Penology

Another site of legal violence is within mass incarceration. William Stunz addresses the violence of the system as focusing on the process over the outcome. He focuses on how the law was put into place to create the desired outcomes, rather than looking at the results to create the law. This focus on the process means there is no inquiry to whether material outcomes of the process are actually just and as such it appears that the system does not want to fix the problem, but rather just emphasize…

The history of the death penalty within the United States reflects the many changes to the core value system our country has seen since its inception. Many different aspects of life have impacted these changes, such as religion, politics, major social movements, the burst in scientific knowledge, philosophers/psychologists/criminologists, and our own ever-changing morals. These many facets were not just changed by the laws of our society, but also changed these very same laws, too. The death…

Chapter 9 Chapter Review: Punishment & Sentencing In the book, Criminal Justice in America, by George F. Cole, Christopher E. Smith, and Christina DeJong talk about punishment and sentencing in chapter nine. Punishment and sentencing are both a love/hate relationship to an individual. The reason being is because many people will receive the proper punishment and sentence but other individuals do not. Punishment occurs in order to maintain social order, but there is always that balance of…

Community-Control Programs as Part of Deterrence The use of deterrence theory has also been applied to community-control programs, specifically during the reform of the correctional system that involved the abandonment of rehabilitation (Cullen & Jonson, 2017). The movement gained support from both conservatives and liberals for its ability to be both tough on offenders but also limit the number of people sent to prisons, which provided cost-savings (Cullen & Jonson, 2017). Community-control…

When people hear the word death most cringe, it is not considered to be a calming or happy word, but when you add penalty it takes it to a new extreme. The death penalty is a sentence or punishment of death by execution. People think that death is bad, but the death penalty is okay, but what’s the difference, it is still death. This is a very controversial topic in today’s world. This is something given to people who have committed awful crimes, but does it really punish them or us? This type of…

When Ashna’Beah first came along I was already four months pregnant. My breathing partially off, feet swollen to the ankles, waddling around like a penguin. I didn’t like her because she was actually really pretty. She had a large nose but for the most part, her full lips and burnt orange colored eyes made me overly jealous; made me feel insecure. She wasn’t so attractive to the point that it made her unapproachable but her looks just made you wonder what she was doing in a place like this. I…

Creative Corrections Prison has been around since the beginning of time and has played various roles throughout its history. To understand how copying and creativity have influenced our corrections system we must understand how crime and punishment have been dealt with in the past. Through analyzing the history behind prisons and punishment we can see how copying and creativity has made its mark on the idea of prison. Copying and creativity have played an active role in shaping the western…

The topic of death penalty is very controversial, there are some who strongly believe it should be allowed and some who believe it should be abolished. For both reasons there is research that supports each opinion. The death penalty has killed innocent wrongfully convicted people and should not be allowed in any part of the world because killing someone for a crime they committed is not called justice, it is called revenge. There are there other alternatives, ending a person’s life is not the…

“If you break the law, you’ll go to jail.” This is something I’ve always been taught and because of it I’ve done my best to follow the rules and stay out of trouble. However, it wasn’t until I got older that I learned that there was more to this saying. I learned that the saying was more of warning to people like me because for a lot of people once you are in the system, you will never be able to get out. This could be due to a lack of support for most people but for others it can be due to a…

Case Summary & Background Patrick Marlowe, who is a former correctional officer of Wilson County in Lebanon, Tennessee, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges relating to violations of the civil rights of inmates at the Wilson County Jail. Mr. Marlowe was the supervisory corrections officer on the evening shift of the Wilson County Jail from 2001 to early 2003 (Burke, 2006). He and several former correctional officers were convicted at trial of conspiring to violate the rights of inmates…