Penology

In Stephen Nathanson’s book, An Eye for an Eye, he argues against capital punishment by discussing the problems of the most common argument for the death penalty: the Equal Punishment Principle. He also discusses the problems with sub-category theories of the Equal Punishment Principle: quality/proportional retributivism, and ends by offering the reader what abolishing the death penalty would grant to society. Nathanson believes the Equal Punishment Principle if fallible, because it is difficult…

Dunwoody Daycare Murder was a trial about a man named Hemy Neuman who gunned down his alleged romantic rival and was found guilty, but mentally ill in the state of Georgia. According to 11 Alive news station the new anchors stated that: Hemy Neuman has been found guilty of malice murder in the retrial of the 2010 shooting death of Rusty Sneiderman; the jury, which was made up of eight women and four men, deliberated for just three and a half hours, the guilty verdict means Neuman will go to…

Cruel and unusual punishment is, by definition, “such punishment as would amount to torture or barbarity, any cruel and degrading punishment … any fine, penalty, confinement, or treatment that is so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community” (Cruel and Unusual Punishment). The number of prisoners in the United States has climbed in 2016 to a staggering 2.2 million, up from 200,000 in 1972. A full 36 percent of those incarcerated are behind bars for nonviolent…

Death penalty jeopardize the innocent life. In United States of America in 1976, 138 innocent persons has released from the death penalty. Which may kill the innocent person for a crime he did not committed. For example the court may accuse innocent person to be guilty based on the evidence they got, which sometimes its not enough to determine the criminal or that he could not defend himself enough to convince the judge that he is innocents, furthermore it gives the rich people the upper hand…

Summarize the article “A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison” 1.what is the general topic that the article is addressing? What is the purpose of the research described in this article? What is the author(s) hypothesis/hypotheses? The article "A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison" is research report by Craig Haney, Curtis Banks and Philip Zimbardo from Stanford University. The research is called Naval Research. The research is "designed to develop a…

Is the Genocide Convention an adequate tool to prevent future genocides? Genocide and its prevention is a critical and controversial topic from a long time. Though the word ‘genocide’ has not been used from a long time but the act of genocide is a very old phenomenon. Among the important issues genocide is one of the serious topic for international to prevent it. So, genocide convention is one of the possible and adequate tools which is created by the international to prevent the future…

Death Sentence The death sentence is a sentence issued to effect the killing of a person as punishment for crimes, which is called the death penalty. The death penalty or capital punishment is an act of the government in which a person is executed to punish them for a crime after a law court finds them guilty of the charges brought against them. Many crimes could lead to a death penalty. Offenses such as murder, espionage, treason, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing such…

Disparities within prisons in the United States are seen among all levels. As a whole the United States alone makes up 25% of the worlds incarceration rates, 1 in 100 adults are incarcerated, these statistics create concern when researching the prison system. There are many disparities such as race, class, and gender and each of these disparities have numerous causes. The disparity within the prisons do not stop inside those walls, the disparity effects the inmate’s families and follows the…

The illusion of death row inmates fitting a cookie cutter description is not true. Inmates on death row come from various socio-economic backgrounds and careers. Not all death row inmates are guilty. In 2004, the state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham for allegedly setting his home on fire, killing his three daughters. However, it was the work of the Innocence Project (Garland, September, 13, 2010) proving the forensic and informant attested in court was invalid and just not true; hence…

Are Supermax Prisons an Appropriate Way to Punish Hardened Criminals? Career criminals, who are in and out of prison almost the entirety of their lives, know the roundabouts of the prison and legal systems. Those who work within the Department of Corrections understand the importance and purpose of the security measures that are throughout the prison system. Those who work closely with offenders are put at risk of injury or even death if the proper security measures are not in place. Offenders,…