Thursday, March 4, 2010

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing Authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime.

When informal relationships and sanctions prove insufficient to establish and maintain a desired social order, a goverment or a may impose more formalized or stricter systems of social control. With institutional and legal machinery at their disposal, agents of the state can compel pupolation to conform to codes, and can opt to punish or to attempt to reform those who do not conform.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Political Corruption

Political Corruption
is the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by private persons or corporations not directly involved with the government. An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties.

Abortion


is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complecation during pregnancy or can be induced, in humans and other species. In the context of human pregnancies, an abortion induced to preserve the health of the (pregnant female) is termed a therapeutic abortion, while an abortion induced for any other reason is termed an elective abortion. The term abortion most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human pregnancy, while spontaneous abortions are usually termed miscarriege.

Politics

Politics

is a process by which groups of people make . The term is generally applied to behavior within civil goverment, but politics has been observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power and refers to the regulation of a political unit and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy