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  2. Ewing v. California - Wikipedia

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    Ewing v. California, 538 U.S. 11 (2003), is one of two cases upholding a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law against a challenge that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. [1] As in its prior decision in Harmelin v.

  3. Sexual harassment in the workplace in the United States

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    Sexual harassment in the workplace in US labor law has been considered a form of discrimination on the basis of sex in the United States since the mid-1970s. [1] [2] There are two forms of sexual harassment recognized by United States law: quid pro quo sexual harassment (requiring an employee to tolerate sexual harassment to keep their job, receive a tangible benefit, or avoid punishment) and ...

  4. Robinson v. California - Wikipedia

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    Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), is the first landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution was interpreted to prohibit criminalization of particular acts or conduct, as contrasted with prohibiting the use of a particular form of punishment for a crime.

  5. Critical criminology - Wikipedia

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    According to criminologists, working in the conflict tradition, crime is the result of conflict within societies that is brought about through the inevitable processes of capitalism. Dispute exists between those who espouse a 'pluralist' view of society and those who do not. Pluralists, following from writers like Mills (1956, 1969 for example ...

  6. Workplace violence - Wikipedia

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    [8] 2,000,000 US workers per year report workplace violence [8] Most cases of workplace violence are non-fatal. From 1993 to 1999, an average of about 1.7 million people reported occupational violence. [7] About 75% of these cases are considered simple assault, while 19% of cases are considered aggravated assault. [7]

  7. Workplace bullying - Wikipedia

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    According to the widely used definition from Olweus, [8] "[Workplace bullying is] a situation in which one or more persons systematically and over a long period of time perceive themselves to be on the receiving end of negative treatment on the part of one or more persons, in a situation in which the person(s) exposed to the treatment has ...

  8. Sociology of punishment - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of punishment seeks to understand why and how we punish. Punishment involves the intentional infliction of pain and/or the deprivation of rights and liberties. . Sociologists of punishment usually examine state-sanctioned acts in relation to law-breaking; for instance, why citizens give consent to the legitimation of acts of viole

  9. Lockheed Martin shooting - Wikipedia

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    The Lockheed Martin shooting occurred on July 8, 2003, at a plant in Meridian, Mississippi. The gunman, Douglas Williams, an assembly line worker at the plant, shot 14 of his co-workers with a shotgun, killing six of them, [n 1] before committing suicide. After the shooting, information surfaced depicting Williams' history of making threats and ...