Extrajudicial punishment

Zimbardo wanted to find out if the cruelty reported against the guards in American prisons was because of the barbarous personalities of the prison guards or if it was due to the environment of a prison. He wanted to find out how people would heed to the character of a guard and a prisoner in a fake environment that resembled prison life. Prisoner and guards usually possess personalities that doesn’t mix together. Prisoners lacks respect for the law while the guards are browbeat and aggressive.…

Is Crime Beneficial to Society? By Christy Evans 8/30/17 French sociologist Emile Durkheim’s position on crime is that it is normal to a functioning society. He believed that by defining what is deviant, we are enabled to know what is not, and hence to live by shared standards. Durkheim thought that deviance promoted social unity and moral boundaries. Men are wicked and it is a factor in public health. For murderers to disappear, the horror of bloodshed must become greater in those social…

Standford Prison Experiment The topic of the study the article is addressing the study of the prisoners and the guards in a simulated prison. The main purpose of this study is give an explanation of the deplorable conditions of the panel system in that there are the dehumanizing effects of the prisoners and at the same time the guards. Additionally, another purpose of the study is to address what contribute to causes of despicable conditions, violence, brutality, degradation and at the same time…

Sitting in jail isn't fun. Sitting in a cage with guards all around you, is also no fun. This pretty much sums up Y/N's stay at Belle Reve Penitentiary. The guards where to be stationed around her so-called "cell", twenty-four seven. It wasn't even a cell, it was a cage that sat in the middle of an open space. The positioning of the guards wasn't the case however. The guards stood at attention for the first month or so. This wasn't because Y/N was a dangerous criminal, well she sort of was of…

because it may put the offender at risk.If a juvenile offender is tried as an adult the jury does not have much of a variety of punishments when tried as an adult. In the article “8 Advantages and Disadvantages of Juveniles Being Tried As Adults” Future Of Working explains that ”Juvenile courts can recommend counseling, house arrest, curfews, and other forms of punishment rather…

prisoners should incarcerated as a part of their punishment and not for holding them until trial or hanging. His thinking influence the establishment of the first prisons used as criminal rehabilitation centers. Therefore at the time when implementations of capital punishment on variety of petty crimes were declined the notion of incarceration as a form of punishment and correction had a great deal of appeal. So during 19th century capital punishment regarded as inappropriate for many crimes…

As we look at some of the key facts of what happens in prisons and why they happen I am really not surprised. One of the key facts is that the prisons are extremely overcrowded and lead to poor living conditions for prisoners, which leads to unfair treatment of prisoners also (penalreform.org, n.d.). These people are not watched over and taken care of as well. When you look at the numbers of countries that are overcrowded it is ridiculous. They have said that 115 countries are overcrowded…

Retribution and Rehabilitation Looking at both sides of an imposed sentence can be tricky. On the retribution side of sentencing a judge or magistrate may feel the offender deserves the sentence for the crime they stand before them on without looking at the recidivism possibility. Often, when a judge or magistrate looks at the possibility of recidivism, they tend to learn towards a sentence structured around rehabilitation to help reduce the offender’s chance of committing crimes in the…

The film “Chicago” show all the bad things that could happen in a court procedure. Lawyer Billy Flynn is willing to manipulate the press, discredit the witnesses, and manipulate the evidence just to protect a guilty murderer Roxie Hart. This is seen when he manipulates a piece of evidence to favor a positive outcome. He changes Roxie’s diary but no one is willing to look at it or question it. The system just believes whatever he says and he knows this and he will continue to manipulate the…

B.F. Skinner is credited as the creator of operant conditioning, which is the science of altering the mannerisms of animals or humans through reinforcement. Rather than focusing on the complex thinking that spawns an idea or mannerism, Skinner focused on mannerisms that actually occurred. He discovered that animals respond best when an intentionally performed action has a direct influence on the world around them; these actions were dubbed operants. When operants were reinforced the associated…