Penal system in the United States

The prison system in the United States is broken yet the underlying purpose of prison has remained the same: as it is centered retribution, criminal incapacitation, deterrence, and hopefully rehabilitation. As a nation, we have focused on retribution criminal incapacitation therefore the notion of deterrence and rehabilitation has suffered . We take criminals out of society during their formative years, then release them back into society year or decades later – with the clothes on their…

The current prison system by large has not fully succeeded in rehabilitating criminals and inmates. Instead, the American prison system produced inmates that were mentally and physically restructured due to a prison atmosphere and substandard treatment from their superiors. The American prison system failed to rehabilitate and properly detain inmates the same moment America continued to regard inmates as irreformable and inferior. It’s caused drastic rises in incarceration rates despite patterns…

Specifically, he aims to discount the popularly accepted theory that this change occurs due to humanity. Furthermore, he emphasizes the expansive acceptance of this theory suppresses the need for further examination of the less visible aspects of the penal system, which may reveal an alternative theory for explaining the decline of the public spectacle of torture as a form of punishment (Foucault, 1985, pp.…

considered a covered benefit would result in medially politicizing all elements of personal conduct and constraining free choices. And we know from the prohibition of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933, that maintaining people’s choices never goes well. The ban resulted in overburdened courts, penal system, and police. US district attorneys “spent 44% of their time on Prohibition cases” (Florien). All this time spent on prohibition takes away from the people that really needed the…

reflected in the animal welfare legislations of Malaysia, Australia and the United Kingdom (“UK”). 2. It is precisely because of the apparent subordinate position of animals that animal rights, established through animal legislation, receive scarce attention and is often touted as a frivolous “Mickey Mouse” subject . This is especially so even in jurisdictions that boast impeccable judicial and law enforcement systems, simply due to the insignificant attention given to this particular area…

track crime and behavioral patterns were through organizations such as The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR), and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The UCR is a reporting program through the FBI and is responsible for tracking crimes that are reported to the police. The program collects information from all over the United States. It is then put into several categories and it is used to compare information from one region to…

What causes someone to commit a crime? There are eight known types and concepts to how humans can be categorized in these Criminal Theories. "A theory is kind of model. Theories posit relationships, often of a causal sort, between events and things under study." (Schmalleger F. p.74) In the early biological theory, many believe, even though in the past few decades it has merged more and more to be forgotten, that "the causation of crime is build on the inherited and/or bodily characteristics".…

In 1973, the United States Supreme Court presided over the Roe v. Wade case. The justice’s majority opinion ruled in favor of legalizing abortion (Roe V. Wade, 1973). Unfortunately, state lawmakers recently passed regulations limiting and/or preventing women from exercising this constitutional entitlement. Social Problem Prior to the Supreme Court judgement in Roe v. Wade, women in the United States put their health in danger by seeking illegal abortions (Vecera, 2014). In the 1950’s and…

Countries will set state religions in order to create a set of moral beliefs for their people. This also creates prejudices against those who do not accept the “country wide religion.” Cheng expresses this idea by stating, “Stephen thinks of the church precisely in terms of…

murder. The methods used include: lethal injections, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad, and hanging. Only thirty-two states practice the death penalty. Ernest van den Haag, author of “The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense,” argues for the use of the death penalty. On the other hand, Jack Greenberg, gives reasons opposing the death penalty in his work “Against the American System of Capital Punishment.” There are theories as to why the death penalty is necessary; however, these theories cause…