On April 28, 1992, Chris McCandless stepped foot into the woods, a journey that would last four months, coming to an end much earlier than he would’ve hoped. In August of 1992, just four months after Chris walked alone into the wild, his perishing body was found by a party of moose hunters. Chris went into the wild hoping to get away from corrupt society and to live a transcendentalist lifestyle. His bold journey was going well until he made a silly mistake when he came across seeds from the wild potato. The seeds themselves are not what killed Chris, it was the amino acids in the seeds that caused him to slowly become paralyzed due to his malnutrition and physical state.…
The film 13th directed by Ava DuVernay is a documentary about the direct and indirect slavery of African Americans ever since the first African was taken away from his or her home land in the seventeenth century. The title, “13th”, refers to the 13th amendment which was supposedly passed to abolish slavery and the 150 years of unfair treatment that occurred even after that amendment was ratified. This documentary’s purpose is to showcase all the unacceptable events that blacks have been through for the past hundreds of years and to emphasize that all lives matter including those of people of color. 13th displays how unfair treatment evolved from slavery to unnecessary imprisonment to segregation to being seen as a threat by the community.…
By the time people enter into jail or prison, they have normally been a part of the system numerous times. Trying to rehabilitate or give consequences for people’s actions that late in the game does no good in regard to enabling them to change their life style. People have to be reached much earlier than when they enter into the criminal justice system. That is why there should be more programs for youth and programs that encourage education. If youth remain in school and are also given vital resources like safe places to live, food, and positive environments then they may be less likely to commit crime.…
On top of achieving justice, a criminal justice system should also deter both the…
LOUDONVILLE — A fondness for math and science, participation in the STEM program and membership in the school's robotics team have culminated in the pursuit of engineering careers for Loudonville High School Teens of the Month Cole Kirkbride and Austin Zody. Kirkbride, Loudonville, is the son of Ian and Kris Viets and Todd and Lisha Kirkbride. In the fall he will pursue a degree at Ohio Northern University, where he has been admitted into the mechanical engineering program. Zody, Loudonville, is the son of Scott and Mary Zody. Zody has committed to the University of Akron where, he too, will study mechanical engineering in a five-year co-op program.…
The writing expected from college courses is one that most are unfamiliar with. Although students learn basic English skills throughout grade school and up to high school, most of the advanced steps are forgotten by the time the student is to enter college. Paired with this, are the nontraditional students, who haven’t studied advanced academic language for long periods of time. Professors are expecting students of all kinds of study to have a high academic vocabulary and high writing skill. Often times a gap in remedial writing courses within the first semester or so.…
While some criminals would be better off with punishment, others might be better off with treatment. I also think that a third category of criminals need a combination of both for their own good and…
Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham were the founders of the classical theory phenomenon (Piliavin, 1986). The concept was based on several principles, which entailed three main ideologies; free will, where actions are based on one’s own rationality (Burke 2014), more so punishment should apply to the crime as opposed to the criminal, as the theorists believed that a certainty in punishment would deter both the public and criminal (Akers 1999). The perspective adopted throughout will focus on the theories inability to justify the actions of violent homicide offenders, such as Jeffrey Dahmer, and how the high recidivism rates fail to support specific deterrence, even when making the punishment fit the crime. Free will assumes that all individuals…
In general, there are four justifications for criminal sanctions: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and just deserts. While nearly adjusted to utilitarianism, the deterrence and incapacitation models look to decrease future wrongdoing. Deterrence tries to make crimes all the more unreasonable, so less criminal acts will happen. Incapacitate does not attempt to change conduct through raising expenses; it basically expels the guilty party from society. The criminal behind jail bars can 't hurt those of us on the outside.…
We live in 21th century where the criminal acts are increasing more and more these days. We live in society where the social norms are different for all people, it depends of people character which way of life to live to be good or to be bad. The kind of life some of the people live is really dangerous for other people, because they made such terrible acts that are not normal in any society it the whole world. The most important thing is that more and more people are included in the every day fights with crtiminals and they tried to diminished the criminal acts to minimum. Criminals should be imprisoned not rehabilitated because they made such terrible acts like murders, kidnapping, they stole things that are not in their own property they sell drugs they are capable to affect and to destroy people's lives.…
Thousands of years ago, philosophers began to argue about the existence of free will. Free will is a power of acting without restraint of fate. People started questioning whether free will exists or if it is merely imagined. Do humans have control over their actions, behaviors, choices, desires and emotions? Some philosophers believe that human have self-control over their actions, and others say that there is no such a thing as self-control.…
As John Morrison exclaimed,“It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life... It can never be applied fairly.” Since the mid nineteenth century, inmates on death row have been murdered by a plethora of gruesome methods, such as venomous lethal injections, gas chambers, and electrocution. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, there have been 1,413 executions in the United States from 1976 to the present. Although the number of death penalty verdicts are decreasing, flaws in the American judicial system have caused an increase in the amount of punishing wrongfully accused suspects to the death penalty.…
Community are governed by an individual or individuals that enforced the society to conform to particular guild lines. The guild lines subject the public to a standard thought. In most instances the view that being pressured to comply are statically emplaced to win political advantage. To the public that are unaware of the trickery used against them for political gain, they view this tactics as step to fast resolutions to social problems (Hartnagel, 2006). These problem range between drugs use to violent offences.…
MagnetMom complains about how her daughter’s homework takes away her beneficial sleep. With busy families, like hers, they have many after school activities, so when they get home, they do not have time for too much homework. She says that the reality of it is that they are an active family. For active families, homework causes sleep deprivation and takes away the children’s energy they need for the next day. (“How Homework Affects Families”, pg. 1).…
I believe that if we want to have a positive effect on the lives of people put into prison, instead of punishing them we should be trying to rehabilitate them. This way, when their prison term is up or they are released early they have the skills to become a productive member of society. With rehabilitation the goal is to have them released with coping skills, career trades and social skills to handle life’s challenges. Therefore, when they get released back into society they have skills, positive attitudes and self-worth to live a productive life. Without this rehabilitation I feel that they will have anger built up causing them to commit another crime and thus putting them back into prison.…