Extrajudicial punishment

Punishment, especially punishment on those caught doing drugs, should be evaluated through Deontology this because it focuses on the rights, duties, and consequences of drug punishments rather than only focus on the consequences. Since the War on Drugs was established the amount of incarcerations also heavily increased. It is the governments right to protect citizens from drugs and drug users, however, it is also their duty to use the drug punishment to deter others from doing them and…

Introduction Angela Davis, the writer, scholar and activist, advocates for oppressed people of the world, mainly people of color. Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, and is recognized as an essential activist for social issues. Growing up in Alabama, she knew the four girls that were killed in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963; therefore, she experienced racial prejudice and discrimination firsthand. She studied philosophy at Brandeis University in…

advantage is while incarcerated it helps the teen become a better person and it gives them an understanding of how important life is outside of being in prison. One advantage in Canada is that the system is designed to make punishment is distributed, no one is given less or more punishment based on race. One disadvantage is the criminal justice system is the unfairness that are amongst different cultures or race because Blacks have a tougher penalty verses whites. Another disadvantage is that…

Negative Effects of Participation Trophies Participation trophies seem like a good idea for young children. To a child who needs a boost of confidence, enticing them with a potential award at the end of Little League season might keep them motivated to attend practices and contribute their talents in games. If handled properly, participation trophies could motivate young children to want to try other new experiences. The problems arise when the children are old enough to realize that…

on them. In the old times society would hang them or kill them in a public view. These types of punishments were supposed to prevent others from breaking the laws and not following them. Thus, people kept doing crimes so society thought that since taking away their life as a form of punishment was not effectively working, they were using it less. They started coming up with others forms of punishment and one of them was the creation of what we call prison today. Today there are 8 million people…

The United States has perpetuated a culture of silence and denial surrounding mental illness. In the 1960s and early 70s, the U.S. began the process of “deinstitutionalization,” and, according to journalist Joe Nocera, this process has become a national disgrace (2012). Deinstitutionalization refers to the policy of closing public hospitals and moving the mentally ill to private community-based mental health service providers (Torrey 1997). However, community-based mental health service…

defines justice from a different perspective. Dante describes a correlation between a soul’s sins on Earth and their punishment in Hell. He does this by creating different circles, or depths, of Hell, and in doing so, he provides an image of what he believes to be the perfection of God’s justice. According to Dante, Hell exists to punish those who have sinned; each of the different punishments located in the various circles testify to the heavenly immaculateness that sins disrupt. The…

Psychological effects of rewards and punishments to influence behavior Knowing how to employ different methods to reinforce, encourage or shun certain behavior can go a long way in modifying one’s character. Understanding the psychology on how rewards and punishments work to influence behavior helps one choose effective methods to get desired results. Rewards and reinforcement increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring while punishments reduce the chances of behavior happening again.…

Christmas in a solitary cell, and many times after that. Segregation is a sad a lonely place for prisoners. It can be described as a prison within a prison where inmates are kept isolated and detached from any human contact. It is used as a form of punishment and sadly many prisoners are being kept in solitary confinement for very long periods at a time. It is known that penitentiaries are a place to house those who are mentally ill. More than one third of inmates have some sort of mental…

certain crime deserves an equal punishment in return. This may have been the intention of the lawmakers that designed the crime and punishment system at this countries inception, but this idea has slowly degraded into an informal system, where, residents of less endowed areas of the US turn to more informal means to punish offenders in their neighborhoods. This presents a clear and present danger to the American public, as the people carrying out these “punishments” are probably the least…