Incapacitation

People generally tend to deceive others for the purpose of good or evil. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick sets the novel in the near future. Here, a nuclear world war, given the name World War Terminus, just concluded a few years ago in the year 2021. The destruction left behind in the aftermath leads to a radioactive dust covering Earth, killing many different kinds of life forms. The purpose of the androids that were created were to replace their human archetypes’…

The four philosophies of the purpose of corrections are retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation. In this discussion I am going to focus on retribution and rehabilitation Retribution (deserved punishment) - is punishment inflicted on a person who has infringed on the rights of others and so deserves to be penalized. The severity of the sanction should fit the seriousness of the crime (Todd R. Clear, George F. Cole, Michael D. Reisig, 2013). In other words, retribution is the…

When we think about biology must of us settle that is cells, membranes, and the function, structure and evolution of living beings, that is correct; then as science we all conclude that it must be perfect, but like everything all that is created can have its wrongness. An example of it, is progeria. First of all, to understand better about this disease, we have to know from where it came from and where it happens this imperfection, and why it happens. To begin with, this disease manifest in the…

Humans are free will and are responsible for their own actions. The contemporary version of the classical view of rational choice theory states that crime is the product of a conscious decision by the offender. The view suggests that deterrence, incapacitation and…

R V Campbell (2010) NSWSC 995 Desmond Campbell was found guilty of pushing his wife, Janet Campbell, of six months off a cliff top in the Royal National Park. Desmond pushed Janet from the top of a sheer 50m cliff south of Burning Palms, resulting in her death as she had hit her head on a rick platform below, in March 2005. Elements Of The Offence Before a criminal act can be brought to trial, the police and prosecutors need to prove the elements of a particular offence are present. The…

The criminal justice system is designed in a way to prosecute the offenders and keep our society save. Without laws and regulation this world would be a mess because there would not be consequences for our actions. Young people from our communities are stabbed, shot, beaten. We have an obligation to give back to the society. One way of doing this is to raise awareness in our youth. One question we can ask is what causes a young person to take a knife and kill someone they never know? Racism,…

Before committing a crime, would you think about how much time you would spend incarcerated for it? During colonial times, criminal sentencing in America was introduced initially on retribution and then later on in prevention. By the late 1800s, sentencing in America had become dominated by rehabilitation. The goal of criminal punishment was to transform the offender by changing their ability to commit crime again. In order to accomplish this, sentencing needed to be uniquely flexible per…

1. Corporations are juristic entities. According to the Canada Business Corporations Act Section 15 (1), “A corporation has the capacity…the rights, powers and privileges of a natural person. Soloman v. Soloman was a landmark case in the establishment of company law. Through this case, the emergence of a new legal identity, a separate legal personhood for the incorporated company was developed. This case was the first of its kind that saw the corporation as a separate legal identity. 2.…

There are eight philosophies of punishment in the field of corrections. The first one is Retribution. Retribution is the belief that a punishment must avenge or retaliate for a harm or wrong done to another (Mays, Winfree, 2009). Retribution is one that could be currently be seen as someone being given the death penalty for being convicted of killing another person. That is really the only time, retribution could be an actual source of punishment. If a person is convicted of theft, their hands…

In the article “Assessing the penal harm movement” by Francis T. Cullen, Cullen talks about the penal harm movement and the unintended consequences that arose from the utilization of this movement. He reviews the evolution of punishments throughout time and the distinctions of the correction system in each historical era. He also argues that the penal harm movement has caused and still continues to cause society further complications. Cullen believes that we as a society needs to keep fighting…