Extrajudicial punishment

staff uses physical punishment, if students misbehaves or does bad academically? I was born and raised in Pakistan. Ever since I can remember growing up, I have received physical punishment in Pakistani school system. I never thought anything of it, I felt like it was normal. I was in Pakistani school system for 12 years of my life. However, in 2004, I moved to the United States. When I started to go to school here, I had no idea; they did not use physical punishment in the state of…

The article “Power, Moral Clarity, And Punishment in the Workplace” by Scott S. Wiltermuth and Francis J. Flynn looks at the connection between power, moral clarity, and punishment across multiple studies. The authors are proposing that how severely people punish transgressors increases with power. They hypothesise that people who possess a stronger sense of moral clarity are more severe in punishing others for perceived ethical transgressions. Power can be defined as the ability to control…

Justifying the Punishment of a Criminal Offender For decades, the debate on the justification of legal punishment has troubled scholars. The paper, “The Justification of General Deterrence,” written by Daniel M. Farrell adds to this debate by offering a unique take on the justification of punishment. In the paper, Farrell conceives the justification of punishment as “weakly retributivistic” –a balance between the radical form of retributivism and a forward-looking notion of punishment. Farrell,…

( Clear , 2009 ) . So drug dependent offenders are considered deserving of punishment for the crimes they have committed . Finally , these compulsory treatments is not effective for drug users because of breaching the ethics and restrict liberty of the individual ( Clear, 2009) . .Therefore , there must be alternative methods to…

It does so by giving an aversive action (something the learning does not like) when they give the wrong response and then stopping the aversive action when the learner gives the correct response. Punishment: - Punishment seeks to break the S-R bond – the link between a stimulus and a response – because the wrong response is given to the stimulus. Another aspect of operant conditioning is shaping. Shaping is where an action that is closer to the desired…

Bryan Stevenson, an established lawyer with a degree from Harvard Law School and an author of his own personal memoir titled Just Mercy, constantly battles the problems within the criminal justice system. In Stevenson’s memoir, he makes multiple arguments about the unfairness and the need for change within the criminal justice system. One such argument is that of individuals with mental health problems not being properly diagnosed during their trials, therefore receiving lengthy prison sentences…

While children are in the early stages of growth, they have been praised and complimented on their good grades and intelligence. However, this type of praise and compliment is not the key to success in schoolwork and life. The most important key to success lies in the focus on effort not praises and compliments based off how well a child does on something, such as a game or test. Behavioral psychology or more commonly referred to as behaviorism explains why putting forth effort is important.…

convicts, they do not receive enough basic support and they are not gaining skills to help them function once they are released. Furthermore, anarchists such as Angela Davis believe prison should spare offenders from imprisonment by giving them other punishments. Prison is expensive and overcrowded; they cannot provide proper clothing, food, and medical attention to all of them. Also, there are alternatives to prison; reformists came up with better options to imprisonment such as treatment…

strengthen the prospects of success. “Operant conditioning refers to an individual learning to operate on the environment to produce a consequence; the two types of environmental consequence that produce operant conditioning are reinforcement and punishment” (Burton, Westen and Kowalski, 2012). A principle of operant conditioning is positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement strengthens behaviour by providing an environmental consequence that increases the probability that the behaviour is…

Objection: Ideas of proportionality and sanctity of life ideas are abstract just fronts for barbaric and cruel practice of retribution. How do you have proportionality for torture and sexual assault work? You can’t torture the torturer or burn the arsonist. Response: No need to focus on literal interpretation of proportionality focus is on alternative compensation like appropriate imprisonment. For fraud and other less severe corporate crimes, could focus on alternative compensation and…