Social capital

Juveniles and Life Sentences Do juveniles deserve mandatory life in prison for their crimes or should they have the opportunity to receive a second chance? In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for any crime are now illegal to give to juveniles meaning that juveniles are no longer allowed to serve mandatory life sentences in prison. This ruling is agreeable because juveniles are not fully developed, and it is unfair for juveniles to serve mandatory life sentences.…

Jewish women were like most women in the Middle Ages, left out of religious rituals. Hsia states that “the women were under less pressure to conform to the image of the demonic Jew” (Hsia, 115). Hsia also writes that the Jewish women used their social status to their advantage by confessing to the magistrates that, like Christian men, Jewish men did not include the women in all aspects of life. Hsia states the Jewish women in the interrogation records “emerged as individuals” (Hsia, 115). The…

Responses to Crime The case I chose was Pedro Espinoza trial in the Murder of Jamiel Shaw because it has been such a hot topic in the media and I wanted to know more about it. Espinoza was an Illegal alien from Mexico with a long and violent criminal history and part of the 18 St gang and had just been released from serving 4 months of an 8-month sentence. Within 28 hours he murdered 17-year-old high school football star being recruited by Stanford Jamiel Shaw with one shot to the stomach and…

Title The Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement. Research Question and Argument Is the use of solitary confinement in Canadian corrections an inhumane way to punish offenders? In this paper, I will argue that having inmates endure the cruelty of solitary confinement for extended periods of time, is an inhumane approach to punishing, and causes harm, rather than reform the offender. Research Direction In this paper I will focus on depicting as to why solitary confinement is a cruel punishment…

The Stranger beside Me: “The Stranger beside Me” is a biographical crime book based on a real story and is written by Ann Rule. This book is all about the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was well known to Rule as she was quite close to him in several series of murders he committed. The reason for choosing this book is that it provides detailed explanation about how and when was the wrongdoings were committed against the law. It describes how the serial killer, Ted Bundy, executed…

Gerald Scarpelli was the defendant in the case of Gagnon v. Scarpelli. A felon who was out of jail on probation prior to his arrest for burglary. Due to Scarpelli’s arrest for burglary, he admitted to the crime and his probation was revoked by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections for violation of his probation conditions. A habeas corpus was filed two years later by Gerald Scarpelli with the District Court, because he sat in jail without a revocation hearing nor right to an attorney, denying…

2017 NO Redemption, NO Justice, & NO Mercy Bryan Stevenson, a young lawyer, found the Equal Justice Initiative in the need of the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the criminal justice system. Stevenson took multiple cases, one considerably drawing his attention; a case of a young man sentenced to death falsely accused by the federal court system. This lead Stevenson to finally think of conspiracy, political machinations, and legal brinksmanship towards the United…

In Arthur Miller’s compelling essay, Get it Right: Privatize Executions, he conveys his perspective on public executions and mocks society. As a matter of fact, public executions are not an out-moded subject that has caused disputable opinions. Executions that can be viewed by the public was once a legal practice and a part of history in the United States. Surprisingly, in some coun-tries around the world public executions is viewed as the norm in their culture. It was not unusual for some…

truly reflect the society of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, it did have a huge effect on their mentality which is similar to the idea that the US sees itself as the land of opportunity although that seems to be a myth when comparing itself to the social mobility of Europe. 6) The reason that the Schmidt family became tainted by the duty of being executioners goes back to his father, Heinrich Schmidt, who was originally a woodman and fowler. He becomes an executioner because of the lord,…

Cyber Ark is an enterprise application cyber security company based in Israel with offices worldwide. The United States headquarters is in Newton, MA. with regional sales offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, Las Angles and Chicago. The company is well known in the IT Security Company with a quality product designed to secure data in the enterprise as well as the cloud. The flagship product is called Cyber Vault is focused on protecting the “Key’s to the kingdom” for an Enterprise. In other words…