This reading was about the different ways of punishment that the law or culture would have for people broke laws and did crimes. It talked about some cruel punishments that the west would have like cutting off the hands of people that stole things, killing people that committed murders, and flogging the men or women for rape. These punishments would all be decided by the judge and how they chose their judge was that he has reached puberty, he is a believer, he knows that laws perfectly, he cannot be diagnose with amnesia and he cannot be a bastard or a female. This really shocked me because besides the small stuff like puberty, believing, not sick and not a…
The “Prisoners Dilemma” is a concept in which two criminals are arrested for a crime they committed, however, the police cannot charge them with the main charge. So they decide to convict them on a lesser charge and only put them in jail for a year each. These two prisoners cannot talk to each other, so the police come up with a plan to try to get them to incriminate the other. The plan is to get one of them to testify against the other, if so, the one who testified against the other gets no time in jail. The other criminal will have to serve 3 years.…
Working as a team allows the workload to be shared, giving the advantage that some members wont have to do more work than another. When there is a group of people working on the same job, it is common that each member will work more effectively as they are supported throughout their specific task. A massive benefit of having more people working on the same task is that ones weakness may be another’s strength; this allows the team be outcome of the job to be of the highest standards.…
Stephen Chapman, born in 1954 in Brady, Texas, graduated from Harvard University with honors in 1976. His was raised in Midland and Austin and now lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife and six kids. Chapman has appeared on multiple television shows, such as The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, The NewsHour, and the National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, and On Point. Some of his recents articles include Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law Survives (2014), Americans Learn to Undo Government Errors (2014), The World Mess Obama Didn’t Make (2014), Immigrants and the Fear of Disease (2014), Those Trapped…
I feel it is a person’s choice and it is different than suicide. It has to be well thought out and talked about with a team of people involved including physicians, psychologists, and family. I also think it is based more on the person’s quality of life and their decision or choice should be honored. It’s not the same as suicide caused by a mental illness. This is not a well thought out plan and does not occur with a team of people.…
Working in a team is essential in organizations for better output, because there is more efficiency and speed compared to individual workers. Workload is shared and individuals feel motivated to perform better. In a team setting everyone plays apart in the solving of the problem. Getting people involved gets more options to use to solve the problem. When team member’s work together they can pull their resources together and…
The corrections leg of the criminal justice system is ineffective because the efforts being made to rehabilitate criminals and keep society safe are failing substantially. The reason for the failure of the current correctional system and all correctional systems in the history of American prisons is an imbalance in the goals of criminal sentencing. These goals can be measured in success by how they were used in the past eras of prison history. Within the 20th century there were 5 prison eras, along with the current prison era. Not one of these eras used a combination of all sentencing goals, leaving an unbalanced and unsuccessful correctional system. It is necessary to review the 20th century prison philosophies, for the purpose of establishing the reasons for failure, in order to create a successful correctional philosophy for the 21st century. A reformation of the correctional system which includes the removal of all non-violent offenders, a period in which violent inmates are in total isolation, intense individual therapy, group therapy, educational and vocational training and a one year probation period after release from prison will allow for criminals to successfully reintegrate into society. In creating a system that balances all five goals of criminal sentencing along with a multiple step program favoring rehabilitation, it is very possible that a balanced and successful correctional system can be formed.…
James Gilligan relays an enlightening message in his article, Beyond the Prison Paradigm: From Provoking Violence to Preventing It by Creating “Anti-Prisons”, about the history and sole purpose of jails. Gilligan dates his research about jails all the way back from the first civilization known to man, Sumerian, to the jails we see and know so well today. At the beginning of time jails literally meant “house of darkness” which when compared to any of today’s jails is very similar to our maximum security facilities with solitary confinement. Jails were first used as a place to house those citizens, who chose not follow the social norms of society, and used a very violent form of punishment to teach a lesson to any of those citizens who even had thoughts of straying away from the social norms and rules of society. Prison was metaphorically seen as hell and the prison guards the demons of hell whose role was to follow through with the punishment of the prisoners. Prisoners would be tortured physically and mentally and then either released or executed depending on the severity of his or her crimes.…
Teamwork improves communication, it isn 't just about exchanging information - it is about ideas, feelings, hopes and desires, we find this when we communicate with people we trust and respect. It is also about all those things that make us the individuals that we are.…
The primary character is Eunice Williams, a young girl taken captive by the Mohawk indians. Her father is Reverend John Williams, a prominent Puritan leader in the town of Deerfield. Throughout the book the captives from both the the British and French side are returned to their homes. Eunice chooses to not go home to Puritan society, but to live with the indians. Many cannot understand her reasoning to choose the "indian savage" way of life over good wholesome Puritan life.…
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller, is a critique of the society that we live in.…
Catch-22 is a satirical novel written by Joseph Heller and published in 1961. The novel is set in Pianosa during World War II. The main character, Yossarian, finds himself caught in the war, which he cannot escape because the number of missions required for him to fly always increases when he arrives at the previous number. Throughout Catch-22, Heller manages to maintain a comical storyline while also attacking many different established normalcies within American society such as military ranks, government subsidies, religion, and war itself. The novel is extremely effective because Joseph Heller uses many of his personal experiences from World War II. These aspects of the piece both highlight the deep sadness that they caused him and also the…
With reference to a work studied in this course, to what extent is a character’s courage or strength revealed through confrontation with a moral dilemma?…
There are many different ethical issues in our society. One ethical issue that has been risen are if prisons are really being used as a deterrence for crime, or have the economic tags to the inmates overlooked that? The issue of whether the reasoning behind private prisons are ethical or not will be further addressed in the paper using two theoretical perspectives: the functionalism theory and the conflict theory. However, I will be arguing that private prisons plays a beneficial role in our everyday lives.…
Cooperator-strives to maximize joint outcomes, seeks win – win solutions to disagreements. Since the work is being divided into subtasks it is better because we don’t feel as overwhelmed when completing the tasks. We cooperate with one another to result into doing the work that was provided. Since social loafing tends to happen in many places of work since we are a small group there wasn’t any social loafing that occurred. Each of us cooperate with one another into doing the work that way we don’t have more work the next day to complete. (Equality Norm) all group members, irrespective of their input should be given an equal share of the good. When the manager gives work to each of us she divides the work where we all get equal amount of work. There are times where I process more patients than some of them due to the ability to work faster and complete the following task. Conflicts in the group could occur but I felt since we were such a small group that we didn’t really have any conflicts with one another. If there was any conflicts it was due to disagreeing on an issue which it was something that had to do with the tasks that each of us are working on. Due to that occurring it would result in (Substantive conflict) disagreements over issues that are relevant to the group’s recognized goals. If there were any conflicts to occur within the group I would definitely say that cooperating and communicating with another is something that can definitely help resolve the…