Public Shaming Controversy Outline
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a. “Abu Ghraib moment”: This is referring to the controversy when the U.S. graphically assaulted, raped, tortured, and killed prisoners in Iraq in 2004. The American army officers brutally and inhumanely treated these people and took photographs and videos of themselves committing these acts. These photos and videos were eventually released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
b. “Recuse”: Recuse is a judicial term meaning that an official of authority (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) is unqualified to perform their legal duties because of a conflict of interest. Jane Hanlin, the prosecutor on this rape case, recused herself from the case because her son was a friend of the accused, and she knew the families.
c. “Vigilante Justice”: Vigilante justice is …show more content…
I believe that legal punishment and public shaming do deter crime; however, they fail to stop it completely. Legal punishment has a long and extremely detrimental impact on a person’s life. It permanently goes on their record and deeply impairs their chances of educational and career opportunities. Public shaming has a different kind of effect, but still damaging in its own way. On the Internet, public shaming is also permanent. It can have an extreme emotional and mental toll. As for the victim in this rape case, her name was accidentally revealed by Anonymous, and now she will forever be known as the girl who was raped when she was 16. Anyone that looks up her name will know about one the most difficult experiences of her life. Public shaming discourages crime less than legal punishment, but does encourage people to be more careful about what they put on the Internet.
You can have criminal intent, the conscious decision to hurt someone, without breaking the law, unfortunately. For example, many of the boys in the rape case hurtfully mocked the girl; some even threatened her. This is a conscious decision to hurt someone, but they were not punished at all through the legal justice
a. “Abu Ghraib moment”: This is referring to the controversy when the U.S. graphically assaulted, raped, tortured, and killed prisoners in Iraq in 2004. The American army officers brutally and inhumanely treated these people and took photographs and videos of themselves committing these acts. These photos and videos were eventually released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
b. “Recuse”: Recuse is a judicial term meaning that an official of authority (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) is unqualified to perform their legal duties because of a conflict of interest. Jane Hanlin, the prosecutor on this rape case, recused herself from the case because her son was a friend of the accused, and she knew the families.
c. “Vigilante Justice”: Vigilante justice is …show more content…
I believe that legal punishment and public shaming do deter crime; however, they fail to stop it completely. Legal punishment has a long and extremely detrimental impact on a person’s life. It permanently goes on their record and deeply impairs their chances of educational and career opportunities. Public shaming has a different kind of effect, but still damaging in its own way. On the Internet, public shaming is also permanent. It can have an extreme emotional and mental toll. As for the victim in this rape case, her name was accidentally revealed by Anonymous, and now she will forever be known as the girl who was raped when she was 16. Anyone that looks up her name will know about one the most difficult experiences of her life. Public shaming discourages crime less than legal punishment, but does encourage people to be more careful about what they put on the Internet.
You can have criminal intent, the conscious decision to hurt someone, without breaking the law, unfortunately. For example, many of the boys in the rape case hurtfully mocked the girl; some even threatened her. This is a conscious decision to hurt someone, but they were not punished at all through the legal justice