Penology

Is The Death Penalty a Bad Public Policy? The justice system in the United States is nowhere near perfect, but over the years it has been molded and developed in such ways that it is currently working to the best of it’s ability. The death penalty is a largely controversial in today’s society; there are many arguments both for and against the death penalty. Realistically though, the death penalty is necessary. While each state has the right to their own decisions about whether to install the…

With Liberty and Retribution for All Even though the death penalty could be considered unconstitutional under the eighth and fourteenth amendments, people fear nothing more than death. Execution dates being carried out promptly on assigned dates would discourage most anyone from committing future crimes worthy of the death penalty. Our society is based on the need for retribution, making a wrongdoer pay the price equivalent to the price the wrongdoer did. Not carrying out executions prolongs…

The death penalty has been viewed as both an effective and defective system of punishment. However, this style of execution is proven to be financially expensive, immoral, unreliable, and overall not the most successful method of criminal correction. Usage of the death penalty should be used only for the most harrowing crimes, such as mass murder and acts of terrorism or treason. Deontologists view the death penalty as a justifiable solution to a problem, as it is fulfilling a duty to uphold…

Incarceration, sanctions and control, community programs, and treatment are the four main approaches to the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders. Prisons are designed to remove the offender from society, restricting civil freedoms, and limiting the individual’s capability to make liberated decisions (Schmalleger, 2014). Although incarceration is one of the most severe punishments, the other methods also implement similar traits to incarceration. Sanctions and community programs offer…

“…over 11 million people cycle through local jails each year,” (Prison Policy Initiative 2015). Because of this constant transfer of people from the jailhouse to the real world, correctional counselors are definitely needed. The purpose of having correctional counselors is to help inmates process the transition from jail or prison back to the real world. This counseling gives inmates the opportunity to express their fears and obstacles they think they will have to face before actually being…

The power of control may often change an individual’s character. Within the prison system, lies a prison guard subculture in which, the power of control is stressed. Control and power are the means of successively managing a prison. Throughout the novel New Jack: Guarding Sing Sing, author Ted Conover (2001) writes of his experience as a Correctional Officer at Sing Sing maximum-security prison. Behind the prison doors, a different world takes flight. Conformity As a correctional officer there…

Is the American economics and the prison system a positive or negative impact on the system? The United States currently has 2 million people incarcerated more than any country in the world. This is a big issue because most countries don 't hold more than 2 million incarcerated inmates behind bars. According to Fitzgerald J (2015) “(bop) Bureau Of Prisons housed 214,149 inmates roughly 298 percent over its rated capacity”. The bureau went over its rated capacity when imprisoning new inmates to…

No Child Should Have a Life Sentence in Prison 14-year-old Kenneth Young received four life sentences in prison. He was convinced and forced to participate in assisting a 24-year-old male rob a convenience store. Kenneth was not a primary participant in this doing; he was only the second man and wasn’t in contact with victims or even within the general area of where the money was. He was the one to take care of getting the tape out of the recorder. Kenneth was only 14-years-old, meaning he was…

The Benefits of Capital Punishment We are slowly dying every second, minute, hour, month, and year, we are dying. There are 107 deaths in one minute(13 ways at looking at the death penalty). Each minute that passes by someone is murdered. 6,000 killers get away with murder each year in America. Most serial killers suffered child abuse (56 Interesting Facts About Serial Killers). Even as children we are told to treat others how we are treated. So if one kills they only deserve to get what they…

Death Edgar Allan Poe once said, “The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one end and the other begins?” However, the death penalty ends life saying death begins. The death penalty has been argued for ages whether it is moral, goes against god, or is just right to let the person who murdered someone family member and cut their time together has the right to end a peaceful way. Furthermore, people believe that person should suffer and…