St. Augustine (354 - 430 CE) knew different states of affairs within the Roman Empire offering much opportunity for reflection on the proper social order and matters of violence. This paper introduces a few repeated concepts produced by both as they indicate strong differences however much the Roman Catholic Church through centuries would refer to one or the other when seeking foundations for decisions addressing political violence among numerous other topics."

Tags:philosophy, monotheism

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This paper discusses, using George Orwell's "1984" as an example, how advances in technology have the potential of controlling social order. It looks at how in today's society, more social order is required to address problems such as generalized insecurity, criminal victimization and fear of crime and how without some social controls, there would be no defined ordered and chaos would rule. It looks at how monitoring devices designed to monitor and locate people, which are currently used primarily for elderly people and children open up a world of possibilities for decriminalization.

From the Paper
"Technology, in and of itself, offers no threat to the social order; specific technologies within the hands of abusers, does. A printing press can be used by one man to create a card professing his love to the woman of his dreams while another man can use it to produce hate propaganda. It is expressly important in this fervent atmosphere to create more sophisticated technologies that the individual remain vigilant and not give away privacy in the interest of decriminalization and thus give self-fulfillment to Cronkite's recognition. "Greater efficiency, ease, and security may come at a substantial price in freedom, that law and order can be a doublethink version of oppression, that individual liberties surrendered for whatever good reason are freedoms lost" (Orwell 2)."

Tags:decriminalization, chaos, controls

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This paper will discuss the book "Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s", by Joyce Appleby and seek to find what the Jeffersonian Republican Administration was really undergoing in its war with Hamiltonian objectives to secure a stronger federalist government. By understanding this complex financial and political situation in the dual party system of the New Republic, we can see how this book reflects some of the good points and the harsher ones of the Jeffersonian ideal of the state controlled Federal Government that would have limited powers.