Penology

Not So Sweet, Sweet Revenge What inclines people to kill? There are various answers to this question, and including factors of personality, background, and relationships are needed to thoroughly develop a response. However, the desire for revenge in an individual is the most significant contributor to this answer. A mind filled with revenge is a dangerous one. In her gothic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley asserts that being consumed by the desire for revenge ultimately destroys one’s life and…

Most look upon society as a liberating invention, freeing us from the chaos of our uncivilized past. However, it can also be viewed by some as a prison which enforces institutional conformity. Such people, such as Ken Kesey, condemned the way in which those who weren’t deemed as “normal” by society were often sentenced to be trapped under inhumane conditions. Although the primary conflict in Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is not one against entrapment, but rather one between untamed…

In Book 16 of The Annals, Tacitus constructs a list of suicides and deaths. The deaths are all structured similarly: Tacitus gives context for the punishment before describing the death itself. Though following this formulaic structure, the depiction of Petronius’s death strays from the somberness expected from suicides. Petronius, instead, spends his moments between life and death talking to friends on frivolous topics. He carries on with his daily affairs, preparing dinner and sleeping. We…

Every day executes states their citizens as punishment - even for acts that should not even be criminal. The death penalty violates the right to life. Is that human? To take away another persons life? Over 19,000 people are on death row across the world, waiting to be executed. The death penalty is cruel, inhuman, degrading and a violation of the right to life. I am against the death penalty. Always. Regardless of who is under indictment, the crime that was committed, the person is guilty or…

I’m not very fond of killing even a fly but there are plenty of cases and very brutal examples when it would be better to have such right. I read a few articles which have shown me that there are dozens of people whose attitude toward the death penalty is just like mine. They think it is necessary to chastise murderers and criminals using such radical and brutal methods. Though, on the other hand, there are people who say that punishing people with the death penalty is just not moral, even for…

Capital punishment is a type of punishment whereby culprits are sentenced to death penalty or death sentenced based on the capital offence that they have committed. This type of particular punishment do has both its advantage and disadvantages. Advantages 1. It discourages monstrous criminal activities Through the establishment of this type of punishment most the criminal will be in fear to face the consequences of death sentence thus these will make them reluctant to committing these criminal…

In contrast, killing animals is not valid because it is cruel thing to do. First, some country kills many animals for ceremony by cruel ways. For example, they cut animals’ head while they still alive. They stabbed animals with no mercy. It is uncivilized festival. As Pickover says “the cruel traditions should not be admiration and respect because it is not a good culture” (Berger, S, 2009). So, killing animals that brutal and inhuman is not an appropriate thing to do. In the ceremony, we must…

Passion vs. Logic People can sometimes act through how they feel rather than what is very logical. In the short story Gregory, an English prisoner named Gregory forms a friendship with a guard in an army base camp in Cyprus. At the ending, Gregory is executed by the guard despite the opportunities he is given to escape.In the story, the concept of passion versus logic is effectively represented with its characters showing more belief in their feelings than their intelligence through what they do…

Retribution is a word pro-capital punishment supporters love to use when defending the death penalty. Retribution is another word for revenge. Many people find that retribution alone is enough to put a person to death. A government that supports revenge does not send out a good message to fellow citizens and other countries. A common argument is that the death penalty is used to balance out the crime that the criminal committed. We should do to the criminal what they did to the victim. This…

Abusive Authority: Prison Guards and Pimps Cana Rainwater Charleston Southern University Abusive Authority: Prison Guards and Pimps In 1971, a psychologist by the name of Philip Zimbardo created a “prison” in the basement of a psychology building to study the behavioral and psychological consequences of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard; the results were unexpected. Participants in the program showed evidence of psychological changes within thirty-six hours, and the experiment…