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  • Battered Woman By The Trial Court
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    Peter Vance Criminal Law Professor Paul Moke 4-21-99 The Battered Woman Syndrome and Criminal Law The purpose of this research paper is to prove that criminal law in America has failed to provide a defense that adequately protects women suffering from Battered Women's Syndrome. Battered Women's Syndrome, or BWS, is a very complex psychological problem facing criminal courts today and has caused great debate on whether or not it should even be allowed in the courtroom. Although the syndrome has b...
  • Gun For Self Defense
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    Here I am talking about gun control again. It's a very issue. I like guns, despise animal rights activists, and enjoy hunting! I don't see the big deal. My thoughts are that most people that are against guns, probably have never touched one. They think they are dangerous. If they opened their eye's to the real facts, they would stick a big sock in their own mouth's. Some politicians and animal rights activists don't get it. I was reading that a kid got put in prison for shooting a squirrel with ...
  • Denial And Projection Of Dependency Needs
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    DEFENSE MECHANISMS The function of defence is to protect the Ego, and defence may be instigated by Anxiety due to increase in instinctual tension, Super-Ego threats or realistic dangers. Anna Freud lists nine defence: REGRESSION, repression, REACTION FORMATION, ISOLATION, UNDOING, PROJECTION, INTROJECTION, TURNING AGAINST THE SELF, and REVERSAL - plus tenth SUBLIMATION. SPLITTING and DENIAL are also usually listed as defence. It is usually assumed that defence belong to specific stages of develo...
  • People With Sporting And Self Defending Ability
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    Do you know what Taekwondo is? Do you know how Taekwondo benefits the practitioner? Do you know Taekwondo is also considered a sport and is an event in many major competitions? When these questions are asked, the majority of the people who answer do not know the correct answers or the complete answer. Although many people do not know much about Taekwondo, there are hundreds of thousands of people worldwide getting involved. Taekwondo is the world's fastest growing martial art, with currently ove...
  • Stiffer Sentences For Gun Crimes
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    ... is for the personal decision whether or not to obtain a gun for self-protection... First, the decision involves a trade-off between the risks of gun accidents and violent victimization. Second, it is not entirely clear that the relatively few robberies and assaults in which victims defended themselves with guns are typical of these types of crimes and that the lower injury rates resulted from the self-defense action rather than some other factor. Perhaps offenders lost the advantage of surpr...
  • Justification Of Self Defense
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    Affirmative defenses is the answer to which a defendant gives the court in response to the crime they are charged with. There are two main types of affirmative defenses, Justifications and excuses. Justifications and excuses are answers that the defended did do the crime but they can give a wonderful and perfectly good reason why they did it and they should not be held responsible for the crime they committed. Because every case is different there is a plethora of justifications and excuses, som...
  • Denial And Defense Mechanisms
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    Denial, the topic for this week's discussion, is unfortunately not a river in Jordan. While not a river, it is a characteristic that at times seems to be as resistant to change as the most torrent watercourse. Denial has been described as many things in many ways by many people and still I find the Webster's Dictionary definition of denial to be the most meaningful and accurate:" an assertion that an allegation is false... disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing... self-denial... [and] ...
  • Citizen Surrenders The Means Of Self Defense
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    Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. -Hubert Humphrey, 19...

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