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Government 252 final
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Undergraduate 2
05/12/2009

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Class action suit
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law suit where all plaintiffs w/same common issue get together to make a mega lawsuit
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Recidivism
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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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Determinate sentence
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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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Indeterminate sentence
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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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Miranda rights
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Miranda Rights
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Exclusionary Rule
Definition
any illegally seized evidence cannot be used against you in the court of law, Mapp vs Ohio
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Plea bargaining
Definition
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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Liberal views of crime
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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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Self Expressive Ethic
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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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AFDC/TANF
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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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OASDHI
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pay into over working life and when you retire you get monthly pensions
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Who are the poor?
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children, minority, single, unmarried, no full-time job, no high school diploma
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Permanent poor
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small group of people
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Temporary/Marginal Poor
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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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FDR/New Deal:
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Start of Welfare State
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LBJ/Great Society
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full growth of welfare state
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SSI
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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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Medicare
Definition
all people get it at 65
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Medicaid
Definition
Health Insurance for poor people
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Absolute Deprivation
Definition
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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Relative Deprivation
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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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5 years, only 2 in a row
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economist
Definition
crime pays, crime benefits
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patronage
Definition
job through someone in government
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Racial Gerry Madering
Definition
Zorro-LA, I-85-N.C.,
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President of Senate/House
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Senate-Joel Chassion II, House-Jim Tucker
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line item veto
Definition
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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delegated, enumerated
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state powers?
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reserved
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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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Referendum
Definition
taking a law out the books, by public vote
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food stamps
Definition
exclusively a federal program
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Social Darwinism
Definition
Govt shouldn't help the poor people and they would eventually die out and the economy would be stronger
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Income tax
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most progressive
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property tax
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most regressive
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LA has civil service
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La has CIVIL SERVICE
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Implied powers-
Definition
gray area
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