Corporal punishment

Retribution is one of the oldest and basic justification for punishment. All in all it refers to deserts, which are people who break the law and deserve to be punished. This certain philosophie is not the one that will help and try to reduce the crime or stop the offender from doing that crime again. Moving on to deterrence that helps to deter one from committing the crime because in the end the punishment for that crime is not worth it. Next is incapacitation, meaning that one cannot…

They miss on an entire lifetime of opportunities due to unjust and undue laws. Imagine your life being snatched out of your very hands because of one, TINY, IRREVERSIBLE mistake you ever so wish you could take back.. Some people deserve this punishment.…

A quick summery, the setting of the movie is based around a murder that was done by two marines, Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson and Pfc. Louden Downey, which they are accused of killing Pfc. William T. Santiago. However, this incident was the result of a direct order by the platoon commander Lieutenant Kendrick who later was commanded by Colonel Nathan Jessep for “code red”. The reason Santiago’s murder was the breaking of chain of command and written a letter asking for a transfer, in exchange for…

consider flogging to be a humane alternative to prison? This question is further explored in the article “Should Flogging Be an Alternative to Prison?” by Adam Cohen. Cohen’s article was about the two methods of punishment, prison or flogging. Prison was described as a barbaric punishment with ineffective results because prisoners aren’t provided with resources that would help them re-enter society. The article explained Moskos’ idea of flogging. Moskos provided ideas on how flogging would be a…

designated probation officer who oversees the offender and enforces any conditions placed upon them by the court. It emerged as a response to the strict uniformity of penal institutions and is a move towards the individualisation of sentencing, as punishment can be tailored to the individual needs of the offender (McLaughlin and Muncie, 2001). Probation was also a response to the overriding penal concern in the 1970’s, which lasted until the early 1990’s, of reducing the prison population, this…

children convicted of homicide receive lifetime incarceration without possibility of parole, regardless of their age and age-related characteristics and the nature of their crimes” is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment (Cost of Mass Incarceration). According to Stevenson, “The U.S. is also the only country with life sentences without parole for 13 year-olds…. kids don’t have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make…

receive an award, however break these rules and you shall receive a punishment. The Law of Effect states that when we do something that satisfies us that we will be more likely to keep doing it in order to get that response, and if it discomforts us in any way we will be less likely to do it again. Within this law comes the theory of Operant Conditioning, meaning that we learn that our behaviors will either earn us rewards or punishments. How this works is we reinforce the good and punish the…

Incarceration, sanctions and control, community programs, and treatment are the four main approaches to the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders. Prisons are designed to remove the offender from society, restricting civil freedoms, and limiting the individual’s capability to make liberated decisions (Schmalleger, 2014). Although incarceration is one of the most severe punishments, the other methods also implement similar traits to incarceration. Sanctions and community programs offer…

and more judges need to see that. To anybody who understands addiction they know that it is not always by choice. “Addiction involves inability to respond to punishment: it is defined medically as the compulsive use of a substance despite ongoing negative consequences. Since negative consequences and punishment are synonymous, if punishment cured addiction, addiction wouldn’t occur at all”(Szalavitz). When an addict gets sentenced to prison their addiction does not stop. They begin to experience…

The reason why it should not be a factor in the criminal justice system is because it potentially gives the offenders the opportunity to abuse the system since it allows them to seek a lenient punishment and creates inconsistency. It begins with the landmark case of R v. Clough, where the courts outline two crucial requirements that the offender must meet before the courts will consider diverting them into a healing process. The two requirements…