The functionality of citizenship

Article Abstract:

The two components of citizenship, functional citizenship and nationality, should be decoupled in US law to strengthen the cultural identity and communitarian component of citizenship that should be embodied in nationality. Functional citizenship is primarily concerned with establishing a legal relationship between the individual and the state that results in material benefits to the individual. The polity would be better served by considering nationality to be an independent commitment free of political or economic pressure.

United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Citizenship, Naturalization

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Prosecuting domestic assault: victims failing courts, or courts failing victims?

Article Abstract:

Police and members of the court system should reassess their treatment of domestic assault cases and recognize the difficult predicament presented to the wives in prosecuting their abusive husbands. Courts and police fail to take domestic abuse cases seriously and continue to perceive them as private family issues without acknowledging the danger of the situations. The refusal of many wives to prosecute compounds this erroneous attitude.

Cases, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Abused women, Family violence, Domestic violence

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