The case that will be examined in this case analysis is Baker v. Canada. It is a case about a mother, Mavis Baker. Ms. Baker overstayed her visa in Canada. After supporting herself illegally for eleven years, she was ordered deported. She asked to be exempt from the law based upon other circumstances.…
Victims' families say Dina was behind more than half the cases of murder, disappearance and torture under the Pinochet government. Contreras was one of the main architects of Plan Condor, a co-ordinated campaign of political repression and assassination by military governments in the southern cone of South America. It is said to have killed tens of thousands of people across the region.…
One of the defining moments in Chile’s history was the fight for change for the working class against the Chilean government during the 1970s. In the midst of an upsurge of worker militancy, the 1970 presidential election was taking place. Running was Salvador Allende who represented the common people of Chile. Allende led the left-wing coalition Popular Unity (UP) and for many Chilean workers, the UP government embodied their aspirations for a better life. In Peter Winn’s book, Weavers of Revolution, he tells the story of the Chilean revolution through the eyes of the participants.…
First, some 25,000 Chileans we’re killed by their Armed Forces. Next some were arrested. Out of the Chileans that were arrested “all were interrogated, most were tortured, and many disappeared into the Junta’s prisons or concentration camps.” About 10 to 20% of the working force were purged of their jobs and because of their politics and then work black listed so they’ve remained unemployed. Following this the military government was very harsh and controlling.…
The 1954 Guatemalan Coup d’etat was a covert operations mission carried out by the CIA, ordered by president Eisenhower. Their goal was to evict President Jacobo Arbenz from Guatemalan power. Because america feared that Arbenz was sympathetic of soviet Communism. And there was no way the mighty Americans of the first world we’re going to let the socialist soviets of the second world take over guatemala and hinder america’s stake and business in Guatemala. As well as the physical and financial benefits the gave to guatemala.…
The murderous El Chapo has escaped prison numerous times and has murdered countless men. In the new article written by Nick Allen and published by The telegraph News shows that El Chapo, a drug cartel leader, has murdered another man. However, the man murdered workes for the Mexican Government as a judge. Judge Vicente Bermudez was only 39 when a gunman, who people believe was working for El Chapo, shot him in the back of the head as he was going for a jog outside his home in Metepec, Mexico. Furthermore, the reason for this assassination, that has people popularly believe, was because Judge Vicente Bermudez presided the appeal by El Chapo.…
The two short stories “The Composition” by Antonia Skarmeta and “Panache” by W.P Kansella portrays the basic human rights violations and the impact of those violations on the character. Both stories shared the impacts on their education, safety and guarantee of legal protection. `To start with, both stories dealt with the impact on the characters education. In the Composition, while Pedro is attending school a captain comes on behalf of Pinochet and disturbs the children's education. He instructs them to write a composition that has to include “what [their] parents do from the time [they get] home from school and work.”…
Tajae Hinds Of Crimes and Punishments Essay Cesare Beccaria’s critiques of criminology in Old Regime Europe were, as some may say, ahead of his time. The Old Regime was predominantly built on a tradition of absolutism in government and its legislature. That being so, Beccaria’s critiques of these institutionalized traditions spoke volumes about what needed to be fixed, and posed solutions to said problems. In his treatise Of Crimes and Punishments, the criminologist mentions the obscurity of laws, as well as the interpretation of laws. To this day, remnants of Beccaria’s philosophies and its principles are still relevant, echoing throughout the judicial and legislative models in nations around the world.…
Goncalves-Peña writes about how courts have responded to variety of political asylum cases relating to gang threats in Central America. Specifically, she looks at how courts have interpreted the meanings and boundaries of political asylum. The article is analytical and references refugee law to define refugee and accounts of asylum. The article also looks at court cases, including INS v. Elias, Desir v. Ilchert, Zayas-Marini v. INS, and Osorio v. INS.…
The punishments for crimes have changed a lot since the 1800s, this paper will show how and why they have changed. Some people call the types of punishments they were given torture, “most americans have expressed shock and disbelief that american citizens could inflict such terrible tortures on other human beings”.(Einloft 2) .Some of these instances are used to ” Foreign critics of the United States have claimed that the acts of torture demonstrate the United States' racism, imperialism, and hypocrisy, and some have used the incidents to devalue Western conceptions of human rights in general”.(Einloft 2) One of the main reasons they say torture or hanging was used is because crime rates were rising and there was not enough space in prisons…
In this essay I defend the nature of the balance of civil liberties, rights and torture by drawing upon Jeremy Waldron, Henry Shue and Jeff McMahan’s view on the morality of torture. Torture is the act of deliberately inflicting severe physical or psychological pain to an individual who is restrained and defenseless. Reasons for torture can include punishment, revenge, political re-education, deterrence, interrogation or coercion of the victim or a third party, or simply the sadistic gratification of those carrying out or observing the torture. In this paper I will argue that torture is not morally justified; torture ought not to be legalized or otherwise institutionalized even in the ticking time bomb scenario because the rights of the innocent…
The Enlightenment, also known as The Age of Reason, occurred from 1685 to 1815, and was a time period when European views on politics, religion, philosophy and science, changed drastically.(1) The Enlightenment philosophers preached reason over religion. They believed that reason and logic should be applied to everything, and moved away from the concept of religion being the answer to everything. In the 18th century, multiple Enlightenment philosophers united to produce the first French Encyclopedia, hoping to change the ordinary way of thinking. It was banned in 1759, however, it was the first time in Europe that such a collection of knowledge was gathered and made available to the general public.…
Introduction On July 17, 1998 South Africa signed and proceeded to ratify, the Rome Statute of the International Court (Plessis, 2007). South Africa was one of the earliest supporters for setting up the court that would be known to try extreme cases of human rights violations. The International Criminal Court (ICC) was in fact created to take care of any atrocities and punishing them within the international borders, ones that cannot be dealt with within their own territories. The ICC stands as a last resort to any criminal events still standing, within the realm of where its jurisdiction lies (Plessis, 2007).…
Powell, Emilia Justyna. 2006. “Conflict, Cooperation, and the Legal Systems of the World. ”Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State…
Introduction to Political Sociology Political sociology is a broad discipline and interrelated with several areas including sociology, political science, history and economics etc. It is basically the study of power and relationships between society, state, citizenships, political participation and their socio-political interactions. It has specifically focused on the questions about the nature of power, development of states, sources of political changes, idea of citizenship and notion of political participation. In this sense, the purpose of this paper is the analysis and explanation of certain aspects of the power, state, citizenship and political participation. Contemporary political sociology involves, but is not limited to, the study of these critical concepts and their interaction within the larger cultural context.…