Running head: MULTI-GENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND STRUCTURES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Multi- Generational Perspectives and Structures in Criminal Justice
Karen L. Sutton
Professor David Horiuchi
Troy University
Introduction
The content of this paper will ignite the ideas on what is, what has been, and the possibilities of our future, based on researched history and the current issues of today. While we all know that we live in dissimilar times and the world has evolved, the baseline for what boundaries were laid centuries ago are not obtaining the diversion and deterrence this country once held strong to and stood firm on. How do we know this? The evidence is deployed week-to-week, month-to-month. To name a few, let’s begin with …show more content…
King Hammurabi Mesopotamian king known for writing the earliest form of written law in the Mesopotamian and Greek culture (Schmalleger, 2001). One might be familiar with the saying “an eye for an eye” from there the American Colonies received the first forms of punishment from orators, philosophers, Greeks, plays, and poetry. The well-known philanthropist Jonas Hanway publisher of Solitude in Imprisonment said that reformation should be the primary goal of criminal sentencing. According to Hanway, “The walls of his prison will preach peace to his soul, and he will confess goodness of his Maker and the wisdom if the laws of his country” (Schmalleger, 2001). A very valid and necessary piece of vocabulary to support the basis of this paper and its generational point of view is sustainable justice. Such a term is unimpeachable for such a time as this that we live in. Corrections in the 21st Century defines Sustainable Justice as “Criminal laws and criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices that achieve justice in the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to have the benefits of a just society” (Schmalleger, F., & Smykla, J. (2001). 7.). One might find this controversial and eradicated if they were to compare the history of crime, corrections, and …show more content…
Let it be known that Beccaria published an essay titles On Crimes and Punishments, it was concise but revolutionary and changed criminal law for centuries to come (Schmalleger, 2001). While the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Elizabeth Fry, William Penn, Cesare Beccaria, Rosa Parks, Mary Belle Harris and so many more transformed and amended this country they all had a common goal; change. These reformers and visionaries believed and stood for something. They made the difference. Every thing, every happening has its place and purpose, the question is who or what will it take to be the change we want to see in our generation. The quote to end with is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The reason I can’t follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind (Martin Luther King, Jr., 3 May 1963
Multi- Generational Perspectives and Structures in Criminal Justice
Karen L. Sutton
Professor David Horiuchi
Troy University
Introduction
The content of this paper will ignite the ideas on what is, what has been, and the possibilities of our future, based on researched history and the current issues of today. While we all know that we live in dissimilar times and the world has evolved, the baseline for what boundaries were laid centuries ago are not obtaining the diversion and deterrence this country once held strong to and stood firm on. How do we know this? The evidence is deployed week-to-week, month-to-month. To name a few, let’s begin with …show more content…
King Hammurabi Mesopotamian king known for writing the earliest form of written law in the Mesopotamian and Greek culture (Schmalleger, 2001). One might be familiar with the saying “an eye for an eye” from there the American Colonies received the first forms of punishment from orators, philosophers, Greeks, plays, and poetry. The well-known philanthropist Jonas Hanway publisher of Solitude in Imprisonment said that reformation should be the primary goal of criminal sentencing. According to Hanway, “The walls of his prison will preach peace to his soul, and he will confess goodness of his Maker and the wisdom if the laws of his country” (Schmalleger, 2001). A very valid and necessary piece of vocabulary to support the basis of this paper and its generational point of view is sustainable justice. Such a term is unimpeachable for such a time as this that we live in. Corrections in the 21st Century defines Sustainable Justice as “Criminal laws and criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices that achieve justice in the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to have the benefits of a just society” (Schmalleger, F., & Smykla, J. (2001). 7.). One might find this controversial and eradicated if they were to compare the history of crime, corrections, and …show more content…
Let it be known that Beccaria published an essay titles On Crimes and Punishments, it was concise but revolutionary and changed criminal law for centuries to come (Schmalleger, 2001). While the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Elizabeth Fry, William Penn, Cesare Beccaria, Rosa Parks, Mary Belle Harris and so many more transformed and amended this country they all had a common goal; change. These reformers and visionaries believed and stood for something. They made the difference. Every thing, every happening has its place and purpose, the question is who or what will it take to be the change we want to see in our generation. The quote to end with is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The reason I can’t follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind (Martin Luther King, Jr., 3 May 1963