Penal system in the United States

women, home is a more dangerous place than public places. Most of the men who assault tend to assault their former, or current wives, fiancées, and/or girlfriends at shocking rates. As for women assaulting men, it is the other way around. In the United States, women are more than likely to be attacked, injured, raped, or killed by a male partner than by all other types…

Corporate Criminal Liability: A Need of the Hour Aanchal Lamba Aditi Khanna Abstract The purpose of this article is to throw light on the current need for a legislation to deter the crimes committed by corporate firms. The paper describes the concept of corporate criminal liability, its diverse interpretation adopted over the years and the current scenario of corporate crimes in India. It discusses the need to intensify the current punishment given to corporations and proposes alternative…

help criminals learn from their mistake, not by locking them up. Although the prison system is expensive, the government should apply alternatives to imprisonment such as fines and community service to solve social…

Intro: The corrections system in the United States has been under scrutiny over the years. Since the early 1900’s the inmate population in the United States has continued to grow. No other country in the world has such a high percentage of its population incarcerated. Roughly 750 out of every 100,000 people are incarcerated in the U.S. The world average is only 166 per 100,000, proving that we are extremely high (Webb, 2007). It is known that one of the main reasons for our high number of…

Moreover, correctional staff abuses, in municipal, federal and penal facilities as well as military prisons. Apart from its application in the context of physical harm application, police brutality, involves psychological damage a well, through intimidation tactics, which goes beyond, officially sanctioned scope of police procedure. Initially, the perpetrators of police brutality, acted with the local legal system tacit approval; for instance, during the era of civil rights. In the era…

The irony in mass incarceration in the United States is that its purpose is to deter crime, yet it does the exact opposite. Contrary to modern belief, mass incarceration in the United States has increased drastically. Many factors can contribute to the uprising in incarceration. Though prison’s sole purpose is to deter crime, it in fact increases it. Sources suggest that first time offenders, and ex-convicts are highly likely to commit another crime after leaving prison, thus depicting the…

Colombia is a small country located in South America. The people of this country have lived in fear for many years. In 1538 Spain entered Colombia. Before Spain’s entry, the land was populated mostly by isolated tropical-forest Indians. Simon Bolivar became the first president of The Republic of Greater Colombia, after a 14 year war that ended when Bolivar defeated the Spanish. A bloody war began in 1948 when a presidential hopeful Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was assassinated. This did not end…

prison” (Chan). These prisoners are forced to work for private corporations and get little to nothing in return. Statistics state that there are more black people that are in prison today than there were slaves in the 1800s. This is because many states in the south started to arrest black people for minor crimes. Arresting people for minor crimes causes a problem in the prison system. It causes overcrowding in prisons. There are researchers that say that the causes of prison overcrowding are…

The crucial mechanism adopted by man for domination and discrimination against women is violence against women. Violence is defined as a physical act of aggression by one individual or group of individuals against others. According to United States, violence against women can be defined as “Any act of gender based violence that results in or is likely to result in threats, harm or suffering to women whether physical, sexual or psychological, occurring in public or private life. The basic…

All over the United States, Immigrant detention locks up hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year. Like prison mates, each wall carefully designed to hold one back from their freedom. These immigrant detention is where thousands of illegal individuals awaits a ruling of deportation or not. These includes the thousands of Central Americans families seeking asylum. Asylum is the legal protection afforded by the United States government to a person who can demonstrate a fear of persecution…