“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”-Fredrick Douglas After considering both sides of the juvenile justice system‚ it is clear that juveniles should face life in prison. If I were to commit a crime at 17 years old I would expect to be punished the same way as an adult who committed the same crime. I am old enough to know what I am doing and shouldn’t get any special treatment regardless of my age. Adolescents who are willing to commit crimes in the first place know it
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Ashlee Johnson Punishment vs. Discipline 04/29/10 HFS 4213 Children cannot possibly benefit from “discipline” in the form of punishment. Simply put‚ punishment is disrespectful treatment of a child that will result short-term cooperation but further behavior problems long-term. No child should have to endure such negative modification methods intended to humiliate them with a goal of teaching appropriate behavior. Sadly‚ however‚ some adults think they are doing what is
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’’I support the death penalty because I believe‚ if administered swiftly and justly‚ capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.’’ Those were words of the 43rd President of the United States‚ George Walker Bush. Capital Punishment is a controvercial issue in the present-day world. This turbulent dispute whether the punishment should be retained or not has been going on for years. Since the begining of the human history‚ at first‚ people have been
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Criminal Punishment: Utility vs. Retribution Chapter 10 – Topic #3 The practice of punishment is part of our society and functions to maintain social order. However‚ there are a couple different view points regarding how to appropriately carry out punishment. Retribution and Utilitarianism are two philosophies that have very different views on the theory of punishment. Philosopher Immanuel Kant asserts that Retribution is the model for punishment. Kant argues that punishment should be governed
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subject and I have made my final decision on what I believe.I believe that teens should not be sentenced to life in prison even for their serious crimes because they are still young and have to learn from their mistakes and live their childhood while they still have it I feel this way because there are facts that support my reasoning on why teens should not be sentenced to life in prison like if they were adults.My first reason is that teenage brain is not fully developed yet.According to Thompson
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Rehabilitation vs. Prison: The Pregnant Addict Imagine a woman pregnant and in prison. She is in prison because she is an avid drug abuser. She has no family‚ no emotional or psychological support and most importantly she has no hope. This woman has spent most of her life in and out of prison‚ and unfortunately she delivered eight drug-addicted children in prison. The mother is still in prison; the children are now a part of the system. This is a true story. Everyday thousands of babies are
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WANTED POSTER IS OUT The wanted poster of Mr. Wolf has been released! People are rampaging through social media‚ everyone wants to voice out their opinion about what happen to Little Red Riding Hood’s grandma. Some people are saying that it should be an eye for an eye‚ and they want Mr. Wolf to pay the price for what he did through death penalty‚ but some are against the idea. Mr.Wolf took over the twitter page. On his tweets‚ he admitted the crime that he did. Some people commend him‚ and called
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Corporal Punishment vs. Permissive Parenting This argument has been on going for decades or dare I say centuries even. There are articles‚ quotes‚ and whole books written on this‚ an example would be “Spare the rod spoil the child” whose proverbial notion dates back to the King James version of the Bible pre 1377. There are even popular shows on television that highlight this debate. While history seems to be biased toward a firm grip on children‚ there are those old folk tales about spoiled
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the capital punishment. Addition to this it includes where the presumption of innocence‚ since it is now more prominent that we have to had evidence‚ before we accuse someone of a crime. As well as what the laws were in Salem and where there origin began. Salem laws had a lead role in the cruel and deadly punishments of the Salem Witch trial even though there were ways to escape the punishments. Since then‚it has helped changed the way of our punishments today‚ yet we still keep the capital punishment
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no one and it would be beneficial to remove them from the prison system‚ and into the parole system (D’Elia‚ 2010). Prison Cost Prisons are expensive to keep open‚ and most of the money to keep them open comes from the taxpayers. A study in 2012 showed that prisons cost American taxpayers approximately 5.4 billion dollars each year (Henrichson & Delaney‚ 2012). These cost include various expenses that include maintaining the prisons‚ employees salaries‚ educational training‚ providing benefits
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