Incapacitation

VIDEO GAMES: BEING CHILD In this day and time, more children are playing video games, which is one of the most argued things in the world. Bushman and Cruz say that most of researchers, parents and pediatricians believe that video games have an effect on children’s behavior (Bushman and Cruz, 2000). While some parents and teachers believe that playing video games causes school shooting and increases for bullying and violence towards women, research has shown that children who play video games…

Global Issues: Presentence Reports and Intermediate Sanctions Review of Subject Probation officers have an important role in the criminal justice system, and their supervision and investigation skills contribute greatly to the sentencing phase of an offender. One of the many tasks of a probation officer is to generate detailed presentence investigations (PSIs). In order to have a comprehensive presentence report, a probation officer must interview the offender, evaluate the offender’s criminal…

Most of the people who are supposed to be incarcerated have been awaiting trial because there are too many cases and not enough judges. “Under incapacitation theory, higher incarceration rates are expected to correlate with accelerated crime” (Stahlkoph). People who are incarcerated have no connection to the outside world, they do not get better in prisons but sometimes it makes them worse. No one…

Conover, the author of “Guarding Sing Sing”, is a journalist with a reformer 's dream, who is attempting to reform prisons due to their many issues within them. Conover in his attempt to shine light and gain knowledge from within; requested permission to write about the experiences of a recruit; also known as a “newjack.” The request was denied. So instead, he became his subject by becoming himself, a Correctional Officer. He writes about his many experiences as a CO for a whole year. This is “a…

Metamorphosis and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, the largest city in the Czech Republic. He was part of a Jewish family that spoke German. The Kafka family was considered to be middle class and Kafka attended Law school and worked in insurance while writing in the evenings and late at night. People who worked with him liked him and thought well of him. He was a friendly person who worked hard and had a good sense of humor. Franz had two brothers who…

The woman question is the proposition of defining and explaining the universal dominance of men over women. Some theories from the textbook that care to explain this question are from some great sociological thinkers who are Rubin, Rosaldo, and Ortner. Rubin hypothesized that every society on earth contributes to the “sex/gender system” and in this system biological sex is transformed into asymmetrical gender statuses. Through these statuses social guidelines, like those regarding incest, are…

Thesis Statement Most of our actions are governed by non-conscious parts of the brain, giving logical reasoning a very limited and ineffective authority over how we decide and what we do. The sub-conscious, or the unconscious always has a stronger control over the self, and trying to resist its authority would only lead to frustration and disillusionment. In Shakespeare’s iconic character Hamlet, this dilemma between the reasoning of the conscious and the overriding intuitive powers of the…

rape or attempted rape at some point in their lifetime” (Sexual Assault Statistics). It’s not just women though, about “11.2 percent of all college students, men and women, experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation” (Campus Sexual Violence: Statistics). Rape is such an extravagant issue in just about every college and university in the United States; however, many fail to prevent and handle the incidents in an effective matter. “150,000 students at 27…

Published in 1954, William Golding’s magnum opus, Lord of the Flies, tells the tale of a group of boys who are stranded on a tropical island after the breakout of a nuclear war. Despite that the boys managed to establish a democratic society successfully, it slowly began to erode: order and reason gradually ebb and chaos and impulse begins to flow. One of the boys who are stranded is Piggy. Piggy, who has poor asthma, eyesight, and is overweight, acts to preserve order, but ultimately fails. He…

THE NEXT BREATH – WHO DECIDES? PATIENT, DOCTOR, LAW OR GOD? An examination of the ethical dilemmas presented in end of life issues Introduction End of life care is perhaps one of the most sensitive issues in healthcare. It presents with a myriad of elements that must be considered, if care is to be provided in an ethical manner. Essentially, there are the wishes of the patient to take into account, the opinions of the family members of said patient, the legal and medical ramifications of…