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| law suit where all plaintiffs w/same common issue get together to make a mega lawsuit |
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| repeating the same behavior (not necessarily the same crime)that got you in jail in the 1st place, 2/3 of all prison victims have been arrested b4 |
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| go for a set amount of time regardless of your participation ex 25 hard years of labor, |
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| the one that use 5-10 years or 25 to life, the better you are the lower you serve, sometimes 2 good days, you get 1 for free |
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| any illegally seized evidence cannot be used against you in the court of law, Mapp vs Ohio |
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| making a deal w/a criminal, 80% of felony cases are plea bargaining |
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| Conservative view of crim |
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| say crime is a voluntarily act, sympathy toward police, make prison uncomfortable as possible |
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| social conditions do it, poor people have no choice, they have to get into crime b/c of social conditions, rehabilitate rather than hard punishment |
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| James Q Wilson, prof. at Harvard, said the collapse of good morality (hard work) have caused a decay in actions |
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| Aid to Family with Dependent Children/Temporary Aid to Needy Families, monthly cash grant given to the poor people who qualify, New Mexico study showed money coming out in a Indian Reservation(casino), cost sharing bases, Feds give so much state gives a reflective amount depending on where you live |
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| pay into over working life and when you retire you get monthly pensions |
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| children, minority, single, unmarried, no full-time job, no high school diploma |
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| dipping into poverty for a short amount of time, usually (women) after divorce, tight budget where you can just barley make it |
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| "Father" of welfare reform |
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| Tommy Thomson republican governor of Wisconsin |
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| Conservatives view of poverty |
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| live in a great capitalist economy where you are set up w/12 free years of school so if you can make it its your fault |
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| Liberals view of property |
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| social problems, structural and would exist even if everyone had a good work ethic, solution is big govt, high tax for; make work programs, daycare |
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| full growth of welfare state |
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| cray check, intended for injured of job people, if you are permanently hurt you get it also alcoholics and dope heads can get it b/c its a "disease" but you have to be enrolled in a rehab |
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| Health Insurance for poor people |
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| if income falls below certain level (poverty level) you are said to be deprived of the necessity of life, 3 X's amount of $ spent of food |
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| more academic way of looking at it, you can only be considered poor relative to the society, 1/2 median income |
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| Welfare Reform, how long can you be on it? |
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| crime pays, crime benefits |
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| job through someone in government |
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| President of Senate/House |
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| Senate-Joel Chassion II, House-Jim Tucker |
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| cross out the parts of a bill you don't like and sign the rest of the bill into law |
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| 2 names of federal government powers |
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| Tax on something taken out of the ground? Which states have it? |
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| Severance tax,LA TX OK Alaska |
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| taking a law out the books, by public vote |
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| exclusively a federal program |
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| Govt shouldn't help the poor people and they would eventually die out and the economy would be stronger |
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