Incapacitation

Today, I'm going to convince you that the death penalty (Capital Punishment) should be abolished. This subject became important to me when I was in high school. Timothy McVeigh had bombed the Oklahoma City federal offices and killed more than 100 people. June 11, 2011 he was put to death by lethal injection in Indiana. Most of you might remember his name. I remember the parents and loved ones of his victims speaking out that lethal injection wasn't a tough enough punishment. On BBC news, many of…

should be abolished, (Elliott and Robinson. 1991) whether or not the influence of life imprisonment really deters murders from committing the crime again, or those who plan on coming the same crime. (Radelet and Borg. 2000.) the cost of the death, incapacitation caprice, and retribution is what surrounds the death penalty; this article illustrates the history behind it all. (McAdams. 1998.) the reason behind the idea that race holds a major place in the death penalty, the author addresses…

the absolute last resort as officers have the options of support from other officers or CEDs, also known as Tasers. To reduce the immediate resort to and frequent occurrence of lethal force, officers must receive increased training in nonlethal incapacitation and neutralization. If officers had received training on nonlethal methods of submission, the names Tamir Rice and Michael Brown would not be a blight upon United States’ race relations. Recent years did not see the purported War on Cops.…

“If you were sentenced to five years in prison, but had the option of receiving lashes instead, what would you choose?” Writer and former police officer Peter Moskos thinks that most people would opt to receive ten lashes rather than spend five years in prison. This proposition from Moskos is the basis of his 2011 book ‘In Defense of Flogging,’ wherein he suggests corporal punishment as an alternative to incarceration. When a crime is committed, society expects an appropriate punishment to be…

It is founded on the principle of incapacitation; meaning that while a person is incarcerated he cannot inflict crime on anyone outside the prison wall. Morris & Rothman (1995) bring up the theory of crime and the lifecycle. It is believed that “most serious crimes fluctuate with the life cycle:…

White-collar crime often is conceived as a sort of residual category in criminology, that is, as a form of crime that is unlike traditional forms of street crime. Write an essay in which you accomplish the following tasks:  Identify and discuss the distinguishing features of white-collar type crimes and white-collar offenders. How do white-collar type crimes differ from traditional street crimes in regards to their characteristics and the techniques used by the offenders who engage in them? One…

Leta Stetter Hollingworth Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a prominent figure in the study of the psychology of women and the field of educational psychology. Born to Johnnie and Margaret Stetter on May 25th, 1886, little baby Stetter was ever so loved by her mother Margaret. Her mother wrote in a baby book about the daily experiences the infant had through the point of view of baby Stetter. She wondered where her father, Johnnie, was because he had not come to visit her in the first eight days…

Introduction In the present times when we look at the Intelligence agencies, the first thing that strikes our mind is secrecy – the services must have the benefit of operational secrecy. Because the services work clandestinely and the nature of their tasks requires them to fulfil their obligations in secret, they are at odds with the principle of open society. In cases of these agencies, there arises a conflict between there operational need of secrecy and the democratic objective of…

effects have been documented. The overall effectiveness and accuracy of the underlying theory is then determined. It is concluded that tough-on-crime policies have led to mass incarceration of Americans, and a slight decrease in crime as a result of incapacitation of criminals, rather than deterrence. Deterrence theory and tough-on-crime policies are ultimately invalidated by empirical research, by their reliance on inaccurate beliefs about retribution and crime statistics, and by unsupported…

The film 2081, directed by Chandler Tuttle is a satirical rendition of a dystopian future where everyone is “finally equal”, where no one is greater than the other person in intellect and strength. Harrison Bergeron, a fugitive and the protagonist, rebels against the propriety standards set by the society. He enters a theatre and enacts a liberating performance, critiquing the society’s enforced equality and opinions. Specifically, Tuttle uses Harrison’s dramatic entrance to show how the media…