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5 Apr 2007, 5:07 am
.' Many believe that societal problems contribute to the violence, including bad parenting, violence in the home, poverty, drug abuse, and a lack of investment in troubled neighborhoods. 'Our community has lost the connection with each other,' said Byron Alston, a former gang member and now director of Save the Youth, a ministry that offers basketball leagues, a drum line team and computer- skills programs as an alternative to violence. 'It used to be everyone knew… [read post]
4 Apr 2007, 4:20 pm
We must recognize that while many innocent or low-risk people get caught in the net there is a legitimate societal interest in locking away the truly dangerous. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 7:00 am
I would much rather that people be freed from both legal and societal inhibitions to seeking relief from destructive debt and marriage than be forced to endure them on the basis of some a priori "it's just wrong" rationale. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 9:16 pm
So I guess this is just a rambly way of getting to a question: how does one effectively "teach" the interaction between individual case decisions, administrative decisions, and broader societal politics? [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 2:33 pm
Thank you Jim DeLong for the polite rant on fair use, parody and online video. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 7:22 am
I've previously posted about the societal cost of clandestine occupancy — people who use homes as a shield for illegal activities. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 11:40 am
Here is the abstract:Culpability and dangerousness are the two central issues raised by any sensible societal attempt to deal with antisocial behavior. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 4:11 am
Concluding with 10 recommendations (which include a call for increased powers for the Information Commissioner and for technology to be designed with privacy protection in mind), it is well placed to inform public debate on the topic in the UK.As I argued previously in this blog (see here and here), we can see a broadening of the political and societal debate around privacy and surveillance in the United Kingdom in the last months, and this report is further evidence of it.Technorati Tags:… [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 3:00 am
The decision is encouraging because Judge Graffeo analyzes the development of conversion through history and recognizes that changing societal attitudes and technology warranted change in how this cause of action encompassed property. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 5:03 pm
And finally, I think that there are societal circumstances that place more pressure on women to stay home than men. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 10:00 pm
As the concept of summary execution and wager of battle became incompatible with emerging societal values, the law changed. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 4:55 am
As for the societal benefits of unbundled services, Bongiovanni remarked, "This is not to say that this court does not believe that unbundled legal services, in some form, may be beneficial to the equal administration of justice. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 1:21 pm
No one doubts that customary behaviors exist in various societal subgroups, but tort law does not assume that customs are normatively desirable, and does not automatically transform customs into legally binding obligations. [read post]
18 Mar 2007, 3:06 am
From an efficiency point of view, these societal gains would have to be weighed against the losses caused by movement down the supply curve of star athletes. [read post]
15 Mar 2007, 8:03 am
Last month we examined some pre-Roman beginnings of modern admiralty doctrine, starting from pre-history through the Greek city states. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 2:40 am
As he observes, the nature of digital communications is revitalizing the importance of culture (rather than government) in shaping expression, spreading ideas, and changing societal values. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 10:00 am
This author doesn't have a solution to the problem that studies like these merely confirm -- let's just hope that these societal costs are outweighed by whatever societal benefit the world of tax exempt organizations is meant to impart. [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 1:01 pm
Look at the extent to which borrowing on credit cards has replaced a societal safety net. [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 7:04 am
Editorial from The Shreveport (Louisiana) Times:Louisiana has long had a history of putting its money into building more prison cells to keep pace with mandatory sentences and other societal factors that make us the nation's per capita incarceration leader.Meanwhile, we sometimes skimp by on the cost of making sure justice is done. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 12:36 pm
.” Judge Biderman ruled it is undisputed that “the topics addressed and skewered in the movie — racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ethnocentrism and other societal ills — are issues of public interest.” Shortly after the Borat ruling, a California appeals court ruled that Universal Studios wasn’t protected by the anti-SLAPP statute in regard to “Reality Bites.” In 2005, Troy Dyer, a financial planner in Wisconsin, sued the… [read post]
