Public Shaming: A Cruel Way Of Punishment

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Public Shaming is one of the harshest and cruelest way of punishment. But, it is also a great way to show an individual a lesson of being embarrassed so much by the public for what the individual has committed or has done as a crime. So, that particular in the hope that shaming the individual so much will convince the person not to do the crime anymore. There are many different ways to punish an individual. But, many individuals may feel that this is the best way to punish and teach the person a lesson. On the other hand, others may not believe in this type of reaction towards publicly humiliating someone. Public shaming is where a criminal is humiliated in public instead of receiving an imprisonment for the criminal act the individual …show more content…
In an article called, " Does the internet ruin your life or do people?" written by Ross Ellis. She illustrates in the web article about social media 's such as
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. how kids and adults that use these type of social media sites to bully and harass other individuals for their self-pleasure or self-gain. "Kids check their social media a minimum of 100 times a day just to see what 's being said about them. Let 's make a shift so that they want to make good posts. And when it comes to sexting, boys must be educated about asking girls for nude photos and girls must be taught about sending nude photos. Let 's face it - if a kid respects and loves a girl, he won 't even ask her for a nude photo" (Ellis, 2016). In this statement, Kids in their early age of thirteenth to eighteenth years old should have more respect for girls and women in this generation. Because in a way to respect women in general by not disrespecting anyone as a whole for her mind and body. Boys should not ask for nudes or anything related to any female. Furthermore, many adults should teach the young adults
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Many different practices have gone from being very brutal physically and mentally to practices less physical and more mental. One example of public shaming used today is where a criminal is ordered to present them self in public for a set amount of time and to wear a sign that shows the crime that they are guilty of the offense they have done. In another form of public shaming utilized today involves pedophiles.
Pedophiles can be ordered to approach each and every house in the neighborhood that they wish to reside in, and inform the community that they are a pedophile and will be living in the area.
One last idea that I mention here on the many techniques that public shaming that is still practiced today is the media.

Newspapers, televisions, and the internet are mostly used to shame individuals that are criminals in a variety of ways. One of the many forms of public shaming utilized by the mass media involves the printing of a criminal 's name and their crime in the local newspaper for their readers to see and through live broadcast such as the news. Imagine a middle-aged man who committed a crime of leaving his kids in the car in the middle of a hot sunny day and also

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